WILEY & PUTNAM'S 



LIBRARY OF CHOICE READING. 



" BOOKS WHICH ARE BOOKS." 



The- Publishers of the Library of Choice Reading beg leave to call attention 

 to the following classification of the books published in the series, by which 

 il will appear that novelty, variety and standard merit have always been 

 preserved, and the promise of the original prospectus faithfully kept. It 

 was proposed to publish " the best books of Travels, Biographies, works of 

 Classic Fiction — where the moral is superior to the mere story, without any 

 sacrifice of the interest — occasional choice volumes of Poetry, Essays, Criti- 

 cism. Contributions to History, and generally such single volumes, written 

 by men of genius, as will e'jualiy delight the scholar and the general reader." 

 The books already issued and ready for immediate publication may be 

 arranged as lollows : 



BOOKS OF TRAVELS. 



EOTHEN, OR TRACES OF TRAVEL BROUGHT HOME FROM THE 



EAST. 

 THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS. By Lady Duff Gordon. 

 THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS— 2 vols. .By Warburton. 

 SIR FRANCIS HEAD'S BUBBLES FROM TAE BRUNNEN. 

 BECKFORD'S ITALY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, AND VISIT TO THE 



MONASTERIES OF ALCOBACA AND BATALHA— in press. 

 NOTES OF A JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY. By 



Hazlitt— IX PRESS. 



These will be followed by Sir Francis Head's JSTotes of a Journey 

 across the Patnpas ; Waterton's Wanderiii^s in South Ainerica ; Miss 

 RiGBv's Lttttrs froin the Baltic; Henry Nelson Coleridge's Six 

 Months in the West Indies, and Thacker-w's JVotes of a Journey from 

 London to Cairo, and others — forming altogether one of the m» at original 

 and select collections of books of travels ever published. 



CLASSIC FICTION. 



MARY SCHWEIDLER, THE AMBER WITCH. The most interestinf 

 T'lial i') Witchcraft ever published. 



r. J DINE AND SINTRAM AND HIS COMPANIONS. From th« Gw 

 man of La Motte Fouqui. 



T.iE DIARY OF LADY WILLOUGHBY 



