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الصفحة 12 - METHUEN'S PUBLICATIONS Poetry Rudyard Kipling. BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. By RUDYARD KIPLING. 6yd Thousand. Crown Svo. 6s. Leather, 6s. net. 'Mr. Kipling's verse is strong, vivid, full of character. . . . Unmistakeable genius rings in every line.' — Times. ' The ballads teem with imagination, they palpitate with emotion. We read them with laughter and tears ; the metres throb in our pulses, the cunningly ordered words tingle with life; and if this be not poetry, what is ? '—Pall Mall Gazette.
الصفحة 33 - A very remarkable book, deserving of critical analysis impossible within our limit ; brilliant, but not superficial ; well considered, but not elaborated ; constructed with the proverbial art that conceals, but yet allows itself to be enjoyed by readers to whom fine literary method is a keen pleasure.'— The World. A CHANGE OF AIR. Sixth Edition. * A graceful, vivacious comedy, true to human nature. The characters are traced with a masterly hand.
الصفحة 17 - The whole art of war in its historic evolution has never been treated on such an ample and comprehensive scale, and we question if any recent contribution to the exact history of the world has possessed more enduring value.
الصفحة 32 - Edition. * The tender reverence of the treatment and the imaginative beauty of the writing have reconciled us to the daring of the conception. This "Dream of the World's Tragedy" is a lofty and not inadequate paraphrase of the supreme climax of the inspired narrative.
الصفحة 37 - Of these mediaeval romances, which are now gaining ground, "The Countess Tekla " is the very best we have seen.
الصفحة 8 - Messrs. METHUEN are issuing a series of expositions upon most of the books of the Bible. The volumes will be practical and devotional, and the text of the authorised version is explained in sections, which will correspond as far as possible with the Church Lectionary.
الصفحة 28 - A partially modernised version, from the MS. in the British Museum of a book which Dr. Dalgairns terms 'One of the most remarkable books of the Middle Ages.
الصفحة 23 - The excellence of the work is double ; for the narrative is vivid and temperate, and the illustrations form a picture gallery of the war which is not likely to be rivalled. . . . An ideal gift book.
الصفحة 7 - The Westminster Commentaries General Editor. WALTER LOCK, DD, Warden of Keble College, Dean Ireland's Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. The object of each commentary is primarily exegetical, to interpret the author's meaning to the present generation.
الصفحة 39 - LAURA DAINTREY. THE DAUGHTER OF ALOUETTE. By MARY A. OWEN. CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD. By ELLEN F. PINSENT. AN ELECTRIC SPARK. By G. MANVILLE FENN. UNDER SHADOW OF THE MISSION. By LS McCHESNEY. THE SPECULATORS. By JF BREWER. THE SPIRIT OF STORM. By RONALD Ross.