Herbert Strang’s Library
This is a new series of standard books for boys and girls, comprising the great works of history, fiction, biography, travel, science, and poetry with which every boy and girl should be familiar, edited by Mr. HERBERT STRANG.
Each volume is prefaced by a short introduction, giving a biographical account of the author, or such information concerning the book itself as may be useful and interesting to young readers. Notes, maps, and plans are given where necessary.
The text of the books, many of which were not written primarily for children, is carefully edited both in regard to matters that are inherently unsuitable for their reading, and to passages that do not conform to modern standards of taste. In these and other respects the Editor will exercise a wide discretion.
The Library is illustrated with colour plates, reproduced by three-colour process from designs by H. M. BROCK, JAMES DURDEN, A. WEBB, and other well-known artists.
The following volumes are now ready:—
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade By Sir John Kincaid Westward Ho! By Charles Kingsley The Life of Wellington By W. H. Maxwell The Boy’s Country Book By William Howitt Mungo Park’s Travels The Coral Island By R. M. Ballantyne True Blue By W. H. G. Kingston Little Women By Louisa Alcott Good Wives By Louisa Alcott Tales from Hans Andersen Stories from Grimm Tom Brown’s Schooldays By Thomas Hughes The Life of Nelson By Robert Southey Quentin Durward By Sir Walter Scott A Book of Golden Deeds By Charlotte M. Yonge A Wonder Book By Nathaniel Hawthorne What Katy Did By Susan Coolidge What Katy Did at School By Susan Coolidge What Katy Did Next By Susan Coolidge Ivanhoe By Sir Walter Scott Curiosities of Natural History By Frank Buckland Captain Cook’s Voyages The Heroes By Charles Kingsley Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe Tales from Shakespeare By Charles and Mary Lamb Peter the Whaler By W. H. G. Kingston Queechy By Elizabeth Wetherell The Wide Wide World By Elizabeth Wetherell Tanglewood Tales By Nathaniel Hawthorne The Life of Columbus By Washington Irving Battles of the Peninsular War By Sir William Napier Midshipman Easy By Captain Marryat