great English
leader, Hereward, against the advance of the Normans. The scene is
largely laid in the Fen country, and every page is a record of fierce
strife. The fall of Hereward is one of the greatest death scenes in
literature.

=David Copperfield--I.= CHARLES DICKENS.

=David Copperfield--II.= CHARLES DICKENS.

"David Copperfield" is, by general consent, Dickens's masterpiece,
showing, as it does, all his peculiar merits in their highest form. It
is the most autobiographical of his novels, and the one into which he
put most of his philosophy of life.

=Jane Eyre.= CHARLOTTE BRONTE.

"Jane Eyre" is Charlotte Bronte's first and most famous work. It was the
first realistic novel, in the modern sense of the word, in English
literature, and its influence has been beyond reckoning. It ranks as one
of the great novels of the nineteenth century.

=Verdant Green.= CUTHBERT BEDE.

This is the humorous classic of Oxford life. Published more than half a
century ago, its humour is as fresh to-day as ever.

=Pickwick Papers--I.= CHARLES DICKENS.

=Pickwick Papers--II.= CHARLES DICKENS.

Every year sees a new edition of "Pickwick," and the world still asks
for more. It is one of the world's greatest romances of the road, where
adventures fall to those who seek them. It is also a faithful and loving
picture of an older England, from which we have travelled far to-day. We
may become a wiser people, but we shall never again be so humorous.

=Windsor Castle.= HARRISON AINSWORTH.

The romances of Harrison Ainsworth need no advertisement. In this, as in
his "Tower of London" and "Old St. Paul's," he has taken one of
England's great historical sites, and woven around it an appropriate
romance.

=Peg Woffington.= CHARLES READE.

"Peg Woffington" was the first of Charles Reade's romances, and was
founded upon his comedy, "Masks and Faces." The story of the famous
Irish actress who dazzled London in the eighteenth century, and with
whom Garrick was in love, has been made the foundation of a charming
romance.

=Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character.= Dean RAMSAY.

The only book of jests that has ever attained an honourable place in
literature. Its wealth of genuine humour is a perpetual refutation of
the old slander that Scots joke "wi' deeficulty."

=Parables from Nature.= Mrs. GATTY.

This is one of the great children's books of the world. It was a classic
in our grandmothers' time, and po