Standard Catalog: Fiction Section; a Selected List of 2350 of the Best Novels for Public Libraries; Catalogued by Author and Title, with Annotations and Subject IndexH.W. Wilson Company, 1923 - 153 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 77 - A TRUE RELATION OF THE APPARITION OF ONE MRS VEAL THE NEXT DAY AFTER HER DEATH TO ONE MRS BARGRAVE AT CANTERBURY, THE 8TH OF SEPTEMBER 1705...
الصفحة 59 - For forty years his English has been to me a continual delight and astonishment. In the sustained exhibition of certain great qualities — clearness, compression, verbal exactness, and unforced and seemingly unconscious felicity of phrasing — he is, in my belief, without his peer in the English-writing world.
الصفحة 54 - The Christmas banquet. — Drowne's wooden image, — The intelligence office. —Roger Malvin's burial. — P.'s correspondence. — Earth's holocaust. — Passages from a relinquished work. — Sketches from memory. — The old apple dealer.— The artist of the beautiful.
الصفحة 57 - This work, for any one of several solid reasons, must be regarded as of very unusual interest. In the matter of style alone, it is an achievement, an extraordinary achievement ... in the matter of interpreting nature there are passages in this book that I have never seen surpassed in prose fiction.
الصفحة 13 - Cr. 8vo. 3^. 6d. each. ROBBERY UNDER ARMS : A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia. THE MINER'S RIGHT. THE SQUATTER'S DREAM. A SYDNEY-SIDE SAXON. A COLONIAL REFORMER. - - NEVERMORE. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo. 3i^. 6d. BURNETT (Frances Hodgson).-H AWORTH'S. Globe 8vo. 2s. - LOUISIANA, and THAT LASS o* LOWRIE'S.
الصفحة 17 - Contents: Love in old cloathes; A letter and a paragraph: "As one having authority;" Crazy wife's ship; French for a fortnight; The red silk handkerchief; Our aromatic uncle.
الصفحة 52 - You have to turn back to Shakespeare for any talk of peasants and clowns and shepherds to compare with the conversations in this novel, so racy are they of the soil, and yet so touched with the finest art, the enduring art.
الصفحة 49 - In all French history there is no more inspiring episode than that with which M. Gras deals in this story : the march to Paris and the doings in Paris of that Marseilles Battalion made up of men who were sworn to cast down ' the tyrant,' and who
الصفحة 80 - Tale of adventure with an exciting plot. Deals with the restoration of a brave man who in morbid fear of showing cowardice becomes a coward in the eyes of his friends.
الصفحة 54 - The gray champion; Sunday at home ; The wedding knell ; The minister's black veil; The maypole of Merry Mount; The gentle boy; Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe; Little Annie's ramble; Wakefield; A rill from the town pump; The great carbuncle; The prophetic pictures...