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Title: Lays and ballads from English history, etc
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Smedley, Menella Bute, 1819 or 20-1877
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Publisher: London, E. Lumley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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EL :PICHLER, Johannes Schoreel; ZSCHOKKE, BrokenCup ; TIECK, Camoens, Death of the Poet. The German Literatme refembles no other on the face ofthe earth. Vigour, direclnefs, boldnefs, imagination, andother qualities of impulfe. The impulfive fpirit furroundedby the critical, and of courfe in fome meafure influencedthereby.—Poe. GRIMM. EASTERN TALES, 2S. A Series of CHOICE TALES from Eafl-ern Land, Jalaladdeen of Bagdad, Has-chem, Jussuf, the Merchant of Balsora ;Enchantress, or Misnar, Sultan of India.Thefe beautiful Tales, hitherto unknown inthis country, are from the German Verfionsof the celebrated Grimm. Cloth, gilt leaves,engravings, 2s. Many great and good men have borne teftimony to thevalue and importance of Works of Fiction, but none appreci-ated them more highly, or felt their influence more deeply,than Martin Luther, who declared, I would not for anyquantity of gold part with the Wonderful Tales which I haveretained from my earlieft childhood or have met with throughlife.
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32 MR. LUMLEY, 4o, GOWER STREET. GROSSI. MARCO VISCONTI. GULLIVERSTRAVELS, Childrens, 2S. HAUFF. POPULAR TALES, 2s» 6d. GROSSI, MARCO VISCONTI, an ItalianTale of the Fourteenth Century, tranflated fromthe Italian of GROSSI; hardly inferior in intereftto the celebrated Betrothed Lovers;? of Man-zoni, to whom it is dedicated with the reve-rence of a difciple, and the love of a brother.llluftrations by Warren. Its ftyle is quaint and fimple, after the manner of early-romances, and it abounds with pictures of the moil vivid cha-racter, and fnatches of pathos, which come from the depthsof the heart. The date of the novel is in the early part of thefixteenth century ; fo, as might be expected, it is full of thewild, chivalric fpirit of the turbulent Italy of that period.This is, we think, the only Englifh tranflation of a nove-which every one mould read. Marco Vifconti is a remarkably well-executed tranfla-tion of a romance, founded on hiftorical facts, which has ex-cited much intereft in

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