8 MeEssRS. METHUEN’S LIST

English Classics

Edited by W. E. HENLEY.

Messrs. Methuen propose to publish, under this title, a series of the masterpieces of
the English tongue.

The ordinary ‘cheap edition’ appears to have served its purpose: the public has
found out the artist-printer, and is now ready for something better fashioned.
This, then, is the moment for the issue of such a series as, while well within the
reach of the average buyer, shall be at once an ornament to the shelf of him that
owns, and a delight to the eye of him that reads.

The series, of which Mr. William Ernest Henley is the general editor, will confine
itself to no single period or department of literature. Poetry, fiction, drama,
biography, autobiography, letters, essays—in all these fields is the material of
many goodly volumes.

The books, which are designed and printed by Messrs. Constable, will be issued in
two editions—

(1) A small edition, on the finest Japanese vellum, limited in most
cases to 75 copies, demy 8vo, 21s. a volume nett ;
(2) The popular edition on laid paper, crown 8vo, buckram, 3s. 6d. a
volume.
The first six numbers are :—

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY.
By LAWRENCE STERNE. With an Introduction by CHARLES
WHIBLEY, and a Portrait. 2 vols.

THE WORKS OF WILLIAM CONGREVE. With an Intro-
duction by G. S. STREET, and a Portrait. 2 vols.

THE LIVES OF DONNE, WOTTON, HOOKER, HERBERT,
AND SANDERSON. By Izaak WaLTon. With an Introduction
by VERNON BLACKBURN, and a Portrait.

THE ADVENTURES OF HADJI BABA OF ISPAHAN.
By James Morigr. With an Introduction by E. S. Browne, M.A.

THE POEMS OF ROBERT BURNS. | With an Introduction
by W. E. HENLEY, and a Portrait. 2 vols.

THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS. By SAMUEL
Jounson, LL.D. With an Introduction by JAMEs HEPBURN
MILLAR, and a Portrait. 3 vols.

Classical Translations

NEW VOLUMES
Crown 8v0. Finely printed and bound in blue buckram.
LUCIAN—Six Dialogues (Nigrinus, Icaro-Menippus, The Cock,
The Ship, The Parasite, The Lover of Falsehood), Translated by S.
T. Inwin, M.A., Assistant Master at Clifton; late Scholar of Exeter
College, Oxford. 35. 6d.