Sir J. Cheke was Tutor and Secretary of State to King Edward VI., and, towards the close of his life, embraced the Catholic Faith. The very peculiar nature of this old Translation Is explained in the Introduction, by J. GOODWIN. A very valuable specimen of the English Language in 1550.
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Cornish Tales, in Prose and Verse, by J. T. Tregellas. With a Glossary.
⁂ This Collection comprises all the best stories of the author, who made a fame peculiarly his own by a wonderful power of story-telling and mimicry. The book includes Tremnan, the St. Agnes Bear Hunt, the Queen’s Washing Day, the Perran Cherry-beam, Grammar’s Cat and Ours, the Squire’s Tame Conger, Rozzy Paul and Zacky Martin, Josee Cock, and ten other inimitable stories.
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Contes Drolatiques (Droll Tales collected from the Abbeys of Loraine). Par Balzac. With Four Hundred and Twenty-five Marvellous, Extravagant, and Fantastic Woodcuts by Gustave Doré.
⁂ The most singular designs ever attempted by any artist. This book is a fund of amusement. So crammed is it with pictures that even the Contents are adorned with thirty-three illustrations. Now the reader is made to smile at the mishaps of some fat monks; then a battle scene, with fighting men jammed in inextricable confusion until the picture becomes painful to look at, occupies his attention; next, some portraits of fellows who would pass for Pluto’s firemen, all seared, as though they had been for a thousand years stirring molten lava; then knights making love, and kissing through their visors; then dreamy old German cities, with diablerie, or satanello, going on right and left—but all so quaint, so wonderful, that the beholder confesses he never looked upon the like before.
Common Prayer. Illustrated by Holbein and Albert Durer. Facsimile of the Prayer Book of Queen Elizabeth, adapted to the present Reign, with wood-engravings of Albert Durer’s “Life of Christ,” rich woodcut Border on every page of Fruit and Flowers; also the Dance of Death, a singularly curious series after Holbein, with Scriptural Quotations and Proverbs in the Margin. Sqr. 8vo, cloth neat, exquisitely printed on tinted paper, price 10s. 6d.