“The masterpiece of Thackeray’s satire is here placed within reach of the slenderest purse, and yet in a form that leaves nothing to be desired in the way of clear printing, and neat, serviceable binding.”—Manchester Examiner.
Volume XVI.
BARTH’S TRAVELS IN AFRICA: Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. Including Accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the Remarkable Kingdom of Bornu, and the Countries round Lake Chad. By Henry Barth, Ph.D., D.C.L., With Biographical Introduction by the Editor, Full-page Plates, and Illustrations in the Text.
“Barth’s journey through Tripoli to Central Africa is full of instruction and entertainment. He had a fine feeling for the remote, the unknown, the mysterious.... Altogether, his is one of the most inspiring of records.”—Saturday Review.
Volume XVII.
VICTOR HUGO: SELECT POEMS AND TRAGEDIES. (“Hernani” and “The King’s Amusement.”) Translated by Francis, First Earl of Ellesmere, Sir Edwin Arnold, K.S.I., Sir Gilbert Campbell, Bart., Bp. Alexander, Richard Garnett, LL.D., Andrew Lang, LL.D., Clement Scott, M.A., Charles Matthew, M.A., Nelson R. Tyerman, and many others. With Portrait of Victor Hugo.
“One of the best volumes yet issued in the splendid series of ‘Famous Books’ which go to make up Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co’s ‘Minerva Library.’”—Northampton Mercury.
Volume XVIII.
DARWIN’S CORAL REEFS, VOLCANIC ISLANDS, AND SOUTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY: With Critical and Historical Introductions, specially written for this edition by Professor John W. Judd, F.R.S., Professor of Geology in the Normal College of Science, South Kensington. With Maps and Illustrations.
Darwin’s “Coral Reefs” is at once one of his most notable and charming books, and one that has excited a most vigorous recent controversy. His account of the Volcanic Islands he visited, and his still more remarkable book describing the vast changes that have taken place in South America in geological time, are also reprinted in this volume, thus completing the “Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle.”