Tell Me a Story

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Macmillan, 1875 - 196 páginas

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Página 27 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Página 28 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
Página 32 - A more complete edition of Virgil in English it is scarcely possible to conceive than the scholarly work before us.
Página 32 - Morte d' Arthur. — SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. "It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
Página 27 - All previous compilations of this kind must undeniably for the present give place to the Book of Praise. . . . The selection has been made throughout with sound judgment and critical taste. The pains involved in this compilation must have been immense, embracing, as it does, every •writer of note in this special province of English literature, and ranging over the most widely divergent tracks of religious thought." — SATURDAY REVIEW. THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected...
Página 2 - Charles of Orleans, by Margaret of Valois, by Francis the First ; that gave a crowd of versifiers to France, enriched, strengthened, developed, and fixed the French language, and prepared the •way for Corneille and for Racine. The present work aims to afford information and direction touching the early efforts of France in poetical literature. " In one moderately sized volume he has contrived to introduce us to the very best, if not to all of the early French poets.
Página 1 - We can highly recommend it ; not only for the valuable information it gives on the special subjects to which it is dedicated, but also for the interesting episodes of travel which are interwoven with, and lighten, the weightier matters of judicious and varied criticism on art and artists in northern capitals.
Página 27 - THE BOOK OF PRAISE. From the Best English Hymn Writers. Selected and arranged by SIR ROUNDELL PALMER.
Página 29 - Theologia Germanica : Which setteth forth many fair lineaments of Divine Truth, and saith very lofty and lovely things touching a Perfect Life.
Página 13 - The author has evidently studied the ways and tastes of children and got at the secret of amusing them ; and has succeeded in what is not so easy a task as it may seem — in producing a really good children's book."— DAILY TELEGRAPH. Marlitt (E.)— THE COUNTESS GISELA. Translated from the German of E. MARLITT. Crown 8vo. "}s. 6d. "A very beautiful story of German country life.

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