34 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Morte D'Arthur.-SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by SIR EDWard Strachey, Bart. Globe 8vo. 35. 6d. Third Edition. "It is with the most perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers."-PALL MALL GAZETTE. Scott.-THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR SCOTT. With Biographical Essay, by F. T. WALTER PALGRAVE. The want of "As a popular edition it leaves nothing to be desired. such an one has long been felt, combining real excellence with cheapness." SPECTATOR. Burns.-THE POETICAL WORKS AND LETTERS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited, with Life, by ALEXANDER SMITH. "The works of the bard have never been offered in such a complete form n a single volume."-GLASGOW DAILY HERALD. "Admirable in all respects."-SPECTATOR. Robinson Crusoe.-THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. By DEFOE. Edited, from the Original Edition, by J. W. CLARK, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. With Introduction by HENRY KINGSLEY. Globe 8vo. 35. 6d. "The Globe Edition of Robinson Crusoe is a book to have and to keep. It is printed after the original editions, with the quaint old spelling, and s published in admirable style as regards type, paper, and binding. A well-written and genial biographical introduction, by Mr. Henry Kingsley, is likewise an attractive feature of this edition."-MORNING STAR. GLOBE EDITIONS. 35 Goldsmith.-GOLDSMITH'S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. With Biographical Essay by Professor MASSON. Globe 8vo. 3s. 6d. This edition includes the whole of Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Worksthe Vicar of Wakefield, Plays, Poems, &c. Of the memoir the SCOTSMAN newspaper writes: "Such an admirable compendium of the facts of Goldsmith's life, and so careful and minute a delineation of the mixed traits of his peculiar character, as to be a very model of a literary biography." Pope.-THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE. Edited, with Memoir and Notes, by Professor WARD. Globe 8vo. 35. 6d. "The book is handsome and handy. . . The notes are many, ana the matter of them is rich in interest.”—ATHENÆUM. Spenser. THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER. Other Standard Works are in the Press. GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. Uniformly printed in 18mo., with Vignette Titles by SIR NOEL PATON, T. WOOLNER, W. HOLMAN HUNT, J. E. MILLAIS, ARTHUR HUGHES, &c. Engraved on Steel by JEENS. Bound in extra cloth, 4s. 6d. ; morocco plain, 75. 6d. morocco extra, 10s. 6d. each volume. 36 GENERAL CATALOGUE. "Messrs. Macmillan have, in their Golden Treasury Series especially, provided editions of standard works, volumes of selected poetry, ana original compositions, which entitle this series to be called classical. Nothing can be better than the literary execution, nothing more elegant than the material workmanship."-BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE. "This delightful little volume, the Golden Treasury, which contains many of the best original lyrical pieces and songs in our language, grouped with care and skill, so as to illustrate each other like the pictures in a well-arranged gallery."-QUARTERLY REVIEW. THE CHILDREN'S GARLAND FROM THE BEST POETS. Selected and arranged by COVENTRY PATMOre. "It includes specimens of all the great masters in the art of poetry, selected with the matured judgment of a man concentrated on obtaining insight into the feelings and tastes of childhood, and desirous to awaken its finest impulses, to cultivate its keenest sensibilities."-MORNING POST. THE BOOK OF PRAISE. From the Best English Hymn Writers. Selected and arranged by SIR ROUNDELL PALMER. A New and Enlarged Edition. "All previous compilations of this kind must undeniably for the present give place to the Book of Praise. The selection has been made throughout with sound judgment and critical taste. The pains involved in this compilation must have been immense, embracing, as it does, every writer of note in this special province of English literature, and ranging over the most widely divergent tracts of religious thought."-SATURDAY REVIEW. GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. 37 THE FAIRY BOOK; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." "A delightful selection, in a delightful external form; full of the physical splendour and vast opulence of proper fairy tales."-SPECtator. THE BALLAD BOOK. A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads. Edited by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. "His taste as a judge of old poetry will be found, by all acquainted with the various readings of old English ballads, true enough to justify his undertaking so critical a task."-SATURDAY REVIEW. THE JEST BOOK. The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings. Selected and arranged by MARK LEMON. "The fullest and best jest book that has yet appeared.”—SATURDAY REVIEW. BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A. "The beautiful little edition of Bacon's Essays, now before us, does credit to the taste and scholarship of Mr. Aldis Wright. It puts the reader in possession of all the essential literary facts and chronology necessary for reading the Essays in connexion with Bacon's life and times."-SPECTATOR. "By far the most complete as well as the most elegant edition we possess."--WESTMINSTER REVIEW. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS from this World to that which is to come. By JOHN BUNYAN. "A beautiful and scholarly reprint."-SPECTATOR. 38 GENERAL CATALOGUE. THE SUNDAY BOOK OF POETRY FOR THE YOUNG. Selected and arranged by C. F. Alexander. "A well-selected volume of sacred poetry."-SPECtator. A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS of all Times and all Countries. Gathered and narrated anew. By the Author of "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE." "... To the young, for whom it is especially intended, as a most interesting collection of thrilling tales well told; and to their elders, as a useful handbook of reference, and a pleasant one to take up when their wish is to while away a weary half-hour. We have seen no prettier gift-book for a long time."-ATHENÆUM. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited, with Biographical Memoir, Notes, and Glossary, by ALEXANDER SMITH. Two Vols. "Beyond all question this is the most beautiful edition of Burns yet out."-EDINBURGH DAILY REVIEW. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Edited from the Original Edition by J. W. CLARK, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. "Mutilated and modified editions of this English classic are so much the rule, that a cheap and pretty copy of it, rigidly exact to the original, will be a prize to many book-buyers."—EXAMINER, THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO. TRANSLATED into ENGLISH, with Notes, by J. LI. DAVIES, M.A. and D. J. VAUGHAN, M.A. |