An Old Fogey and Other Stories

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Ward, Lock, 1881 - 372 páginas

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Página 407 - ... chapters are so lively in themselves, so mingled with shrewd views of human nature, so full of illustrative anecdotes, that the reader cannot fail to be amused.
Página 411 - Fifty Celebrated Men : Their Lives and Trials, and the Deeds that made them Famous.
Página 401 - The Christian Year. Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holy Days throughout the Year.
Página 375 - EVERYBODY'S LAWYER (Beeton's Law Book). Entirely New Edition, Revised by a BARRISTER. A Practical Compendium of the General Principles of English Jurisprudence: comprising upwards of 14,600 Statements of the Law. With a full Index, 27,000 References, every numbered paragraph in its particular place, and under its general head, Crown 8vo, 1,680 pp., cloth gilt, js.
Página 413 - The design of this Series is to include no books except such as are peculiarly adapted, by their high tone, pure taste, and thorough principle, to be read by those persons, young and old, who look upon books as upon their friends— only worthy to be received into the Family Circle for their good qualities and excellent characters. So many volumes now issue from the press low in tone and lax in morality that it is especially incumbent on all who would avoid the taint of such hurtful matter to select...
Página 413 - So many volumes now issue from the press low in tone and lax In morality that it is especially incumbent on all who would avoid the taint of such hurtful matter to select carefully the books they would themselves read or introduce to their households. In view of this design, no author whose name is not a guarantee of the real worth and purity of his or her work, or whose book has not been subjected to a rigid examination, will be admitted into " THE LILY SERIES." 1. A Summer In Leslie Goldthwaite's...
Página 395 - Poems, with Biographies^ is added to these. Thus, in one booh, a view of the Growth and Changes of the English Language, as seen in its Highest Developments, is possible. Not less than a Thousand Volumes have been examined in order to form a selection worthy to receive respect and regard from, all Lovers of the Divine Art of Poesy.
Página 381 - BEETON'S DICTIONARY OF EVERY-DAY GARDENING. Constituting a Popular Cyclopaedia of the Theory and Practice of Horticulture.
Página 411 - Life in a Whaler ; or, Perils and Adventures in the Tropical Seas. By SAILOR CHARLEY.

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