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  • This collection of tales has also been frequently reprinted separately.

  • The following are the principal tales comprised in this collection, those included in our Table from later authors being indicated.

  • This collection of tales was pronounced to be spurious by many critics, and even has been styled "a bare-faced forgery" by a writer in the Edinburgh Review of July, 1886.

  • It was painted in 1643, about a year after he had finished The Night Watch, a jewel of a Rembrandt and the clou of this collection.

  • This collection is a bequest of the late Mr. Lawrence, and we doubt if the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris surpasses it; that is, in the number of detached examples.

  • We have barely indicated the richness of this collection, in which, of course, Rubens plays first fiddle--rather the full orchestra.

  • In this collection there is no uniformity of structure such as distinguished the proverbs of the first collection.

  • To this collection is added an appendix (xxii.

  • A considerable portion, though not the whole, of the official correspondence between the Secretary of State and the other parties to the negotiation is contained in the sixth volume of this collection.

  • It will be found among the papers pertaining to this subject, in the sixth volume of this collection.

  • Mr. Webster's eulogy on Mr. Mason will be found in one of the volumes of this collection, and will descend to posterity an enduring monument of both.

  • As we shall see in other pictures of this collection[5] an interior gives a sense of imprisonment unless it contains some opening.

  • The son of seven mothers is a characteristic Indian conception, for which see Notes on "The Son of Seven Queens" in this collection, No.

  • This collection of the Fables of Kasyapa was brought to Europe with a deputation from the Cingalese King Chandra Muka Siwa (obiit 52 A.

  • Captain Temple increased the value of this collection by a remarkable analysis of all the incidents contained in the two hundred Indian folk-tales collected up to this date.

  • This collection is of special interest to us in the present connection, as it has come to Europe in various forms and shapes.

  • The country which furnishes relatively the fewest documents to this collection, strange to say, is Italy, owing no doubt to the confused state of the country politically.

  • This collection abounds in old scholastic divinity, and possesses many volumes, embellished by the most expert illuminators of different countries, in a succession of periods down to the sixteenth century.

  • This collection is perhaps inferior only to that of the Vatican, and the National Library at Paris, for the rarity and value of its contents.

  • The author is Robert Henryson, whose ballad of Robene and Makyne has been given in the fourth volume of this collection.

  • The story of this ballad seems to be the same as that of Lord Livingston, in the third volume of this collection (p.

  • We have thought it necessary to include in this collection one or two specimens of ballads founded on stories in the Jewish Scriptures.

  • The reader need scarcely be reminded of the position which our accounts of the following voyage occupy in this Collection, viz.

  • The reader who is not satisfied with the picture now given of these wretched and disgusting beings, may turn to the abstract of Bougainville's Voyage, quoted in the preceding volume of this collection, which surely ought to suffice.

  • They are accordingly, as well as the work of Mr Wales, freely used for the purpose of this collection.

  • The tale of Ali and Gulhyndi, which appears in this collection, is most striking for its felicitous resemblance of the Oriental style of fiction.

  • Of his plays, the most celebrated is the romantic drama, Kaethchen von Heilbronn, and of his tales, the narrative of Michael Kohlhaas, contained in this collection.

  • This collection he made in a singular manner.

  • The New Paris, by Goethe, which appears in this collection, is from that delightful autobiography, to which the poet has given the name of Dichtung und Wahrheit.

  • Vide Giants in the Introduction to this collection.

  • Ladislaus Arany objects to this collection, on the ground that the collector has tried to improve on the original popular form, and endeavoured to produce something classic, and thus spoiled the stories.

  • If this collection adds a mite to the knowledge of man, our labours will not have been in vain.

  • The chief element in the creative work of Mr. Masters being the power of analysis, he is at his best in this collection of short poems.

  • Mr. Gibson is somewhat kinder to his readers in this collection, for the monotony of woe, that hangs over his work like a cloud, is rifted here and there by a ray of happiness.

  • No one realizes more clearly than does the editor of this collection that no single book can include all the material that a class studying children's literature should have before it.

  • An appendix has therefore been placed at the end of this collection, which lists the reading indispensable to a student of children's literature.

  • No survey of children's literature is complete without an examination of such books as these; but they can easily be supplied in inexpensive editions and used as supplementary to this collection.

  • Every specimen of literature in this collection is a complete unit or is at least a section easily detached--like an Uncle Remus or an Arabian Nights story--from its original setting.

  • And students of comparative literature who love to recreate the life of a tribe or nation from its song and story will discover in this collection a mine of interesting material.

  • There is a simplicity truly poetical in this collection, which is admirable.

  • Why, even in the public journals we read the results of this collection, and I have never heard that the government forbade the Peter-pence.

  • The largest king in this collection, in his sitting posture, is more than four inches in height and near seven in circumference.

  • The hair is plaited and ornamented with knobs, resembling a Mexican pottery figure in this collection.

  • Round the swell of the vessel are four figures resembling frogs, the bodies ornamented as human heads; nearly similar ornaments are seen on Mexican stone carvings in this collection.

  • This kind of sword is held in the hands of warriors on two plaques in this collection, Fig.

  • It has 352 holes; another in this collection, Fig.

  • A circular shield, similar to the one in this collection (Plate XVIII, Fig.


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