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 Mr. T. Fisher Unwin, 26, Paternoster Square. NEW AND CHEAPER EDITIONS. GUDRUN, BEOWULF, and ROLAND. With other Mediaeval Tales. By JOHN GIBB. With 20 Illustrations. Second and cheaper edition. Crown 8vo., cloth extra o 3 6 &quot;This volume will be certain to charm youthful readers ; and a safer or more acceptable gift-book it would be difficult to find. . . . Without some such work these precious prototypes of Anglo-Germanic romance would have remained sealed volumes for all youthful readers ; they therefore owe a debt of gratitude to him who has translated, condensed, and put them into a popular prose form for their perusal.&quot; Academy. THE HOUSE BY THE WORKS. By EDWARD GARRETT, Author of &quot; Occupations of a Retired Life,&quot; &c., &c. With Frontispiece. Third and Cheaper edition. Crown Svo., cloth extra ... o 3 6 &quot;The girls with their Quaker and Moravian training, the worthy and benevolent Mrs. Pendlebury, and society generally, rich and poor, in Perford, are depicted with skill.&quot; Daily News. &quot; The picture he gives us here of the Enticknapp household, with its Moravian and Quaker traditions, is one nearly perfect of its kind for sobriety of taste and freedom from all sentimental exaggerations. &quot; .Graphic. THE PRINCE OF THE HUNDRED SOUPS : A Puppet Show in Narrative. Edited, with a Preface by VERNON LEE, Author of &quot;Belcaro, &quot; Stt.dies of the E ghieemh Century in Italy,&quot; &c. With Four Illustrations in Sepia, by SARAH BIRCH. Cheaper edit on. Square 8 vo., cloth 036 &quot;There is rrore 1 umour in ths volume than in h; If-a-dozen ordinary pantomimes. Spectator. &quot; The preface is really more interesting than the Prince of the Hundred Soups, and that is we hope 01 r resells ill find out for themselves is saying a good deal.&quot; Academy. &quot; For n~yself, I can say that it had upon me the appetising effect of that dish in Horace hich replaced the sat ad guest upon his elbow; for though, when I took it up, I as utterly weary and dazed with the number of books I had gone through, yet I devoured it from cover to cover with a new zest.&quot;- J ruth.