TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH 



AFRICA, by DAVID LIVINGSTONE. 



This is one of the most fascinating books of adventure ever 

 written. Livingstone went to Africa in 1840, when it took three 

 months to get there. Then for sixteen years he wandered where 

 white man had never been. He went into the heart of the Dark 

 Continent and explored the country to the Atlantic, and also to the 

 Indian Ocean. On those travels he discovered the wonderful Victoria 

 Falls of the Zambesi. When he went home in 1856, he was the hero 

 of the day. When he had finished this book, Livingstone declared : 

 " I think I would rather cross the African Continent again than 

 undertake to write another book." 



ADAM EEDE, by GEORGE ELIOT. 



"Rarely has a novelist come to his task with such a far-reaching 

 culture, such an intellectual grasp as George Eliot," says Mathilde 

 Blind. " When she produced Adam Bede she produced a novel in 

 which the amplest results of knowledge and meditation were so 

 happily blended with instructive insight into life and character and 

 the rarest dramatic imagination as to stamp it immediately as one of 

 the great triumphs and masterpieces in the world of fiction." Even 

 Mr. Blackwood, the publisher, did not know at first the real name of 

 the writer of this novel. It was an instant success. 



THE GOLDEN TREASURY, by 



FRANCIS T. PALGRAVE. 



This Golden Treasury of the best songs and lyrical p®ems in the 

 English language, selected and arranged with notes by the late 

 Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, is universally 

 regarded as the very best selection ever made. It therefore affords 

 the finest introduction to the study of English poetry. It consists of 

 288 poems, arranged in four parts, or, as the editor calls them, " the 

 books of Shakespeare, Milton, Gray, and Wordsworth," because 

 they give distinctive character to the several books. " Poetry," said 

 Palgrave, "gives treasures 'more golden than gold,' leading us in 

 higher and healthier ways than those of the world, and interpreting 

 to us the lessons of Nature." 



THE SCARLET LETTER, by 



NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 



Hawthorne is America's greatest novelist, and The Scarlet Letter 

 is his most famous book. Lowell said : " I don't think people have 

 any kind of true notion yet what a master he was. God rest his 

 soul ! Shakespeare, I am sure, was glad to see him on the other 

 side." This story is intensely realistic and dramatic. 



OTHER VOLUMES ARE IN PREPARATION. 



