A LIBRARY OF POETRY AND SONG: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets, English, Scotch, Irish and American, including Translations from the Greek, Latin, German, Spanish, Italian, etc., with an Introduction in the form of a Treatise on the History and Functions of the Poetical Art, from the pen of the Editor. 832 pp., 8vo. Illustrated with a Steel Portrait of Mr. Bryant, 26 Autographic Fac-Similes of Celebrated Poets, and 16 Full-page Wood Engravings. Cloth, $5; Cloth Gilt, $6; Turkey Morocco, $10.
"Selections which nearly cover the entire historical period over which English poetry extends ... matter suited to every conceivable taste and variety of feeling and culture. We know of no similar collection in the English language which, in copiousness and felicity of selection and arrangement, can at all compare with it."—New York Times.
"Mr. Bryant's introduction to the volume is a most beautiful and comprehensive critical essay on poets and poetry, from the days of 'the father of English poetry' to the present time."—Albany Evening Journal.
DAVIS, Mrs. S. M.
LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. A Memorial of one whose name is a Synonym for every Manly Virtue. Illustrated with 3 Steel Plates: Portrait of Sidney; View of Penshurst Castle; Fac-Simile of Sidney's Manuscript. Stamped in ink and gold, with Sidney's Coat of Arms. 12mo. Cloth, beveled, $1.50.
"There are few more attractive figures in the glorious company of English heroes than Sidney, the soldier, courtier, scholar—the accepted type of an English gentleman ... yet, except in encyclopedias and kindred works, there is scarcely any satisfactory memoir of him accessible to the general reader, and the author of this book has done a good service in presenting a clear and well-written narrative."—Philadelphia Inquirer.
"A book well deserving the beautiful printing and binding into which the Fords have put it."—N.Y. Evening Mail.
"Worthy of place as an English Classic."—Pittsburgh Commercial.
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