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ngaging, easy and sufficiently witty.--_St. James's Gazette_. Hosken. VERSES BY THE WAY. By J.D. HOSKEN. _Crown 8vo. 5s._ Gale. CRICKET SONGS. By NORMAN GALE. _Crown 8vo. Linen. 2s. 6d_. Also a limited edition on hand-made paper. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net._ 'As healthy as they are spirited, and ought to have a great success.'--_Times._ 'Simple, manly, and humorous. Every cricketer should buy the book.'--_Westminster Gazette._ 'Cricket has never known such a singer.'--_Cricket_. Langbridge. BALLADS OF THE BRAVE: Poems of Chivalry, Enterprise, Courage, and Constancy, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Edited, with Notes, by Rev. F. LANGBRIDGE. _Crown 8vo. Buckram 3s. 6d_. School Edition, _2s. 6d._ 'A very happy conception happily carried out. These "Ballads of the Brave" are intended to suit the real tastes of boys, and will suit the taste of the great majority.--_Spectator_. 'The book is full of splendid things.'--_World_. ENGLISH CLASSICS Edited by W.E. HENLEY. Messrs. Methuen are publishing, under this title, a series of the masterpieces of the English tongue, which, while well within the reach of the average buyer, shall be at once an ornament to the shelf of him that owns, and a delight to the eye of him that reads. The series, of which Mr. William Ernest Henley is the general editor, will confine itself to no single period or department of literature. Poetry, fiction, drama, biography, autobiography, letters, essays--in all these fields is the material of many goodly volumes. The books, which are designed and printed by Messrs. Constable, are issued in two editions--(1) A small edition, on the finest Japanese vellum, demy 8vo, 21_s_. a volume net; (2) the popular edition on laid paper, crown 8vo, buckram, 3_s. 6d_. a volume. THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY. By LAWRENCE STERNE. With an Introduction by CHARLES WHIBLEY, and a Portrait. 2_vols. 7s_. 60 copies on Japanese paper. 42_s. net_. 'Very dainty volumes are these; the paper, type and light green binding are all very agreeable to the eye. "Simplex munditiis" is the phrase that might be applied to them. So far as we know, Sterne's famous work has never appeared in a guise more attractive to the connoisseur than this.'--_Globe._ 'The book is excellently printed by Messrs. Constable on good paper, and being divided into two volumes, is light and handy without lacking the dignity of a classic.'--_M
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