Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects Part 26

BYGONE ESs.e.x, 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 ill.u.s.trations 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 ill.u.s.trations are excellent."--_The Spectator._

"A tasteful volume, and ill.u.s.trated 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 ill.u.s.trations 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 ill.u.s.trations, 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 a.s.surance, 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 ill.u.s.trated."--_Liverpool Post._

"'The New Fairy Book' is the t.i.tle 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, pa.s.s 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, ill.u.s.trations, and printing go, it leaves nothing to be desired, and from this standpoint alone must be p.r.o.nounced 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 t.i.tle 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 t.i.tles 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 c.o.c.ks 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 s.n.a.t.c.hing--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 archaeological and old-time information without in any way writing down to an ign.o.ble 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 ma.s.s 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._

Fcap. 4to. Bevelled boards, gilt tops. Price 4s.

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 ill.u.s.trated 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 p.r.o.nounced exhaustive on the subject. Ill.u.s.trations 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._