NATIONAL SOCIETY’S PRIZE BOOKS for the YOUNG
CHAPTERS IN POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY
By Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., Author of “Ants, Bees, and Wasps,” &c. With 90 Illustrations. Pp. 224. Bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s.
“These selections from Sir John Lubbock’s well-known works have been judiciously chosen, and the illustrations are admirable. Altogether, it is the most attractive of countless reading-books that the New Code has called forth.”—Journal of Education.
“It has been admirably condensed from his larger works on insects and wild flowers, and will excite the wonder of young readers by the insight it gives them into the mysteries of nature and science.... There is abundance to charm all classes of students, and to set them thinking.”—Daily Chronicle.
“A more interesting and instructive book we have not read for some time.... The chapters on the colours of animals, and on plants, fruits, and seeds, should be read by every person who has acquired the art of reading.”—Irish Teachers’ Journal.
“It was a happy thought of the Society thus to utilise and popularise some of Sir John Lubbock’s charming studies.”—Literary Churchman.
HISTORICAL BALLADS
Edited and Annotated by Charlotte M. Yonge, Author of “Cameos from English History.” The Complete Work in One Volume. Bevelled boards, cloth gilt, pp. 662, price 4s.
“Miss Yonge’s two small volumes are suited to children by their simplicity of language and clearness of subject.... We think that the poems are judiciously and carefully chosen, and much attention has been bestowed on the short notes, the chief object of which is just to give children a little knowledge of matters and allusions which they would not properly understand.”—Educational Times on Parts I. and II.
“We have no doubt that it was a labour of love to Miss Yonge to select and to annotate the stirring ballad music in which English literature is so rich. It will be nothing less than a liberal education to the children of the poor (or, indeed, of the rich) to commit to memory and ponder over such verses as these.”—Literary Churchman.
“We have in this interesting volume a rare collection of pieces suitable for recitation. Much judgment has been exercised in choosing suitable poems, and care has been taken in so adapting the pieces for standard work that their fitness is at once apparent. It is the best collection of historical ballads that we know of.”—Teachers’ Aid.
Second and Revised Edition
ENGLISH CHURCH HISTORY
Being a History of the Growth of the Church of England from the Earliest Times down to the year 1878. By Charlotte M. Yonge, Author of “The Heir of Redclyffe,” “Cameos from English History,” &c. Bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s.
HIGHER READING BOOK FOR SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND GENERAL USE
Consisting of nineteen Extracts from the works of Scott, Lytton, Washington Irving, Southey, Cooper, Marryat, and other Standard Authors. Edited, with Introductions and Notes, by Charlotte M. Yonge, Author of “The Heir of Redclyffe,” “Cameos from English History.” Pp. 432, price 2s. 6d.
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