“The ‘Minerva Library’ will be hailed with delight, we are sure, by all readers.—”The Weekly Times.
Volume VI.—Third Edition.
THE BETROTHED LOVERS (I Promessi Sposi). By Alessandro Manzoni. With a Biographical Introduction by the Editor, and Portrait of the Author.
Of this great work Goethe wrote:—“Manzoni’s romance transcends all that we have knowledge of in this kind. I need only say that the internal part, all that comes from the core of the poet, is thoroughly perfect, and that the external part, all the notes of localities and so forth, is not a whit behind its great inner qualities.... The work gives us the pleasure of an absolutely ripe fruit.”
Volume VII.—Fourth Edition.
GOETHE’S FAUST (Complete). Translated in the Original Metres, with copious Critical and Explanatory Notes by Bayard Taylor. With a Critical Introduction by the Editor, Portrait of Goethe, and Retzsch’s Illustrations.
⁂ This is a full and complete reprint of Bayard Taylor’s unrivalled rendering of Goethe’s masterpiece. It is published by special arrangement with Mrs. Bayard Taylor, and contains the whole of the Translator’s copious and extremely valuable Notes, Introductions, and Appendices.
Volume VIII.—Third Edition.
WALLACE’S TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON: Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. By Alfred Russel Wallace, Author of “The Malay Archipelago,” “Darwinism,” etc. Giving an account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. With a Biographical Introduction, Portrait of the Author, and Illustrations.
“It would be impossible to overrate the service which Mr. Wallace, the co-discoverer of Darwinism, has done.”—Times, September 11th, 1889.