Each book contains eight plates in Colour.
The story of the discovery, conquest, settlement, and peaceful development of the great countries which now form part of the British Empire, is full of interest and romance. In this series of books the story is told in a number of extracts from the writings of historians, biographers, and travellers whose works are nut easily accessible to the general reader. Each volume is complete in itself and gives a vivid picture of the progress of the particular country with which it deals.
BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
HERBERT STRANG'S LIBRARY
This is a new series of standard books for boys and girls, comprising the great works of history, fiction, biography, travel, science, and poetry with which every boy and girl should be familiar, edited by Mr. HERBERT STRANG.
Each volume is prefaced by a short introduction, giving a biographical account of the author, or such information concerning the book itself as may be useful and interesting to young readers. Notes, maps, and plans are given where necessary.
The text of the books, many of which were not written primarily for children, is carefully edited both in regard to matters that are inherently unsuitable for their reading, and to passages that do not conform to modern standards of taste. In these and other respects the Editor will exercise a wide discretion.
The Library is illustrated with colour plates, reproduced by three-colour process from designs by H. M. BROCK, JAMES DURDEN, A. WEBB, and other well-known artists.
The following volumes are now ready:--
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade By Sir John Kincaid
Westward Ho! By Charles Kingsley
The Life of Wellington By W. H. Maxwell
The Boy's Country Book By William Howitt
Mungo Park's Travels
The Coral Island By R. M. Ballantyne
True Blue By W. H. G. Kingston
Little Women By Louisa Alcott
Good Wives By Louisa Alcott
Tales from Hans Andersen
Stories from Grimm
Tom Brown's Schooldays By Thomas Hughes
The Life of Nelson By Robert Southey
Quentin Durward By Sir Walter Scott
A Book of Golden Deeds By Charlotte M. Yonge
A Wonder Book By Nathaniel Hawthorne
What Katy Did By Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did at School By Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did Next By Susan Coolidge
Ivanhoe By Sir Walter Scott
Curiosities of Natural History By Frank Buckland
Captain Cook's Voyages
The Heroes By Charles Kingsley
Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe
Tales from Shakespeare By Charles and Mary Lamb
Peter the Whaler By W. H. G. Kingston
Queechy By Elizabeth Wetherell
The Wide Wide World By Elizabeth Wetherell
Tanglewood Tales By Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Life of Columbus By Washington Irving
Battles of the Peninsular War By Sir William Napier
Midshipman Easy By Captain Marryat