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Messrs. Methuen's List ii Burns. THE POEMS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited by Andrew Lang and W. A. Craigie. With Tortrait. Demy %vo, gilt top. 6j-. This edition contains a careful'y collated Text, numerous Notes, critical and textual, a critical and biographical Introduction, and a Glossary. 'Among the editions in one volume, Mr. Andrew Lang's will take the place of authority.' — Times. F. Langbridge. BALLADS OF THE BRAVE : Poems of Chivalry, Enterprise, Courage, and Constancy. Edited by Rev. F. Langbridge. Crown Svo. y. 6d. School Edition. 2s. 6d. 'A very happy conception happily carried out. These "Ballads of the Brave" are intended to suit the real tastes of boys, and will suit the taste of the great majority.' —Spectator. ' The book is full of splendid things.' — li^'or/d. Illustrated Books Bedford. NURSERY RHYMES. With many Coloured Pictures. By F. D. Bedford. Super Royal Zvo. 51. An excellent selection of the best known rhymes, with beautifully coloured pictures exquisitely printed.' — Pall J[all Gazette. ' The art is of the newest, with well harmonised colouring.' — Spectator. S. Baring Gould. A BOOK OF FAIRY TALES retold by S. Baring Gould. With numerous illustrations and initial letters by Arthur J. Gaskin. Second Edition. Crown 2>vo. Buckram. 6s. 'Mr. Baring Gould is deserving of gratitude, in re-writing in honest, simple style the old stories that delighted the childhood of " our fathers and grandfathers."' — Saturday Review. S. Baring Gould. OLD ENGLISH FAIRY TALES. Col- lected and edited by S. Baring Gould. With Numerous Illustra- tions by F. D. Bedford. Second Edition. CrownZro. Buckram. 6s. 'A charming volume. The stories have been selected with great ingenuity from various old ballads and folk-tales, and now stand forth, clothed in Mr. Baring Gould's delightful English, to enchant youthful readers.' — Guardian. S. Baring Gould. A BOOK OF NURSERY SONGS AND RHYMES. Edited by S. Baring Gould, and Illustrated by the Birmingham Art School. Buckram, gilt top. Crown 2>vo. 6s. ' The volume is very complete in its way, as it contains nursery songs to the number •'f 77) game-rhymes, and jingles. To the student we commend the sensible intro- duction, and the explanatory notes.' — Birmingha7n Gazette. H. 0. Beeching. A BOOK OF CHRISTMAS VERSE. Edited by H. C. Beeching, M.A., and Illustrated by W^alter Crane. Crown ^vo, gilt top. 5^. A collection of the best verse inspired by the birth of Christ from the Middle Ages to the present d.iy. 'An anthology which, from its unity of aim and liigh poetic excellence, has a better right to exist than most of its fellows.' — Guardian.