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appears to have served its purpose; the public has found out the
artist-printers, 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 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 are printed by Messrs. Constable, of Edinburgh, on laid
paper, with deckle edges, and bound in crushed buckram, crown 8vo,
at $1.25 a volume, net.

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY.

By Laurence Sterne. With an introduction by Charles Whibley, and a
portrait. 2 vols.

THE COMEDIES OF WILLIAM CONGREVE.

With an introduction by G. S. Street, and a portrait. 2 vols.

THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN.

By James Morier. With an introduction by E. S. Browne, M. A., and a
portrait. 2 vols.

ENGLISH SEAMEN.

By Robert Southey. 1 vol.

LIVES OF DONNE, WOTTON, HOOKER, HERBERT, AND SANDERSON.

By Izaak Walton. With an introduction by Vernon Blackburn, and a
portrait. 1 vol.
_Others to follow._

GARLAND, HAMLIN.

PRAIRIE SONGS. Verses. With cover, head and initial letter pieces
designed by H. T. Carpenter. Printed at the University Press on
specially made paper. 16mo. Buckram, gilt top, edges uncut. 164 pp.
$1.25, net.

Also 110 numbered copies, 100 for sale, on large paper, each signed
by the author. 8vo. $5.00, net. _Very few remain._

MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS. Six stories of the Mississippi Valley. A
revised edition, with an introduction by W. D. Howells, and
frontispiece, headpieces, and cover design by H. T. Carpenter.
Printed at the University Press on specially made paper. 16mo.
Buckram, gilt top and uncut edges. 251 pp. $1.25.
_Twelfth thousand._

Also 110 copies, 100 for sale, on large paper. 8vo. $5.00, net.
_Very few remain._

CRUMBLING IDOLS. Twelve essays on Art, dealing chiefly with
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