the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "_John Halifax, Gentleman_." "_A delightful selection, in a delightful external form; full of the physical splendour and vast opulence of proper fairy tales_."--_Spectator_. THE BALLAD BOOK. ---------------- A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads. Edited by _William Allingham_. "_His taste as a judge of old poetry will be found, by all acquainted with the various readings of old English ballads, true enough to justify his undertaking so critical a task_."--_Saturday Review_. THE JEST BOOK. -------------- The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings. Selected and arranged by _Mark Lemon_. "_The fullest and best jest book that has yet appeared._"--_Saturday Review_. BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. -------------------------------------------- With Notes and Glossarial Index. By _W. Aldis Wright_, M.A. "_The beautiful little edition of Bacon's Essays, now before us, does credit to the taste and scholarship of Mr. Aldis Wright.... It puts the reader in possession of all the essential literary facts and chronology necessary for reading the Essays in connexion with Bacon's life and times."_--_Spectator_. "_By far the most complete as well as the most elegant edition we possess."_--_Westminster Review_. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS ---------------------- from this World to that which is to come. By _John Bunyan_. "_A beautiful and scholarly reprint_."--_Spectator_. THE SUNDAY BOOK OF POETRY FOR THE YOUNG. ---------------------------------------- Selected and arranged by _C.F. Alexander_. "_A well-selected volume of sacred poetry_."--_Spectator_. A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS ---------------------- of all Times and all Countries. Gathered and narrated anew. By the Author of "_The Heir Of Redclyffe_." "... _To the young, for whom it is especially intended, as a most interesting collection of thrilling tales well told; and to their elders, as a useful handbook of reference, and a pleasant one to take up when their wish is to while away a weary half-hour. We have seen no prettier gift-book for a long time."_--_Athenæum_. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. ----------------------------------- Edited, with Biographical Memoir, Notes, and Glossary, by _Alexander Smith_. Two Vols. "_Beyond all question this is the most beautiful edition of Burns yet out_."--_Edinburgh Daily Review_. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. ---------------------------------- Edited from the Original Edition by _J.W. Clark_, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. "_Mutilated and modified editions of this English classic are so much the rule, that a cheap and pretty copy of it, rigidly exact to the original, will be a prize to many book-buyers_."--_Examiner_. THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO. TRANSLATED --------------------------------- into _English_, with Notes, by _J. Li. Davies_, M.A. and _D.J. Vaughan_, M.A.