Poems, 91. number

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Macmillan, 1870 - 143 pages

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Page 26 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Page 24 - Morte d'Arthur.— SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. "It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
Page 27 - BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA " The beautiful little edition of Bacon's Essays, now before us, does credit to the taste and scholarship of Mr.
Page 26 - The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Page 16 - Mistral (F.).— MIRELLE: a Pastoral Epic of Provence. Translated by H. CRICHTON. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s. " This is a capital translation of the elegant ana richly-coloured pastoral epic poem of M.
Page 8 - Wilson.— A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. " An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Page 20 - The editor has aimed to produce a book "which the emigrant, finding room for little not absolutely necessary, might yet find room for in his trunk, and the traveller in his knapsack, and that on some narrow shelves where there are few books this might be one." " The Archbishop has conferred in this delightful volume an important gift on the whole Englishspeaking population of the world.
Page 21 - These brief poems have not only a peculiar kind of interest for the student of English poetry, but are intrinsically delightful, and -will reward a careful and frequent perusal. Full of naivete...
Page 29 - O world, tho' thou deniest, Stand thou on that side, for on this am I. Rather the earth shall doubt when her retrieving Pours in the rain and rushes from the sod, Rather than he for whom the great conceiving Stirs in his soul to quicken into God.

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