MACMILLAN'S 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. 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 Selbourne. 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. 18mo. 4s. 6d.
"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. 9s.
Scottish Song. A Selection of the Choicest Lyrics of Scotland. Compiled and arranged, with brief Notes, by Mary Carlyle Aitkin. 18mo. 4s. 6d.
"Miss Aitken'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.