Writer: Andrew Lang (page 3)

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Grass of Parnassus Contents: Grass of Parnassus Deeds of men: Seekers for a city The white Pacha Midnight, January 25, 1886 Advance, Australia Colonel Burnaby Melville and Coghill Rhodocleia: To Rhodocleia–on her melancholy singing Ave: Clevedon church Twilight on Tweed * Metempsychosis * Lost in Hades * A star

This etext was prepared from the 1891 Henry and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Essays in Little by Andrew Lang Contents: Preface Alexandre Dumas Mr. Stevenson’s works Thomas Haynes Bayly Theodore de Banville Homer and the Study of Greek The Last Fashionable Novel Thackeray Dickens Adventures of Buccaneers The Sagas Charles Kingsley Charles

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk COCK LANE AND COMMON-SENSE TO JAMES PAYN, Esq. Dear Payn, Spirits much more rare and valuable than those spoken of in this book are yours. Whatever ‘Mediums’ may be able to do, you can ‘transfer’ High Spirits to your readers; one of whom does not hope to convert you,

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1887 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition. BOOKS AND BOOKMEN Contents: To the Viscountess Wolseley Preface Elzevirs Ballade of the Real and Ideal Curiosities of Parish Registers The Rowfant Books To F. L. Some Japanese Bogie-books Ghosts in the Library Literary Forgeries Bibliomania in France

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1894 Longmans, Green and Co. edition. Ban and Arriere Ban–A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes Contents Dedication A Scot to Jeanne d’Arc How they held the Bass for King James Three portraits of Prince Charles From Omar Khayyam Aesop Les Roses de Sadi The Haunted

This etext was produced from the 1911 Longmans, Green and Co. “Ballades and Rhymes” edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations by Andrew Lang Introduction BALLADES IN BLUE CHINA. Ballade of Theocritus Ballade of Cleopatra’s Needle Ballade of Roulette Ballade of Sleep Ballade of the Midnight Forest Ballade

Transcribed from the 1872 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk BALLADS AND LYRICS OF OLD FRANCE: WITH OTHER POEMS Translations LIST OF POETS TRANSLATED I. CHARLES D’ORLEANS, who has sometimes, for no very obvious reason, been styled the father of French lyric poetry, was born in May, 1391. He was the

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1895 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition. ANGLING SKETCHES Contents: Preface Note to New Edition The Confessions of a Duffer A Border Boyhood Loch Awe Loch-Fishing Loch Leven The Bloody Doctor The Lady or the Salmon? A Tweedside Sketch The Double Alibi The Complete Bungler

ANDREW LANG’S INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPLEAT ANGLER To write on Walton is, indeed, to hold a candle to the sun. The editor has been content to give a summary of the chief or rather the only known, events in Walton’s long life, adding a notice of his character as displayed in his Biographies and in

This etext was produced by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the 1901 William Blackwood and Sons edition. ALFRED TENNYSON by Andrew Lang INTRODUCTION In writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission)

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1912 Longmans, Green and Co. edition. ADVENTURES AMONG BOOKS by Andrew Lang Contents: Preface Adventures Among Books Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson Rab’s Friend Oliver Wendell Holmes Mr. Morris’s Poems Mrs. Radcliffe’s Novels A Scottish Romanticist of 1830 The Confessions of Saint Augustine Smollett