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
Could not this be followed up by singing Tennyson’s Charge?
=911. Ballads.= By the Rev. F. LANGBRIDGE. (Cassell)
Some serious, some comic, well suited for the purpose.
_COMIC RECITATIONS._
=912. The Crocodile King.= By SOUTHEY.
=913. Pairing Time Anticipated.= By COWPER.
=914. The Distressed Travellers; or, Labour in Vain.= By COWPER.
A dialogue. If not in his poems, in Southey’s ‘Life of Cowper;’ also in
‘Aunt Charlotte’s Evenings at Home.’
=915. Miss Kilmansegg and Her Golden Leg.= By HOOD.
If judiciously abridged, this will answer well.
=916. The Walrus and the Carpenter.= By LEWIS CARROLL. From ‘Through the
Looking-Glass.’
=917. The Elephant.= In ‘Aunt Charlotte’s Evenings at Home.’
=918. The Lady and the Pie.= By HANNAH MORE.
A clever and now forgotten fable on curiosity. To be found in H. More’s
works.
=919. The ‘Anon, Anon, Sir,’ Scene.= Shakespeare’s Henry IV., Part I.,
Act 2, Sc. iv., as far as ‘Enter Vintner.’
Might be read or recited. Two persons visible and one out of sight to
call Francis.
_READINGS._
=920. Hurricane in the West Indies.= In Marryat’s ‘Peter Simple.’
=921. An Incident in the Pacific.=
A wonderful volcanic adventure told in vol. i., p. 142, of ‘Nature and
Art,’ a magazine published in 1866 by Day and Son.
=922. Wreck of the ‘Magpie.’= In ‘Book of Golden Deeds.’ (See No. 730.)
=923. Mary’s Ark.= By BRET HARTE, in ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp, and other
Tales.’
A woman saved on a tree in a flood of the Mississippi.
=924. Rab and his Friends.= By Dr. JOHN BROWNE. (Douglas) 6_d._
In ‘Remains of Dr. J. Browne.’
=925. The Sexton’s Hero.= By Mrs. GASKELL. (See No. 656.)
=926. Discovery of the Colorado.= By Lady VERNEY. In ‘Real Stories from
Many Lands.’ No. 721.
=927. Eric’s Grave.=
=928. Helmsman of Lake Erie.=
These two, taken from Neale’s ‘Triumphs of the Cross,’ are also published
in one book, price 4_d._ (See No. 361.)
=929. A Saltash Story.= (F. M. P.) From the ‘Monthly Packet.’
=930. A Night of Terror.= From a Christmas Number of the ‘Monthly Packet.’
=931. Christmas Tale.= By HESBA STRETTON. 2_d._
The miserly man who kept his hoards in his old trousers.
=932. The Ghost at Fantford.= By C. M. YONGE. In ‘Byewords.’ (Macmillan)
No. 574.
=933. Wanted, a Letter Carrier.= From the ‘Monthly Packet,’ Christmas
Number, 1871.
_COMIC READINGS._
=934. Daniel O’Rourke’s Journey to the Moon.=
=935. Legend of Knock Grafton.=
=936. Hill of the Fairy Calf.=
=937. The Wonderful Tune.=
These four are in ‘Croker’s Fairy Legends,’ republished by Swan
Sonnenschein. Some of the stories in ‘Uncle Remus.’
=938. Black Poodle.= By F. ANSTEY. No. II. of ‘Longman’s Magazine.’
=939. Tom Tumbletoes and the Cow.= From the ‘Monthly Packet,’ V. 1st
series. (Walter Smith)
=940. A Yorkshire Butcher.= By the Rev. SABINE BARING-GOULD. In
‘Yorkshire Oddities,’ p. 139. (Hodges)
=941. The Queen of the Dentists.= By the Rev. S. BARING-GOULD. In ‘Just
One More Tale.’ (Skeffington) 3_s._ 6_d._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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