Part 33
“Mr. Watson’s lectures must be awarded unqualified praise. The lectures themselves are admirable, and nothing less can be said of the subsidiary additions, which are very valuable as confirmatory of the main arguments and theses.”—_Clergyman’s Magazine_.
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LIGHT IN LANDS OF DARKNESS: A Record of Mission Work in
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“If to write poetry upon a throne be rare of itself, it is certainly still rarer to find Queens giving artistic form to those moments of existence that approach the mysteries of human life. Already, in her ‘Sappho,’ the German poetess, who now occupies a throne, has treated of the relationship of man to the eternal, but the antique garb somewhat veiled her purpose, while here (in ‘Pilgrim Sorrow’) she moves amid modern as well as universal life, and is thus able to reveal the whole depth of her feeling and lament. For what has inspired her poetic phantasy is the ever-unanswered question: Wherefore and whence is sorrow in the world? The treatment is throughout symbolical. . . . It deserves to be counted among the modern monuments of our literature.”—Review of the first German edition in the _Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung_, _Nov._ 2, 1882.
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OTTILIE: an Eighteenth Century Idyl. By VERNON LEE, Author of “Belcaro,” “Prince of the Hundred Soups,” &c. Square 8vo, cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
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THE EPIC OF KINGS. Stories retold from the Persian Poet Firdusi. By HELEN ZIMMERN, Author of “Stories in Precious Stones,” “Life of Lessing,” &c. With Etchings by L. ALMA TADEMA, R.A, and Prefatory Poem by E. W. GOSSE. Popular Edition, Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 7s.
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“Miss Zimmern has been well advised in attempting to paraphrase this work. In one volume she presents her readers with the essence and the gist of Firdusi’s Epic, carrying the story down as far as the death of Rustem—that is, as far as the end of the purely poetical portion of the poet’s work. She has selected well, and written the stories in a vivid style. Firdusi’s stories may have a chance of becoming really popular in England.”—_The Times_.
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I’VE BEEN A-GIPSYING: or Rambles among our Gipsies and their Children in their Tents and Vans. By GEORGE SMITH, of Coalville, Author of “Gipsy Life,” “Canal Adventures by Moonlight,” &c. _With an Appendix showing the Author’s plans for the Compulsory Registration of Gipsy Vans_, _and the Education of Gipsy Children_. New and Revised and Popular Edition. 12 Illustrations. 3s. 6d.
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GUDRUN, BEOWULF, and ROLAND. With other Mediæval Tales. By JOHN GIBB. With 20 Illustrations. Second and cheaper edition. Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
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THE HOUSE BY THE WORKS. By EDWARD GARRETT, Author of “Occupations of a Retired Life,” &c., &c. With Frontispiece. Third and Cheaper edition. Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
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THE PRINCE OF THE HUNDRED SOUPS: A Puppet Show in Narrative. Edited, with a Preface by VERNON LEE, Author of “Belcaro,” “Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy,” &c. With Four Illustrations in Sepia, by SARAH BIRCH. Cheaper edition. Square 8vo., cloth. 3s. 6d.
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