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What books to lend and what to give

Chapter 49: BOHN’S LIBRARIES,
By Charlotte M. Yonge
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Practical guidance for selecting wholesome, age-appropriate reading for children, youth, and adults, arranging recommendations by audience—little ones, school classes, boys, drawing-room readers—and by subjects such as scripture, history, biography, natural history, science, mythology, fairy tales, and allegory. The text stresses the value of school and parish libraries, cultivating literary taste to deter harmful reading, and choosing books that support moral and educational aims. It also offers suggestions for mothers’ meetings, missionary working-parties, communal readings, and annotated lists with notes on suitability and instructional use.

SEVEN HUNDRED VOLUMES at 3s. 6d. or 5s. per Volume.

BOHN’S LIBRARIES,

CONTAINING
Standard Works of European Literature in the English Language.

“I may say in regard to all manner of books, Bohn’s Publication Series is the usefullest thing I know.”—Thomas Carlyle.

“The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn’s Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.”—R. W. Emerson.

“An important body of cheap literature, from which every living worker in this country who draws strength from the past has reason to be grateful.”—Professor Henry Morley.

The attention of those forming Libraries is directed to the following selected List of Standard Works.

ADAM SMITH’S WEALTH OF NATIONS. 2 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

ADDISON’S WORKS. 6 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

ANTONINUS, THE THOUGHTS OF M. AURELIUS. 3s. 6d.

BACON’S ESSAYS. 3s. 6d.

BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON, AND TOUR IN THE HEBRIDES, &c. (Napier.) 6 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

BURKE’S WORKS. 9 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

BURNEY’S (Mme. D’Arblay’s) CECILIA. 2 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

BURNEY’S (Mme. D’Arblay’s) EVELINA. 3s. 6d.

BURNS’S LIFE. By Lockhart. 3s. 6d.

CERVANTES’ DON QUIXOTE. 2 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

CHAUCER’S WORKS (Prof. Skeat). 4 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

COLERIDGE’S WORKS. 6 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

DANTE (Cary’s Translation). 3s. 6d.

DEFOE’S WORKS. 7 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

EMERSON’S WORKS. 3 vols. 3s. 6d.

FIELDING’S NOVELS. 4 vols. 3s. 6d. and 5s.

GIBBON’S ROMAN EMPIRE. 7 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

GOETHE’S WORKS. 15 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

GOLDSMITH’S WORKS. 5 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

HAWTHORNE’S WORKS. 3 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

HAZLITT’S ESSAYS. 6 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

HUMBOLDT’S COSMOS AND TRAVELS. 8 vols. 3s. 6d. and 5s.

LESSING’S LAOKOON, &c. 3s. 6d.

LESSING’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 2 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

MANZONI’S BETROTHED (I promessi Sposi). 5s.

MILTON’S PROSE WORKS. 5 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

MOLIÈRE’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 3 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

PEPYS’S DIARY. 4 vols. 5s. each.

PLUTARCH’S LIVES (New Translation by Long and Stewart). 4 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

RANKE’S WORKS. 5 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

RICHTER’S LEVANA: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces. 2 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

SCHILLER’S WORKS. 6 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

SPINOZA’S CHIEF WORKS. 2 vols. 5s. each.

STAUNTON’S WORKS ON CHESS. 4 vols. 5s. each.

VASARI’S LIVES OF THE PAINTERS (with New Appendix by Dr. Richter). 6 vols. 3s. 6d. each.

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