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London in Song is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these boo...

bTitle:/b London in Song. Compiled by W. Whitten.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, alo...

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Excerpt from Twelve Masters of Prose Verse: With Selections Mr. Joseph Simpson has drawn twelve beautiful portraits of Nineteenth Century writers, and I have selected passages from their works. In other words, he has provided the dish, and my smaller task has been to lay some parsley around it. In each case it has been my endeavour to select a passage which reveals the inner spirit of the writer as clearly as the portrait presents his feature...

Excerpt from John G. Whittier: A Biographical Sketch "And let us hope, as well we can, That the silent angel who garners man May find some grain as of old he found In the human cornfield ripe and sound, And the Lord of the Harvest deign to own The precious seed by the fathers sown! " "The Prophecy op Samuel Sewall." "The firm endurance of suffering by the martyrs of conscience, if it be rightly contemplated, is the most consolatory specta...

Excerpt from Quaker Pictures N ornmo in the nature of a Treatise has been attempted in these pages. The ideal work on Quaker Pictures will be an illustrated descriptive Catalogue, at once learned and complete, and there can be little doubt that such a book will some day be on our shelves. In the meanwhile it is hoped that this small volume may be found an accep table contribution to a subject of much interest to Friends, both as individuals, ...

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Excerpt from A Londoner's London Preface, he said, always put him in mind of Hamlet's exclamation to the tardy player, Leave thy damnable faces, and begin 1 I delay to begin only to explain that the London of these pages is not the measureless town of the guide-books: that London on which a hundred and fifty years ago Horace Walpole began a book, only to faint and fail: that London which, still earlier, had been called a county covered with h...

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