Methuen’s Standard Library
In Sixpenny Volumes.
The Standard Library is a new series of volumes containing the great classics of the world, and particularly the finest works of English literature. All the great masters will be represented, either in complete works or in selections. It is the ambition of the publishers to place the best books of the Anglo-Saxon race within the reach of every reader, so that the series may represent something of the diversity and splendour of our English tongue. The characteristics of The Standard Library are four:—1. Soundness of Text. 2. Cheapness. 3. Clearness of Type. 4. Simplicity. The books are well printed on good paper at a price which on the whole is without parallel in the history of publishing. Each volume contains from 100 to 250 pages, and is issued in paper covers, Crown 8vo, at Sixpence net, or in cloth gilt at One Shilling net. In a few cases long books are issued as Double Volumes or as Treble Volumes.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The translation is by R. Graves.
Sense and Sensibility. By Jane Austen.
Essays and Counsels and The New Atlantis. By Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam.
Religio Medici and Urn Burial. By Sir Thomas Browne. The text has been collated by A. R. Waller.
The Pilgrim’s Progress. By John Bunyan.
Reflections on the French Revolution. By Edmund Burke.
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. Double Volume.
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed. By Joseph Butler, D.D.
The Poems of Thomas Chatterton. In 2 volumes.
Vol. I.—Miscellaneous Poems.
Vol. II.—The Rowley Poems.
The New Life and Sonnets. By Dante. Translated into English by D. G. Rossetti.
Tom Jones. By Henry Fielding. Treble Vol.
Cranford. By Mrs. Gaskell.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon. In 7 double volumes.
The Text and Notes have been revised by J. B. Bury, Litt.D., but the Appendices of the more expensive edition are not given.
The Vicar of Wakefield. By Oliver Goldsmith.
The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith.
The Works of Ben Jonson.
Vol. I.—The Case is Altered. Every Man in His Humour. Every Man out of His Humour.
Vol. II.—Cynthia’s Revels; The Poetaster.
The text has been collated by H. C. Hart.
The Poems of John Keats. Double volume.
The Text has been collated by E. de Selincourt.
On the Imitation of Christ. By Thomas à Kempis.
The translation is by C. Bigg, D.D., Canon of Christ Church.
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. By William Law.
Paradise Lost. By John Milton.
Eikonoklastes and the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. By John Milton.
Utopia and Poems. By Sir Thomas More.
The Republic of Plato. Translated by Sydenham and Taylor. Double Volume.
The translation has been revised by W. H. D. Rouse.
The Little Flowers of St. Francis. Translated by W. Heywood.
The Works of William Shakespeare. In 10 volumes.
Vol. I.—The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors.
Vol. II.—Much Ado About Nothing; Love’s Labour’s Lost; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It.
Vol. III.—The Taming of the Shrew; All’s Well that Ends Well; Twelfth Night; The Winter’s Tale.
Vol. IV.—The Life and Death of King John; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; The First Part of King Henry IV.; The Second Part of King Henry IV.
Vol. V.—The Life of King Henry V.; The First Part of King Henry VI.; The Second Part of King Henry VI.
Vol. VI.—The Third Part of King Henry VI.; The Tragedy of King Richard III.; The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII.
The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. In 4 volumes.
Vol. I.—Alastor; The Dæmon of the World; The Revolt of Islam, etc.
The Text has been revised by C. D. Locock.
The Life of Nelson. By Robert Southey.
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. By Gilbert White.