Slingsby and Slingsby Castle

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Methuen & Company, 1904 - 272 páginas

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Página 29 - Edition. * In elegance, delicacy, and tact it ranks with the best of his novels, while in the wide range of its portraiture and the subtilty of its analysis it surpasses all his earlier ventures. ' — Spectator. QUISANTE. Fourth Edition. * The book is notable for a very high literary quality, and an impress of power and mastery on every page.
Página 29 - A very remarkable book, deserving of critical analysis impossible within our limit ; brilliant, but not superficial ; well considered, but not elaborated ; constructed with the proverbial art that conceals, but yet allows itself to be enjoyed by readers to whom fine literary method is a keen pleasure.'— The World.
Página 30 - A rousing and dramatic tale. A book like this is a joy inexpressible. '—Daily Chronicle. WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC : The Story of a Lost Napoleon. Fifth Edition. ' Here we find romance — real, breathing, living romance. The character of Valmond is drawn unerringly.' — Pall Mall Gazette AN ADVENTURER OF THE NORTH: The Last Adventures of 'Pretty Pierre.
Página 14 - Oman(CWC), MA, Fellow of All Souls'. Oxford. A HISTORY OF THE ART OF WAR. Vol. ii.: The Middle Ages, from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century. Illustrated. Demy Svo.
Página 18 - ASK MAMMA. By RS Surtees. With 13 Coloured Plates and 70 Woodcuts in the Text by John Leech.
Página 17 - EASY LATIN EXERCISES ON THE SYNTAX OF THE SHORTER AND REVISED LATIN PRIMER. With Vocabulary.
Página 4 - HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI UBI HUMANA OMNIA NON NISI SOMNIUM ESSE DOCET ATQUE OBITER PLURIMA SCITU SANE QUAM DIGNA COMMEMORAT.
Página 29 - It is a perfectly enchanting story of love and chivalry, and pure romance. The Count is the most constant, desperate, and modest and tender of lovers, a peerless gentleman, an intrepid fighter, a faithful friend, and a magnanimous foe.
Página 31 - The book is simply appalling and irresistible in its interest. It is humorous also ; without humour it would not make the mark it is certain to make.
Página 5 - THE HISTORY OF JOHNNY QUAE GENUS: the Little Foundling of the late Dr. Syntax. By the Author of ' The Three Tours.' With 24 Coloured Plates by Rowlandson. THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH, from the Designs of T. Rowlandson, with Metrical Illustrations by the Author of 'Doctor Syntax.

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