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WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK.
WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK.
WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK.
“The books are delightful in every way, and are notable for the high standard of taste and the excellent judgment that characterise their editing, as well as for the brilliancy of the literature that they contain.”—Boston (U.S.A.) Gazette.
LIBRARY OF HUMOURCopiously Illustrated.Cloth Elegant, Large Crown 8vo, Price 3s. 6d. per Vol.
LIBRARY OF HUMOURCopiously Illustrated.Cloth Elegant, Large Crown 8vo, Price 3s. 6d. per Vol.
LIBRARY OF HUMOUR
Copiously Illustrated.
Cloth Elegant, Large Crown 8vo, Price 3s. 6d. per Vol.
Each volume deals with the humour of the literature of a particular nation, the aim in making the various selections being to produce volumes as representative as possible in each case of the particular national humour, as it appears throughout the literature dealt with.
Illustrations to the different volumes byDudley Hardy,H. R. Millar,C. E. Brock,Arturo Faldi,Paul Frénzeny,Oliver Paque, etc.
SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATION.(FROM THE HUMOUR OF FRANCE.)
SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATION.(FROM THE HUMOUR OF FRANCE.)
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(FROM THE HUMOUR OF FRANCE.)
DOCTOR DECHAR: “AND YET YOU DECLARED THE OPERATION MUST BE DONE?”DOCTOR RAPPASS: “OF COURSE. YOU MUST ALWAYS OPERATE.”
DOCTOR DECHAR: “AND YET YOU DECLARED THE OPERATION MUST BE DONE?”DOCTOR RAPPASS: “OF COURSE. YOU MUST ALWAYS OPERATE.”
DOCTOR DECHAR: “AND YET YOU DECLARED THE OPERATION MUST BE DONE?”DOCTOR RAPPASS: “OF COURSE. YOU MUST ALWAYS OPERATE.”
THE HUMOUR OF FRANCE.
THE HUMOUR OF FRANCE.
THE HUMOUR OF FRANCE.
Selected and Translated, with Introduction and Biographical Index, byElizabeth Lee. With 70 Illustrations byPaul Frénzeny.
“From Villon to Paul Verlaine, from datelessfabliauxto newspapers fresh from the kiosk, we have a tremendous range of selections.”—Birmingham Daily Gazette.
“The work of translation has been well done, and the book sparkles from beginning to end.”—Globe.
“Miss Lee has compiled a very entertaining volume, traversing the whole world of French literature from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries gleaning from novelists, dramatists, poets, essayists, writers offabliaux, newspapers. The result is a very readable and amusing volume.”—Birmingham Post.
“A most agreeable and entertaining volume.”—Scottish Leader.
“There is not a dull page in the volume from beginning to end, is a piece of praise too often lavished on a book by the indolent, unconscientious, or over tender-hearted reviewer; nevertheless, at the risk of ranking ourselves with him, we will make that assertion concerning these specimens of ‘The Humour of France.’”—St. James’s Gazette.