Mary: A Nursery Story for Very Little Children

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Macmillan & Company, 1893 - 180 páginas

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Página 10 - A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Countries. Gathered and narrated anew. By the Author of "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE.
Página 9 - Bound in extra cloth, 4s. 6d. ; morocco plain, 7s. 6d. ; morocco extra, 10s. 6d. each volume. The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Página 6 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
Página 7 - A FLAT IRON FOR A FARTHING; or, Some Passages in the Life of an Only Son.
Página 7 - It is not often nowadays the privilege of a critic to grow enthusiastic over a new work ; and the rarity of the occasion that calls forth the delight is apt to lead one into the sin of hyperbole. And yet we think we shall not be accused of extravagance when we say that, without exception, " Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances" is the most delightful work avowedly written for children that we have ever read.
Página 8 - Never has Mrs. Ewing published a more charming volume of stories, and that is saying a very great deal. From the first to the last the book overflows with the strange knowledge of child-nature which so rarely survives childhood ; and, moreover, with inexhaustible quiet humour, which is never anything but innocent and well-bred, never priggish, and never clumsy.
Página 11 - The most famous boy's book in the language." — DAILY NEWS. Tom Brown at Oxford. — New Edition. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s. " In no other work that we can call to mind are the finer qualities of the English gentleman more happily portrayed"- — DAILY NEWS.
Página 8 - Dream. The Blackbird's Nest— Friedrich's Ballad— A Bit of Green — Monsieur the Viscount's Friend — The Yew Lane Ghosts — A Bad Habit— A Happy Family. With 8 Illustrations by Gordon Browne. 7th edition.
Página 7 - A Flat Iron for a Farthing ; or, some Passages in the Life of an Only Son,
Página 5 - Enlargements from TENNIEL'S Illustrations to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," with Text adapted to Nursery Readers. 4to.

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