THOMAS CHALMERS. By Mrs. Oliphant. With a Portrait. Second Edition.
JOHN KEBLE. By Walter Lock, Sub-Warden of Keble College. With a Portrait. Seventh Edition.
English Classics
Edited by W. E. Henley.
Messrs. Methuen propose to publish, under this title, a series of the masterpieces of the English tongue.
The ordinary ‘cheap edition’ appears to have served its purpose: the public has found out the artist-printer, and is now ready for something better fashioned. This, then, is the moment for the issue of such a series as, while well within the reach of the average buyer, shall be at once an ornament to the shelf of him that owns, and a delight to the eye of him that reads.
The series, of which Mr. William Ernest Henley is the general editor, will confine itself to no single period or department of literature. Poetry, fiction, drama, biography, autobiography, letters, essays—in all these fields is the material of many goodly volumes.
The books, which are designed and printed by Messrs. Constable, will be issued in two editions—
(1) A small edition, on the finest Japanese vellum, limited in most cases to 75 copies, demy 8vo, 21s. a volume nett;
(2) The popular edition on laid paper, crown 8vo, buckram, 3s. 6d. a volume.