The Book Of Praise. From the Best English Hymn Writers. Selected and arranged by Lord Selborne. A New and Enlarged Edition.
"All previous compilations of this kind must undeniably for the present give place to the Book of Praise.... The selection has been made throughout with sound judgment and critical taste. The pains involved in this compilation must have been immense, embracing, as it does, every writer of note in this special province of English literature, and ranging over the most widely divergent tracks of religious thought."—Saturday Review.
The Fairy Book; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman."
"A delightful selection, in a delightful external form; full of the physical splendour and vast opulence of proper fairy tales."—Spectator.
The Ballad Book. A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads. Edited by William Allingham.
"His taste as a judge of old poetry will be found, by all acquainted with the various readings of old English ballads, true enough to justify his undertaking so critical a task."—Saturday Review.
The Jest Book. The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings. Selected and arranged by Mark Lemon.
"The fullest and best jest book that has yet appeared."—Saturday Review.
Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. Aldis Wright, M.A.