The next volume of this Library, published in May 1888, will complete our
household edition of Rabelais with the Sequel to Pantagruel. This will
be followed in June by “A Miscellany” of short works of special interest
taken from different periods of English life. The sixty-three volumes of
the Universal Library, re-arranged in historical order, will then form
a completed series, and the supply of standard literature in shilling
monthly volumes will be left to other editors whose good work in this
direction has been called into existence by the success of the Universal
Library, which on its first appearance broke new ground.
The work done in these volumes will be continued, without change of aim,
in a new series that has been planned to permit issue of large books
without the crowding of type which, in this series, has been now and
then found necessary. In the New Series, there will be a complete change
of form. Substantial and handsome volumes of the best literature will
be published in alternate months at a price that will add not more than
three shillings to the present annual cost of “The Universal Library.”
The name of the new Library will change from the Universal to the
Particular. Its books may be named from their _habitat_, and they will
usually be edited where the eye raised from the paper and ink rests upon
Carisbrooke Castle.
THE FIRST VOLUME OF
Morley’s Carisbrooke Library
_Will be published on the First of October, 1888_.