Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London — September 1874
Macmillan & Co.’s Catalogue of Works in Belles Lettres, Including Poetry, Fiction, etc.
“It is vital with the national character.... It has something of Pope’s point and Goldsmith’s simplicity, touched to a more modern issue.”
—Athenæum.
“The work of a clever, cultivated person, wielding a practised pen. The characters are drawn with force and precision, the dialogue is easy: the whole book displays powers of pathos and humour, and a shrewd knowledge of men and things.”—Spectator.
The two volumes comprehend the First and Second Series of the Poems, and the New Poems. “Thyrsis is a poem of perfect delight, exquisite in grave tenderness of reminiscence, rich in breadth of western light, breathing full the spirit of gray and ancient Oxford.”—Saturday Review.
Atkinson.—AN ART TOUR TO THE NORTHERN CAPITALS OF EUROPE. By J. Beavington Atkinson. 8vo. 12s.
“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.”—Art Journal.
“An admirable tale of adventure, of marvellous incidents, wild exploits, and terrible dénouements.”—Daily News. “A story of adventure by sea and land in the good old style.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Baring-Gould.—Works by S. Baring-Gould, M.A.:—
IN EXITU ISRAEL. An Historical Novel. Two Vols. 8vo. 21s.
“Full of the most exciting incidents and ably portrayed characters, abounding in beautifully attractive legends, and relieved by descriptions fresh, vivid, and truth-like.”—Westminster Review.
“These volumes contain much that is very strange, and, to the ordinary English reader, very novel.”—Daily News.
Barker.—Works by Lady Barker:—
“Lady Barker is an unrivalled story-teller.”—Guardian.
“We have never read a more truthful or a pleasanter little book.”—Athenæum.
SPRING COMEDIES. Stories.
“Lady Barker is endowed with a rare and delicate gift for narrating stories,—she has the faculty of throwing even into her printed narrative a soft and pleasant tone, which goes far to make the reader think the subject or the matter immaterial, so long as the author will go on telling stories for his benefit.”—Athenæum.
This volume contains several entertaining stories about Monkeys, Jamaica, Camp Life, Dogs, Boys, &c. “There is not a tale in the book which can fail to please children as well as their elders.” —Pall Mall Gazette.
“Contains just the stories that children should be told. ‘Christmas Cake’ is a delightful Christmas book.”—Globe.
“We cannot too highly commend. It is exceedingly happy and original in the plan, and the graceful fancies of its pages, merry and pathetic turns, will be found the best reading by girls of all ages, and by boys too.”—Times.
SYBIL’S BOOK. Illustrated by S. E. Waller. Second Edition. Globe 8vo. gilt. 4s. 6d.
“Another of Lady Barker’s delightful stories, and one of the most thoroughly original books for girls that has been written for many years. Grown-up readers will like it quite as much as young people, and will even better understand the rarity of such simple, natural, and unaffected writing.... That no one can read the story without interest is not its highest praise, for no one ought to be able to lay it down without being the better girl or boy, or man or woman, for the reading of it. Lady Barker has never turned her fertile and fascinating pen to better account, and for the sake of all readers we wish ‘Sybil’s Book’ a wide success.”—Times.
“Full of life and genius.”—Court Circular.
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.”—Athenæum.
“There is great vigour and much pathos in this poem.”—Morning Post.
“We can at least say that it is the work of a true poet.”—Athenæum.
Black (W.)—Works by W. Black, Author of “A Daughter of Heth.”
“The book is a really charming description of a thousand English landscapes and of the emergencies and the fun and the delight of a picnic journey through them by a party determined to enjoy themselves, and as well matched as the pair of horses which drew the phaeton they sat in. The real charm and purpose of the book is its open-air life among hills and dales.”—Times. “The great charm of Mr. Black’s book is that there is nothing hackneyed about it, nothing overdrawn,—all is bright and lifelike.”—Morning Post.
The Saturday Review says:—“A novel which is both romantic and natural, which has much feeling, without any touch of mawkishness, which goes deep into character without any suggestion of painful analysis—this is a rare gem to find amongst the débris of current literature, and this, or nearly this, Mr. Black has given us in the ‘Princess of Thule.’” “It has, for one thing, the great charm of novelty.... There is a picturesqueness in all that Mr. Black writes, but scarcely even in the ‘Adventures of a Phaeton’ are there the freshness and sweetness and perfect sense of natural beauty we find in this last book.”—Pall Mall Gazette. “A beautiful and nearly perfect story.”—Spectator.
Founded on the Greek legend of Danaë and Perseus. “Grace and beauty of expression are Mr. Broome’s characteristics; and these qualities are displayed in many passages.”—Athenæum. “The story is rendered with consummate beauty.”—Literary Churchman.
Cabinet Pictures.—Oblong folio, price 42s.
Contents:—“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” and “The Fighting Téméraire,” by J. M. W. Turner; “Crossing the Bridge,” by Sir W. A. Callcott; “The Cornfield,” by John Constable; and “A Landscape,” by Birket Foster. The Daily News says of them, “They are very beautifully executed, and might be framed and hung up on the wall, as creditable substitutes for the originals.”
CABINET PICTURES. A Second Series.
Containing:—“The Baths of Caligula” and “The Golden Bough,” by J. M. W. Turner; “The Little Brigand,” by T. Uwins; “The Lake of Lucerne,” by Percival Skelton; “Evening Rest,” by E. M. Wimperis. Oblong folio. 42s.
Carroll.—Works by “Lewis Carroll:”—
“Beyond question supreme among modern books for children.”—Spectator. “One of the choicest and most charming books ever composed for a child’s reading.”—Pall Mall Gazette. “A very pretty and highly original book, sure to delight the little world of wondering minds, and which may well please those who have unfortunately passed the years of wondering.”—Times.
“Quite as rich in humorous whims of fantasy, quite as laughable in its queer incidents, as loveable for its pleasant spirit and graceful manner, as the wondrous tale of Alice’s former adventures.”—Illustrated London News. “If this had been given to the world first it would have enjoyed a success at least equal to ‘Alice in Wonderland.’”—Standard.
Christmas Carol (A). Printed in Colours from Original Designs by Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Crispin, with Illuminated Borders from MSS. of the 14th and 15th Centuries. Imp. 4to. cloth inlaid, gilt edges, £3 3s. Also a Cheaper Edition, 21s.
“A most exquisitely got up volume. Legend, carol, and text are preciously enshrined in its emblazoned pages, and the illuminated borders are far and away the best example of their art we have seen this Christmas. The pictures and borders are harmonious in their colouring, the dyes are brilliant without being raw, and the volume is a trophy of colour-printing. The binding by Burn is in the very best taste.”—Times.
“Of Mr. Church’s ode we may speak in almost unqualified praise, and the same may be said of the contributions generally.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“Taken as a whole,” the Spectator says, “these volumes cannot fail to be a lasting monument of one of the most original men of our age.” “Full of charming letters from Rome,” says the Morning Star, “from Greece, from America, from Oxford, and from Rugby.”
“From the higher mind of cultivated, all-questioning, but still conservative England, in this our puzzled generation, we do not know of any utterance in literature so characteristic as the poems of Arthur Hugh Clough.”—Fraser’s Magazine.
“Both for vivid delineation of character and fluent lucidity of style, ‘The Story of Pauline’ is in the first rank of modern fiction.”—Globe. “Told with delightful vivacity, thorough appreciation of life, and a complete knowledge of character.”—Manchester Examiner.
“This is beyond question,” the Art Journal says, “the most beautiful book of the season.” The Guardian thinks it “a successful attempt to associate in a natural and unforced manner the flowers of our fields and gardens with the course of the Christian year.”
The Times says that it “will pleasantly recall in many a country parsonage the memory of youthful days.”
“Its sparkling pleasantness, its drollery, its shrewdness, the charming little bits of character which frequently come in, its easy liveliness, and a certain chattiness which, while it is never vulgar, brings the writer very near, and makes one feel as if the story were being told in lazy confidence in an hour of idleness by a man who, while thoroughly good-natured, is strongly humorous, and has an ever-present perception of the absurdities of people and things.”—Spectator.
“The aim of this translation of Dante may be summed up in one word—Literality. To follow Dante sentence for sentence, line for line, word for word—neither more nor less, has been my strenuous endeavour.”—Author’s Preface.
“Full of truthful and charming historic pictures, is everywhere vital with moral and religious principles, and is written with a brightness of description, and with a dramatic force in the representation of character, that have made, and will always make, it one of the greatest favourites with reading boys.”—Nonconformist.
The Times of September 11th says it is “A very touching story, full of promise for the after career of the authoress. It is so tenderly drawn, and so full of life and grace, that any attempt to analyse or describe it falls sadly short of the original. We will venture to say that few readers of any natural feeling or sensibility will take up ‘Marjory’ without reading it through at a sitting, and we hope we shall see more stories by the same hand.” The Morning Post calls it “A deliciously fresh and charming little love story.”
“Mr. De Vere has taken his place among the poets of the day. Pure and tender feeling, and that polished restraint of style which is called classical, are the charms of the volume.”—Spectator.
“Full of thoughtful discrimination and fine insight: the lecture on ‘Provincial Poetry’ seems to us singularly true, eloquent, and instructive.”—Spectator.
Full of bright pictures of French life. The English family, whose fortunes form the main drift of the story, reside mostly in France, but there are also many English characters and scenes of great interest. It is certainly the work of a fresh, vigorous, and most interesting writer, with a dash of sarcastic humour which is refreshing and not too bitter. “We can send our readers to it with confidence.”—Spectator.
“In this volume we have full assurance that he has ‘the vision and the faculty divine.’... Clever and full of kindly humour.”—Globe.
“Never, probably, has the legend of the Wandering Jew been more ably and poetically handled. The author writes as a true poet, and with the skill of a true artist. The plot of this remarkable drama is not only well contrived, but worked out with a degree of simplicity and truthful vigour altogether unusual in modern poetry. In fact, since the date of Byron’s ‘Cain,’ we can scarcely recall any verse at once so terse, so powerful, and so masterly.”—Standard.
“A delightful selection, in a delightful external form,”—Spectator. “A book which will prove delightful to children all the year round.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“The poems are all graceful; they are marked throughout by an accent of reality; the thoughts and emotions are genuine.”—Athenæum.
“A charming little book. For English readers, Mr. Garnett’s translations will open a new world of thought.”—Westminster Review.
“The stories, which are said to be literally exact, are more thrilling than anything in fiction. Mr. Gilmore has done a good work as well as written a good book.”—Daily News.
“To read these brilliant details,” says the Athenæum, “is like standing on the Olympian threshold and gazing at the ineffable brightness within.” According to the Westminster Review, “it would be difficult to point out a book that contains so much fulness of knowledge along with so much freshness of perception and clearness of presentation.”
“A story of very unusual merit. The entire story is well conceived, well written, and well carried out; and the reader will look forward with pleasure to meeting this clever author again.”—Daily News. “This is a very pretty, simple love story.... The author possesses a very graceful, womanly pen, and tells the story with a rare tender simplicity which well befits it.”—Standard.
Book I. In England; Book II. In Scotland; Book III. In France.
“These pages, written with infinite spirit and humour, bring into close rooms, back upon tired heads, the breezy airs of Lancashire moors and Highland lochs, with a freshness which no recent novelist has succeeded in preserving.”—Nonconformist.
“The pictures in this book are capital.”—Athenæum.
“Conceived in pure taste and true historic feeling, and presented with much dramatic force.... Thoroughly original.”—British Quarterly.
The Daily News says: “Who likes a quiet story, full of mature thought, of clear, humorous surprises, of artistic studious design? ‘Malbone’ is a rare work, possessing these characteristics, and replete, too, with honest literary effort.”
“The volume is prettily got up, and is sure to be a favourite in the nursery.”—Scotsman. “Herr Frölich has outdone himself in his pictures of this dramatic chase.”—Morning Post.
Keary (A.)—Works by Miss A. Keary:—
JANET’S HOME. New Edition. Globe 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“Never did a more charming family appear upon the canvas; and most skilfully and felicitously have their characters been portrayed. Each individual of the fireside is a finished portrait, distinct and lifelike.... The future before her as a novelist is that of becoming the Miss Austin of her generation.”—Sun.
CLEMENCY FRANKLYN. New Edition. Globe 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“Full of wisdom and goodness, simple, truthful, and artistic.... It is capital as a story; better still in its pure tone and wholesome influence.”—Globe.
“This is a very powerfully written story.”—Globe. “This is a really excellent novel.”—Illustrated London News. “The sketches of society in Oldbury are excellent. The pictures of child life are full of truth.”—Westminster Review.
Keary (A. and E.)—Works by A. and E. Keary:—
THE LITTLE WANDERLIN, and other Fairy Tales. 18mo. 2s. 6d.
“The tales are fanciful and well written, and they are sure to win favour amongst little readers.”—Athenæum.
“Told in a light and amusing style, which, in its drollery and quaintness, reminds us of our old favourite Grimm.”—Times.
Kingsley.—Works by the Rev. Charles Kingsley, M.A., Rector of Eversley, and Canon of Westminster:—
Fraser’s Magazine calls it “almost the best historical novel of the day.”
“Mr. Kingsley has provided us all along with such pleasant diversions—such rich and brightly tinted glimpses of natural history, such suggestive remarks on mankind, society, and all sorts of topics, that amidst the pleasure of the way, the circuit to be made will be by most forgotten.”—Guardian.
The author shows, to quote the Spectator, “what it is that constitutes the true Christian, God-fearing, man-living gentleman.”
“In fun, in humour, and in innocent imagination, as a child’s book we do not know its equal.”—London Review. “Mr. Kingsley must have the credit of revealing to us a new order of life.... There is in the ‘Water Babies’ an abundance of wit, fun, good humour, geniality, élan, go.”—Times.
THE HEROES; or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children. With Coloured Illustrations. New Edition. 18mo. 4s. 6d.
“We do not think these heroic stories have ever been more attractively told.... There is a deep under-current of religious feeling traceable throughout its pages which is sure to influence young readers powerfully.”—London Review. “One of the children’s books that will surely become a classic.”—Nonconformist.
“The dialogue of ‘Phaethon’ has striking beauties, and its suggestions may meet half-way many a latent doubt, and, like a light breeze, lift from the soul clouds that are gathering heavily, and threatening to settle down in misty gloom on the summer of many a fair and promising young life.”—Spectator.
The Spectator calls “Andromeda” “the finest piece of English hexameter verse that has ever been written. It is a volume which many readers will be glad to possess.”
Contents:—A Charm of Birds; Chalk-Stream Studies; The Fens; My Winter-Garden; From Ocean to Sea; North Devon.
“Altogether a delightful book.... It exhibits the author’s best traits, and cannot fail to infect the reader with a love of nature and of out-door life and its enjoyments. It is well calculated to bring a gleam of summer with its pleasant associations, into the bleak winter-time; while a better companion for a summer ramble could hardly be found.”—British Quarterly Review.
Kingsley (H.)—Works by Henry Kingsley:—
“We know no better book for those who want knowledge or seek to refresh it. As for the ‘sensational,’ most novels are tame compared with these narratives.”—Athenæum. “Exactly the book to interest and to do good to intelligent and high-spirited boys.”—Literary Churchman.
“A pathetic story, and told so as to give children an interest in Australian ways and scenery.”—Globe. “Very charmingly and very touchingly told.”—Saturday Review.
“No one who takes up ‘Oakshott Castle’ will willingly put it down until the last page is turned.... It may fairly be considered a capital story, full of go, and abounding in word pictures of storms and wrecks.”—Observer.
Knatchbull-Hugessen.—Works by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P.:—
Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen has won for himself a reputation as a teller of fairy-tales. “His powers,” says the Times, “are of a very high order; light and brilliant narrative flows from his pen, and is fed by an invention as graceful as it is inexhaustible.” “Children reading his stories,” the Scotsman says, “or hearing them read, will have their minds refreshed and invigorated as much as their bodies would be by abundance of fresh air and exercise.”
“The stories are charming, and full of life and fun.”—Standard. “The author has an imagination as fanciful as Grimm himself, while some of his stories are superior to anything that Hans Christian Andersen has written.”—Nonconformist.
“A fascinating little volume, which will make him friends in every household in which there are children.”—Daily News.
“A volume of fairy tales, written not only for ungrown children, but for bigger, and if you are nearly worn out, or sick, or sorry, you will find it good reading.”—Graphic. “The most charming volume of fairy tales which we have ever read.... We cannot quit this very pleasant book without a word of praise to its illustrator. Mr. Brunton from first to last has done admirably.”—Times.
“Capitally illustrated by W. Brunton.... In frolic and fancy they are quite equal to his other books. The author knows how to write fairy stories as they should be written. The whole book is full of the most delightful drolleries.”—Times.
“Decidedly the author’s happiest effort.... One of the best story books of the year.”—Hour.
“A grand and exciting fairy tale.”—Morning Post. “A delicious piece of fairy nonsense.”—Illustrated London News.
“The verses are truly sweet; there is in them not only much genuine poetic quality, but an ardent, flowing devotedness, and a peculiar skill in propounding theological tenets in the most graceful way, which any divine might envy.”—Scotsman.
“Having commenced on the first page, we were compelled to go on to the conclusion, and this we predict will be the case with every one who opens the book.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“This is a fine story, and we thank heaven for not being too wise to enjoy it.”—Daily News.
Lowell.—Works by J. Russell Lowell:—
“We may safely say the volume is one of which our chief complaint must be that there is not more of it. There are good sense and lively feeling forcibly and tersely expressed in every page of his writing.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“All readers who are able to recognise and appreciate genuine verse will give a glad welcome to this beautiful little volume.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Lyttelton.—Works by Lord Lyttelton:—
“Classical in spirit, full of force, and true to the original.”—Guardian.
“A successful attempt to translate into the vernacular some of the Fairy Mythology of Europe. The verses are very good. There is no shirking difficulties of rhyme, and the ballad metre which is oftenest employed has a great deal of the kind of ’go’ which we find so seldom outside the pages of Scott. The book is of permanent value.”—Guardian.
Macmillan’s Magazine.—Published Monthly. Price 1s. Volumes I. to XXIX. are now ready. 7s. 6d. each.
“A book to be read.”—Standard. “A powerful and fascinating story.”—Daily Telegraph. The Globe considers it “well-written, amusing, and interesting, and has the merit of being out of the ordinary run of novels.”
Maguire.—YOUNG PRINCE MARIGOLD, AND OTHER FAIRY STORIES. By the late John Francis Maguire, M.P. Illustrated by S. E. Waller. Globe 8vo. gilt. 4s. 6d.
“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.
“A very beautiful story of German country life.”—Literary Churchman.
Masson (Professor).—Works by David Masson, M.A., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh.
“As beautiful and bright and fresh as the scenes to which it wafts us over the blue Mediterranean, and as pure and innocent, but piquant and sprightly as the little girl who plays the part of its heroine, is this admirable little book.”—Illustrated London News.
“The novel is a good one and decidedly worth the reading.”—Examiner. “A pretty, brightly-written story.”—Literary Churchman. “A tale possessing the deepest interest.”—Court Journal.
Milton’s Poetical Works.—Edited with Text collated from the best Authorities, with Introduction and Notes by David Masson. Three vols. 8vo. With Three Portraits engraved by C. H. Jeens and Radcliffe. (Uniform with the Cambridge Shakespeare.)
“It would be hard to overpraise the sweetness and pleasing freshness of this charming epic.”—Athenæum. “A good translation of a poem that deserves to be known by all students of literature and friends of old-world simplicity in story-telling.”—Nonconformist.
“They will always be interesting as memorials of a most exceptional society; while, regarded simply as tales, they are sparkling, sensational, and dramatic, and the originality of their ideas and the quaintness of their language give them a most captivating piquancy. The illustrations are extremely interesting, and for the curious in such matters have a special and particular value.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“The book is calculated to recall pleasant memories of holidays well spent, and scenes not easily to be forgotten. To those who have never been in the Western Highlands, or sailed along the Frith of Clyde and on the Western Coast, it will seem almost like a fairy story. There is a charm in the volume which makes it anything but easy for a reader who has opened it to put it down until the last page has been read.”—Scotsman.
“It is nearly a perfect gem. We have had nothing so good for a long time, and those who neglect to read it are neglecting one of the jewels of contemporary history.”—Edinburgh Daily Review. “One quality in the piece, sufficient of itself to claim a moment’s attention, is that it is unique—original, indeed, is not too strong a word—in the manner of its conception and execution.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
This little volume consists of a number of poems, mostly of a genuinely devotional character. “They are for the most part so exquisitely sweet and delicate as to be quite a marvel of composition. They are worthy of being laid up in the recesses of the heart, and recalled to memory from time to time.”—Illustrated London News.
“Independently of the lucidity of the style in which the whole book is written, the selection of the examples alone would recommend it to favour, while the geniality of the criticism upon those examples cannot fail to make them highly appreciated and valued.”—Morning Post.
“It is not too much to call it a really grand poem, stately and dignified, and showing not only a high poetic mind, but also great power over poetic expression.”—Literary Churchman.
“It is rare to find a writer who combines to such an extent the faculty of communicating feelings with the faculty of euphonious expression.”—Spectator. “‘St. Paul’ stands without a rival as the noblest religious poem which has been written in an age which beyond any other has been prolific in this class of poetry. The sublimest conceptions are expressed in language which, for richness, taste, and purity, we have never seen excelled.”—John Bull.
“The poem combines in no ordinary degree firmness and workmanship. After the lapse of many centuries, an English poet is found paying to the great Carthagenian the worthiest poetical tribute which has as yet, to our knowledge, been afforded to his noble and stainless name.”—Saturday Review.
It is believed that this story, by the favourably known author of “St. Olave’s,” will be found both highly interesting and instructive to the young. The volume contains eight graphic illustrations by Mr. L. Frölich. The Examiner says: “Whether the readers are nine years old, or twice, or seven times as old, they must enjoy this pretty volume.”
“It is impossible to read the poem through without being powerfully moved. There are passages in it which for intensity and tenderness, clear and vivid vision, spontaneous and delicate sympathy, may be compared with the best efforts of our best living writers.”—Spectator.
Norton.—Works by the Hon. Mrs. Norton:—
“Full of thought well expressed, and may be classed among her best efforts.”—Times.
OLD SIR DOUGLAS. Cheap Edition. Globe 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“This varied and lively novel—this clever novel so full of character, and of fine incidental remark.”—Scotsman. “One of the pleasantest and healthiest stories of modern fiction.”—Globe.
Oliphant.—Works by Mrs. Oliphant:—
“There are few books of late years more fitted to touch the heart, purify the feeling, and quicken and sustain right principles.”—Nonconformist. “A more gracefully written story it is impossible to desire.”—Daily News.
A SON OF THE SOIL. New Edition. Globe 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“It is a very different work from the ordinary run of novels. The whole life of a man is portrayed in it, worked out with subtlety and insight.”—Athenæum.
“It is just the book we could wish to see in the hands of every child.”—English Churchman.
“A masterly and original power of impression, pouring itself forth in clear, sweet, strong rhythm.... It is a fine poem, full of life, of music and of clear vision.”—North British Daily Mail.
“There is,” the Saturday Review says, “all the old fun, the old sense of social ease and brightness and freedom, the old medley of work and indolence, of jest and earnest, that made Oxford life so picturesque.”
Palgrave.—Works by Francis Turner Palgrave, M.A., late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford:—
“If you want a really good book for both sexes and all ages, buy this, as handsome a volume of tales as you’ll find in all the market.”—Athenæum. “Exquisite both in form and substance.”—Guardian.
“A volume of pure quiet verse, sparkling with tender melodies, and alive with thoughts of genuine poetry.... Turn where we will throughout the volume, we find traces of beauty, tenderness, and truth; true poet’s work, touched and refined by the master-hand of a real artist, who shows his genius even in trifles.”—Standard.
ORIGINAL HYMNS. Third Edition, enlarged, 18mo. 1s. 6d.
“So choice, so perfect, and so refined, so tender in feeling, and so scholarly in expression, that we look with special interest to everything that he gives us.”—Literary Churchman.
GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICS. Edited by F. T. Palgrave. See Golden Treasury Series.
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS AND SONGS. Edited by F. T. Palgrave. Gem Edition. With Vignette Title by Jeens. 3s. 6d.
“For minute elegance no volume could possibly excel the ‘Gem Edition.’”—Scotsman.
Parables.—TWELVE PARABLES OF OUR LORD. Illustrated in Colours from Sketches taken in the East by McEniry with Frontispiece from a Picture by John Jellicoe, and Illuminated Texts and Borders. Royal 4to. in Ornamental Binding. 16s.
The Times calls it “one of the most beautiful of modern pictorial works;” while the Graphic says “nothing in this style, so good, has ever before been published.”
“The charming illustrations added to many of the poems will add greatly to their value in the eyes of children.”—Daily News.
Founded upon the story of Sappho. “He tells his story with dramatic force, and in language that often rises almost to grandeur.”—Athenæum.
“Charming stories of peasant life, written in something of George Eliot’s style.... Her stories could not be other than they are, as literal as truth, as romantic as fiction, full of pathetic touches and strokes of genuine humour.... All the stories are studies of actual life, executed with no mean art.”—Times.
“This is not a regular book of natural history, but a description of all the living creatures that came and went in a summer’s day beneath an old pear tree, observed by eyes that had for the nonce become microscopic, recorded by a pen that finds dramas in everything, and illustrated by a dainty pencil.... We can hardly fancy anyone with a moderate turn for the curiosities of insect life, or for delicate French esprit, not being taken by these clever sketches.”—Guardian. “A whimsical and charming little book.”—Athenæum.
“Those who have read only the extracts given, will not need to be told how amusing and happily touched it is. Those who read it for other purposes than amusement can hardly miss the sober and sound political lessons with which its light pages abound, and which are as much needed in England as by the nation to whom the author directly addresses his moral.”—Pall Mall Gazette. “This little book is very clever, wild with animal spirits, but showing plenty of good sense, amid all the heedless nonsense which fills so many of its pages.”—Daily News. “In an age little remarkable for powers of political satire, the sparkle of the pages gives them every claim to welcome.”—Standard.
“A lively volume of verses, full of a fine manly spirit, much humour and geniality. The illustrations are admirably conceived, and executed with fidelity and talent.”—Morning Post.
“It is impossible to read it without recognizing the value and interest of the Eastern epic. It is as fascinating as a fairy tale, this romantic poem of India.”—Globe. “A charming volume, which at once enmeshes the reader in its snares.”—Athenæum.
Rogers.—Works by J. E. Rogers:—
RIDICULA REDIVIVA. Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated in Colours, with Ornamental Cover. Crown 4to. 3s. 6d.
“The most splendid, and at the same time the most really meritorious of the books specially intended for children, that we have seen.”—Spectator. “These large bright pictures will attract children to really good and honest artistic work, and that ought not to be an indifferent consideration with parents who propose to educate their children.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
MORES RIDICULI. Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated in Colours, with Ornamental Cover. Crown 4to. 3s. 6d.
“These world-old rhymes have never had and need never wish for a better pictorial setting than Mr. Rogers has given them.”—Times. “Nothing could be quainter or more absurdly comical than most of the pictures, which are all carefully executed and beautifully coloured.”—Globe.
“She handles her little marvel with that rare poetic discrimination which neither exhausts it of its simple wonders by pushing symbolism too far, nor keeps those wonders in the merely fabulous and capricious stage. In fact, she has produced a true children’s poem, which is far more delightful to the mature than to children, though it would be delightful to all.”—Spectator.
Runaway (The). A Story for the Young. By the Author of “Mrs. Jerningham’s Journal.” With Illustrations by J. Lawson. Globe 8vo. gilt. 4s. 6d.
“This is one of the best, if not indeed the very best, of all the stories that has come before us this Christmas. The heroines are both charming, and, unlike heroines, they are as full of fun as of charms. It is an admirable book to read aloud to the young folk when they are all gathered round the fire, and nurses and other apparitions are still far away.”—Saturday Review.
“We wish all the school girls and home-taught girls in the land had the opportunity of reading it.”—Nonconformist.
“A glorious tale of summer joy.”—Freeman. “There is a genial hearty life about the book.”—John Bull. “The execution is excellent.... Like ‘Tom Brown’s School Days,’the ‘White Horse’ gives the reader a feeling of gratitude and personal esteem towards the author.”—Saturday Review.
“Kilmahoe is a Highland Pastoral, redolent of the warm soft air of the western lochs and moors, sketched out with remarkable grace and picturesqueness.”—Saturday Review.
Shakespeare.—The Works of William Shakespeare. Cambridge Edition. Edited by W. George Clark, M.A. and W. Aldis Wright, M.A. Nine vols. 8vo. Cloth. 4l. 14s. 6d.
The Guardian calls it an “excellent, and, to the student, almost indispensable edition;” and the Examiner calls it “an unrivalled edition.”
Shakespeare’s Tempest. Edited with Glossarial and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. J. M. Jephson. New Edition. 18mo. 1s.
“An artistic little volume, for every page is a picture.”—Times. “It will be read with pleasure, and with a pleasure that is altogether innocent.”—Saturday Review.
“Wealthy in feeling, meaning, finish, and grace; not without passion, which is suppressed, but the keener for that.”—Athenæum.
“These are among the sweetest sacred poems we have read for a long time. With no profuse imagery, expressing a range of feeling and expression by no means uncommon, they are true and elevated, and their pathos is profound and simple.”—Nonconformist.
“Without a trace of affectation or sentimentalism, these utterances are perfectly simple and natural, profoundly human and profoundly true.”—Daily News.
“For many a long day we have not met with a more simple, healthy, and unpretending story.”—Standard.
“It touches incidentally and with much wisdom and tenderness on so many of the relations of women, particularly of single women, with society, that it may be read with advantage by many who have never thought of entering a Sisterhood.”—Spectator.
“It is as far more interesting than ninety-nine novels out of a hundred, as it is superior to them in power, worth, and beauty. We should most strongly advise everybody to read ‘Convict Once.’”—Westminster Review.
Streets and Lanes of a City: Being the Reminiscences of Amy Dutton. With a Preface by the Bishop of Salisbury. Second and Cheaper Edition. Globe 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“One of the most really striking books that has ever come before us.”—Literary Churchman.
Thring.—SCHOOL SONGS. A Collection of Songs for Schools. With the Music arranged for four Voices. Edited by the Rev. E. Thring and H. Riccius. Folio. 7s. 6d.
The collection includes the “Agnus Dei,” Tennyson’s “Light Brigade,” Macaulay’s “Ivry,” etc. among other pieces.
“The most famous boy’s book in the language.”—Daily News.
“In no other work that we can call to mind are the finer qualities of the English gentleman more happily portrayed.”—Daily News. “A book of great power and truth.”—National Review.
Trench.—Works by R. Chenevix Trench, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. (For other Works by this Author, see Theological, Historical, and Philosophical Catalogues.)
“The Archbishop has conferred in this delightful volume an important gift on the whole English-speaking population of the world.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Trollope (Anthony).—SIR HARRY HOTSPUR OF HUMBLETHWAITE. By Anthony Trollope, Author of “Framley Parsonage,” etc. Cheap Edition. Globe 8vo. 2s. 6d.
The Athenæum remarks: “No reader who begins to read this book is likely to lay it down until the last page is turned. This brilliant novel appears to us decidedly more successful than any other of Mr. Trollope’s shorter stories.”
Turner.—Works by the Rev. Charles Tennyson Turner:—
“The readers of ‘Christina North’ are not likely to have forgotten that bright, fresh, picturesque story, nor will they be slow to welcome so pleasant a companion to it as this. It abounds in happy touches of description, of pathos, and insight into the life and passion of true love.”—Standard. “One of the prettiest and best told stories which it has been our good fortune to read for a long time.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“It is written with good taste, with quick and intelligent sympathy, occasionally with a real freshness and charm of style.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“An exceedingly pleasant and naturally written little book.... Mr. Waller has a clever pencil, and the text is well illustrated with his own sketches.”—Times.
“This is an idyll of rare truth and beauty.... The story is simple and touching, the style of extraordinary delicacy, precision, and picturesqueness.... A charming gift-book for young ladies not yet promoted to novels, and will amply repay those of their elders who may give an hour to its perusal.”—Daily News.
Webster.—Works by Augusta Webster:—
“If Mrs. Webster only remains true to herself, she will assuredly take a higher rank as a poet than any woman has yet done.”—Westminster Review.
“A volume as strongly marked by perfect taste as by poetic power.”—Nonconformist.
“Mrs. Webster has shown us that she is able to draw admirably from the life; that she can observe with subtlety, and render her observations with delicacy; that she can impersonate complex conceptions and venture into which few living writers can follow her.”—Guardian.
“Mrs. Webster’s poems exhibit simplicity and tenderness... her taste is perfect.... This simplicity is combined with a subtlety of thought, feeling, and observation which demand that attention which only real lovers of poetry are apt to bestow.”—Westminster Review.
“Closeness and simplicity combined with literary skill.”—Athenæum. “Mrs. Webster’s ‘Dramatic Studies’ and ‘Translation of Prometheus’ have won for her an honourable place among our female poets. She writes with remarkable vigour and dramatic realization, and bids fair to be the most successful claimant of Mrs. Browning’s mantle.”—British Quarterly Review.
“Mrs. Webster’s translation surpasses our utmost expectations. It is a photograph of the original without any of that harshness which so often accompanies a photograph.”—Westminster Review.
“The ‘Auspicious Day’ shows a marked advance, not only in art, but, in what is of far more importance, in breadth of thought and intellectual grasp.”—Westminster Review. “This drama is a manifestation of high dramatic power on the part of the gifted writer, and entitled to our warmest admiration, as a worthy piece of work.”—Standard.
“A very charming tale, charmingly told in dainty verse, with occasional lyrics of tender beauty.”—Standard. “We close the book with the renewed conviction that in Mrs. Webster we have a profound and original poet. The book is marked not by mere sweetness of melody—rare as that gift is—but by the infinitely rarer gifts of dramatic power, of passion, and sympathetic insight.”—Westminster Review.
“At the head, and a long way ahead, of all books for girls, we place ‘When I was a Little Girl.’”—Times. “It is one of the choicest morsels of child-biography which we have met with.”—Nonconformist.
White.—RHYMES BY WALTER WHITE. 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Whittier.—JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER’S POETICAL WORKS. Complete Edition, with Portrait engraved by C. H. Jeens. 18mo. 4s. 6d.
“Mr. Whittier has all the smooth melody and the pathos of the author of ‘Hiawatha,’ with a greater nicety of description and a quainter fancy.”—Graphic.
This is the last series of drawings which will be made by Mr. Wolf, either upon wood or stone. The Pall Mall Gazette says: “The fierce, untameable side of brute nature has never received a more robust and vigorous interpretation, and the various incidents in which particular character is shown are set forth with rare dramatic power. For excellence that will endure, we incline to place this very near the top of the list of Christmas books.” And the Art Journal observes, “Rarely, if ever, have we seen animal life more forcibly and beautifully depicted than in this really splendid volume.”
Also, an Edition in royal folio, handsomely bound in Morocco elegant, Proofs before Letters, each Proof signed by the Engravers. Price 8l. 8s.
“It is the work of a man of refined taste, of deep religious sentiment, a true artist, and a good Christian.”—Church Times.
“No man can read this poem without being struck by the fitness and finish of the workmanship, so to speak, as well as by the chastened and unpretending loftiness of thought which pervades the whole.”—Globe.
Words from the Poets. Selected by the Editor of “Rays of Sunlight.” With a Vignette and Frontispiece. 18mo. limp., 1s.
“The selection aims at popularity, and deserves it.”—Guardian.
Yonge (C. M.)—Works by Charlotte M. Yonge.
“We think the authoress of ‘The Heir of Redclyffe’ has surpassed her previous efforts in this illuminated chronicle of the olden time.”—British Quarterly.
“Prettily and tenderly written, and will with young people especially be a great favourite.”—Daily News. “Everybody should read this.”—Literary Churchman.
“Miss Yonge has brought a lofty aim as well as high art to the construction of a story which may claim a place among the best efforts in historical romance.”—Morning Post. “The plot, in truth, is of the very first order of merit.”—Spectator. “We have seldom read a more charming story.”—Guardian.
THE PRINCE AND THE PAGE. A Tale of the Last Crusade. Illustrated. 18mo. 2s. 6d.
“A tale which, we are sure, will give pleasure to many others besides the young people for whom it is specially intended.... This extremely prettily-told story does not require the guarantee afforded by the name of the author of ‘The Heir of Redclyffe’ on the title-page to ensure its becoming a universal favourite.”—Dublin Evening Mail.
THE LANCES OF LYNWOOD. New Edition, with Coloured Illustrations. 18mo. 4s. 6d.
“The illustrations are very spirited and rich in colour, and the story can hardly fail to charm the youthful reader.”—Manchester Examiner.
THE LITTLE DUKE: RICHARD THE FEARLESS. New Edition. Illustrated. 18mo. 2s. 6d.
A STOREHOUSE OF STORIES. First and Second Series. Globe 8vo. 3s. 6d. each.
Contents of First Series:—History of Philip Quarll—Goody Twoshoes—The Governess—Jemima Placid—The Perambulations of a Mouse—The Village School—The Little Queen—History of Little Jack.
“Miss Yonge has done great service to the infantry of this generation by putting these eleven stories of sage simplicity within their reach.”—British Quarterly Review.
Contents of Second Series:—Family Stories—Elements of Morality—A Puzzle for a Curious Girl—Blossoms of Morality.
“We have seen no prettier gift-book for a long time, and none which, both for its cheapness and the spirit in which it has been compiled, is more deserving of praise.”—Athenæum.
“‘Lucy’s Wonderful Globe’ is capital, and will give its youthful readers more idea of foreign countries and customs than any number of books of geography or travel.”—Graphic.
“Instead of dry details,” says the Nonconformist, “we have living pictures, faithful, vivid, and striking.”
“One of her most successful little pieces... just what a narrative should be, each incident simply and naturally related, no preaching or moralizing, and yet the moral coming out most powerfully, and the whole story not too long, or with the least appearance of being spun out.”—Literary Churchman.
“A domestic story of English professional life, which for sweetness of tone and absorbing interest from first to last has never been rivalled.”—Standard. “Miss Yonge has certainly added to her already high reputation by this charming book, which, although in four volumes, is not a single page too long, but keeps the reader’s attention fixed to the end. Indeed we are only sorry there is not another volume to come, and part with the Underwood family with sincere regret.”—Court Circular.
“We shall not anticipate the interest by epitomizing the plot, but we shall only say that readers will find in it all the gracefulness, right feeling, and delicate perception which they have been long accustomed to look for in Miss Yonge’s writings.”—Guardian.