4. CLEARNESS OF TYPE. The type will be a very legible one. 5. SIMPLICITY. There will be no editorial matter except a short biographical and bibliographical note by Mr. Sidney Lee at the beginning of each volume. Where it is possible, each separate book will be issued in one volume, but the longer ones must be divided into several volumes. The volumes may also be obtained in cloth at One Shilling net, and where a single book is issued in several Sixpenny volumes it may be obtained in cloth in a double or treble volume. Thus GIL BLAS may be bought in two Sixpenny volumes, or in one cloth volume at 1s. 6d. net, and SHAKESPEARE will be given in ten Sixpenny volumes, or in five cloth volumes at 1s. 6d. each. The Library will be issued at regular intervals after the publication of the first six books, all of which will be published together. Due notice will be given of succeeding issues. The order of publication will be arranged to give as much variety of subject as possible, and the volumes composing the complete works of an author will be issued at convenient intervals. The early Books are in the Press. Novelist, The MESSRS. METHUEN are issuing under the above general title a Monthly Series of Novels by popular authors at the price of Sixpence. Each number is as long as the average Six Shilling Novel. The first numbers of ‘THE NOVELIST’ are as follows:—