EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES—continued.
'One of the most charming books of folk stories perhaps known to English readers is Sir George Webbe Dasent's Popular Tales from the Norse, of which David Douglas, Edinburgh, has just produced a new edition. The interest of this issue is much increased by the valuable addition of a memoir of the author contributed by his son, Arthur Irwin Dasent. Mr. Dasent gives a clear and concise account of his father's career, from the time of his birth at St. Vincent in 1817 to the date of his death at his home at Bagshotheath in June 1896.'—Daily Telegraph.
'Though nearly half a century has passed away since the first appearance of these celebrated Scandinavian stories in English dress, the fact that they are still in demand shows their inherent vitality.'—Dundee Advertiser.
'The introductory essay to these translations from the Norse was pronounced by no less an authority than Max Müller to be one of the purest specimens of English literature produced in our own or any other age, and it is therefore interesting to glance at the conditions under which the book was written.'—T. P.'s Weekly.
'The interest of the present volume is enhanced by the inclusion of a memoir of the distinguished Scandinavian scholar. It is written by his son, Mr. Arthur Irwin Dasent, and though brief presents an excellent and sharp picture of the man whose work was in its way a classic sharing with Andersen's and Grimm's Fairy Tales the love of children of a past generation, and standing to them much in the same relation that Alice in Wonderland stands to their successors.'—The Outlook.
Edinburgh: DAVID DOUGLAS, 9 Castle Street.
