GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. 41 



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

 Selected and arranged by Sir Roundell Palmer. A New and 

 Rnlarged Edition. 



*' All previous compilations of this kind must undeniably for the present 

 give place to the Book of Praise. . . . Tke selection has been made 

 throughout with sound judgment and critical taste. 'The' pains involved 

 in this compilation must have been imm-ense^ embracing^ as it does, every 

 writer of note in this special province of English literature, and ranging 

 over the most widely divergent tracts of religions 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 enough to justify his 

 undertaking so critical a task. " — Saturday Review. 



THE JEST BOOK, The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings. Selected 

 and aiTanged 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. Aldis Wright, M.A, 



' ' The beautiful little edition of Bacon^s Essays, now before us, does 

 ir'edit to the taste and scholarship of Mr. Aldis Wright. . . . It puts the 

 reader in possession of all the essential literary fctcts 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." — Wesi-minster Review. 



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