Part 15

BYGONE CHESHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE DERBYSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE ESSEX, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE ENGLAND, by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE KENT, edited by Richard Stead, B.A. BYGONE LANCASHIRE, edited by Ernest Axon. BYGONE LEICESTERSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE LINCOLNSHIRE (2 vols.), edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE LONDON, by Frederick Ross, F.R.H.S. BYGONE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, by William Stevenson. BYGONE SCOTLAND, by David Maxwell, C.E. BYGONE SOUTHWARK, by Mrs. E. Boger. BYGONE SURREY, edited by George Clinch and S. W. Kershaw, F.S.A. BYGONE WARWICKSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE YORKSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S.

Price 4s. 6d. Demy 8vo.

"A handsome gift book."--_Barnsley Independent._

"A welcome addition to fairy books."--_The Scotsman._

"A very delightful volume, and eminently qualified for a gift book.... The stories are bright and interesting."--_Glasgow Herald._

The New Fairy Book,

Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

Author of "Bygone England," etc.

This Volume contains Fifteen New Fairy Stories by Popular Authors.

Many charming original illustrations are included.

It is beautifully printed in bold clear type, and bound in a most attractive style.

PRESS OPINIONS.

"We hope the book will get into many children's hands."--_Review of Reviews._

"We can recommend the stories for their originality, and the volume for its elegant and tasteful appearance."--_Westminster Gazette._

"The stories are good."--_The World._

"All the stories in the collection are well written. The illustrations are excellent."--_The Spectator._

"A tasteful volume, and illustrated profusely."--_The Literary World._

"In this volume it has been the editor's desire to furnish a fresh collection of fairy stories, written by authors who love children, and know exactly the kind of tales that gives them pleasure. Something more than providing enjoyment is attempted. Useful life lessons may be learnt from the book, which contains a most interesting collection of fairy stories, each telling its tale and pointing its moral in the happiest manner."--_The Gentlewoman._

"It is certain to become popular."--_Yorkshire Post._

"Type and illustrations are worthy of the Hull Press, which is saying a great deal."--_The News._

"The stories comprised in this volume deserve to be widely known and appreciated. There are some excellent illustrations, and the whole 'get up' reflects the highest credit alike on editor and publishers. It promises to be one of the books of the season."--_Stamford Mercury._

"'The New Fairy Book' is sure to win its way to the possession and favour of quite a host of young people. The stories are evidently, as the editor gives assurance, written by authors who love children and know the kind of tales that give them pleasure. The book is well printed, attractively bound, and freely illustrated."--_Liverpool Post._

"'The New Fairy Book' is the title of a richly bound volume containing fifteen fairy tales, edited by William Andrews. The tales are brimful of such fairy romance as youthful readers delight in. Fairy kings, queens, princes, and princesses, pass in bright procession through the pages, everyone of which presents some delightful picture from the imaginative pen. The scenes amid which these fairy personages move are not the less beautiful, and from first page to last there is not to be found a single dull or uninteresting page. The tales have been judiciously edited, and worthily fulfil the editor's aim to 'furnish a fresh collection of fairy stories written by authors who love children.' Very many young readers will warmly thank him for so faithfully performing his loving task."--_Dundee Advertiser._

"Mr. Andrews' 'New Fairy Book' is a delightful production. So far as binding, illustrations, and printing go, it leaves nothing to be desired, and from this standpoint alone must be pronounced a goodly book. But the contents are equally choice. Mr. Andrews has drawn around him a number of skilled story-tellers, who have one and all written with charm and originality. This Fairy Book differs from most of the others we have seen, inasmuch as the tales are--as the title of the volume indicates--absolutely new. It is true that they contain a number of the old ingredients, but then the makers of fairy tales must always work more or less from the time honoured recipe. This the contributors to the 'New Fairy Book' have done, but their effects are novel and surprising, for they serve up the dishes in varied ways of their own devising. The result is much to our taste. There are fifteen stories in all, simple in style, engaging and fresh in manner, with here and there a weird episode, here and there something amusing. Ghosts, elves, ogres, giants, princes, and, of course, fairy queens flit in and out of the scenes; castles of enchantment, and all the favourite features of fairyland are present; and so we are transported to the real kingdom of the fairies, and soon find ourselves absorbed in the adventures of wondrous heroes and the antics of imps. All this is as it should be, and the volume will afford genuine entertainment to all who read it--and there should be many--these long winter nights."--_Birmingham Gazette._

"'The New Fairy Book,' edited by William Andrews, is a somewhat ambitious attempt to add to the delightful repertoire of nursery stories with which the literature of all civilised countries abounds. The writers include several well known names, and though the titles chosen suggest in some cases old and familiar stories, it is due to the editor and the authors to say that they have discharged their really very onerous functions with great skill and excellent judgment. The volume is published as a collection of new stories, and if it should meet with the success it truly deserves, editor and writers will have every reason to be thankful."--_Leeds Mercury._

Bygone England:

Social Studies in its Historic Byways and Highways.

BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

CONTENTS:--Under Watch and Ward--Under Lock and Key--The Practice of Pledging--The Minstrel in the Olden Time--Curious Landholding Customs--Curiosities of Slavery in England--Buying and Selling in the Olden Time--Curious Fair Customs--Old Prejudices against Coal--The Sedan-Chair--Running Footmen--The Early Days of the Umbrella--A Talk about Tea--Concerning Coffee--The Horn-Book--Fighting Cocks in Schools--Bull-Baiting--The Badge of Poverty--Patents to wear Nightcaps--A Foolish Fashion--Wedding Notices in the Last Century--Selling Wives--The Story of the Tinder Box--The Invention of Friction Matches--Body Snatching--Christmas under the Commonwealth--Under the Mistletoe Bough--A carefully prepared Index.

"We welcome 'Bygone England.' It is another of Mr. Andrews' meritorious achievements in the path of popularising archæological and old-time information without in any way writing down to an ignoble level."--_The Antiquary._

"A delightful volume for all who love to dive into the origin of social habits and customs, and to penetrate into the byways of history."--_Liverpool Daily Post._

"There is a large mass of information in this capital volume, and it is so pleasantly put that many will be tempted to study it. Mr. Andrews has done his work with great skill."--_London Quarterly Review._

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Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain.

Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time.

BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

This work furnishes a carefully prepared account of all the great Frosts occurring in this country from A.D. 134 to 1887. The numerous Frost Fairs on the Thames are fully described, and illustrated with quaint woodcuts, and several old ballads relating to the subject are reproduced. It is tastefully printed and elegantly bound.

"The work is thoroughly well written, it is careful in its facts, and may be pronounced exhaustive on the subject. Illustrations are given of several frost fairs on the Thames, and as a trustworthy record this volume should be in every good library. The usefulness of the work is much enhanced by a good index."--_Public Opinion._

"A very interesting volume."--_Northern Daily Telegraph._

"A great deal of curious and valuable information is contained in these pages.... A comely volume."--_Literary World._

"The work from first to last is a most attractive one, and the arts alike of printer and binder have been brought into one to give it a pleasing form."--_Wakefield Free Press._

Biblical and Shakespearian Characters Compared.

Studies of Life and Literature.

By the Rev. JAMES BELL.

Between the Hebrew Bible and Shakespeare there exist some interesting and instructive points of resemblance, especially in respect of their ways of life and character. No doubt certain inevitable differences also exist between them, but these do not hide the resemblance; rather they serve to set it, so to speak, in bolder relief.

The author in this volume treats of this striking resemblance, under certain phases, between Hebrew Prophecy and Shakespearian Drama.

The following are the chief "Studies" which find a place in the work:--Hebrew Prophecy and Shakespeare: a Comparison--Eli and Hamlet--Saul and Macbeth--Jonathan and Horatio--David and Henry V.--Epilogue.

The foregoing list of subjects will give some notion of the drift and style of the book, which, it is hoped, is a contribution towards a better study of the Bible in connection with our literature and moral experience.

The following short extracts are selected from a large number of reviews of Mr. Bell's book:--

"One of the most suggestive volumes we have met with for a long time."--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._

"An interesting book."--_North British Daily Mail._

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The Studies of a Socialist Parson.

By the Rev. W. H. ABRAHAM, M.A. (London).

The volume consists of sermons and addresses, given mostly at the St. Augustine's Church, Hull. The author in his preface says, "It is the duty of the clergyman to try and understand what Socialism is, and to lead men from the false Socialism to the true."

CONTENTS:--The Working-man, Past and Present: A Historical Review--Whither are we going?--National Righteousness--The True Value of Life--Christian Socialism--Jesus Christ the True Socialist--Socialism, through Christ or without Him?--The Great Bread Puzzle--Labour Day, May 1, 1892--The People, the Rulers, and the Priests--Friendly Societies--Trades' Unions--The People's Church--On some Social Questions--The Greatest Help to the True Social Life--The Great I Am--God as a Present Force--Signs of the Times.

The following are selected from a large number of favourable notices:--

"The volume is deserving of all praise."--_Glasgow Herald._

"An admirable contribution to the solution of difficult problems. Mr. Abraham has much that is valuable to say, and says it well."--_Spectator._

"Eminently readable."--_Northern Daily News._

"The book is nicely printed and got up."--_Eastern Morning News._

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Stepping Stones to Socialism.

By DAVID MAXWELL, C.E.

CONTENTS:--In a reasonable and able manner Mr. Maxwell deals with the following topics:--The Popular meaning of the Word Socialism--Lord Salisbury on Socialism--Why There is in Many Minds an Antipathy to Socialism--On Some Socialistic Views of Marriage--The Question of Private Property--The Old Political Economy is not the Way of Salvation--Who is My Neighbour?--Progress, and the Condition of the Labourer--Good and Bad Trade: Precarious Employment--All Popular Movements are Helping on Socialism--Modern Literature in Relation to Social Progress--Pruning the Old Theological Tree--The Churches: Their Socialistic Tendencies--The Future of Earth in Relation to Human Life--Socialism is Based on Natural Laws of Life--Humanity in the Future--Preludes to Socialism--Forecasts of the Ultimate Form of Society--A Pisgah-top View of the Promised Land.

The following are selected from a large number of favourable notices:

"The author has evidently reflected deeply on the subject of Socialism, and his views are broad, equitable, and quite up to date. In a score or so of chapters he discusses Socialism from manifold points of view, and in its manifold aspects. Mr. Maxwell is not a fanatic; his book is not dull, and his style is not amateurish."--_Hull Daily Mail._

"There is a good deal of charm about Mr. Maxwell's style."--_Northern Daily News._

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The Monumental Brasses of Lancashire and Cheshire.

With some Account of the Persons Represented.

_Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by the Author._

By JAMES L. THORNELY.

"Mr. Thornely's book will be eagerly sought by all lovers of monumental brasses."--_London Quarterly Review._

"Local archæologists will give a hearty welcome to this book."--_Manchester Guardian._

"Mr. Thornely has produced a very interesting volume, as he has not only figured every monumental brass within the two counties to which he has confined his researches, but in every case he has given a description also, and in some instances the genealogical information is of a high order of value."--_The Tablet._

"The book is wonderfully readable for its kind, and is evidently the result of careful and painstaking labour. The chapters are well condensed, nowhere burdened with verbiage, yet sufficiently full to serve the purpose in view. The illustrations of the various brasses are exceedingly well done, and add much value and interest to the work, which should become popular in Lancashire and Cheshire."--_Warrington Guardian._

The Press on Messrs. William Andrews & Co.'s Printing and Binding.

"The book is very handsomely got up."--_Dundee Advertiser._

"A remarkably handsome volume, typographically equal to the best production of any European capital."--_North British Daily Mail._

"The book is entitled to unstinted praise on the ground of its admirable printing and binding."--_Shields Daily Gazette._

"Will bear comparison with the best work of the first publishing firms in London or Edinburgh, the printing and paper being everything the most fastidious could desire."--_Boston Independent._

"The book is handsomely brought out."--_Scotsman._

"Beautiful work in typography and binding."--_Yorkshire Post._

"Very pretty binding."--_Publishers' Circular._

"Most elegantly bound and tastefully printed."--_Hull Daily Mail._

"Beautifully bound and printed."--_Daily Chronicle._

"The letterpress is beautifully clear."--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._

"The printers' part is perfectly done."--_India._

"The book is handsomely got up."--_Manchester Guardian._

"The book is excellently printed and bound."--_Library Review._

"Handsomely printed."--_Newcastle Chronicle._

A notice of "Bygone Scotland" concludes as follows:--"The book forms a splendid addition to the works of the same series all printed at the 'Hull Press,' and, like all its predecessors, is printed in the exceptionally beautiful style which marks the productions of Mr. Andrews' establishment. The volume is handsomely bound, and well illustrated. Mr. Andrews is a bookmaker par excellence."--_Printing World._

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Transcriber's Notes:

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