Volume XVII.—Second Edition.
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.—Second Edition.
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.”
Volume XIX.
LOCKHART’S LIFE OF BURNS. Revised. With New Notes, &c., by J. H. Ingram. Portrait and Full-page Engravings.
Volume XX.
BARTH’S CENTRAL AFRICA: Timbuktu and the Niger. With Full-page and other Engravings.