Popular Reading for all Classes.
MURRAY'S
COLONIAL AND HOME LIBRARY,
Published Monthly. Post 8vo, 2s. 6d.,
PRINTED in good readable type, on superfine paper, and
designed to furnish all classes of Readers with the highest
Literature of the day, consisting partly of original Works, and
partly of new editions of popular Publications, at the lowest possible
price. It is called for in consequence of the Acts which
have recently passed the British Parliament for the protection of
the rights of British authors and publishers, by the rigid and
entire exclusion of foreign pirated editions.
In order, therefore, that the highly intelligent and educated
population of our Colonies may not suffer from the withdrawal
of their accustomed supplies of books, and with a view to obviate
the complaint, that a check might in consequence be raised to
their intellectual advancement, Mr. Murray has determined to
publish a series of attractive and useful works, by approved
authors, at a rate which shall place them within the reach of the
means not only of the Colonists, but also of a large portion of the
less wealthy classes at home, who will thus benefit by the widening
of the market for our literature: and the "Colonial Library"
will consequently be so conducted that it may claim to be considered
as a "Library for the Empire."
Mr. Murray's "Colonial Library" will furnish the settler in
the Backwoods of America, and the occupant of the remotest
cantonments of our Indian dominions, with the resources of
recreation and instruction, at a moderate price, together with many
new books within a short period of their appearance in England;
while the student and lover of literature at home, who has
hitherto been content with the loan of a book from a book club,
or a circulating library, may now become possessed of the work
itself, at a cost a little beyond that entailed by either of the
methods above mentioned.
The series of Works designed to appear in Mr. Murray's
"Colonial and Home Library" will be selected for their acknowledged
merit, and will be exclusively such as are calculated to
please the most extensive circle of readers.
[For List of Works see next page.
