A timeless collection of poignant Bible verses with succinct explanations of how it applies to your daily life.

This was the best book in the whole world.

I adored it when I was a kid. I checked it out of the library over and over again. I read all the stories, even the ones I didn't understand, and pored over the Marie Provensen illustrations. That was where I first met the Greek myths, Homer, Beowulf, Tristan and Iseult, Roland, the Nibelungs, and Rustem and Sohrab. I didn't know they were classic stories, and I never got the impression that they were supposed to be good for me. I only knew that the book was at once solider and more wonderful than any other book I knew.

Thirty years later, I found my own copy. I was almost afraid to re-read it, in case it didn't measure up to my memories. What I found was that it was better than I'd known. Anne Terry White didn't reduce the stories to a plain uniform modern retelling. Her Beowulf has the startling compact abruptness of its original. Rustem and Sohrab is elegantly simple and lyrical. The same goes for all the other stories. They're all given their proper tellings, without once falling into stilted or over-precious language.

So many books are praised as "something very special". If ever that description applied to a book, it applies to this one. And if your library still has a copy, tell them to take good care of it.

I now enjoy poetry almost as much as mathematics and physics. I credit my appreciation for poetry to the cumulative effects of three Poetic forces: a Publisher plus Perrine plus Palgrave.

I could not resist the attraction of Dover Publications' Thrift Editions of the poetry of Keats, Wordsworth, Burns, Blake, Shelley, Shakespeare, Marvell, Frost, and many other poets. I began to read poetry for leisure and enjoyment.

Perrine's Sound and Sense, an intriguing text on reading poetry, helped me to recognize poetic forms, structure, sounds, and meanings. I began to see the subtleties and beauty of great poetry.

My discovery of the third force, "The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language" by Francis Turner Palgrave, was pure serendipity. I had read some lyrical poetry, some odes, elegies, and sonnets, but I had never explored the full scope of English lyrical poetry.

I clearly recall my excitement in my first reading of Palgrave's collection. I am fortunate that my first extended travels into English poetry were guided by a master. I have since become familiar with several other good anthologies, but Palgrave's remains my favorite.

Palgrave's "The Golden Treasury" has remained continuously in print since 1861, with Oxford University Press editions in 1907, 1909, 1929, 1940, 1964 (Section V added), and 1994 (Section VI added). I have the 1994 edition (sixth). The two additions, Sections V and VI, include a sampling of modern poets. This remarkable anthology is now nearly 700 pages. The font size is large and easy to read.

Palgrave's notes for Books I-IV are good, but many readers, like myself, may need a good dictionary for occasional archaic words and unfamiliar references to Greek and Roman mythology. I have found it quite helpful and entertaining to have a copy of Bulfinch's The Age of Fable nearby. I hope you enjoy Palgrave's selections of the finest poets in the English language as much as I did.

This book was originally owned by my Grandmother and Grandfather. They passed it on to my father who passed it on to one of my three siblings.

We loved it so much that each of us had to have a copy! This book contains poetry, songs, words of wisdom, and even some excerpts from Shakespeare plays.

The stories inside are at times whimsical, sad, thought provoking, and finally, at times just plain hilarious.

Because this book has contents of yesteryear in it, you really feel as if transported back to the times of our parents and grandparents.

It's a book that gives the reader a warm feeling as you flip page to page.

I highly recommend it for everyone, young and old.

Exactly what the purpose of this book is and how to describe it cannot be put into words, but I know that any persons with a fascination of the state of being and thought and the concept of existance will find the ideas put forth in this book to be mind-opening. Bell's style of writing is wordy and sometimes confusing, but once one grasps the plot of the actual story and the meaning behind it, the translation of his legnthy articulation becomes more readily apparent. I reccomend this book to anyone who thinks of space beyond space and thought beyond thought and has no problem with deciphering long, elaborate sentances.

This is a must read for anyone who grew up with, or who loves, the movies around the 1950's. It is presented in an "Oscar format" with comments and thumbnail descriptions by the Brothers Medved. Their love for these movies is evident; their humor is direct and presents perspective on actors, Hollywood, directors, plots, and America, in a time of greater innocence and before special effects were king. Hours of fun and a great guide to late movies. I was paging through this book in a bookstore when I saw the heading, "The Worst Movie Ever Made." Well, I knew what was the worst movie ever made, but was also sure the reviewers had never seen it. When I turned to see their choice--it was the same one! I bought the book on the spot and have been giving copies to special friends as gifts ever since.

Very little written material from the life of Pythagoras has survived to this day. Is Work, His School, and His Presence in the 6th century BC were an impulse to Western civilization. This edition of the commented Golden Verses is commendable for its clarity, authenticity and reverence to Pythagoras' timeless teachings. A classic of the Pythagorean tradition recommended to all who are wholly concerned with the love of wisdom.

Please see my complete review of "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight" under the heading "A Fox Under My Cloak."

"A rhyme & tongue twister sure to give all many laughs and smiles. A child will request readings time & time again!"

Few people are aware that Cleveland was America's first "Motor City" long before Detroit claimed that title. In Golden Wheels, Richard Wager tells the largely unknown story of early American automobiles from Northeast Ohio. This includes venerable names like Winton, Stearns, Peerless, Chandler, Templar, and Jordan. In all, Golden Wheels tells the stories of 80 different automobile marques from the classic era.

Every true automobile enthusiast should know the stories in this book.