Catalogue of Works Literary Art and Music

Catalogue of Works Literary Art and Music

HONE (William), Ancient Mysteries described, especially the English Miracle Plays founded on the Apocryphal New Testament Story, extant among the unpublished MSS. in the British Museum, including notices of Ecclesiastical Shows and Festivals of Fools and Asses, the English Boy Bishop, Descent into Hell, the Lord Mayor's Show, the Guildhall Giants, Christmas Carols, etc., with Engravings and Index. HONE (William), The Apocryphal New Testament, being all the Gospels, Epistles and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, his Apostles and their Companions and not included in the New Testament by its compilers. An Entirely New Edition formed from a Collation of the Foreign Quotations; a fresh English rendering and a careful revision of the text throughout. Some account of the Life of Montaigne, Notes to which are added, a Translation of all the Letters known to be extant. Mr. Hazlitt's Montaigne,An entirely new Edition text of Montaigne's Essays and Letters (founded on the now extremely scarce one published in 1877 in three volumes octavo) has now been brought to completion (Publisher, Messrs. Reeves and Turner) and will, partly by reason of enlarged introductory matter and partly by additional notes, extend to four volumes. The Edition of 1877 was superintended by Mr. Hazlitt's father, though bearing his own name on the title, and he merely contributed the Preface. The book has now at length been adapted to the last French Variorum so far as possible, and innumerable errors of the former English versions have been rectified. The Biographical account of the essayist has been considerably amplified and instead of the sixteen Letters given in 1877 there are thirty-five, many of which are of interest and importance towards understanding the Life of the Author. A salient feature in the present undertaking is to have substituted for the English colloquial equivalents, or rather supposed equivalents of the great Frenchman's language, the words which he actually uses or the sense, which he actually intends to convey; and the difference is often curious and sometimes immense between him and his English renderers.The Athenum. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 51902
Author: Reeves & Turner
Release Date: May 1, 2016
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Language: English