Scribner, Armstrong & Co.,
654 Broadway, N. Y.

A NEW AND VALUABLE SERIES
For Readers of all Ages and for the School & Family Library

The Illustrated Library OF TRAVEL, EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE.

EDITED BY
BAYARD TAYLOR.

The extraordinary popularity of the Illustrated Library of Wonders (nearly one and a half million copies having been sold in this country and in France) is considered by the publishers a sufficient guarantee of the success of an Illustrated Library of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure, embracing the same decidedly interesting and permanently valuable features. Upon this new enterprise the Publishers will bring to bear all their wide and constantly increasing resources. Neither pains nor expense will be spared in making their new Library not only one of the most elegantly and profusely illustrated works of the day, but at the same time one of the most graphic and fascinating in narrative and description.

Each volume will be complete in itself, and will contain, first, a brief preliminary sketch of the country to which it is devoted; next, such an outline of previous explorations as may be necessary to explain what has been achieved by later ones; and finally, a condensation of one or more of the most important narratives of recent travel, accompanied with illustrations of the scenery, architecture, and life of the races, drawn only from the most authentic sources. An occasional volume will also be introduced in the Library, detailing the exploits of individual adventurers. The entire series will thus furnish a clear, picturesque, and practical survey of our present knowledge of lands and races as supplied by the accounts of travellers and explorers. The Library will therefore be both entertaining and instructive to young as well as old, and the publishers intend to make it a necessity in every family of culture and in every private and public library in America. The name of Bayard Taylor as editor is an assurance of the accuracy and high literary character of the publication.

NOW READY:

JAPAN, SIAM, ARABIA,
WILD MEN AND WILD BEASTS.
THE YELLOWSTONE. SOUTH AFRICA.
CENTRAL ASIA. CENTRAL AFRICA.

The volumes will be uniform in size (12mo), and in price, $1.50 each.