FORSTER’S LIFE OF GOLDSMITH: The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. By John Forster, Author of “The Life of Charles Dickens,” etc. With a Biography of Forster by the Editor, and Numerous Illustrations by Maclise, Stanfield, Leech, and others.
Forster’s “Life of Goldsmith” is a work which ranks very high among successful biographies. Washington Irving said of it: “It is executed with a spirit, a feeling, a grace, and an elegance, that leave nothing to be desired.”
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 coyer with avidity, and we hope it will reach the hands of tens of thousands of our middle and working classes.”—Daily Chronicle.
Volume XV.—Third Edition.
THACKERAY’S VANITY FAIR. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. By William Makepeace Thackeray. With Biographical Introduction by the Editor, Portrait of the Author, and full-page Illustrations.