VI 



The Review of Reviews. 



February to, 1906. 



READING 



FOR 



THE HOME. 



A GOOD NOVEL IS A NECESSITY FOR HARD WORKERS. 



You can't be Working Day and Night. 



You need some Relaxation. 



Nothing gives Relaxation like a Good Novel. 



1 CHARLES O'MALLEY; Charles Lever's stirring romance, tell- 

 ing of the adventures of an Irish officer in the Napo- 

 leonio Wars. 



t CONINGSBY ; one of the most famous works of the states- 

 man novelist, Lord Beaconsfield. 



3. BEN HUR; perhaps the most realistic story of the time 



of Christ. A stirring tale of fighting and love by 

 General Lew Wallace. 



4. TJtE SJ^VRLET LETTER; Nathaniel Hawthorne's master- 



piece. Tells of the stern, early Puritan doings in 

 America. 



6. ALDERSYDE ; a charming story of the Scottish border, 

 written most graphically by Annie S. Swan. 



6. NEOMI: THE BRIGAND'S DAUGHTER; the title explains it- 



self. The novel is one of the most popular of that 

 popular writer, S. Baring-Gould. 



7. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. An epoch making book, by Mrs. H. 

 Beeoher-Stowe. A tale of the slave days in America. 



8. THE FIFTH FORM OF ST. DOMINICS: one of the best stories 

 of school days in England. Bright, having plenty of 

 inoident. By T. Barnes Reed. 



9. THE SCHONBERG - COTTA FAMILY ; the best of the many 

 charming works of Mrs. E. Rundle Charles. 



10. THE HOUR AND THE MAN; Harriet Martineau's graphic 

 description of the founding of the first negro Republic 

 in San Domingo. 



11. ROBERT FALCONER. Of the many stirring novels of George 

 MacDonald, this has been universally adjudged the best. 



12. INNOCENTS ABROAD For genuine humor no one can surpass 



Mark Twain, and in this book he is at his best. No one 

 who wishes to have a hearty laugh should miss read- 

 ing it. 



1 THE EARTHLY PARADISE; by William Morris. Stories from. 

 this great masterpiece of one of the greatest of present- 

 day pools, told in prose with copious extracts in verse, 

 by special permission of the author. 



2 THE KtiOLDSBY LEGENDS, by Thomas Ingoldsby (Rev. R. H. 

 Barham), who easily holds first place as master of 

 En f;li si i humorous rhyme. 



3. CHIL E HAROLD'S PILGRIM GE. The book contains the second 

 portion of Lord Byron's greatest masterpiece. It is 

 more popular than the first, as it deals with the poet's 

 wandering in better known lands. 



i. POEMS OF LIBERTY. PROGRESS & LABOUR, oy John Greenleaf- 

 Whktier, the Quaker poet of America. He has been 

 callel the Poet Laureate of the Suffrage 



5 WHIT lER'S POEMS, contains his autobiographical poems and 

 selections from the verses he wrote against slavery. 



6 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, by Sir Walter Scott, is probably the- 

 best known romantic poem of the English language. 



7. LEGENDS AND BAllAOS A selection of the best known 

 legends and ballads in the English tongue. 



8 ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON That portion of Spencer's 

 Faerie Queene which tells of the adventures of the Red 

 Cross Knight. 



9 THE CANTERBURY TALES, in which Geoffrey Chaucer tells of 



a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury five cen- 

 turies ago. 



10. T.iE PLEASURES OF HOPE, and other poems, by Thomas 

 Campbell. The Scottish poet is chiefly known by his 

 battle poems. The Battle of the Baltic, Hohen linden 



11. THE POEMS OF JOHN .EATS. This "Poet ot Be tuty " lived! 

 but 25 years, and yet he was one of the greatest poets 

 of the 19th century. All his best masterpieces are in- 

 cluded in the volume. 



12 IRISH M-LO IES and other poems, by the greatest of Irish 

 poets, Thomas Moore. 



TWELVE NOVELS for Is. 4d. £•..-« m stamps). 



TWELVE POETS for Is. 4d. as. 5d. m stamps > 



ALL EXCELLENT READING. 



Send only Is. 4d. (is. sd. if stamps , and the twelve novels or the twelve poets will be sent you by return. 

 For 2s. 6d. the whole library of twenty-four volumes will be sent, post free. 



THE MANAGER, "The Review of Reviews," Equitable Building, Melbourne. 



