"What the author proposed to do was to convey to her readers a clear idea of the variety, extent, and richness of English literature.... She has done just what she intended to do, and done it well." The New York Nation says: "It is refreshing to find a book designed for young readers which seeks to give only what will accomplish the real aim of the study; namely, to excite an interest in English literature, cultivate a taste for what is best in it, and thus lay a foundation on which they can build after reading." Prof. Moses Coit Tyler says: "I have had real satisfaction in looking over the book. There are some opinions with which I do not agree; but the main thing about the book is a good thing; namely, its hearty, wholesome love of English literature, and the honest, unpretending, but genial and conversational, manner in which that love is uttered. It is a charming book to read, and it will breed in its readers the appetite to read English literature for themselves." _Sold by all booksellers, or mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, by_ A.C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers, Cor. Wabash Ave. and Madison St., Chicago. TALES OF ANCIENT GREECE. By the Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, Bart., M.A., Trinity College, Oxford. 12mo, cloth, price, $1.25. "Written apparently for young readers, it yet possesses a charm of manner which will recommend it to all."--_The Examiner, London._ "It is only when we take up such a book as this that we realize how rich in interest is the mythology of Greece."--_Inquirer, Philadelphia._ "Admirable in style, and level with a child's comprehension. These versions might well find a place in every family."--_The Nation, New York._ "The author invests these stories with a charm of narrative entirely peculiar. The book is a rich one in every way."--_Standard, Chicago._ "In Mr. Cox will be found yet another name to be enrolled among those English writers who have vindicated for this country an honorable rank in the investigation of Greek history."--_Edinburgh Review._ "It is doubtful if these tales--antedating history in their origin, and yet fresh with all the charms of youth to all who read them for the first time--were ever before presented in so chaste and popular form."--_Golden Rule, Boston._ "The grace with which these old tales of the mythology are re-told makes them as enchanting to the young as familiar fairy tales or the 'Arabian Nights.'... We do not know of a Christmas book which promises more lasting pleasures."--_Publishers' Weekly._ "Its exterior fits it to adorn the drawing-room table, while its contents are adapted to the entertainment of the most cultivated intelligence.... The book is a scholarly production, and a welcome addition to a department of literature that is thus far quite too scantily furnished."--_Tribune, Chicago._