"There is no reason why Sir John Froissart should not become as
well known to young readers as Robinson Crusoe
himself."--_Literary World._
"Though Mr. Lanier calls his edition of Froissart a book for
boys, it is a book for men as well, and many there be of the
latter who will enjoy its pages."--_N. Y. Eve. Mail._
"We greet this book with positive enthusiasm, feeling that the
presentation of Froissart in a shape so tempting to youth is a
particularly worthy task, particularly well done."--_N. Y. Eve.
Post._
"The book is romantic, poetical, and full of the real adventure
which is so much more wholesome, than the sham which fills so
much of the stimulating juvenile literature of the
day."--_Detroit Free Press._
"That boy will be lucky who gets Mr. Sidney Lanier's 'Boy's
Froissart' for a Christmas present this year. There is no better
and healthier reading for boys than 'Fine Sir John;' and this
volume is so handsome, so well printed, and so well illustrated
that it is a pleasure to look it over."--_Nation._
"Mr. Sidney Lanier, in editing a boy's version of Froissart, has
not only opened to them a world of romantic and poetic legend of
the chivalric and heroic sort, but he has given them something
which ennobles and does not poison the mind. Old Froissart was a
gentleman every inch; he hated the base, the cowardly, the
paltry; he loved the knightly, the heroic, the gentle, and this
spirit breathes through all his chronicles. There is a
genuineness, too, about his writings that gives them a literary
value."--_Baltimore Gazette._
"In his work of editing the famous knightly chronicle that Sir
Walter Scott declared inspired him with more enthusiasm than even
poetry itself, Mr. Lanier has shown, naturally, a warm
appreciativeness and also a nice power of discrimination. He has
culled the choicest of the chronicles, the most romantic, and at
the same time most complete, and has digested them into an
orderly compact volume, upon which the publishers have lavished
fine paper, presswork and binding, and that is illustrated by a
number of cuts."--_Philadelphia Times._
[**asterism] _For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent, post-paid,
upon receipt of price, by_
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS,
NOS. 743 AND 745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
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_The Boy's King Arthur._
Being Sir THOMAS MALORY'S History of King Arthur and his Knights of
the Round Table.
Edited, with an Introduction, by SIDNEY LANIER.
With 12 Illustrations by ALFRED KAPPES.
One vol., 8vo, extra cloth,--$3.00.
Two famous books--The History of King Arthur, and the inexhaustible
Chronicles of Froissart--have furnished nearly all those stories of
chivalry and knightly adventure that are scattered through all
literatures, and that have been the favorite reading of boyhood for
hundreds of years. Boys of the last few generations, however,--even
though the separate stories in some form will never die out,--have
lost sight of the two great sources themselves, which were in danger
of becoming utterly hidden under cumbrous texts and labored
commentary.
Last year Mr. Sidney Lanier opened one of these sources again by the
publication of his _Boy's Froissart_. He has now performed the same
office for the noble old English of Sir Thomas Malory's History of
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table; and under the title of
_The Boy's King Arthur_, has given the _Froissart_ a companion, which
perhaps even surpasses it. However familiar the Arthurian heroes may
be to him, as mere names encountered in poetry and scattered legends,
not one boy in ten thousand will be prepared for the endless
fascination of the great stories in their original shape, and vigor of
language. He will have something of the feeling with which, at their
first writing, as Mr. Lanier says in his preface "the fascinated world
read of Sir Lancelot du Lake, of Queen Guenever, of Sir Tristram, of
Queen Isolde, of Merlin, of Sir Gawaine, of the Lady of the Lake, of
Sir Galahad, and of the wonderful search for the Holy Cup, called the
'Saint Graal.'"
The _Boy's King Arthur_, like the _Froissart_, will have Mr. Alfred
Kappes's vigorous and admirable illustrations; and the subject here
has given him, if possible, even greater opportunity to embody the
spirit of the knightly stories which he has caught so thoroughly.
[**asterism]_The above book for sale by all booksellers, or will be
sent, upon receipt of price, by_
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS,
743 AND 745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
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