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THE VICTORIA LIBRARY. 



A New Series of Standard and Popular Works 



in all departments of Literature, to be issued monthly, in handy 

 pocket volumes, well printed and neatly bound in whole cloth, 

 yellow edges, price Is. each ; or in paper covers, cut or uncut 

 edges, 6d. each. 



The Series will comprise Selected Works, in Poetry and Prose, from 

 our Classic Literature. Biographies of Men and Women who have 

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 great Statesmen, Generals, Admirals, Explorers, Inventors, 

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 occasional Volumes of approved Fiction. 



Vol. I., Bkitish Obatoby, containing: Six famous Speeches, 

 viz. : Grattan on Irish Independence, Pitt on Union, Peel on 

 Com Laws, Bright on Reform, Jones on Democracy, Gladstone 

 on Oaths. J 



t Y A l r, IL En ,? LI8H Dbama s : The Birth of Merlin, and Thomas 

 -Lord Cromwell. 



-r 5?"i5 0s THE Study ani> u ™ °f Histobt : By Lord 

 isolmgbroke. J 



Vol IV. English Dbamas : By Congreve. " The Way of the 

 World, and " The Mourning Bride." 



traIslations A TALE ° F A TUB ! Bj ^^ Swift * With D ° teS and 

 , V °ivV" SpEN8E . B ' s Faibt Queen : A selection of the most 

 S? K v PaS AT g6S m T dernized orthography, with analyses of 

 each book. Notes and explanations of Irchaic words. 



Z° ' Zllr LlFE ° F WlLllAM Pitt: By T. Evan Jacob, M.A. 

 Vol. VIII. Elizabethan Songs and Sonnets. 



TV^tt • / OR ™COIvllNG WORKS. 



Ine Hemiptera Homoptera of the British Isles. 



By Ja MES Edwabbs,P.E.S. Prospectus on application. 



Kora of India. By Sir J. D. Hooker. Part 20. 

 Flora of Tropical Africa. Vol. IV. Preparing. 



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