The English Novel and the Principle of its DevelopmentLanier, Sidney
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The English Novel and the Principle of its Development
Lanier, Sidney
English fiction -- History and criticism
"Though Mr. Lanier calls his edition of Froissart a book for
boys, it is a book for men as well, and many there be of the
latter who will enjoy its pages."--_N. Y. Eve. Mail._
"We greet this book with positive enthusiasm, feeling that the
presentation of Froissart in a shape so tempting to youth is a
particularly worthy task, particularly well done."--_N. Y. Eve.
Post._
"The book is romantic, poetical, and full of the real adventure
which is so much more wholesome, than the sham which fills so
much of the stimulating juvenile literature of the
day."--_Detroit Free Press._
"That boy will be lucky who gets Mr. Sidney Lanier's 'Boy's
Froissart' for a Christmas present this year. There is no better
and healthier reading for boys than 'Fine Sir John;' and this
volume is so handsome, so well printed, and so well illustrated
that it is a pleasure to look it over."--_Nation._
"Mr. Sidney Lanier, in editing a boy's version of Froissart, has
not only opened to them a world of romantic and poetic legend of
the chivalric and heroic sort, but he has given them something
which ennobles and does not poison the mind. Old Froissart was a
gentleman every inch; he hated the base, the cowardly, the
paltry; he loved the knightly, the heroic, the gentle, and this
spirit breathes through all his chronicles. There is a
genuineness, too, about his writings that gives them a literary
value."--_Baltimore Gazette._
"In his work of editing the famous knightly chronicle that Sir
Walter Scott declared inspired him with more enthusiasm than even
poetry itself, Mr. Lanier has shown, naturally, a warm
appreciativeness and also a nice power of discrimination. He has
culled the choicest of the chronicles, the most romantic, and at
the same time most complete, and has digested them into an
orderly compact volume, upon which the publishers have lavished
fine paper, presswork and binding, and that is illustrated by a
number of cuts."--_Philadelphia Times._
[**asterism] _For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent, post-paid,
upon receipt of price, by_
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS,
NOS. 743 AND 745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
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_The Boy's King Arthur._
Being Sir THOMAS MALORY'S History of King Arthur and his Knights of
the Round Table.
Edited, with an Introduction, by SIDNEY LANIER.
With 12 Illustrations by ALFRED KAPPES.
One vol., 8vo, extra cloth,--$3.00.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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