But the collector of the hundred best books will do well to read the
_Arabian Nights_ in the translation by Edward William Lane, edited by
Stanley Lane Poole, in 4 volumes, for George Bell & Sons.

{266b} The most satisfactory translation of Cervantes's great romance is
that made by John Ormesby, revised and edited by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly,
published by Gowans & Gray in 4 shilling volumes.

{266c} _The Pilgrim's Progress_ is presented in a hundred forms. The
present writer first read it in a penny edition. It should be possessed
by the book-lover in a volume of the Cambridge English Classics, in which
_Grace Abounding_ and _The Pilgrim's Progress_ are given together, edited
by Dr. John Brown, and published by the Cambridge University Press.

{266d} Schoolboys, notwithstanding Macaulay, usually know but few good
books, but every schoolboy knows Defoe's _Robinson Crusoe_ in one form or
another. The maker of a library will prefer it as a Volume of Defoe's
_Works_ (J. M. Dent), or as Volume VII of Defoe's _Novels and
Miscellaneous Works_ (Bell & Sons). There are many good shilling
editions of the book by itself, but Defoe should be read in many of his
works and particularly in _Moll Flanders_.

{267a} As with _Robinson Crusoe_, _Gulliver's Travels_ can be obtained
in many cheap forms, but it is well that it should be obtained as Volume
VIII of _Swift's Prose Works_, published in Bohn's Libraries by George
Bell & Sons. There has not been a really good edition of Swift's works
since Scott's monumental book.

{267b} _Clarissa_ should be read in nine of the twenty volumes of
Richardson's Novels, published by Chapman & Hall--a very dainty
well-printed book. "I love these large, still books," said Lord
Tennyson.

{267c} The greatest of all novels, _Tom Jones_, is obtainable in several
Library Editions of Fielding's _Works_. A cheap well-printed form is
that of the _Works of Henry Fielding_ in 12 volumes, published by Gay &
Bird. Here _The Story of Tom Jones a Foundling_ is in 4 volumes. The
book is in 2 volumes in Bohn's Library--an excellent edition.

{267d} Johnson's _Rasselas_ has frequently been reprinted, but there is
no edition for a book-lover at present in the bookshops. It is included
in _Classic Tales_ in a volume of Bohn's Standard Library. The wise
course is to look out for one of the earlier editions with copper plates
that are constantly to be found on second-hand bookstalls. But Johnson'