The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 78 pages of information about The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1.

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 78 pages of information about The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1.

This monumental work of patient industry and iron diligence is indispensable to all students of the Bible, to which it is the key and introduction.  Many errors and omissions in the plans of the older Concordances have been avoided in this one, which also bears reference to the Revised Bible, as well as to the King-James version.

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=THE STUDENTS’ SERIES OF=

STANDARD POETRY.

EDITED BY W.J.  ROLFE, A.M.

—­> All these books are equally suited to the use of the student, and that of the general reader.  They should have a place in every library.  Price, 75 cents each.

=I.  SCOTT’S LADY OF THE LAKE.=

The text is correctly printed for the first time in fifty years.  The notes (88 pp.) include Scott’s and Lockhart’s, and are fuller than in any other edition, English or American.  The illustrations are mainly of the scenery of the poem, from sketches made on the spot.

=II.  TENNYSON’S THE PRINCESS.=

The notes (50 pp.) give the history of the poem, all the readings of the earlier editions, selected comments by the best English and American critics, full explanations of all allusions, &c.  The illustrations are from the elegant Holiday edition.

=III.  SELECT POEMS OF TENNYSON.=

Including the Lady of Shalott, the Miller’s Daughter, OEnone, the Lotos-Eaters, The Palace of Art, A Dream of Fair Women, Morte d’Arthur, The Talking Oak, Ulysses, Locksley Hall, The Two Voices, St. Agnes’ Eve, Sir Galahad, The Brook, &c.  The text is from the latest English edition (1884).

=IV.  SCOTT’S MARMION.=

With copious Notes and introductory matter.  The Text is now correctly printed for the first time.

=V.  THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S TENNYSON.= (IN PRESS.)

=VI.  SELECT POEMS OF TENNYSON.= SECOND PART. (IN PRESS.)

=THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON,=

In Four Volumes.  Quarto.

With more than 500 Illustrations by famous artists and engravers, all made for this work.

Edited by JUSTIN WINSOR, LIBRARIAN OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Among the contributors are: 

    Gov.  JOHN D. LONG,
    Hon. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS,
    Rev. PHILLIPS BROOKS, D.D.,
    Rev. E.E.  HALE, D.D.,
    Hon. ROBERT C. WINTHROP,
    Hon. J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL,
    Admiral G.U.  PREBLE,
    Dr. O.W.  HOLMES,
    JOHN G. WHITTIER,
    Rev. J.F.  CLARKE, D.D.,
    Rev. A.P.  PEABODY, D.D.,
    Col.  T.W.  HIGGINSON,
    Professor ASA GRAY,
    Gen. F.W.  PALFREY,
    HENRY CABOT LODGE.

VOLUME I. treats of the Geology, Fauna, and Flora; the Voyages and Maps of the Northmen, Italians, Captain John Smith, and the Plymouth Settlers; the Massachusetts Company, Puritanism, and the Aborigines; the Literature, Life, and Chief Families of the Colonial Period.

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