rything that makes reading pleasant and agreeable. . . . The
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Volume V.--Fourth Edition.

GALTON'S SOUTH AFRICA: The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South
Africa: being an Account of a Visit to Damaraland in 1851. By FRANCIS
GALTON, F.R.S. With a New Map and Appendix, together with a Biographical
Introduction by the Editor, Portrait of Mr. Gallon, and Illustrations.
Containing also Vacation Tours in 1860 and 1861, by SIR GEORGE GROVE,
FRANCIS GALTON, F.R.S., and W. G. CLARK, M.A.

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Volume VI.--Third Edition.

THE BETROTHED LOVERS (I Promessi Sposi). By ALESSANDRO MANZONI. With a
Biographical Introduction by the Editor, and Portrait of the Author.

Of this great work GOETHE wrote:--"Manzoni's romance transcends all
that we have knowledge of in this kind. I need only say that the
internal part, all that comes from the core of the poet, is
thoroughly perfect, and that the external part, all the notes of
localities and so forth, is not a whit behind its great inner
qualities. . . . The work gives us the pleasure of an absolutely ripe
fruit."

Volume VII.--Fourth Edition.

GOETHE'S FAUST (Complete). Translated in the Original Metres, with
copious Critical and Explanatory Notes by BAYARD TAYLOR. With a Critical
Introduction by the Editor, Portrait of GOETHE, and RETZSCH'S
Illustrations.

*** This is a full and complete reprint of BAYARD TAYLOR'S unrivalled
rendering of GOETHE'S masterpiece. It is published by special
arrangement with MRS. BAYARD TAYLOR, and contains the whole of the
Translator's copious and extremely valuable Notes, Introductions, and
Appendices.

Volume VIII.--Fourth Edition.

WALLACE'S TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON: Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. By
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, Author of "The Malay Archipelago," "Darwi