. Phaeton Rogers; a novel of boy life . E BOYS KING ARTHUR, has given theROISSART a companion which perhaps even surpasses it. However familiar the Ar-mrian heroes may be to him, as mere names encountered in poetry and scattered legends,ot one boy in ten thousand will be prepared for the endless fascination of the great•lories in their original shape and vigor of language. He will have something of thejseling with which, at their first writing, as Mr. Lanier says in his Preface, the fasci-llted world read of Sir Lancelot du Lake, of Queen Guenever, of Sir Tristram, of Queensolde, cvf Merlin, o
. Phaeton Rogers; a novel of boy life . E BOYS KING ARTHUR, has given theROISSART a companion which perhaps even surpasses it. However familiar the Ar-mrian heroes may be to him, as mere names encountered in poetry and scattered legends,ot one boy in ten thousand will be prepared for the endless fascination of the great•lories in their original shape and vigor of language. He will have something of thejseling with which, at their first writing, as Mr. Lanier says in his Preface, the fasci-llted world read of Sir Lancelot du Lake, of Queen Guenever, of Sir Tristram, of Queensolde, cvf Merlin, of Sir Gawaine, of the Lady of the Lake, of Sir Galahad, and of theonderful search for the Holy Cup, called the Saint *%* For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent, prepaid, upon receipt of price, b\> CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS, PUBLISHERS, 743 and 745 BROADWAY. NEW YORK. THE BOYS FROISSART Edited, with an Introduction, by SIDNEY LANIER. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALFRED KAPPES. One Volume Crotrn 8vo, Extra Cloth - $ •. - *. As you read of the fair knights and the foul knights, — for Froissart tells of both,it cannot but occur to you that somehow it seems harder to be a good knight nowada,than it was then. . Nevertheless the same qualities which made a manful fighter themake one now. To speak the very truth ; to perform a promise to the utmost; to rev«ence all women; to maintain right and honesty; to help the weak; to treat high and Icwith courtesy; to be constant to one love; to be fair to a bitter foe; to despise luxury;pursue simplicity, modesty, and gentleness in heart and bearing, — this was in the oath!the young knight who took the stroke upon him in the fourteenth century, and this1still the way to win love and glory in the nineteenth. — EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE. sale by all booksellers, or will be sent, postpaid, upon receipt of price, by CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS, PUBLISHERS, 743 and 745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. A New Edition at Reduced Price. ^BOUT OLD STOR
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