Alcock, Rutherford, Sir, 1809-1897 · London : Virtue and Co., Ltd. · leaf 148
a- tions. From him seems to have come a whole library of popular literature in cheap pictorial books, embodying the history, mythology, legends, trades, occupations, and national customs in a compendious form, accessible and intelligible to all. Like popular lectures or penny readings, they must… … desired. We have here the entire life of the people in a cheap handy form—Art and instruction for the million in the least costly and most attractive shape. It is plain that this school went to Nature for its inspira- tion, and thus reproduced as in a mirror the popular life of its day. MHoffskai,…
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