Uncle Joe's StoriesIllustrated. E-book. Formato EPUB Edward H. Knatchbull-Hugessen   -  Word Well Books, 2022  - 

“….and as a novelty we have a new work by Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, a veritable giant at play, who dedicates Uncle Joe’s Stories ‘to all naughty children, if,’ as he adds, ‘there be any such left in England.’ The well-known Privy Councillor is to be congratulated on producing a volume which, if not superior to his previous efforts in this direction, is thoroughly genial, and in sympathy with the child life. Ernest Griset furnishes the illustrations, which are thoroughly characteristic. — Publishers’ circular and booksellers’ record, 1878Page 1608: Uncle Joe’s Stories, by E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P. (Routledge). We seem to remember that Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen generally during the course of the year thinks that he will not write a Christmas-book, and ends by writing it. In the present condition of the Liberal party, it is perhaps as well that he should not cut himself off from being useful to his fellow-men. Uncle Joe is a teller of rhodomontade stories, who has never been further than to the other side of the Channel, but ho makes himself the hero of extraordinary adventures. The first of these “stories” is conceived in this spirit. “Uncle Joe” narrates a wonderful escape that he had from a hostile band of Indians, and his narrative is a pleasant caricature of the marvelous tales which are sometimes told of such adventures. We should say, indeed, that there is too much caricature and persiflage about these stories. We do not think that young people like it as well as their elders. They rather prefer to take things au grand adfieux, and when they listen to stories about giants, and dwarfs, and fairies, prefer that he who tells the tale should do it without his tongue in his cheek. Apart from this, “Uncle Joe’s Tales” are sufficiently clever and amusing. —The Spectator, December 21, 1878 

Queer Folk: Seven Stories. E-book. Formato EPUB Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen   -  Word Well Books, 2022  - 

“Queer Folk: Seven Stories” by the Rt. Hon. E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., Author of “Crackers for Christmas.” Illustrated by S.E. Waller. ….. They are queer folk—the “Pig-faced Queen,” “Little Grub,” the “Warlock of Coombe,” and the rest—as were ever collected together in a storybook for Christmas. The author mildly apologizes for his title—which is, we think, the same as that adopted by Capt. Mayne Reed for a collected of Natural History Anecdotes—by saying that no one likes an oyster or a golden plover the less because the precious morsel is enclosed in a hard shell, or in consequence of the delicate bird being set down in the bill of far as a quail. Nevertheless, the stories, in spite of their “queer” title, have passed into a fourth edition; and it is, therefore, fair to presume that they have been favorably received by boys and girls. At any rate, they deserve to be so received; for of all the Fairy Tales of the season, they are among the most delightfully fresh. Though professedly written for children, there is much in Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen’s fairy stories that older readers will discover to be graceful and imaginative. And if we add that the engravings—particularly those belonging to the “Barn Elves,” the “Pig-faced Queen,” and the “Witch of Ballaquoich”—are weird and fanciful enough to have illustrated the stories of the great Grimm himself, we have said enough to stimulate inquiry and provoke comparison.  —Bookseller, 1873

Higgledy-Piggledyor, Stories for Everybody and Everybody's Children (illustrated). E-book. Formato EPUB Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen   -  Word Well Books, 2022  - 

Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen presents us with his usual Christmas contribution in the shape of six stories in a volume bearing the title of ‘Higgledy-Piggledy.’ In the ‘Crone of Charing’ we have a real witch of the older kind who victimizes an honest carrier, puts life into milestones and sign-posts, scoffs at Justices of the Peace, and despises constables. ‘The Squirrel and the Hedgehog’ is a tale of woodland life, whilst ‘The Pig of Cheriton’ relates the adventures of a camel who was captured by fairies, and only released (under the directions of the pig) by certain difficult and curious methods, one of which required the silence of a respectable female for a longer period than females (respectable or not) are won’t to remain silent. In ‘The Mermaid’s Boy’ a lost prince receives a marine education at the hands of the sisters of the sea; and in ‘Prince Merimel,’ the ‘Faun of the Capitol’ and other statues, appear in a totally new character. The last tale is ‘Billy’s Story,’ which may be left to speak for itself. Includes nine illustrations from original images by Richard Doyle engraved on wood by G. Pearson. —Notes on Books, 1875