BURT’S LIBRARY OF THE World’s Best Books.

A series which will include the standard works of the world’s literature. The books will be neatly and durably bound, printed on, good paper, in large, clear type, uniform in all respects with this volume. The text will be in every case thoroughly reliable and unabridged, hence meeting equally the needs of the student and general reader. Indexes, biographical sketches and explanatory notes will be given where these are likely to prove of value and interest. All who have at heart the best interests of literature, and welcome further the spread of a taste for the world’s classics, will welcome the appearance of this series, which will place a complete, rich and uniform library of the highest character within the reach of all.

The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon. First published in 1597, and as he left them newly written and published in 1625. Including also his Apophthegms, Elegant Sentences, and Wisdom of the Ancients. With an introduction by Henry Morley, LL.D., Professor of English Literature at University College, London. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

They (Bacon’s Essays) contain the condensed wisdom gathered during the whole long life-time of one of the mightiest minds of modern times.—Frank Parsons.

Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. By William Makepeace Thackeray. Portrait, 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

As a whole the book is full of quiet sarcasm and severe rebuke. It is replete with humor and morality, and rivets attention to the end by the vivid reality of all the persons and scenes.—From “A Manual of English Literature” by T. B. Shaw.

Other Worlds Than Ours. The plurality of worlds studied under the light of recent scientific researches. By Richard A. Proctor. With an introductory note by Frank Parsons. Portrait. Cloth, gilt top. $1.00.

Like Huxley and Tyndall, Mr. Proctor sees the poetry of his subject and knows how to bring the largest truths within the comprehension of a child, and make the deepest researches as interesting to the general reader as a novel.—Frank Parsons.

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, from Marathon to Waterloo. By E. S. Creasy, M.A., Professor of Ancient and Modern History in University College, London; late Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. With an introductory note by Frank Parsons. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

So vivid are his descriptions that one feels as though he were present at the scene himself, listening to the counsels of the generals, hearing the tread of marching columns, watching the gleaming spears and bayonets, armies of infantry, charging cavalry, breach, rally and retreat, deafened with the roar of batteries, saddened by the death of friends, and flushed with triumph; and at last the reader lays the book away exhausted with the rush of feeling through his heart.—Frank Parsons.

The Essays of Elia. By Charles Lamb. With an introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger, and a Biographical Sketch of Charles Lamb, by Henry Morley. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The Essays of Elia have been characterized as the “finest things for humor, taste, penetration and vivacity which have appeared since the days of Montaigne.” In his bits of criticism Charles Lamb shows a most delicate and acute critical faculty; in his few poems, much grace and sweetness, but first and foremost, he is an essayist of rare power. The refined wit, genuine pleasantry, deep and tender pathos, and subtle discrimination of his essays, are unexcelled by any compositions in the language.—Robert Thorne.

Essays. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. First and second series. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

He exercised a great power over men; he brought them wide comfort, and to him more than to any man of his time belongs the glory of having taught them that life was worth the living.—From the “Optimism of Emerson,” by W. F. Dana.

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Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle, with an introductory note by Robert Thorne, M.A. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

His (Carlyle’s) bidding is to do the allotted work of life silently and bravely. and there is probably no person who has not gained strength by the reading of his strong and earnest writings.—Robert Thorne.

The History of Civilization in Europe. By Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot. Translated by William Hazlitt, with a biographical sketch of the author. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

These lectures made a profound impression at the time they were delivered and published, and indeed marked an epoch in the history of education, raising the reputation of their author at once to the highest point of fame, and placing him among the best writers of France and of Europe.—Robert Thorne.

Ivanhoe. A Romance. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Reprinted from the author’s edition, unaltered and unabridged. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Ivanhoe is one of the most famous and brilliant of all the master romances of Sir Walter Scott, who is placed by many at the head of modern novelists.... The breadth and power of Scott’s style and his charm as a story-teller are too well known to need comment, and in this volume we have him at his best.—Robert Thorne.

The Vicar of Wakefield, The Traveller, and The Deserted Village. By Oliver Goldsmith. With a Life of Goldsmith by William Black. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1 00.

The style is easy and delightful. The humor is delicate and all good humor; there is hardly a trace of satire or ill-nature in the whole book, which is a true expression of the spirit of Goldsmith himself, one of the most lovable personalities in the world of letters.—Robert Thorne.

The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheiridion and Fragments. Translated with notes, a life of Epictetus, a view of his philosophy, and index. By George Long, M.A. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Great purity, sustained reflection, wealth of illustration and allusion, vivid revelations of character and brilliant bursts of eloquence, mark the utterances of this great teacher and insure their immortality.—Frank Parsons.

The Crown of Wild Olive and Sesame and Lilies. By John Ruskin, LL.D. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

As a great and fearless leader of thought and antagonistic to many features of our social order, he is naturally the object of much violent criticism, but is warmly admired and loved by a great part of the reading world, and coming ages will accord him his due. He has told the world new truth and the world will grow up to his majestic stature.—Robert Thorne.

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by George Long, M.A., with a biographical sketch and a view of the philosophy of Antoninus by the translator. Including also an essay on Marcus Aurelius by Canon Farrar. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

“The noblest book of antiquity” is Canon Farrar’s estimate of the “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius;” and his regard is shared by thousands who have been made better and truer men by the ennobling influence of the great soul and lofty character of this pagan emperor.—Robert Thorne.

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Faust. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Complete in two parts. Translated by Anna Swanwick. Portrait. Cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Deeper meanings are discovered with every reading, and familiarity does not cause it to grow trite, but ever the more strongly to lay hold on the soul with the irresistible fascination of an eternal problem and the charm of an endless variety.—Robert Thorne.

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. By Washington Irving. With an introductory note by Frank Parsons. Portrait. Cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The book is refined, poetical and picturesque, full of quaint humor, exquisite feeling, and a thorough knowledge of human nature.—Frank Parsons.

Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor. By R. D. Blackmore. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

These wonderfully reproduced scenes, and the men and women with whom they are peopled, and finally the beautiful language in which the narrative is set forth, unite to make a delightful, and, what is more, a wholesome, invigorating, inspiring book.—E. S. Hawes.

Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face. By Charles Kingsley, F.S.A., F.L.S. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The plot is well developed, the characters are vigorously drawn, and the scenes and incidents show great dramatic power, while the language and word-painting are exquisite. The book holds throughout, with a firm grasp, our sympathy and interest, Kingsley being one of the very few who have succeeded in throwing a strong human interest into a historical novel.—Robert Thorne.

Romola. By George Eliot. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

George Eliot is admitted by thoughtful persons to have been endowed with one of the greatest minds of this century.... Romola, which is one of her earlier works, is also one of the most popular. The movement is so rapid, and the situations are so dramatic, that the interest never flags; ... the book has nowhere the air of tiresome preaching, but it stands the test of a great novel—it may be read again and again with pleasure.—E. S. Hawes.

The Data of Ethics. By Herbert Spencer. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Herbert Spencer is the foremost name in the philosophic literature of the world. He is the Shakespeare of science. He has a grander grasp of knowledge and more perfect conscious correspondence with the external universe than any other human being who ever looked wonderingly out into the starry depths; and his few errors flow from an over-anxiety to exert his splendid power of making beautiful generalizations. Plato and Spencer are brothers. Plato would have done what Spencer has had he lived in the nineteenth century.—From “The World’s Best Books,” by Frank Parsons.

The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of a Favored Race in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

This book is the grandest achievement of modern scientific thought and research. It has passed through many editions in English, has been translated into almost all the languages of Europe, and has been the subject of more reviews, pamphlets and separate books than any other volume of the age.—Robert Thorne.

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John Halifax, Gentleman. A Novel. By Miss Mulock. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The book is from the pen of one who combines a careful study of life with a rare genius in depicting its real experiences, and who renders charming even a simple story of actual life, by the glow of a warm and loving heart with which she transfuses it.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.

Undine and Other Tales. By De La Motte Fouque. Translated from the German by F. E. Bunnett. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Undine has become a household book for old and young in Germany, and has been translated into almost every European language. There is in it a simplicity of style unsurpassed, and plenty of sweet pathos which wets the eye but never wrings the heart.—Henry Prentice.

Uarda, A Romance of Ancient Egypt. By George Ebers. Translated from the German by Clara Bell. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Amid all the tempest of passion and expectation incidental to such a tale the novelist evolves a charming story of love and constancy rising superior to class prejudices, and of the sweet amenities of social ties and family affection.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Selected Essays. By Thomas De Quincey. Edited with notes by David Masson, Professor of English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

De Quincey’s skill in narration, his rare pathos, his wide sympathies, the pomp of his dream-descriptions, his abounding though subtle humor, commend him to a large class of readers.—Encyclopedia Britannica.

On the Heights. By Berthold Auerbach. Translated from the German by F. E. Bunnett. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Auerbach has been called the Charles Dickens of Germany. He is not only a brilliant writer of fiction, but is at the same time a profound thinker and elevated moralist. In “On the Heights,” his most powerful work, education, labor, wealth, poverty, and the relations of rich and poor; aristocracy, religion and philosophy, the rights of the individual, and their various applications to our daily life, are illumed and illustrated by its progress and development. It is a beautiful story, sad in its ending, but free from any tinge of coarseness or sensationalism; pure, sweet, warm with human love and tenderness.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.

The Last Days of Pompeii. By Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bart. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The fate of the rich Campanian city, the most awful catastrophe which history records, supplies a superb climax to the story. This is dramatic and powerful throughout, and of absorbing interest. The characters arise naturally from the scene of the story, and they move and speak in perfect accord with their surroundings; with a human sympathy which easily bridges the eighteen centuries which have rolled over the buried city, we follow with eager interest this tale of the men and women of ancient Pompeii.—Robert Thorne.

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Westward Ho! or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight. By Charles Kingsley. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

“Westward Ho!” is one of the most vigorous, powerful, and fascinating of novels. It is strong and graphic in its portraiture, intense and dramatic in its diversified coloring. The nervous and effective style, the skillful blending of the manifold portraits into one comprehensive picture, are among the merits which have made this Kingsley’s greatest work.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.

The Pilgrim’s Progress. By John Bunyan, with a life of Bunyan by James Anthony Froude. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

No other book except the Bible has gone through so many editions and attained to so wide a popularity in all languages as “The Pilgrim’s Progress.” ... It narrates the struggles, the experiences, and the trials of a Christian in his passage from a life of sin to everlasting felicity: and it abounds with those little inimitable touches of natural feeling and description which have placed its author among the most picturesque of writers.... Bunyan may truly be called the prince of allegorists, and he is also the most perfect representative of the plain, vigorous, idiomatic, and sometimes picturesque and poetical language of the common people.—Taken from “A Manual of English Literature,” by T. B. Shaw.

Self-Help, with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. By Samuel Smiles. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

“Self-Help” is a book which helps and stimulates men to elevate and improve themselves. It teaches them that the humblest person who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country.... Hundreds of its terse and happy phrases have become the common property of mankind, and it has been already translated into four or five of the European languages.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.

Jane Eyre. By Charlotte Bronté. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Few novels have gained such immediate popularity as was accorded to “Jane Eyre.” This was doubtless due in part to the freshness and vigor of mind it evinced; but it was obtained not so much by these qualities as by the frequent dealings in moral paradox, and by the hardihood of its assaults upon the prejudices of proper people. Throughout the tale the author exhibits a perception of character and the power of delineating it, which is, considering her youth, remarkable.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.

The Moonstone. A Novel. By Wilkie Collins. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Like the generality of his romances, the interest of “The Moonstone” depends chiefly upon the development of a plot whose systematic intricacies pique the curiosity until the last moment, and upon the concealment of a mystery which baffles and defies solution until it shall have contributed to no end of cross purposes and caused a prodigious amount of incertitude and wretchedness.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.

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FOOTNOTES:

Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:

AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS.=> AMELIA BLANFORD EDWARDS. {Frontispiece} Shegered-Durr, a beautiul Turkish=> Shegered-Durr, a beautiful Turkish {fn 6} cut a sorroy figure=> cut a sorry figure {pg 46} But the must amazing=> But the most amazing {pg 46} low perdendicular cliffs=> low perpendicular cliffs {pg 46} This colussus is now raised=> This colossus is now raised {fn 19} it place in history=> its place in history {pg 62} and murmnr’d “bakhshîsh!”=> and murmur’d “bakhshîsh!” {pg 63} certain amount of insistance=> certain amount of insistence {pg 66} is supended a goat-skin bucket=> is suspended a goat-skin bucket {fn 22} a shoal of medicant monks=> a shoal of mendicant monks {pg 75} and most suble gradations=> and most subtle gradations {pg 77} régulièrement trios enfants sur cinq=> régulièrement troos enfants sur cinq {fn 24} to downs-tairs=> to down-stairs {pg 83} fifty colored lanters outlined=> fifty colored lanterns outlined {pg 84} for contemplatation=> for contemplation {pg 91} nomarch of the Lycopolite nome=> monarch of the Lycopolite nome {pg 95} the twelth dynasty=> the twelfth dynasty {pg 26} reputation for unusal sanctity=> reputation for unusual sanctity {fn 31} effect of afterg-low=> effect of after-glow {pg 105} towed by goverment=> towed by government {pg 106} the precints=> the precincts {pg 111} these gloomy threshelds=> these gloomy thresholds {pg 118} the Triad worshiped=> the Triad worshipped {fn 44} La culta de Bes parait=> La culte de Bes parait {fn 45} but quite preceptibly=> but quite perceptibly {pg 147} for which purpuse=> for which purpose {pg 147} expressive pantomine=> expressive pantomime {pg 148 x 2} of more that doubtful=> of more than doubtful {pg 148} incapable of oevenge=> incapable of revenge {pg 150} his bad cnes=> his bad ones {pg 150} much better rharacter=> much better character {pg 150} the usual attemps=> the usual attempts {pg 160} the judical susceptibilities=> the judicial susceptibilities {pg 161} we found ourselvelves=> we found ourselves {pg 170} his next two successsors=> his next two successors {fn 54} following succint account=> following succinct account {fn 56} on the righ road to Thebes=> on the high road to Thebes {pg 197} in the precints=> in the precincts {pg 199} supended in his time=> suspended in his time {fn 60} and believd Philæ to=> and believed Philæ to {fn 61} when Burkhardt went up=> when Burckhardt went up {pg 202} their tale intelligbly=> their tale intelligibly {pg 208} is as audidle=> is as audible {pg 209} ancient blue porcelian=> ancient blue porcelain {pg 216} but found them to much defaced=> but found them too much defaced {pg 233} But with he second Rameses=> But with the second Rameses {pg 236} through Westminister Abbey=> through Westminster Abbey {pg 237} sharer of the thorne=> sharer of the throne {pg 238} it has often deen observed=> it has often been observed {fn 84} A similiar document=> A similar document {pg 247} colored mosaice=> colored mosaics {pg 95} Marray is wrong=> Murray is wrong {pg 95} almost unparalelled length=> almost unparalleled length {pg 105} the ninteenth dynasty=> the nineteenth dynasty {fn 108} were wont to speak of them as=> were wont to speak of them as as {pg 181} size or of portaiture=> size or of portraiture {pg 260} From the southermost colossus=> From the southernmost colossus {pg 261} the hieroglypic character=> the hieroglyphic character {pg 266} gloomy magnificance=> gloomy magnificence {pg 271} the besigers’ camp=> the besiegers’ camp {pg 272} to represents water=> to represent water {pg 274} is almst Panathenaic=> is almost Panathenaic {pg 274} the city of the beseiged=> the city of the besieged {pg 274} a sort of Egyption Iliad=> a sort of Egyptian Iliad {pg 274} Archilles is left out=> Achilles is left out {pg 275} there is no vendure=> there is no verdure {pg 284} north of the second contract=> north of the second cataract {pg 284} jewels, and papiry=> jewels, and papyri {pg 304} at once fell swoop=> at one fell swoop {pg 305} Governor of Ethiopia=> Govornor of Ethiopia {pg 316} in conjuction or identification=> in conjunction or identification {fn 143} ordrer of Mariette Bey=> order of Mariette Bey {pg 154} towered, loop-hooled=> towered, loop-holed {pg 334} little flanking off=> little flaking off {pg 374} The wall scuptures=> The wall sculptures {pg 381} and more respectfully designated=> are more respectfully designated {fn 208} wholly pontomimic=> wholly pantomimic {pg 413} schoolmaster—come round=> schoolmaster—came round {pg 416} were introdouced from=> were introduced from {pg 448} is appearent to every=> is apparent to every {pg 451} been cherised by=> been cherished by {pg 452} The decrepancies between these=> The discrepancies between these {pg 452} Twefth dynasty=> Twelfth dynasty {pg 454} some being addressed=> some beng addressed {pg 454}