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    pec. 6, 1889 The Publishers' Circular 15...

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    Pec. 6, 1889 The Publishers' Circular 15...

    pec . 6 , 1889 The Publishers' Circular 1575 j . ____

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    The old favourite fairy tales , retold by Mr . Andrew Lang and others under the title of Tlie Blue Fairy Boole , form

    unquestionably one of the most attractive and artistic gift-books of the season .

    < Z 3 The tales of Perrault which are given in the volume |

    o 1 . 1 are printed from an old English version . Mrs .

    Alfred Hunt has translated some delightful Norse legendsand Miss

    IMay Sellas has , done a like service with the stories from Grimm . The

    version of Dick Whittington is from the chap-book edited — — — — b-y — Mr . & — omme - — — and _ —

    Mr _ . Wheatley _ _ for the Villon — Society ; whilst to

    Mr . Lang himself we are indebted for some graceful adaptations from

    Apollo-Pindar dorus , . Simonides This is a , book and

    of nearly four hundred pagesand it contains a host

    of beautiful , pictures which are flull of imagination and

    humour . The Book of

    Wedding Days , compiled and arranged by K . E . C .

    Mabel Reid , May Bamfield Ross . , This and

    handsome quarto volume _ V for the drawing-room

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    linger in pages this record of a leisured ' Sentimental Journey / ; which is here , described , with genuine genuine , skill skill . . The The illustrations illustrations are are altogether altogether admirable aamiraDie ..

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/41/