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Ages, Climes and Times. By S. J. ADAIR FITZ-GERALD, Author of "The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch," "The Wonders of the Secret Cavern," "The Mighty Toltec," etc. Many full-page and smaller Illustrations by GUSTAVE DARRE. Second Edition. Square 8vo, art cloth, gilt, 3s. 6d. =Truth.=--"A decided acquisition to the children's library." =Ladies' Pictorial.=--"Quite one of the brightest of the season's gift books." =Spectator.=--"Well provided with fun and fancy." =Morning Post.=--"Bright and thoroughly amusing. It will please all children. The pictures are excellent." =Echo.=--"Of the pile (of children's books) before us, Mr Adair Fitz-Gerald's 'Grand Panjandrum' is the cleverest. Mr Fitz-Gerald needs no introduction to the nursery of these days." =Times.=--"Very fanciful." =Church News.=--"This is one of the most delightful books of nonsense we have read since we welcomed 'The Wallypug of Why.'" =Scotsman.=--"Will make the eyes of readers open wide with wonder and delight." =Lloyd's.=--"Will amuse all children lucky enough to get this neat and pretty volume." =Pall Mall Gazette.=--"A charming little book. Simply written, and therefore to be comprehended of the youthful mind. It will be popular, for the writer has a power of pleasing which is rare." =Literary World.=--"A handsomely bound, mouth-watering, in every way up-to-date volume, written especially for and on behalf of the toddler or the newly breeched." =People.=--"A delightful story for children, something in the style of 'Alice in Wonderland,' but also having some flavour of Kingley's 'Water Babies.'" =Sun.=--"Good fairy stories are a source of everlasting joy and delight. Mr Adair Fitz-Gerald breaks fresh ground and writes pleasantly.... The book has the added advantage of being charmingly illustrated in colour by Gustave Darre." =Nottingham Guardian.=--"It is a merry book, and should keep the nursery in a good humour for hours. It is artistically got up, the illustrations by Mr Gustave Darre being of a high order of merit." =Manchester Courier.=--"It should prove a great favourite with young people, being written by one who evidently takes the utmost interest in them and their ways. The full-page illustrations are very pretty." =Weekly Sun.=--"Mr Adair Fitz-Gerald is a well-known writer of fairy stories and humorous books for the young. 'The Grand Panjandrum' is just the sort of book to please youngsters o
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