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_Works_ should be bought in a fine octavo edition.

{268a} Goldsmith's _Vicar of Wakefield_ should be possessed in the
edition which Mr. Hugh Thomson has illustrated and Mr. Austin Dobson has
edited for the Macmillans. There is a good edition of Goldsmith's
_Works_ in Bohn's Library.

{268b} Sterne's _Sentimental Journey_ is also a volume for the second-
hand bookstall, although that and the equally fine _Tristram Shandy_ may
be obtained in many pretty forms. I have two editions of Sterne's books,
but they are both fine old copies.

{268c} There are two very good editions of Peacock's delightful
romances. _Nightmare Abbey_ forms a volume of J. M. Dent's edition in 9
volumes, edited by Dr. Garnett; and the whole of Peacock's remarkable
stories are contained in a single volume of Newnes' "Thin Paper
Classics."

{268d} Sir Walter Scott's novels are available in many forms equally
worthy of a good library. The best is the edition published by Jack of
Edinburgh. The Temple Library of Scott (J. M. Dent) may be commended for
those who desire pocket volumes, while Mr. Andrew Lang's Introductions
give an added value to an edition published by the Macmillans, Scott's
twenty-eight novels are indispensable to every good library, and every
reader will have his own favourite.

{268e} Balzac's novels are obtainable in a good translation by Ellen
Marriage, edited by George Saintsbury, published in New York by the
Macmillan Company and in London by J. M. Dent.

{269a} A translation of Dumas' novels in 48 volumes is published by
Dent. _The Three Musketeers_ is in 2 volumes. There are many cheap one
volume editions.

{269b} Thackeray's _Vanity Fair_ is pleasantly read in the edition of
his novels published by J. M. Dent. His original publishers, Smith,
Elder & Co., issue his works in many forms.

{269c} The best edition of Charlotte Bronte's _Villette_ is that in the
"Haworth Edition," published by Smith, Elder & Co., with an Introduction
by Mrs. Humphry Ward.

{269d} Charles Dickens' novels, of which _David Copperfield_ is
generally pronounced to be the best, should be obtained in the "Oxford
India Paper Dickens" (Chapman & Hall and Henry Frowde). A serviceable
edition is that published by the Macmillans, with Introductions by
Charles Dickens's son, but that edition still fails of _Our Mutual
Friend_ and _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_, of which the copyright is not
yet exhausted.

{269e} Anthony Trollope'