What books to lend and what to giveYonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
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What books to lend and what to give
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
Books and reading -- Great Britain; Children's literature -- Bibliography
=752. Sweden.= (S.P.C.K.) 1_s._
These are history chiefly in conversation. They are fairly well done, but
it is generally difficult to excite interest in foreign histories.
_JUVENILE ENGLISHMEN’S HISTORICAL LIBRARY._
=753. History of England.= By J. M. NEALE. (Masters) 1_s._ 6_d._
=754. History of Greece.= By J. M. NEALE. (Masters) 2_s._
=755. History of Rome.= By S. FOX. (Masters) 2_s._
=756. History of Spain.= By B. J. JOHNS. (Masters) 2_s._
=757. History of Portugal.= By J. M. NEALE. (Masters) 2_s._
=758. History of Ireland.= By T. K. ARNOLD. (Masters) 1_s._ 6_d._
=759. History of Scotland.= By W. B. FLOWER. (Masters) 2_s._
Plainly got up, but telling much that is useful.
=Aunt Charlotte’s Histories=, by C. M. YONGE, namely—
=760. Scripture.= (Marcus Ward) 6_s._ or 2_s._
=761. England.= (Marcus Ward) 6_s._ or 1_s._ 6_d._
=762. France.= (Marcus Ward) 6_s._
=763. Germany.= (Marcus Ward) 6_s._
=764. Greece.= (Marcus Ward) 6_s._
=765. Rome.= (Marcus Ward) 6_s._
=766. America.= (Marcus Ward) 6_s._
These, except the two first, of which there are cheaper editions, are too
full of illustrations not to be costly.
=767. Lectures on the History of England for Working Men and Women.= By
M. GUEST. (Macmillan) 6_s._
An epitome of life and manners in England, actually composed for and read
aloud to an audience of mechanics.
=768. The Story of the Crusades.= (Nelson) 1_s._ 6_d._
=769. Children of Westminster Abbey.= By ROSE KINGSLEY. (Sampson Low)
5_s._
Descriptions of the building and the monuments, with histories of the
persons there buried, showing a most loving hand.
=770. Stories of the Tower.= By M. WILSON. (Cassell) 2_s._
Narratives of the chief events, and histories of the chief prisoners of
the Tower. These two should be in all libraries for Londoners.
=771. Two of England’s Wars=; or, =Theodore and Coffee=. (R.T.S.) 1_s._
6_d._
Well and shortly told histories of the Abyssinian and Ashantee campaigns.
=772. Talks about the Laws we live under.= By C. M. YONGE. (Walter Smith)
2_s._
An endeavour to give a popular account of our institutions and
authorities.
=773. The Citizen Reader.= (Cassell) 1_s._ 6_d._
The same work, so much better done that it is to be regretted that it
should be so evidently intended as a school-book.
=774. Cawnpore.= By Sir GEORGE TREVELYAN. (Macmillan) 6_s._
A terrible history, riveting interest.
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
BIOGRAPHY.
A real life often speaks more plainly and effectively than a
hundred sermons or exhortations. And as childhood is outgrown,
intelligent persons will have a curiosity about those whose
names they may have heard.
=Cassell’s World’s Workers=, namely—
=775. General Gordon.= (Cassell) 1_s._
=776. Charles Dickens.= (Cassell) 1_s._
=777. Titus Salt and George Moore.= (Cassell) 1_s._
=778. Florence Nightingale.= (Cassell) 1_s._
=779. Sir H. Havelock.= (Cassell) 1_s._
=780. Abraham Lincoln.= (Cassell) 1_s._
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