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From the ages of ten to fourteen years such books as Boosey's National Songs or Songs of Britain should be the staple work, while for older children the great classical songs may be added. A good book for these is the Golden Treasury, published by Boosey. Songs by living composers should be strictly limited in number, though not excluded. These have not stood the test of time.
The whole world turned to remark the extreme gorgeousness of Mr. Boosey's attire, which was peculiar even in Paris. At first that ornament of society rather enjoyed it, but such universal attention became a little wearisome, and at length annoying. Finally Mr. Boosey could endure it no longer, and turning round he stopped Mr.
Muggins, who had spent a portion of the night in exchanging affectionate Christmas wishes with the tombstones in the churchyard, appeared fresh and ruddy at an early hour, clad in the long black coat and tall hat which he was accustomed to wear when he drove Mr. Boosey's fly on great festivals.
PARIS, October. MY DEAR MRS. DOWNE, Here we are at last! I can hardly believe it. Our coming was so sudden that it seems like a delightful dream. You know at Mrs. Potiphar's supper last August in Newport, she was piqued by Gauche Boosey's saying, in his smiling, sarcastic way: "What! do you really think this is a pretty supper? Dear me! Mrs.
I was sorry for that, and also for the bowl, which was a very handsome one, imported from China by my father's partner a wedding gift to me and for the table, a delicate rosewood stand, which was a work table of my sister Lucy's whom you never knew, and who died long and long ago. However, I was amply repaid by Boosey's drollery afterward.
Boosey's; and yet D'Orsay Firkin smiled to himself as he told Mrs. Gnu it was her turn. "I wonder, my dear Mrs. Potiphar," said the Sennaar Minister seating himself by her side, as the game went on, "that Europeans should have so poor an idea of America and Americans, when such crowds of the very best society are constantly crossing the ocean.
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