GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. 45 



THE BOOK OF PRAISE. From the Best English Hymn Writers. 

 Selected and arranged by SIR ROUNDELL PALMER. A New and 

 Enlarged Edition. 







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 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. 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 enoiigh to justify his 

 undertaking so critical a task."- SATURDAY REVIEW. 



THE JEST BOOK. 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. 

 With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALOIS WRIGHT, M.A. 



' ' The beautiful little edition of Bacon" 1 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 Bacoris life and 

 times."- SPECTATOR. 



" By far the most complete as well as the most elegant edition -<ue 



possess."- -WESTMINSTER REVIEW. 



