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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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t and unexceptional ever pub-lifhed in this country Alfo 122 Fables, from^Efop, Phaedrus, Dodfley, Croxall, &c, clothgilt, 2S. Contents.—Fables and Parables, chiefly translated, forthe firft time, from the Germans, that moft reflecting people ofmodern times. Many, efpecially the allegorical Parables ofHerder, are marked by great beauty of expreffion, thofe ofLeffmg are amongft the beft models of the Fable, ftrictlyfo called. Of Krummacher, Gellert, Herder, Schreiber,Meiffner, and others, it is unneceffary to fpeak. They can-not fail to intereft. Moft inftructive, as well as highly entertaining. FEMALE HEROISM, or PLUTARCH,24 moft interefting and authentic Biographi-cal Stories of HEROINES, of moderntimes and of various countries. Selected andwritten in a manner that reflects the veryhigheft credit on the Biographer, and with 18 MR. LUMLEV, 40, GOVVER STREET. excellent Prefatory Remarks (by Mifs Mofely)2 vols in 1 (430 pages), cloth elegant, gilt leaves,illvjlrated by Warren, 5s.
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Illustration to Female Heroifm? MR. LUMLEY, 40, COWER STREET. 19 Admirable Examples, with touching Incidents, of the Conftancy and Courage, Fortitude, and Devotion, of whichWomen are capable. The characters depicted ar^ chiefly-drawn from domeftic life, having nothing mafculine aboutthem, but gentle as the moll modeft and timid of their fex. Thefe Tales embrace the ftirring fcenes in the Lives ofLady Fanfhaw, Mrs. Lane, who affifted in the efcape ofCharles II. ; of Lady Nithfdale, Helen Walker (the realJenny Deans) ; Flora Macdonald; Madame Rochejaquelin,Gertrude Von der Wart, Maid of Saragoffa ; Lady GrifelleBaillie ; Joan of Arc ; Mils Mackay, Mademoifelle Ambos,Gentile Moutalti, Lady Sale, Lady Banks, defender of CorfeCaftle, and others celebrated in fong and ftory. It would be difficult to place in youthful hands a more in-ftructive work, and it may be truly characterized as one ofthe bell that can be brought into a houfe. Few books indeedcontain fo much deeply interelling reading

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