"_It includes specimens of all the great masters in the art of poetry, selected with the matured judgment of a man concentrated on obtaining insight into the feelings and tastes of childhood, and desirous to awaken its finest impulses, to cultivate its keenest sensibilities._"--MORNING POST. =The Book of Praise.= From the Best English Hymn Writers. Selected and arranged by LORD SELBOURNE. _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 enough 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. ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A. "_The beautiful little edition of Bacon'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 connection with Bacon's life and times._"--SPECTATOR. =The Pilgrim's Progress= from this World to that which is to come. By JOHN BUNYAN. "_A beautiful and scholarly reprint._"--SPECTATOR. =The Sunday Book of Poetry for the Young.= Selected and arranged by C F. ALEXANDER. "_A well-selected volume of Sacred Poetry._"--SPECTATOR. =A Book of Golden Deeds= of All Times and All Countries. Gathered and narrated anew. By the Author of "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE." "_... To the young, for whom it is especially intended, as a most interesting collection of thrilling tales well told; and to their elders, as a useful handbook of reference, and a pleasant one to take up when their wish is to while away a weary half-hour. We have seen no prettier gift-book for a long time._"--ATHENÆUM.