The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Author: Various Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge Francis W. Halsey Release Date: July 30, 2007 [EBook #22182] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORLD'S CLASSICS, VOL. V *** Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net LAMB, MACAULAY, SCOTT, and CARLYLE THE BEST of the World's Classics RESTRICTED TO PROSE HENRY CABOT LODGE Editor-in-Chief FRANCIS W. HALSEY Associate Editor With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc. IN TEN VOLUMES Vol. V GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—III FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON Copyright, 1909, by FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY The Best of the World's Classics VOL. V GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—III 1740—1881 CONTENTS Vol. V—Great Britain and Ireland—III Page James Boswell—(Born in 1740, died in 1795.) I Boswell's Introduction to Johnson. (From Boswell's "Life of Johnson") 3 II Johnson's Audience with George III.