[273b] George Borrow’s Lavengro should only be read in Mr. John Murray’s edition, as it there contains certain additional and valuable matter gathered from the original manuscript by William I. Knapp. The Library Edition of Borrow, in 6 volumes (Murray), may be particularly commended.
[273c] Emerson’s Complete Works are published by the Routledges in 4 volumes, in which Representative Men may be found in Vol. II. Some may prefer the Eversley Library Emerson, which has an Introduction by John Morley. There are many cheap editions of about equal value.
[273d] Lander’s Imaginary Conversations form six volumes of the complete Landor, edited by Charles G. Crump, and published in 10 volumes by J. M. Dent.
[273e] Matthew Arnold’s Essays in Criticism is published by Macmillan. It also forms Vol. III of the Library Edition of his Works in 15 volumes. A “Second Series” has less significance.
[273f] The Works of Herodotus, published by the Macmillans, translated by George C. Macaulay, is the best edition for the general reader. Canon Rawlinson’s Herodotus, published by John Murray, has had a longer life, but is now only published in an abridged form.
[274a] James Howell’s Familiar Letters, or Epistolae Ho Elianae, should be read in the edition published in 2 volumes by David Nutt, with an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs.
[274b] The History of Civilization, by Henry Thomas Buckle, is in my library in the original 2 volumes published by Parker in 1857. It is now issued in 3 volumes in Longman’s Silver Library, and in 3 volumes in the World’s Classics.
[274c] The History of Tacitus should be read in the translation by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodripp. It is published by the Macmillans.
[274d] Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford, is a collection of essays which in their completest form may be obtained in two volumes of Bohn’s Library (Bell). The essential essays should be possessed in the edition published by the Macmillans—Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford, with an Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and one hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
[274e] Green’s Short History of the English People is published by the Macmillans in 1 volume, or illustrated in 4 volumes. The book was enlarged, but disimproved, under the title of A History of the English People, in 4 volumes, uniform with the Conquest of England and the Making of England by the same author.