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Excerpt from The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, Vol. 1
In every instance it has been the editor's aim to fix the date of each article by giving either the date the article was written or the date of its publication. In cases like the History of English Literature by H. A. Taine, although published in France in 1864, the date of its first appearance in English, 1871, as translated by Mr. Van Laun with M. Taine's corrections, has been adopted. Where accurate information was not obtainable, an approximate date has been given. Where several editions of a work have been published, the last edition has generally been consulted. With few exceptions the quotations have been collated with the original text, and over five thousand volumes have been consulted in compiling this volume.
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