Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;
For large white plumes are dancing in mine eye.
KEATS.
HIGGINSON, T.W.
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic.
Illustrated by Albert Herter.
Macmillan. 1.50
Hawthorne, in his Wonder Book, has described the beautiful (p. 152)
Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of
the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years
about the islands of the Atlantic deep.... The order of the tales
in the present work follows roughly the order of development,
giving first the legends which kept near the European shore, and
then those which, like St. Brandan's or Antillia, were assigned
to the open sea or, like Norumbega or the Isle of Demons, to the
very coast of America.... Every tale in this book bears reference
to some actual legend, followed more or less closely.--_Preface._
LAMB, CHARLES.
The Adventures of Ulysses.
Illustrated by M.H. Squire and E. Mars.
Russell. 2.50
Intended to be an introduction to the reading of Telemachus; it
is done out of the Odyssey, not from the Greek. I would not
mislead you; nor yet from Pope's Odyssey, but from an older
translation of one Chapman.
LAMB.
This children's classic, with its pure and forceful English, is
presented in an attractive manner. The full-page illustrations are in
black and buff.
LANIER, SIDNEY (Editor).
Knightly Legends of Wales, or The Boy's Mabinogion.
Scribner. 2.00
The Mabinogion, or Welsh legends of King Arthur, belong to a much
earlier period than Malory. In this edition the original text is
scrupulously preserved, except for necessary excision, and occasional
condensation which is always placed in brackets.
WILSON, C.D. (p. 153)
The Story of the Cid.
Lothrop. 1.25
"Thus lived and died the great Cid Campeador of Spain, most
wonderful of heroes, who was never defeated, and who became the
ancestor of kings."
This edition is founded upon the translation of Southey.
POETRY, COLLECTIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE, AND STORIES ADAPTED FROM
GREAT AUTHORS
In the best books, great men talk to us, with us, and give us
their most precious thoughts. Books are the voices of the distant
and the dead.... They give to all who will faithfully use them
the society and the presence of the best and greatest of our
race.
CHANNING.
DARTON, F.J.H.
Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims.
Stokes. 1.50
Mr. Darton has so delightfully made real the times of Richard II, and
has so well adapted the tales told by the immortal pilgrims, that we
owe him a debt of thanks. I say we, for certainly we older people will
enjoy them as much as our children. In retelling the tales in prose
the editor has introduced material from Lydgate and others. Dr.
Furnivall contributes an illuminating introduction, and Hugh Thomson's
illustrations are, as usual, very satisfactory.
He (Chaucer) carried his sunshine with him as he rode and (p. 154)
walked about, observing with quick eye the varied life around
him, and then reproducing it for us in words which enable us to
recreate it, and to see the sun of his genius over the land we
love.
F.J. FURNIVALL.
LAMB, CHARLES and MARY.
Tales from Shakspeare.
Illustrated by N.M. Price.
Scribner. 2.50
The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader
as an introduction to the study of Shakspeare, for which purpose
his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in;
... words introduced into our language since his time have been
as far as possible avoided.... What these Tales shall have been
to the _young_ readers, that and much more it is the writers'
wish that the true Plays of Shakspeare may prove to them in older
years--enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a
withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of
all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions, to teach courtesy,
benignity, generosity, humanity: for of examples, teaching these
virtues, his pages are full.--_Preface._
I have done Othello and Macbeth, and mean to do all the
tragedies. I think it will be popular among the little people,
besides money.
LAMB.
This edition of an English classic contains engraved portraits of
Charles and Mary Lamb, after those in the National Portrait Gallery,
and twenty full-page illustrations in color.
MACAULAY, T.B.
Lays of Ancient Rome.
Illustrated by J.R. Weguelin.
Longmans. 1.25
This attractive edition of Macaulay's famous poems contains, in (p. 155)
addition, Ivry and The Armada.
NORTON, C.E. (Editor).
Heart of Oak Books. Volume V. Masterpieces of Literature.
Heath. .50
To make good reading more attractive than bad, to give right
direction to the choice, the growing intelligence of the child
should be nourished with selected portions of the best
literature, the virtue of which has been approved by long
consent.--_Preface._
WIGGIN, K.D. (S.) and N.A. SMITH (Editors).
Golden Numbers.
Doubleday. 2.00
Mrs. Wiggin tells us that she and her sister have searched the pages
of the great English-speaking poets to find verses that children will
love. The quest has been successful, for the collection gives us full
measure of that which is among the best in English poetry. The
selections are arranged under headings, such as The World Beautiful,
For Home and Country, and In Merry Mood. One division is devoted to
Christmas songs and carols.