MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 41 pages of information about MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869.

MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 41 pages of information about MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869.
THE FAIRY BOOK;
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the Best Popular Fairy Stories.  Selected and rendered anew by the Author of “John Halifax, Gentleman.”

A delightful selection, in a delightful external form; full of the physical splendour and vast opulence of proper fairy tales.”—­Spectator.

THE BALLAD BOOK.
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A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads.  Edited by William Allingham.

His taste as a judge of old poetry will be found, by all acquainted with the various readings of old English ballads, true enough to justify his undertaking so critical a task.”—­Saturday Review.

THE JEST BOOK.
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The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings.  Selected and arranged by Mark Lemon.

The fullest and best jest book that has yet appeared.”—­Saturday Review.

BACON’S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL.
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With Notes and Glossarial Index.  By W.  Aldis 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....  It puts the reader in possession of all the essential literary facts and chronology necessary for reading the Essays in connexion with Bacon’s life and times."—­Spectator.

By far the most complete as well as the most elegant edition we possess."—­Westminster Review.

THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
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from this World to that which is to come.  By John Bunyan.

A beautiful and scholarly reprint.”—­Spectator.

THE SUNDAY BOOK OF POETRY FOR THE YOUNG.
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Selected and arranged by C.F.  Alexander.

A well-selected volume of sacred poetry.”—­Spectator.

A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS
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of all Times and all Countries.  Gathered and narrated anew.  By the Author of “The Heir Of Redclyffe.”

“... To the young, for whom it is especially intended, as a most interesting collection of thrilling tales well told; and to their elders, 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 long time."—­Athenaeum.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS.
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Edited, with Biographical Memoir, Notes, and Glossary, by Alexander Smith.  Two Vols.

Beyond all question this is the most beautiful edition of Burns yet out.”—­Edinburgh Daily Review.

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.
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Edited from the Original Edition by J.W.  Clark, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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