The Garden of Romance

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.'s

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EVERY-DAY CHARACTERS. BY WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED. Profusely Illustrated by CECIL ALDIN, with a specially designed Cover in Colours. Crown 4to, 68.

Love Lament.

THE CHAURAPANCHÂSIKA: An Indian Translated and Illustrated by Sir EDWIN ARNOLD, K. C.I.E., C.S.I. Oblong royal 8vo, Ios. 6d. THE SILENCE OF DEAN MAITLAND. By MAXWELL GRAY. New Edition, with numerous Illustrations, Title-page, and Cover Design by F. HAMILTON JACKSON. Post 8vo, 6s.

ALL-FELLOWS: Seven Legends of Lower Redemption. By LAURENCE HOUSMAN. With Seven Illustrations, and Title-page and Cover Design by the Author. Imperial 16mo, 6s.

IN THE GREEN LEAF AND THE SERE. By "A SON OF THE MARSHES." Edited by J. A. OWEN. With Illustrations by GEORGE C. HAITE and DOROTHY C. NICHOLL. Large post 8vo, 7s. 6d.

London: Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd
Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road

1897

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Preface

THE old taste for the TALE, pure and simple, which,
stimulated by such writers as Mr. Kipling and M. de
Maupassant, has grown anew of late years, is enough in
itself to account for the present anthology. Within its
limits will be found, as in a GARDEN, the fine flowers
of the art, chosen with a preference for those of a
romantic order, and transplanted from many lands and
many times. From the East, where Romance may
be said to have begun-whence we have taken an
"Arabian Night "-to the extreme West, where Haw-
thorne and Edgar Poe gave the art a new effect; from
Sir Thomas Malory to Sir Walter Scott; from Sterne
to Hans Andersen; we have ranged to get all the
variety in excellence, and all the delight of stories
wonderfully well told, to be had within so small a
space. Most of the tales are so famous that they need
give no account of themselves. To "Balin and Balan,”
let us remind the reader, however, Mr. Swinburne has
lent lately a new interest, and a new excuse, if one

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