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, 4_s._ 6_d._ each volume. Also
kept in morocco and calf bindings.
"_Messrs. Macmillan have, in their Golden Treasury Series,
especially provided editions of standard works, volumes of
selected poetry, and 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 LORD SELBORNE. _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 tracks of religious
thought._"--SATURDAY REVIEW.
=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 connection with Bacon's life and
times._"--SPECTATOR.
=The Pilgrim's Progress= from this World to that which is to come.
By JOHN BUNYAN.
"_A beautiful and scholarly reprint._"--SPECTATOR.
=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. Ll. DAVIES, M.A. and D. J. VAUGHAN, M.A.
"_A dainty and cheap little edition._"--EXAMINER.
=The Song Book.= Words and Tunes from the best Poets and Musicians.
Selected and arranged by JOHN HULLAH, Professor of Vocal Music
in King's College, London.
"_A choice collection of the sterling songs of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, with the music of each prefixed to
the Words. How much true wholesome pleasure such a book can
diffuse, and will diffuse, we trust through many thousand
families._"--EXAMINER.
=La Lyre Française.= Selected and arranged, with Notes, by
GUSTAVE MASSON, French Master in Harrow School.
_A selection of the best French songs and lyrical pieces._
=Tom Brown's School Days.= By AN OLD BOY.
"_A perfect gem of a book. The best and most
healthy book about boys for boys that ever was
written._"--ILLUSTRATED TIMES.
=A Book Of Worthies.= Gathered from the Old Histories and written
anew by the Author of "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE." With Vignette.
"_An admirable addition to an admirable
series._"--WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
=A Book of Golden Thoughts.= By HENRY ATTWELL, Knight of the Order
of the Oak Crown.
"_Mr. Attwell has produced a book of rare value....
Happily it is small enough to be carried about in the
pocket, and of such a companion it would be difficult to
weary._"--PALL MALL GAZETTE.
=Guesses at Truth.= By TWO BROTHERS. New Edition.
=The Cavalier and his Lady.= Selections from the Works of the First
Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. With an Introductory Essay by
EDWARD JENKINS, Author of "Ginx's Baby," &c.
"_A charming little volume._"--STANDARD.
=Theologia Germanica.=--Which setteth forth many fair Lineaments
of Divine Truth, and saith very lofty and lovely things touching
a Perfect Life. Edited by DR. PFEIFFER, from the only complete
manuscript yet known. Translated from the German, by SUSANNA
WINKWORTH. With a Preface by the REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY,
and a Letter to the Translator by the CHEVALIER BUNSEN, D.D.
=Milton's Poetical Works.=--Edited, with Notes, &c., by
PROFESSOR MASSON. Two vols. 18mo. 9_s._
=Scottish Song.= A Selection of the Choicest Lyrics of Scotland.
Compiled and arranged, with brief Notes, by MARY CARLYLE AITKIN.
"_Miss Aitkin's exquisite collection of Scottish Song is
so alluring, and suggests so many topics, that we find
it difficult to lay it down. The book is one that should
find a place in every library, we had almost said in every
pocket, and the summer tourist who wishes to carry with
him into the country a volume of genuine poetry, will find
it difficult to select one containing within so small a
compass so much of rarest value._"--SPECTATOR.
=Deutsche Lyrik.=--The Golden Treasury of the best German Lyrical
Poems, selected and arranged with Notes and Literary Introduction.
By Dr. BUCHHEIM.
"_This collection of German poetry is compiled with care
and conscientiousness.... The result of his labours is
satisfactory. Almost all the lyrics dear to English readers
of German will be found in this little volume._"--PALL
MALL GAZETTE.
=Robert Herrick.=--SELECTIONS FROM THE LYRICAL POEMS OF. Arranged
with Notes by F. T. PALGRAVE.
"_A delightful little book. Herrick, the English Catullus,
is simply one of the most exquisite of poets, and his fame
and memory are fortunate in having found one so capable of
doing honour to them as the present editor; who contributes
a charming dedication and a preface full of delicate and
sensitive criticism to a volume than which one would hardly
desire a choicer companion for a journey or for hours of
ease in the country._"--DAILY NEWS.
=Poems of Places.=--Edited by H. W. LONGFELLOW. England and Wales.
Two Vols.
"_After a careful perusal we must pronounce his work an
excellent collection.... In this compilation we find
not only a guide-book for future travels, but a fund of
reminiscences of the past. To many of us it will seem like
a biography of our best and happiest emotions.... For those
who know not all these places the book will be an excellent
travelling companion or guide, or may even stand some in
good stead in place of travel._"--TIMES.
=Matthew Arnold's Selected Poems.=