Kenilworth. Sir WALTER SCOTT.
Like all Sir Walter Scott's books, Kenilworth is a great picture of a historical epoch, and it is also a very great and wonderful drama.
Quentin Durward. Sir WALTER SCOTT.
One of the most brilliant of Scott's romances. It presents a wonderfully powerful and moving picture of the times of Louis the Eleventh.
Ivanhoe. Sir WALTER SCOTT.
The most popular novel of Sir Walter Scott, and the first which every boy reads. It has given a living interest to an age which, in other hands, becomes a mere catalogue of conventional antiquities.
Adam Bede. GEORGE ELIOT.
The book which made Mrs. Carlyle feel "in charity with the whole human race" could be no ordinary one. Adam Bede contains all George Eliot's broad and catholic knowledge of life, and the characters are all drawn by the hand of a master.
The Mill on the Floss. GEORGE ELIOT.
This is perhaps the best beloved of modern novels. It is the book in which George Eliot put most of her early life, and of all her heroines Maggie Tulliver is the one on whom she has expended most care and tenderness.