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 Rdition. 



" All preznotcs compilations of this kind must tmdcniably 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 cotnpilatiofi 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 del'ightfid external form ; full of the 

 physical splendoicr 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 befoiind, by all acquainted with 

 the various readitigs of old English ballads, true enough to justify his 

 ujtda-takitig 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:'— S^rimDh-v 

 Review. 



BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. 

 With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. Aldis Wright, M.A. 



" The beautiful little edition of Bacon's Essays, noiu 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 aiid 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. 



