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Identifier: laysballadsfrome00smed (find matches)
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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. When will the day come when Gulliver mall be forgottenor unread? Unegalled in its fkill and genuine fatire, evenRobinfon Crufoe hardly excels it in gravity and verifimili-tude.—Sir Walter Scott. One of the only works of fatirical fiction which delightsalone, as if no medicine in the fweetened cup ; it is doubtfulwhether the pleafure be increafed or diminifhed by a know-ledge of the political tendency.— Dr. Taylor. Dear, dear Gulliver, companion and chafer of our care—irrefiftible, incomparable, by the one great original mind ofthe age in which he flourifhed. This popular and unequalledFiction has amufed and will continue to delight thoufands.This is the only Edition fitted for domeftic reading, the ori-ginal work being fo grofs. 16 Popular Tales, Tranflated, HAUFF,cloth, 2s. 6d. Contents : The Caravan : Caliph Stork ; Speclre Ship ;Severed Hand ; Fatimas Refcue ; Little Fly ; Falfe Prince ;Cold Heart; Sheik of Alexandria and his Slaves ; Nofey, MR. LUMLEY% 40, GOWER STREET. 33
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Specimen of Illustrations to Marco Vijconti: 34 MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOWER STREET. the Dwarf; Abner, the Jew ; The Fate of Said ; Almanafor ;Legend of the Hirfchgulden ; Portrait of the Emperor ; TheGrunweifel Dancer. A fet of ftories of great variety^ romantic, grave, andcomic, and generally poffeffing much intereft and adventure.Hauff is juftly popular in Germany, and this little volumewill, we are fure, make him no lefs a favourite with * YoungEngland. —Literary Gazette. Moft amufing and entertaining writer ; a mailer in fiction,his defcriptions are rare and neatly executed, and what he hasto tell is always of a ftartling nature. By a few linkingtouches he rapidly delineates character with a life-like faith-fulnefs. His works abound with witty and clever portraiture.Few writers have been more popular in their own country. HISTORY,FRAGMENTS OF, 3s. HISTORY, Fragments of, Narratives ofthe moft remarkable Events in Ancient andModern Times, Fall of Babylon, Plague atAthens, Retreat of the

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