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  The Minerva Library.

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  _VOLUME I._

  =Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. Including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the Interior of Africa.= With portrait and full-page plates. By DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D., D.C.L.

  _VOLUME II._

  =A Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the World.= By CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., Author of "Coral Reefs," "The Descent of Man," etc. Containing a biographical introduction by G. T. BETTANY, M.A., B.Sc., with portrait of Darwin, and other illustrations.

  _VOLUME III._

  =Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D.= some time Head-master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. By ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, D.D., Dean of Westminster. With a portrait of Dr. Arnold, and other illustrations.

  _VOLUME IV._

  =Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley.= By ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, LL.D., Author of "Darwinism," "The Malay Archipelago," etc., etc. With a biographical introduction by G. T. BETTANY, M.A., B.Sc., portrait of the Author, and other illustrations.

  _VOLUME V._

  =Macaulay's Essays, Historical and Literary, from the "Edinburgh Review."= By LORD MACAULAY, Essayist, Politician, and Historian. With a biographical introduction by G. T. BETTANY, M.A., B.Sc. Fully illustrated from portraits.

  _VOLUME VI._

  =Lavengro: The Scholar, The Priest, The Gipsy.= By GEORGE BORROW, Author of "The Bible in Spain," etc., etc. With introductory notes by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON. Illustrated from portraits.

  _VOLUME VII._

  =Emerson's Prose Works.= The complete Prose Works of RALPH WALDO EMERSON. With a critical introduction by G. T. BETTANY, M.A., B.Sc., and a portrait of the Author.

  _VOLUME VIII._

  =Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands, and South American Geology.= By CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S. With critical and historical introductions by Professor JOHN W. JUDD, F.R.S. With various maps, illustrations, and portrait of the Author.

  _VOLUME IX._

  =The Romany Rye. A Sequel to Lavengro.= By GEORGE BORROW. Illustrated from old prints and portraits.

  _VOLUME X._

  =The French Revolution: A History.= By THOMAS CARLYLE. With introduction by G. T. BETTANY, M.A., B.Sc., and full-page illustrations.

  _VOLUME XI._

  =Sartor Resartus; Heroes and Hero Worship; and Past and Present.= By THOMAS CARLYLE. With Critical Introduction. Illustrated from photographs.

  _VOLUME XII._

  =Macaulay's Biographical, Critical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems=, including "The Lays of Ancient Rome." With notes and introduction. Illustrated from photographs.

  _VOLUME XIII._

  =Society in China.= By ROBERT K. DOUGLAS, Keeper of Oriental Books and Manuscripts in the British Museum. Professor of Chinese at King's College. Illustrated from photographs.

  _VOLUME XIV._

  =The Bible in Spain.= By GEORGE BORROW, Author of "Lavengro," etc., etc. With biographical introduction by G. T. BETTANY, M.A., B.Sc. Illustrated from photographs.

  _VOLUME XV._

  =Cromwell's Letters and Speeches.= By THOMAS CARLYLE. Illustrated.

  _VOLUME XVI._

  =On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection.= By CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., etc. Illustrated from photographs.

  _VOLUME XVII._

  =Bacon's Essays; Civil and Moral Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, etc.= With biographical introduction by G. T. BETTANY, M.A., B.Sc. Illustrated from photographs.