Elfin music : $b An anthology of English fairy poetry
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Elfin music : $b An anthology of English fairy poetry
English poetry; Fairy poetry, English
_Newcastle Chronicle._—“If studied and acted upon, would quickly be
a more beneficial revolution of society than all the hosts of Social
reformers can ever hope to accomplish.”
_Oscar Wilde._—“Charming little book—full of wit and wisdom.”
_J. A. Froude._—“It contains more sense in a short space than any book
which I have read for a long time.”
_Dr. Samuel Smiles._—“Capital book, full of sound advice, should be
widely read.”
London: WALTER SCOTT. 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
* * * * *
100th THOUSAND.
_Crown 8vo, 440 Pages, Price One Shilling._
THE WORLD OF CANT.
“_Daily Telegraph._”—“Decidedly a book with a purpose.”
“_Scotsman._”—“A vigorous, clever, and almost ferocious exposure, in the
form of a story, of the numerous shams and injustices.”
“_Newcastle Weekly Chronicle._”—“Trenchant in sarcasm, warm in
commendation of high purpose.... A somewhat _remarkable book_.”
“_London Figaro._”—“It cannot be said that the author is partial; clergy
and Nonconformist divines, Liberals and Conservatives, lawyers and
tradesmen, all come under his lash.... The sketches are worth reading.
Some of the characters are portrayed with considerable skill.”
“May the Lord deliver us from all Cant: may the Lord, whatever else He do
or forbear, teach us to look facts honestly in the face, and to beware
(with a kind of shudder) of smearing them over with our despicable and
damnable palaver into irrecognisability, and so falsifying the Lord’s own
Gospels to His unhappy blockheads of Children, all staggering down to
Gehenna and the everlasting Swine’s-trough, for want of Gospels.
“Heaven! it is the most accursed sin of man; and done everywhere at
present, on the streets and high places at noonday! Verily, seriously
I say and pray as my chief orison, May the Lord deliver us from
it.”—_Letter from Carlyle to Emerson._
London: WALTER SCOTT, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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