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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rofe,Verfe, fuch as the Wild Huntfman, LuckyHans, Frog Prince, Northumberland Dwarfs,Crookened-Back, Snow Flake, Lord of the 36 MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOWER STREET, Bloody Hand, Thorn Rofe, Men of GothamFifhing, Three Golden Pippins, Shoe Makerand Friendly Dwarfs, and 36 others. Clothelegant^ gilt leaves, 21 fine engravings, 2s. 6d. An elegant and fupericr felec~lion of Tales, the moil popu-lar and interesting, which have been told immemorially in theNurferies or Firefides of the People of England, France,Germany, Scotland, Ireland ; Ancient Traditions of theNorth, Irifh Legends, Tales of Chivalry, &c. ; alfo Notes.One of the beft means by which the youthful mind mayramble through the enchanting fields of Romance and Fiction.Ample juftice being done to the Fairies, grotefque, playful,fanciful, of every age and country, together with a fort ofWild Fairy Lament, which makes them better adapted toawaken the imagination and found the heart of childhoodthan the good boy ftories of late years.
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See Companion Volumet Popular Tales and Legends. LETTERS (84) of the Great and Good)whofe Lives and Converfation form, as isLETTERS, fhewn by Hiflory,—profitable fubjecls ofEMINENT Contemplation. Selected for the Young ofP^PQnisjq either fex* Edited by the Rev. T. Cham-ri^KSUiND, berlain. Portraits and very neat illujlra-2S. tions, 2s. A moft valuable work to be put into the hands of the youngof either fex. The art of writing letters or of interchangingideas, the power of relating events, of giving advice in writ-ing, cannot be taught too early. A long life and experience MR. LUMLEY, 4o, COWER STREET. 37 have fully convinced me that a parent, in any rank offociety, fhould attend primarily to thefe matters in education.In the firft place, a habit fhould be acquired of reading andfpeaking well and diftinctly ; then the art of writing legiblyand rapidly; and this fhould be followed by a conftantpractice of correfponding, without difficulty. This wouldneceffarily lead to a clear difcrim

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