WILEY AND 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 it 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, Criticism, Contributions to History, and generally such single volumes, written by men of genius, as will equally delight the scholar and the general reader." The books already issued and ready for immediate publication may be arranged as follows: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. LETTERS AND SPEECHES OF OLIVER CROMWELL, with Elucidations. By Thomas Carlyle. LIFE OF THE GREAT CONDE. By Lord Mahon. IZAAK WALTON'S LIVES OF DONNE, WOTTON, HOOKER, HER- POETRY AND TRUTH FROM MY LIFE-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF By Dr. Beattie 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 HEADLONG HALL AND NIGHTMARE ABBEY. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. LEIGH HUNT'S IMAGINATION AND FANCY. HAZLITT'S DRAMATIC WRITERS OF THE AGE OF ELIZABETH WILSON'S GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF BURNS. BIOGRAPHY AND GENERAL LITERATURE. LEIGH HUNT'S INDICATOR AND COMPANION-2 vols. CHARLES LAMB'S ESSAYS OF ELIA. HAZLITT'S TABLE TALK-1st series, 2 vols. HAZLITT'S TABLE TALK-2d series, 2 vols. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENVENUTO CELLINI-IN PRESS. A complete collection of the writings of HAZLITT and LEIGH HUNT will form part of the series to be published at short intervals; WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR'S writings; DE QUINCEY'S (the English opium eater) Miscellaneous Writings; JAMES SMITH's Rejected Addresses, and the Poems and Ballads of BON GAULTIER. OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE. BASIL MONTAGU'S SELECTIONS FROM TAYLOR, SOUTH, BAR. ROW, FULLER. CHARLES LAMB'S SPECIMENS OF OLD ENGLISH DRAMATISTS WHO LIVED ABOUT THE TIME OF SHAKSPEARE. These, the most perfect collections of the kind ever published, will form the introduction in prose and verse to a series of the old English writers, including Sir THOMAS MORE, HERBERT, FULLER, Sir THOMAS BROWNE, MILTON, SELDEN, BACON and others. AMERICAN SERIES. Of the "Library of American Books," the following have already been issued: JOURNAL OF AN AFRICAN CRUISER. Edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne. TALES BY EDGAR A. POE. LETTERS FROM ITALY. By J. T. Headley. THE WIGWAM AND THE CABIN. By W. Gilmore Simms. By Cornelius Ma BIG ABEL AND THE LITTLE MANHATTAN. thews. WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM UNDER THE SHADOW OF MONT BLANC. By George B. Cheever, D.D.-JUST READY. The following are in press :-Western Clearings, by MARY CLAVERS (Mrs. KIRKLAND); Wanderings of a Pilgrim under the Shadow of the Jungfrau, by GEORGE B. CHEEVER; Views and Reviews in American History, Literature and Fiction, a Miscellany, by W. GILMORE SIMMS; The Forest and the Prairie, by JAMES HALL, author of the Border Tales A new volume by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE; The Old English Library, by W. A. JONES, and other productions of American authors. Notices of the Press. "This Library is put up in beautiful style, as well as offered at a very cheap rate. We are pleased to see such good paper and print, for we think the habit of reading ill-printed, dingy books deteriorates not only the eyesight but the taste. Books, if good for anything, deserve a cleanly dress To degrade them, even outwardly, has the same tendency as the use of tobacco, to pollute and vulgarize all the habits of life "-N. Y. Tribane. 66 "This is printed in a cheap form, but so attractively that the volumes really invite its perusal. The intention of the publishers is to supply the demand for the choicest literary publications of the day-to present that reading which cherishes refined and cultivated taste, and affords at once instruction and delight."--Baltimore American. "Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading.'-Under this title, a series of the most valuable and agreeable reading has been commenced in New York, to supply a deficiency in the general character of cheap litera ture.' The works already published are admirable selections for a library, and as the publishers express the determination to issue nothing but books which ARE books,' there is good reason to believe that others equally worthy of universal circulation are in store; and their circular convinces us is so."-Auburn Journal. RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY WILEY & PUTNAM. 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. THE RHINE. BY VICTOR HUGO. FATHER RIPA'S RESIDENCE IN CHINA. NOTES OF A JOURNEY FROM CORNHILL TO CAIRO. By MICHAEL ANGELO TITMARSH (W. M. THACKERAY.) TRAVELLING LETTERS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD. By CHARLES DICKENS. JOURNAL OF AN AFRICAN CRUISER. Edited by Nathaniel Haw THORNE. LETTERS FROM ITALY, THE ALPS AND THE RHINE. By J. T. WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM UNDER THE SHADOW OF MONT These will be followed by SIR FRANCIS HEAD's Notes of a Journey across the Pampas; WATERTON's Wanderings in South America; Miss RIGBY's Letters from the Baltic; HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE's Six Months in the West Indies; Notes of a Journey through France and Italy, by HAZLITT; and others-forming altogether one of the most original and select collections of books of travel ever published. LIBRARY OF CHOICE READING. "BOOKS WHICH ARE BOOKS." Notices of the Press. "THIS library is put up in beautiful style, as well as offered at a very cheap rate. We are pleased to see such good paper and print, for we think the habit of reading ill-printed, dingy books deteriorates not only the eye-sight but the taste. Books, if good for anything, deserve a cleanly dress. To degrade them, even outwardly, has the same tendency as the use of tobacco, to pollute and vulgarize all the habits of life."-N. Y. Tribune. "This is printed in a cheap form, but so attractively that the volumes really invite perusal. The intention of the publishers is to supply the demand for the choicest literary publications of the day-to present that reading which cherishes refined and cultivated taste, and affords at once instruction and delight."-Baltimore American. "Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading.'-Under this title, a series of the most valuable and agreeable reading has been commenced in New York, to supply a deficiency in the general character of cheap literature.' The works already published are admirable selections for a library, and as the publishers express the determination to issue nothing but 'books which ARE books,' there is good reason to believe that others equally worthy of universal circulation are in store; and their circular convinces us it is so."-Auburn Journal. 66 Wiley and Putnam have projected a plan of a Library of Choice Reading, which is every way worthy of commendation, encouragement and success. Their design is to furnish a class of books, whose only merit shall not be the smallness of their price. The selection of the works thus to be published has been made by one of our most elegant scholars and happiest critics; and, as will be seen on referring to the circular, with much discriminating taste and good judgment. They will all be found to be books worth the buying, and what is more, worth reading and remembering.”—V Y. Post. "Eōthen' is the product of a very clever, observant, witty person. We thank the publishers for the handsome style in which they have produced this new series of excellent works."-Evening Gazette. “Eōthen' is a very original and charming new work, to which, as an intellectual treat, we have taken an especial fancy."-Smith's Weekly Volume. "After the deluge of several publications of purely light-very lightreading, which we have had in this country, we perceive with pleasure indications of a more healthy taste, and these well selected volumes, so admirably printed, will prove but a foretaste of more palatable food than, as bookworms, we have lately been accustomed to."-New York Post. "Messrs. Wiley and Putnam have worthily commenced their 'Library of Choice Reading.' The selections are good. and the works most handsomely 'got up.'"-Tribune. "This is a most valuable new series of books, which cannot fail to be read with eagerness everywhere. The works are well selected, cheap, and most elegantly printed, which must give them a universal circulation The ro ject is an admirable one, and as it is in good hands, we cannot doubt its sus eess."--N. Y. Courier. |