SAMUEL BY BUTLER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY M LL. D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED. RIDAN'S PLAYS. YS FROM MOLIÈRE. By English Dramatists. ELAIS GARGANTUA and the HEROIC "OE'S JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR. KE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT & FILMER'S PATRIARCHA." TT'S DEMONOLOGY and WITCHCRAFT. DEN'S VIRGIL. "LER'S ANALOGY OF RELIGION. PRICK'S HESPERIDES. ERIDGE'S TABLE-TALK. CACCIO'S DECAMERON. RNE'S TRISTRAM SHANDY. PMAN'S HOMER'S ILIAD. DIEVAL TALES. TAIRE'S CANDIDE & JOHNSON'S YS and POEMS by BEN JONSON. DIBRAS. BY SAMUEL BUtler. "Marvels of clear type and general neatness." Daily Telegraph. 0 SCP 24 1912 INTRODUCTION. SAMUEL BUTLER was born in February, 1612 baptized on the 8th of February, according to registers kept by his father, who rented a farm in shire, in the parish of Strensham. Samuel, name father, was the fifth child in a family of seven. educated in the Worcester College School, and p school, probably after some training in an attorney's employment as clerk to a Justice of the Peace, M Jefferies, of Earl's Croome, near Strensham. But gave him already the tastes of an artist and a scl made pictures, and he compiled for himself, as private studies, a French dictionary, and an a in Law French, of Coke upon Littleton. From of Mr. Jefferies, Butler passed into that of the Ea at Wrest, in Bedfordshire. Henry Lord Grey de Ruthin, in 1625, suco brother in the Earldom of Kent. The estates of h were entangled among lawsuits that raised questi and gave large employment to Selden's powers The Earl had wisely chosen in John Selden the all England who was best able to help him. much at Wrest; and Butler was probably engag at Wrest as a quick-witted clerk employed unde direction. Anthony à Wood says that Butler o letters beyond sea for Selden, and translated for h education to work under so true a scholar, and t large library at Wrest from which Butler could g part of that store of knowledge, wittily applied, strength to his satire. Good service at Wrest probably was Rutler's |