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The Spectator
ÆSOP
Fables
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Essays in Criticism
GEORGE BRANDES
Main Currents of the Literature of the Nineteenth Century
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
THOMAS CARLYLE
On Heroes and Hero-Worship
Sartor Resartus
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Concerning Friendship
WILLIAM COBBETT
Advice to Young Men
DANIEL DEFOE
A Journal of the Plague Year
DEMOSTHENES
The Philippics
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
English Traits
Representative Men
ERASMUS
Familiar Colloquies
In Praise of Folly
GESTA ROMANORUM
A Story-Book of the Middle Ages
APPLICATION
APPLICATION
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Citizen of the World
HENRY HALLAM
Introduction to the Literature of Europe
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Lectures on the English Poets
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
THREE JOHNS
THREE THOMASES
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
LA BRUYÈRE
Characters
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections and Moral Maxims
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Treatise on Painting
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING
Laocoon
JOHN STUART MILL
Essay on Liberty
JOHN MILTON
Areopagitica
PLUTARCH
Parallel Lives
MADAME DE STAËL
On Germany
WEIMAR
BERLIN
THE "GERMANIA" OF TACITUS
Customs and Peoples of Germany
HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE
History of English Literature
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"Walden"
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Democracy in America
IZAAK WALTON
The Compleat Angler
PISCATOR, VENATOR, AND AUCEPS
Ratings and reviews
About the author
Sir John Alexander Hammerton (born 27 February 1871 in Alexandria, Scotland; died 12 May 1949 in London) is described by the Dictionary of National Biography as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known".
His first posts in journalism included a period in Nottingham where he first met Arthur Mee, who was to become his lifelong friend. Then, in 1905, he joined Alfred Harmsworth's Amalgamated Press. There he again collaborated with Mee in producing the Harmsworth Self-Educator.
He contributed to the first edition of Mee's Children's Encyclopædia, which appeared in a fortnightly series from 1908 till 1910 before being published in eight large volumes. His contribution consisted of compiling articles on 'Famous Books' and 'Poetry'.
His greatest achievement was Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopædia, which – like the Children's Encyclopædia – was published first as a fortnightly series in 1920–22 and sold twelve million copies throughout the English-speaking world.
