ssesses that imperishable charm which
makes it as attractive to-day as when it was first written.

=Lavengro.= GEORGE BORROW.

The greatest romance of the road in English literature, telling of all
the byways and humours of that older England which is fast disappearing.

=Little Women.= LOUISA M. ALCOTT.

This delightful book has become a possession of childhood and youth. It
has captured the affections of millions of young people in two
continents, and is certainly the finest piece of work in the whole range
of Miss Alcott's breezy, hopeful, genial, and tender writings.

=Pride and Prejudice.= JANE AUSTEN.

=Sense and Sensibility.= JANE AUSTEN.

Sir Walter Scott was among the earliest to detect the merits of Miss
Austen's work, and of recent years her humour and her keen insight into
human nature have been abundantly recognized, so that to-day she is
probably the most read novelist of her period. In Sir Walter Scott's
phrase she possesses "the exquisite touch which renders ordinary
commonplace things and characters interesting."

=Toilers of the Sea.= VICTOR HUGO.

=The Laughing Man.= VICTOR HUGO.

=Les Miserables--I.= VICTOR HUGO.

=Les Miserables--II.= VICTOR HUGO.

='Ninety-Three.= VICTOR HUGO.

Victor Hugo took the romantic novel as invented by Sir Walter Scott and
gave it a new and philosophic interest. All his great romances have a
purpose. "Les Miserables" exposes the tyranny of human laws; "The
Toilers of the Sea" shows the conflict of man with nature; "The Laughing
Man" expounds the tyranny of the aristocratic ideal as exemplified in
England. But being a great artist as well as a great thinker, he never
turned his romances into pamphlets. Drama is always his aim, and no
novelist has attained more often the supreme dramatic moment.

=The Heir of Redclyffe.= C. M. YONGE.

This is a reprint of Miss Yonge's most famous tale. It has been said of
her that she domesticated the historical romance, which owed its origin
to Sir Walter Scott, and her characters were for long the ideal figures
of most English households.

=Wild Wales.= GEORGE BORROW.

This book was the result of Borrow's wanderings after the publication of
"Lavengro" and "The Romany Rye." He tramped on foot throughout the
country, and the work is a classic of description, both of the scenery
and people.

=The Cloister and the Hearth.= CHARLES READE.

There are many who think this the greatest of all historical novel