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GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES, 33

The Fairy Book;: the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendexied. anew by the Author of *• John Halifax, Gentleman."

  • ' A ddightftU selection^ in a delightful external form ; full of the

physical splendour and vast opulence of proper fairy tales,^*—^ Spectator.

The Ballad Book, a Selection of the Choicest British BaHads.

Edited by William Allingham.

  • * His taste as a fudge of old poetry will be founds by all acquainted with

the various readings of old English ballads, true enough to fustijy his undertaking so critical a tash,^' — Saturday Rbvibw.

The Jest Book. The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings. Selected and arranged by Mark Lemon.

" The fullest and best jest book that has vet appearedy—SKT\3VLX>A.y Review.

Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil.

With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. Alois Wright,

M.A.

    • The beautiful little edition of Bacon^s Essays , now before us^ does

credit to the taste and scholarship of Mr, Aldis Wright. ... 7/ puts the reader in possession of all the essential literary facts and chronology necessary for. reading the Esscfys in connectwn with Bacon's life and times" — Spectator.

The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come. By John Bunyan. " A beautiful and scholarly rtprint** — SPECTATOR.

•The Sunday Book of Poetry for the Young*

Selected and arranged by C. F. Alexander.

    • A well-selected volume of Sacred Foetry" — Spectator.

A Book of Golden Deeds ot AU Tunes and AU Countries Gathered and narrated anew. By the Author of ** The Heir of Redclyffe."

"... To the youngn for whom it is especially intended^ as a mos ' interesting collection of thrilling tales well told; and to their elder s^ as a useful handbook of reference, and a pleasant one to take up when their wish is to while away a weary half-hour. We have seen no prettier gift-book for a lonq time*' — ATHENiEUM.

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited, with

Biographical Memoir, Notes, and Glossary, by Alexander Smith. Two Vols.

    • Beyond all question this is the most beautiful edition of Bums

yet out,"— Emu BURGH Daily Review.

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