The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
Illustrated by the Author.
Scribner. 3.00
Henry II and Queen Eleanor, the Lord Bishop of Hereford, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Richard of the Lion's Heart, come forth from the land of mingled fact and fancy, with Robin Hood and his merry train, and live for us. While the text of this luxurious volume is dignified and somewhat archaic, children delight in reading it, nevertheless. There are many full-page illustrations.
Poetry, Collections Of Poetry And Prose, And Stories Adapted From Great Authors
But if he is a real classic, if his work belongs to the class of the very best (for this is the true and right meaning of the word classic, classical), then the great thing for us is to feel and enjoy his work as deeply as ever we can, and to appreciate the wide difference between it and all work which has not the same high character.
Matthew Arnold.
Cervantes, Miguel De.
*Don Quixote of the Mancha.
Edited by E. A. Parry.
Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Lane. 1.50
Let it be understood that all I have attempted to do is to tell a well-known story in print, as one who loves it would seek to tell it in words to those around his own fireside; in the hope that some may gather from this story that there is a vast storehouse of humour and wisdom awaiting them in the book itself.--Preface.