Volume XIII.—Second Edition.
LANE’S MODERN EGYPTIANS: The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. By Edward William Lane, Translator of the “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.” With a Biographical Introduction by the Editor, Sixteen Full-page Plates, and Eighty Illustrations in the Text.
“A famous and valuable book by one of the best Oriental Scholars of the century. It is, indeed, the fact that the present work is, as has been said, the most remarkable description of a people ever written.”—Glasgow Herald.
Volume XIV.
TORRENS’ LIFE OF MELBOURNE: Memoirs of William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne. By W. M. Torrens. With Introduction by the Editor, and Portrait of Lord Melbourne.
“It is, indeed, one of the best and most interesting biographies ever written . . . For ourselves, we must admit we have read the book from cover to cover with avidity, and we hope it will reach the hands of tens of thousands of our middle and working classes.”—Daily Chronicle.