A Series of Illustrated Biographies of the Leading Actors, Actresses,
and Dramatists.
Edited by J. T. GREIN.
Crown 8vo. Price 2/6 each net.
ELLEN TERRY. By Christopher St. John.
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE. By Mrs. George Cran.
SIR W. S. GILBERT. By Edith A. Browne.
SIR CHARLES WYNDHAM. By Florence Teignmouth Shore.
_A CATALOGUE OF MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, ETC._
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WILLIAM COBBETT IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. By Lewis
Melville. Author of “William Makepeace Thackeray.” With two
Photogravures and numerous other Illustrations. 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 32s.
net.
THE LETTER-BAG OF LADY ELIZABETH SPENCER STANHOPE. By A. M. W. Stirling.
Author of “Coke of Norfolk,” and “Annals of a Yorkshire House.” With a
Colour Plate, 3 in Photogravure, and 27 other Illustrations. 2 vols.
Demy 8vo. 32s. net.
⁂ “Extracts might be multiplied indefinitely, but we have given enough
to show the richness of the mine. We have nothing but praise for the
editor’s work, and can conscientiously commend this book equally to
the student of manners and the lover of lively anecdote.”—_Standard._
MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND IN 1675. By Marie Catherine Comtesse
d’Aulnoy. Translated from the original French by Mrs. William Henry
Arthur. Edited, Revised, and with Annotations (including an account of
Lucy Walter) by George David Gilbert. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 21s.
net.
⁂ When the Comte de Gramont went back to France and Mr. Pepys decided
that to save his eyesight it was essential that he should suspend his
Diary, the records of delectable gossip of the ever interesting
Restoration Court became, of necessity, sadly curtailed. Indeed, of
the second decade of the Golden Days the sedate Evelyn has hitherto
been almost the only source of information available to the public.
Though the Memoirs of the Countess d’Aulnoy have always been known to
students, they have never received the respect they undoubtedly merit,
for until Mr. Gilbert, whose hobby is the social history of this
period, took the matter in hand, no-one had succeeded in either
deciphering the identity of the leading characters of the Memoirs or
of verifying the statements made therein. To achieve this has been for
some years his labour of love and an unique contribution to Court and
Domestic history is the crown of his labours. The Memoirs, which have
only to be known to rank with the sparkling “Comte de Gramont” (which
they much resemble), contain amusing anecdotes and vivid portraits of
King Charles II., his son the Duke of Monmouth, Prince Rupert,
Buckingham, and other ruffling “Hectors” of those romantic days. Among
the ladies we notice the Queen, the Duchess of Norfolk and Richmond,
and the lively and vivacious Maids of Honour. The new Nell Gwynn
matter is of particular interest. The Memoirs are fully illustrated
with portraits, not reproduced before, from the collection of the Duke
of Portland and others.
AUSTRIA: HER PEOPLE AND THEIR HOMELANDS. By James Baker, F.R.G.S. With
48 Pictures in Colour by Donald Maxwell. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.
⁂ The Empire of Austria with its strangely diversified population of
many tongues is but little known to English readers. The Capital and a
few famous interesting places, such as Carlsbad, Marienbad, the
glorious Tyrol, and such cities as Golden Prague and Innsbruck are
known to the English and Americans; but the remarkable scenery of the
Upper Elbe, the Ultava or Moldau and the Danube, the interesting
peasantry in their brilliant costumes, the wild mountain gorges, are
quite outside the ken of the ordinary traveller. The volume is written
by one who since 1873 has continually visited various parts of the
Empire and has already written much upon Austria and her people. Mr.
Baker was lately decorated by the Emperor Francis Joseph for his
literary work and was also voted the Great Silver Medal by the Prague
Senate. The volume is illustrated with 48 beautiful water-colour
pictures by Mr. Donald Maxwell, the well-known artist of the
_Graphic_, who has made several journeys to Austria for studies for
this volume.
TAPESTRIES: THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND RENAISSANCE. By George Leland
Hunter. With four full-page Plates in Colour, and 147 Half-tone
Engravings. Square 8vo. Cloth. 16s. net.
⁂ This is a fascinating book on a fascinating subject. It is written
by a scholar whose passion for accuracy and original research did not
prevent him from making a story easy to read. It answers the questions
people are always asking as to how tapestries differ from paintings,
and good tapestries from bad tapestries. It will interest lovers of
paintings and rugs and history and fiction, for it shows how
tapestries compare with paintings in picture interest, with rugs in
texture interest, and with historic and other novels in romantic
interest; presenting on a magnificent scale the stories of the Iliad
and the Odyssey, the Æneid and the Metamorphoses, the Bible and the
Saints, Ancient and Medieval History and Romance. In a word, the book
is indispensable to lovers of art and literature in general, as well
as to tapestry amateurs, owners and dealers.
FROM STUDIO TO STAGE. By Weedon Grossmith. With 32 full-page
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.
⁂ Justly famous as a comedian of unique gifts, Mr. Weedon Grossmith is
nevertheless an extremely versatile personality, whose interests are
by no means confined to the theatre. These qualities have enabled him
to write a most entertaining book. He gives an interesting account of
his early ambitions and exploits as an artist, which career he
abandoned for that of an actor. He goes on to describe some of his
most notable rôles, and lets us in to little intimate glimpses “behind
the scenes,” chats pleasantly about all manner of celebrities in the
land of Bohemia and out of it, tells many amusing anecdotes, and like
a true comedian is not bashful when the laugh is against himself. The
book is well supplied with interesting illustrations, some of them
reproductions of the author’s own work.
FANNY BURNEY AT THE COURT OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE. By Constance Hill. Author
of “The House in St. Martin Street,” “Juniper Hall,” etc. With numerous
Illustrations by Ellen G. Hill and reproductions of contemporary
Portraits, etc. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.
⁂ This book deals with the Court life of Fanny Burney covering the
years 1786-91, and therefore forms a link between the two former works
on Fanny Burney by the same writer, viz. “The House in St. Martin
Street,” and “Juniper Hall.” The writer has been fortunate in
obtaining much unpublished material from members of the Burney family
as well as interesting contemporary portraits and relics. The scene of
action in this work is constantly shifting—now at Windsor, now at Kew,
now sea-girt at Weymouth, and now in London; and the figures that pass
before our eyes are endowed with a marvellous vitality by the pen of
Fanny Burney. When the court was at St. James’s the Keeper of the
Robes had opportunities of visiting her own family in St. Martin
Street, and also of meeting at the house of her friend Mrs. Ord
“everything delectable in the blue way.” Thither Horace Walpole would
come in all haste from Strawberry Hill for the sole pleasure of
spending an evening in her society. After such a meeting Fanny
writes—“he was in high spirits, polite, ingenious, entertaining,
quaint and original.” A striking account of the King’s illness in the
winter of 1788-9 is given, followed by the widespread rejoicings for
his recovery; when London was ablaze with illuminations that extended
for many miles around, and when “even the humblest dwelling exhibited
its rush-light.” The author and the illustrator of this work have
visited the various places, where King George and Queen Charlotte
stayed when accompanied by Fanny Burney. Among these are Oxford,
Cheltenham, Worcester, Weymouth and Dorchester; where sketches have
been made, or old prints discovered, illustrative of those towns in
the late 18th century savours of Georgian days. There the national
flag may still be seen as it appeared before the union.
MEMORIES OF SIXTY YEARS AT ETON, CAMBRIDGE AND ELSEWHERE. By Oscar
Browning. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 14s. net.
THE STORY OF DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. By Padre Luis Coloma, S.J., of the
Real Academia Española. Translated by Lady Moreton. With Illustrations.
Demy 8vo. 16_s._ net.
⁂ “A new type of book, half novel and half history,” as it is very
aptly called in a discourse delivered on the occasion of Padre
Coloma’s election to the Academia de España, the story of the heroic
son of Charles V. is retold by one of Spain’s greatest living writers
with a vividness and charm all his own. The childhood of Jeromin,
afterwards Don John of Austria reads like a mysterious romance. His
meteoric career is traced through the remaining chapters of the book;
first as the attractive youth; the cynosure of all eyes that were
bright and gay at the court of Philip II., which Padre Coloma
maintains was less austere than is usually supposed; then as conqueror
of the Moors, culminating as the “man from God” who saved Europe from
the terrible peril of a Turkish dominion; triumphs in Tunis; glimpses
of life in the luxury loving Italy of the day; then the sad story of
the war in the Netherlands, when our hero, victim of an infamous
conspiracy, is left to die of a broken heart; his end hastened by
fever, and, maybe, by the “broth of Doctor Ramirez.” Perhaps more
fully than ever before is laid bare the intrigue which led to the
cruel death of the secretary, Escovedo, including the dramatic
interview between Philip II. and Antonio Perez, in the lumber room of
the Escorial. A minute account of the celebrated _auto da fe_ in
Valladolid cannot fail to arrest attention, nor will the details of
several of the imposing ceremonies of Old Spain be less welcome than
those of more intimate festivities in the Madrid of the sixteenth
century, or of everyday life in a Spanish castle.
⁂ “This book has all the fascination of a vigorous _roman à clef_ . .
. the translation is vigorous and idiomatic.”—_Mr. Owen Edwards in
Morning Post._
THIRTEEN YEARS OF A BUSY WOMAN’S LIFE. By Mrs. Alec Tweedie. With
Nineteen Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16_s._ net. Third Edition.
⁂ It is a novel idea for an author to give her reasons for taking up
her pen as a journalist and writer of books. This Mrs. Alec Tweedie
has done in “Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman’s Life.” She tells a
dramatic story of youthful happiness, health, wealth, and then
contrasts that life with the thirteen years of hard work that followed
the loss of her husband, her father, and her income in quick
succession in a few weeks. Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s books of travel and
biography are well-known, and have been through many editions, even to
shilling copies for the bookstalls. This is hardly an autobiography,
the author is too young for that, but it gives romantic, and tragic
peeps into the life of a woman reared in luxury, who suddenly found
herself obliged to live on a tiny income with two small children, or
work—and work hard—to retain something of her old life and interests.
It is a remarkable story with many personal sketches of some of the
best-known men and women of the day.
⁂ “One of the gayest and sanest surveys of English society we have
read for years.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._
⁂ “A pleasant laugh from cover to cover.”—_Daily Chronicle._
THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN THE XVIITH CENTURY. By Charles Bastide. With
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.
⁂ The author of this book of essays on the intercourse between England
and France in the seventeenth century has gathered much curious and
little-known information. How did the travellers proceed from London
to Paris? Did the Frenchmen who came over to England learn, and did
they ever venture to write English? An almost unqualified admiration
for everything French then prevailed: French tailors, milliners,
cooks, even fortune-tellers, as well as writers and actresses, reigned
supreme. How far did gallomania affect the relations between the two
countries? Among the foreigners who settled in England none exercised
such varied influence as the Hugenots; students of Shakespeare and
Milton can no longer ignore the Hugenot friends of the two poets,
historians of the Commonwealth must take into account the “Nouvelles
ordinaires de Londres.” the French gazette, issued on the Puritan
side, by some enterprising refugee. Is it then possible to determine
how deeply the refugees impressed English thought? Such are the main
questions to which the book affords an answer. With its numerous
hitherto unpublished documents and illustrations, drawn from
contemporary sources, it cannot fail to interest those to whom a most
brilliant and romantic period in English history must necessarily
appeal.
THE VAN EYCKS AND THEIR ART. By W. H. James Weale, with the co-operation
of Maurice Brockwell. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12_s._
6_d._ net.
⁂ The large book on “Hubert and John Van Eyck” which Mr. Weale
published in 1908 through Mr. John Lane was instantly recognised by
the reviewers and critics as an achievement of quite exceptional
importance. It is now felt that the time has come for a revised and
slightly abridged edition of that which was issued four years ago at
£5 5s. net. The text has been compressed in some places and extended
in others, while certain emendations have been made, and after due
reflection, the plan of the book has been materially recast. This
renders it of greater assistance to the student.
The large amount of research work and methodical preparation of a
revised text obliged Mr. Weale, through failing health and eyesight,
to avail himself of the services of Mr. Brockwell, and Mr. Weale gives
it as his opinion in the new Foreword that he doubts whether he could
have found a more able collaborator than Mr. Brockwell to edit this
volume.
“The Van Eycks and their Art,” so far from being a mere reprint at a
popular price of “Hubert and John Van Eyck,” contains several new
features, notable among which are the inclusion of an Appendix giving
details of all the sales at public auction in any country from 1662 to
1912 of pictures reputed to be by the Van Eycks. An entirely new and
ample Index has been compiled, while the bibliography, which extends
over many pages, and the various component parts of the book have been
brought abreast of the most recent criticism. Detailed arguments are
given for the first time of a picture attributed to one of the
brothers Van Eyck in a private collection in Russia.
In conclusion it must be pointed out that Mr. Weale has, with
characteristic care, read through the proofs and passed the whole book
for press.
The use of a smaller _format_ and of thinner paper renders the present
edition easier to handle as a book of reference.
COKE OF NORFOLK AND HIS FRIENDS. The Life of Thomas Coke, First Earl of
Leicester and of Holkham. By A. M. W. Stirling. New Edition, revised,
with some additions. With 19 Illustrations. In one volume. Demy 8vo.
12_s._ 6_d._ net.
THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE. By Joseph Turquan. Author of “The Love Affairs of
Napoleon,” “The Wife of General Bonaparte.” Illustrated. Demy 8vo.
12_s._ 6_d._ net.
⁂ “The Empress Josephine” continues and completes the graphically
drawn life story begun in “The Wife of General Bonaparte” by the same
author, takes us through the brilliant period of the Empire, shows us
the gradual development and the execution of the Emperor’s plan to
divorce his middle-aged wife, paints in vivid colours the picture of
Josephine’s existence after her divorce, tells us how she, although
now nothing but his friend, still met him occasionally and
corresponded frequently with him, and how she passed her time in the
midst of her miniature court. This work enables us to realise the very
genuine affection which Napoleon possessed for his first wife, an
affection which lasted till death closed her eyes in her lonely
hermitage at La Malmaison, and until he went to expiate at Saint
Helena his rashness in braving all Europe. Comparatively little is
known of the period covering Josephine’s life after her divorce, and
yet M. Turquan has found much to tell us that is very interesting; for
the ex-Empress in her two retreats, Navarre and La Malmaison, was
visited by many celebrated people, and after the Emperor’s downfall
was so ill-judged as to welcome and fete several of the vanquished
hero’s late friends, now his declared enemies. The story of her last
illness and death forms one of the most interesting chapters in this
most complete work upon the first Empress of the French.
NAPOLEON IN CARICATURE: 1795-1821. By A. M. Broadley. With an
Introductory Essay on Pictorial Satire as a Factor in Napoleonic
History, by J. Holland Rose, Litt. D. (Cantab.). With 24 full-page
Illustrations in Colour and upwards of 200 in Black and White from rare
and unique originals. 2 Vols. Demy 8vo. 42s. net.
_Also an Edition de Luxe._ 10 guineas net.
NAPOLEON’S LAST CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY. By F. Loraine Petre. Author of
“Napoleon’s Campaign in Poland,” “Napoleon’s Conquest of Prussia,” etc.
With 17 Maps and Plans. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.
⁂ In the author’s two first histories of Napoleon’s campaigns (1806
and 1807) the Emperor is at his greatest as a soldier. The third
(1809) showed the commencement of the decay of his genius. Now, in
1813, he has seriously declined. The military judgment of Napoleon,
the general, is constantly fettered by the pride and obstinacy of
Napoleon, the Emperor. The military principles which guided him up to
1807 are frequently abandoned; he aims at secondary objectives, or
mere geographical points, instead of solely at the destruction of the
enemy’s army; he hesitates and fails to grasp the true situation in a
way that was never known in his earlier campaigns. Yet frequently, as
at Bautsen and Dresden, his genius shines with all its old brilliance.
The campaign of 1813 exhibits the breakdown of his over-centralised
system of command, which left him without subordinates capable of
exercising semi-independent command over portions of armies which had
now grown to dimensions approaching those of our own day.
The autumn campaign is a notable example of the system of interior
lines, as opposed to that of strategical envelopment. It marks, too,
the real downfall of Napoleon’s power, for, after the fearful
destruction of 1813, the desperate struggle of 1814, glorious though
it was, could never have any real probability of success.
FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS IN PARIS. By John Joseph Conway, M.A.
With 32 Full-page Illustrations. With an Introduction by Mrs. John Lane.
Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.
⁂ Franklin, Jefferson, Munroe, Tom Paine, La Fayette, Paul Jones,
etc., etc., the most striking figures of a heroic age, working out in
the City of Light the great questions for which they stood, are dealt
with here. Longfellow the poet of the domestic affections; matchless
Margaret Fuller who wrote so well of women in the nineteenth century;
Whistler master of American artists; Saint-Gaudens chief of American
sculptors; Rumford, most picturesque of scientific knight-errants and
several others get a chapter each for their lives and achievements in
Paris. A new and absorbing interest is opened up to visitors. Their
trip to Versailles becomes more pleasurable when they realise what
Franklyn did at that brilliant court. The Place de la Bastille becomes
a sacred place to Americans realizing that the principles of the young
republic brought about the destruction of the vilest old dungeon in
the world. The Seine becomes silvery to the American conjuring up that
bright summer morning when Robert Fulton started from the Place de la
Concorde in the first steam boat. The Louvre takes on a new attraction
from the knowledge that it houses the busts of Washington and Franklyn
and La Fayette by Houdon. The Luxembourg becomes a greater temple of
art to him who knows that it holds Whistler’s famous portrait of his
mother. Even the weather-beaten bookstalls by the banks of the Seine
become beautiful because Hawthorne and his son loitered among them on
sunny days sixty years ago. The book has a strong literary flavour.
Its history is enlivened with anecdote. It is profusely illustrated.
MEMORIES OF JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER: The Artist. By Thomas R. Way. Author
of “The Lithographs of J. M. Whistler,” etc. With numerous
Illustrations. Demy 4to. 10_s._ 6_d._ net.
⁂ This volume contains about forty illustrations, including an
unpublished etching drawn by Whistler and bitten in by Sir Frank
Short, A.R.A., an original lithograph sketch, seven lithographs in
colour drawn by the Author upon brown paper, and many in black and
white. The remainder are facsimiles by photo-lithography. In most
cases the originals are drawings and sketches by Whistler which have
never been published before, and are closely connected with the matter
of the book. The text deals with the Author’s memories of nearly
twenty year’s close association with Whistler, and he endeavours to
treat only with the man as an artist, and perhaps, especially as a
lithographer.
* Also an Edition de Luxe on hand-made paper, with the etching printed
from the original plate. Limited to 50 copies.
* This is Out of Print with the Publisher.
HISTORY OF THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY: A Record of a Hundred Years’ Work
in the Cause of Music. Compiled by Myles Birket Foster, F.R.A.M., etc.
With 16 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._ net.
⁂ As the Philharmonic Society, whose Centenary is now being
celebrated, is and has ever been connected, during its long existence,
with the history of musical composition and production, not only in
this country, but upon the Continent, and as every great name in
Europe and America in the last hundred years (within the realm of
high-class music), has been associated with it, this volume will, it
is believed, prove to be an unique work, not only as a book of
reference, but also as a record of the deepest interest to all lovers
of good music. It is divided into ten Decades, with a small narrative
account of the principal happenings in each, to which are added the
full programmes of every concert, and tables showing, at a glance, the
number and nationality of the performers and composers, with other
particulars of interest. The book is made of additional value by means
of rare illustrations of MS. works specially composed for the Society,
and of letters from Wagner, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, etc., etc.,
written to the Directors and, by their permission, reproduced for the
first time.
IN PORTUGAL. By Aubrey F. G. Bell. Author of “The Magic of Spain.” Demy
8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ net.
⁂ The guide-books give full details of the marvellous convents,
gorgeous palaces, and solemn temples of Portugal, and no attempt is
here made to write complete descriptions of them, the very name of
some of them being omitted. But the guide-books too often treat
Portugal as a continuation, almost as a province of Spain. It is hoped
that this little book may give some idea of the individual character
of the country, of the quaintnesses of its cities, and of peasant life
in its remoter districts. While the utterly opposed characters of the
two peoples must probably render the divorce between Spain and
Portugal eternal, and reduce hopes of union to the idle dreams of
politicians. Portugal in itself contains an infinite variety. Each of
the eight provinces (more especially those of the _alemtejanos_,
_minhotos_ and _beiröes_) preserves many peculiarities of language,
customs, and dress; and each will, in return for hardships endured,
give to the traveller many a day of delight and interest.
A TRAGEDY IN STONE, AND OTHER PAPERS. By Lord Redesdale, G.C.V.O.,
K.C.C., etc. Demy 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ net.
⁂ “From the author of ‘Tales of Old Japan’ his readers always hope for
more about Japan, and in this volume they will find it. The earlier
papers, however, are not to be passed over.”—_Times._
⁂ “Lord Redesdale’s present volume consists of scholarly essays on a
variety of subjects of historic, literary and artistic
appeal.”—_Standard._
⁂ “The author of the classic ‘Tales of Old Japan’ is assured of
welcome, and the more so when he returns to the field in which his
literary reputation was made. Charm is never absent from his
pages.”—_Daily Chronicle._
MY LIFE IN PRISON. By Donald Lowrie. Crown 8vo. 6_s._ net.
⁂ This book is absolutely true and vital. Within its pages passes the
myriorama of prison life. And within its pages may be found
revelations of the divine and the undivine; of strange humility and
stranger arrogance; of free men brutalized and caged men humanized; of
big and little tragedies; of love, cunning, hate, despair, hope. There
is humour, too though sometimes the jest is made ironic by its sequel.
And there is romance—the romance of the real; not the romance of
Kipling’s 9.15, but the romance of No. 19,093, and of all the other
numbers that made up the arithmetical hell of San Quentin prison.
Few novels could so absorb interest. It is human utterly. That is the
reason. Not only is the very atmosphere of the prison preserved, from
the colossal sense of encagement and defencelessness, to the smaller
jealousies, exultations and disappointments; not only is there a
succession of characters emerging into the clearest individuality and
genuineness,—each with its distinctive contribution and separate
value; but beyond the details and through all the contrasted variety,
there is the spell of complete drama,—the drama of life. Here is the
underworld in continuous moving pictures, with the overworld watching.
True, the stage is a prison; but is not all the world a stage?
It is a book that should exercise a profound influence on the lives of
the caged, and on the whole attitude of society toward the problems of
poverty and criminality.
AN IRISH BEAUTY OF THE REGENCY: By Mrs. Warrenne Blake. Author of
“Memoirs of a Vanished Generation, 1813-1855.” With a Photogravure
Frontispiece and other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.
⁂ The Irish Beauty is the Hon. Mrs. Calvert, daughter of Viscount
Pery, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and wife of Nicholson
Calvert, M.P., of Hunsdon. Born in 1767, Mrs. Calvert lived to the age
of ninety-two, and there are many people still living who remember
her. In the delightful journals, now for the first time published,
exciting events are described.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By Stewart Houston
Chamberlain. A Translation from the German by John Lees. With an
Introduction by Lord Redesdale. Demy 8vo. 2 vols. 25s. net. Second
Edition.
⁂ “A man who can write such a really beautiful and solemn appreciation
of true Christianity, of true acceptance of Christ’s teachings and
personality, as Mr. Chamberlain has done. . . . represents an
influence to be reckoned with and seriously to be taken into
account.”—_Theodore Roosevelt in the Outlook, New York._
⁂ “It is a masterpiece of really scientific history. It does not make
confusion, it clears it away. He is a great generalizer of thought, as
distinguished from the crowd of mere specialists. It is certain to
stir up thought. Whoever has not read it will be rather out of it in
political and sociological discussions for some time to come.”—_George
Bernard Shaw in Fabian News._
⁂ “This is unquestionably one of the rare books that really matter.
His judgments of men and things are deeply and indisputably sincere
and are based on immense reading . . . But even many well-informed
people . . . will be grateful to Lord Redesdale for the biographical
details which he gives them in the valuable and illuminating
introduction contributed by him to this English translation.”—_Times_.
THE SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS from the Earliest Times to the
Present Day, with a Topographical Account of Westminster at Various
Epochs, Brief Notes on Sittings of Parliament and a Retrospect of the
principal Constitutional Changes during Seven Centuries. By Arthur Irwin
Dasent, Author of “The Life and Letters of John Delane,” “The History of
St. James’s Square,” etc., etc. With numerous Portraits, including two
in Photogravure and one in Colour. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.
ROMANTIC TRIALS OF THREE CENTURIES. By Hugh Childers. With numerous
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ This volume deals with some famous trials, occurring between the
years 1650 and 1850, All of them possess some exceptional interest, or
introduce historical personages in a fascinating style, peculiarly
likely to attract attention.
The book is written for the general reading public, though in many
respects it should be of value to lawyers, who will be especially
interested in the trials of the great William Penn and Elizabeth
Canning. The latter case is one of the most enthralling interest.
Twenty-two years later the same kind of excitement was aroused over
Elizabeth Chudleigh, alias Duchess of Kingston, who attracted more
attention in 1776 than the war of American independence.
Then the history of the fluent Dr. Dodd, a curiously pathetic one, is
related, and the inconsistencies of his character very clearly brought
out; perhaps now he may have a little more sympathy than he has
usually received. Several important letters of his appear here for the
first time in print.
Among other important trials discussed we find the libel action
against Disraeli and the story of the Lyons Mail. Our knowledge of the
latter is chiefly gathered from the London stage, but there is in it a
far greater historical interest than would be suspected by those who
have only seen the much altered story enacted before them.
THE OLD GARDENS OF ITALY—HOW TO VISIT THEM. By Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond.
With 100 Illustrations from her own Photographs. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.
⁂ Hitherto all books on the old gardens of Italy have been large,
costly, and incomplete, and designed for the library rather than for
the traveller. Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, during the course of a series of
visits to all parts of Italy, has compiled a volume that garden lovers
can carry with them, enabling them to decide which gardens are worth
visiting, where they are situated, how they may be reached, if special
permission to see them is required, and how this may be obtained.
Though the book is practical and technical, the artistic element is
supplied by the illustrations, one at least of which is given for each
of the 71 gardens described. Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond was the illustrator
of the monumental work by H. Inigo Triggs on “The Art of Garden Design
in Italy,” and has since taken three special journeys to that country
to collect material for her “The Old Gardens of Italy.”
The illustrations have been beautifully reproduced by a new process
which enables them to be printed on a rough light paper, instead of
the highly glazed and weighty paper necessitated by half-tone blocks.
Thus not only are the illustrations delightful to look at, but the
book is a pleasure to handle instead of a dead weight.
DOWN THE MACKENZIE AND UP THE YUKON. By E. Stewart. With 30
Illustrations and a Map. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.
⁂ Mr. Stewart was former Inspector of Forestry to the Government of
Canada, and the experience he thus gained, supplemented by a really
remarkable journey, will prove of great value to those who are
interested in the commercial growth of Canada. The latter portion of
his book deals with the various peoples, animals, industries, etc., of
the Dominion; while the story of the journey he accomplished provides
excellent reading in Part I. Some of the difficulties he encountered
appeared insurmountable, and a description of his perilous voyage in a
native canoe with Indians is quite haunting. There are many
interesting illustrations of the places of which he writes.
AMERICAN SOCIALISM OF THE PRESENT DAY. By Jessie Wallace Hughan. With an
Introduction by John Spargo. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.
⁂ All who are interested in the multitudinous political problems
brought about by the changing conditions of the present day should
read this book, irrespective of personal bias. The applications of
Socialism throughout the world are so many and varied that the book is
of peculiar importance to English Socialists.
THE STRUGGLE FOR BREAD. By “A Rifleman” Crown 8vo. 5s. net.
⁂ This book is a reply to Mr. Norman Angell’s well-known work, “The
Great Illusion” and also an enquiry into the present economic state of
Europe. The author, examining the phenomenon of the high food-prices
at present ruling in all great civilized states, proves by statistics
that these are caused by a relative decline in the production of
food-stuffs as compared with the increase in general commerce and the
production of manufactured-articles, and that consequently there has
ensued a rise in the exchange-values of manufactured-articles, which
with our system of society can have no other effect than of producing
high food-prices and low wages. The author proves, moreover, that this
is no temporary fluctuation of prices, but the inevitable outcome of
an economic movement, which whilst seen at its fullest development
during the last few years has been slowly germinating for the last
quarter-century. Therefore, food-prices must continue to rise whilst
wages must continue to fall.
THE LAND OF TECK & ITS SURROUNDINGS. By Rev. S. Baring-Gould. With
numerous Illustrations (including several in Colour) reproduced from
unique originals. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
GATES OF THE DOLOMITES. By L. Marion Davidson. With 32 Illustrations
from Photographs and a Map. Crown 8vo. Second Edition. 5s. net.
⁂ Whilst many English books have appeared on the Lande Tirol, few have
given more than a chapter on the fascinating Dolomite Land, and it is
in the hope of helping other travellers to explore the mountain land
with less trouble and inconvenience than fell to her lot that the
author has penned these attractive pages. The object of this book is
not to inform the traveller how to scale the apparently inaccessible
peaks of the Dolomites, but rather how to find the roads, and thread
the valleys, which lead him to the recesses of this most lovely part
of the world’s face, and Miss Davidson conveys just the knowledge
which is wanted for this purpose; especially will her map be
appreciated by those who wish to make their own plans for a tour, as
it shows at a glance the geography of the country.
KNOWLEDGE AND LIFE. By William Arkwright. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
⁂ This is a remarkably written book—brilliant and vital. Mr. Arkwright
illumines a number of subjects with jewelled flashes of word harmony
and chisels them all with the keen edge of his wit. Art, Letters, and
Religion of different appeals move before the reader in vari-coloured
array, like the dazzling phantasmagoria of some Eastern dream.
CHANGING RUSSIA. A Tramp along the Black Sea Shore and in the Urals. By
Stephen Graham. Author of “Undiscovered Russia,” “A Vagabond in the
Caucasus,” etc. With Illustrations and a Map. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
⁂ In “Changing Russia,” Mr. Stephen Graham describes a journey from
Rostof-on-the-Don to Batum and a summer spent on the Ural Mountains.
The author has traversed all the region which is to be developed by
the new railway from Novo-rossisk to Poti. It is a tramping diary with
notes and reflections. The book deals more with the commercial life of
Russia than with that of the peasantry, and there are chapters on the
Russia of the hour, the Russian town, life among the gold miners of
the Urals, the bourgeois, Russian journalism, the intelligentsia, the
election of the fourth Duma. An account is given of Russia at the
seaside, and each of the watering places of the Black Sea shore is
described in detail.
ROBERT FULTON ENGINEER AND ARTIST: HIS LIFE AND WORK. By H. W.
Dickinson, A.M.I.Mech.E. Demy 8vo. 10s 6d. net.
⁂ No Biography dealing as a whole with the life-work of the celebrated
Robert Fulton has appeared of late years, in spite of the fact that
the introduction of steam navigation on a commercial scale, which was
his greatest achievement has recently celebrated its centenary.
The author has been instrumental in bringing to light a mass of
documentary matter relative to Fulton, and has thus been able to
present the facts about him in an entirely new light. The interesting
but little known episode of his career as an artist is for the first
time fully dealt with. His stay in France and his experiments under
the Directory and the Empire with the submarine and with the steamboat
are elucidated with the aid of documents preserved in the Archives
Nationales at Paris. His subsequent withdrawal from France and his
employment by the British Cabinet to destroy the Boulogne flotilla
that Napoleon had prepared in 1804 to invade England are gone into
fully. The latter part of his career in the United States, spent in
the introduction of steam navigation and in the construction of the
first steam-propelled warship, is of the greatest interest. With the
lapse of time facts assume naturally their true perspective. Fulton,
instead of being represented, according to the English point of view,
as a charlatan and even as a traitor, or from the Americans as a
universal genius, is cleared from these charges, and his pretensions
critically examined, with the result that he appears as a
cosmopolitan, an earnest student, a painstaking experimenter and an
enterprising engineer.
It is believed that practically nothing of moment in Fulton’s career
has been omitted. The illustrations, which are numerous, are drawn in
nearly every case from the original sources. It may confidently be
expected, therefore, that this book will take its place as the
authoritative biography which everyone interested in the subjects
enumerated above will require to possess.
A STAINED GLASS TOUR IN ITALY. By Charles H. Sherrill. Author of
“Stained Glass Tours in England,” “Stained Glass Tours in France,” etc.
With 33 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
⁂ Mr. Sherrill has already achieved success with his two previous
books on the subject of stained glass. In Italy he finds a new field,
which offers considerable scope for his researches. His present work
will appeal not only to tourists, but to the craftsmen, because of the
writer’s sympathy with the craft. Mr. Sherrill is not only an
authority whose writing is clear in style and full of understanding
for the requirements of the reader, but one whose accuracy and
reliability are unquestionable. This is the most important book
published on the subject with which it deals, and readers will find it
worthy to occupy the position.
SCENES AND MEMORIES OF THE PAST. By the Honble. Stephen Coleridge. With
numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ Mr. Stephen Coleridge has seen much of the world in two hemispheres
and has been able to count among his intimate personal friends many of
those whose names have made the Victorian age illustrious.
Mr. Coleridge fortunately kept a diary for some years of his life and
has religiously preserved the letters of his distinguished friends;
and in this book the public are permitted to enjoy the perusal of much
vitally interesting correspondence.
With a loving and appreciative hand the author sketches the characters
of many great men as they were known to their intimate associates.
Cardinals Manning and Newman, G. F. Watts, James Russell Lowell,
Matthew Arnold, Sir Henry Irving, Goldwin Smith, Lewis Morris, Sir
Stafford Northcote, Whistler, Oscar Wilde, Ruskin, and many others
famous in the nineteenth century will be found sympathetically dealt
with in this book.
During his visit to America as the guest of the American Bar in 1883,
Lord Coleridge, the Chief Justice, and the author’s father wrote a
series of letters, which have been carefully preserved, recounting his
impressions of the United States and of the leading citizens whom he
met.
Mr. Coleridge has incorporated portions of these letters from his
father in the volume, and they will prove deeply interesting on both
sides of the Atlantic.
Among the illustrations are many masterly portraits never before
published.
From the chapter on the author’s library, which is full of priceless
literary treasures, the reader can appreciate the appropriate
surroundings amid which this book was compiled.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE: HIS WORK, ASSOCIATES AND ORIGINALS. By T. H. S.
Escott. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ The author of this book has not solely relied for his materials on a
personal intimacy with its subject, during the most active years of
Trollope’s life, but from an equal intimacy with Trollope’s
contemporaries and from those who had seen his early life. He has
derived, and here sets forth, in chronological order, a series of
personal incidents and experiences that could not be gained but for
the author’s exceptional opportunities. These incidents have never
before appeared in print, but that are absolutely essential for a
right understanding of the opinions—social, political, and
religious—of which Trollope’s writings became the medium, as well as
of the chief personages in his stories, from the “Macdermots of
Ballycloran” (1847) to the posthumous “Land Leaguers” (1883). All
lifelike pictures, whether of place, individual, character of
incident, are painted from life. The entirely fresh light now thrown
on the intellectual and spiritual forces, chiefly felt by the novelist
during his childhood, youth and early manhood, helped to place within
his reach the originals of his long portrait gallery, and had their
further result in the opinions, as well as the estimates of events and
men in which his writings abound, and which, whether they cause
agreement or dissent, always reveal life, nature, and stimulate
thought. The man, who had for his Harrow schoolfellows Sidney Herbert
and Sir William Gregory, was subsequently brought into the closest
relations with the first State officials of his time, was himself one
of the most active agents in making penny postage a national and
imperial success, and when he planted the first pillar-box in the
Channel Islands, accomplished on his own initiative a great postal
reform. A life so active, varied and full, gave him a greater
diversity of friends throughout the British Isles than belonged to any
other nineteenth century worker, literary or official. Hence the
unique interest of Trollope’s course, and therefore this, its record.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH PATRIOTISM. By Esmé C Wingfield Stratford, Fellow
King’s College, Cambridge. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo. With a Frontispiece to
each volume, (1,300 pages). 25s. net.
⁂ This work compresses into about HALF A MILLION WORDS the substance
of EIGHT YEARS of uninterrupted labour.
The book has been read and enthusiastically commended by the leading
experts in the principal subjects embraced in this encyclopædic survey
of English History.
When this work was first announced under the above title, the
publisher suggested calling it “A New History of England.” Indeed it
is both. Mr. Wingfield Stratford endeavours to show how everything of
value that nations in general, and the English nation in particular,
have at any time achieved has been the direct outcome of the common
feeling upon which patriotism is built. He sees, and makes his readers
see, the manifold development of England as one connected whole with
no more branch of continuity than a living body or a perfect work of
art.
The author may fairly claim to have accomplished what few previous
historians have so much as attempted. He has woven together the
threads of religion, politics, war, philosophy, literature, painting,
architecture, law and commerce, into a narrative of unbroken and
absorbing interest.
The book is a world-book. Scholars will reconstruct their ideas from
it, economics examine the gradual fruition of trade, statesmen devise
fresh creative plans, and the general reader will feel he is no
insignificant unit, but the splendid symbol of a splendid world.
CHARLES CONDER: HIS LIFE AND WORK. By Frank Gibson. With a Catalogue of
the Lithographs and Etchings by Campbell Dodgson, M.S., Keeper of Prints
and Drawings, British Museum. With about 100 reproductions of Conder’s
work, 12 of which are in colour. Demy 4to. 21s. net.
⁂ With the exception of one or two articles in English Art Magazines,
and one or two in French, German, and American periodicals, no book up
to the present has appeared fully to record the life and work of
Charles Condor, by whose death English Art has lost one of its most
original personalities. Consequently it has been felt that a book
dealing with Conder’s life so full of interest, and his work so full
of charm and beauty, illustrated by characteristic examples of his Art
both in colour and in black and white, would be welcome to the already
great and increasing number of his admirers.
The author of this book, Mr. Frank Gibson, who knew Conder in his
early days in Australia and afterwards in England during the rest of
the artist’s life, is enabled in consequence to do full justice, not
only to the delightful character of Conder as a friend, but is also
able to appreciate his remarkable talent.
The interest and value of this work will be greatly increased by the
addition of a complete catalogue of Conder’s lithographs and
engravings, compiled by Mr. Campbell Dodgson, M.A., Keeper of the
Print-Room of the British Museum.
PHILIP DUKE OF WHARTON. By Lewis Melville. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 21s.
net.
⁂ A character more interesting than Philip, Duke of Wharton, does not
often fall to the lot of a biographer, yet, by some strange chance,
though nearly two hundred years have passed since that wayward genius
passed away, the present work is the first that gives a comprehensive
account of his life. A man of unusual parts and unusual charm, he at
once delighted and disgusted his contemporaries. Unstable as water, he
was like Dryden’s Zimri, “Everything by starts and nothing long.” He
was poet and pamphleteer, wit, statesman, buffoon, and amorist. The
son of one of the most stalwart supporters of the Hanoverian dynasty,
he went abroad and joined the Pretender, who created him a duke. He
then returned to England, renounced the Stuarts, and was by George I.
also promoted to a dukedom—while he was yet a minor. He was the friend
of Attenbury and the President of the Hell-Fire Club. At one time he
was leading Spanish troops against his countrymen, at another seeking
consolation in a monastery. It is said that he was the original of
Richardson’s Lovelace.
THE LIFE OF MADAME TALLIEN NOTRE DAME DE THERMIDOR (A Queen of Shreds
and Patches.) From the last days of the French Revolution, until her
death as Princess Chimay in 1885. By L. Gastine. Translated from the
French by J. Lewis May. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other
Illustrations Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ There is no one in the history of the French Revolution who has been
more eagerly canonised than Madame Tallien; yet according to M.
Gastine, there is no one in that history who merited canonisation so
little. He has therefore set himself the task of dissipating the mass
of legend and sentiment that has gathered round the memory of _“La
Belle Tallien”_ and of presenting her to our eyes as she really was.
The result of his labour is a volume, which combines the scrupulous
exactness of conscientious research with the richness and glamour of a
romance. In the place of the beautiful heroic but purely imaginary
figure of popular tradition, we behold a woman, dowered indeed with
incomparable loveliness, but utterly unmoral, devoid alike of heart
and soul, who readily and repeatedly prostituted her personal charms
for the advancement of her selfish and ignoble aims. Though Madame
Tallien is the central figure of the book, the reader is introduced to
many other personages who played famous or infamous roles in the
contemporary social or political arena, and the volume, which is
enriched by a number of interesting portraits, throws a new and
valuable light on this stormy and perennially fascinating period of
French history.
MINIATURES: A Series of Reproductions in Photogravure of Ninety-Six
Miniatures of Distinguished Personages, including Queen Alexandra, the
Queen of Norway, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Victoria. Painted
by Charles Turrell. (Folio.) The Edition is limited to One Hundred
Copies for sale in England and America, and Twenty-Five Copies for
Presentation, Review, and the Museums. Each will be Numbered and Signed
by the Artist. 15 guineas net.
RECOLLECTIONS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT. By his Valet François. Translated
from the French by Maurice Reynold. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
THE WIFE OF GENERAL BONAPARTE. By Joseph Turquan. Author of “The Love
Affairs of Napoleon,” etc. Translated from the French by Miss Violette
Montagu. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations.
Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ Although much has been written concerning the Empress Josephine, we
know comparatively little about the veuve Beauharnais and the
citoyenne Bonaparte, whose inconsiderate conduct during her husband’s
absence caused him so much anguish. We are so accustomed to consider
Josephine as the innocent victim of a cold and calculating tyrant who
allowed nothing, neither human lives nor natural affections, to stand
in the way of his all-conquering will, that this volume will come to
us rather as a surprise. Modern historians are over-fond of blaming
Napoleon for having divorced the companion of his early years; but
after having read the above work, the reader will be constrained to
admire General Bonaparte’s forbearance and will wonder how he ever
came to allow her to play the Queen at the Tuileries.
THE JOURNAL OF A SPORTING NOMAD. By J. T. STUDLEY. With a Portrait and
32 other Illustrations, principally from Photographs by the Author. Demy
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⁂ “Not for a long time have we read such straightforward, entertaining
accounts of wild sport and adventure.”—Manchester Guardian.
⁂ “His adventures have the whole world for their theatre. There is a
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to everybody.”—_Standard_.
SOPHIE DAWES, QUEEN OF CHANTILLY. By Violette M. Montagu. Author of “The
Scottish College in Paris,” etc. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16
other Illustrations and Three Plans. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ Among the many queens of France, queens by right of marriage with
the reigning sovereign, queens of beauty or of intrigue, the name of
Sophie Dawes, the daughter of humble fisherfolk in the Isle of Wight,
better known as “the notorious Mme. de Feucheres,” “The Queen of
Chantilly” and “The Montespan de Saint Leu” in the land which she
chose as a suitable sphere in which to exercise her talents for
money-making and for getting on in the world, stand forth as a proof
of what a woman’s will can accomplish when that will is accompanied
with an uncommon share of intelligence.
MARGARET OF FRANCE DUCHESS OF SAVOY. 1523-1574. A Biography with
Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations and Facsimile
Reproductions of Hitherto Unpublished Letters. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ A time when the Italians are celebrating the Jubilee of the Italian
Kingdom is perhaps no unfitting moment in which to glance back over
the annals of that royal House of Savoy which has rendered Italian
unity possible. Margaret of France may without exaggeration be counted
among the builders of modern Italy. She married Emanuel Philibert, the
founder of Savoyard greatness; and from the day of her marriage until
the day of her death she laboured to advance the interests of her
adopted land.
MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS AND HER TIMES. 1630-1676. By Hugh Stokes. With a
Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d.
net.
⁂ The name of Marie Marguerite d’Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, is
famous in the annals of crime, but the true history of her career is
little known. A woman of birth and rank, she was also a remorseless
poisoner, and her trial was one of the most sensational episodes of
the early reign of Louis XIV. The author was attracted to this curious
subject by Charles le Brun’s realistic sketch of the unhappy Marquise
as she appeared on her way to execution. This chef d’oeuvre of misery
and agony forms the frontispiece to the volume, and strikes a fitting
keynote to an absorbing story of human passion and wrong-doing.
THE VICISSITUDES OF A LADY-IN WAITING. 1735-1821. By Eugene Welvert.
Translated from the French by Lilian O’Neill. With a Photogravure
Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ The Duchesse de Narbonne-Lara was Lady-in-Waiting to Madame
Adelaide, the eldest daughter of Louis XV. Around the stately figure
of this Princess are gathered the most remarkable characters of the
days of the Old Regime, the Revolution and the first Empire. The great
charm of the work is that it takes us over so much and varied ground.
Here, in the gay crowd of ladies and courtiers, in the rustle of
flowery silken paniers, in the clatter of high-heeled shoes, move the
figures of Louis XV., Louis XVI., Du Barri and Marie-Antoinette. We
catch picturesque glimpses of the great wits, diplomatists and
soldiers of the time, until, finally we encounter Napoleon Bonaparte.
ANNALS OF A YORKSHIRE HOUSE. From the Papers of a Macaroni and his
kindred. By A. M. W. Stirling, author of “Coke of Norfolk and his
Friends.” With 33 Illustrations, including 3 in Colour and 3 in
Photogravure. Demy 8vo. 2 vols. 32s. net.
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH AND HIS FRIENDS. By S. M. Ellis. With upwards
of 50 Illustrations, 4 in Photogravure. 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 32s. net.
NAPOLEON AND KING MURAT. 1805-1815: A Biography compiled from hitherto
Unknown and Unpublished Documents. By Albert Espitalier. Translated from
the French by J. Lewis May. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16
other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
LADY CHARLOTTE SCHREIBER’S JOURNALS Confidences of a Collector of
Ceramics and Antiques throughout Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, and Turkey. From the year 1869 to 1885.
Edited by Montague Guest, with Annotations by Egan Mew. With upwards of
100 Illustrations, including 8 in colour and 2 in Photogravure. Royal
8vo. 2 volumes. 42s. net.
CHARLES DE BOURBON, CONSTABLE OF FRANCE: “The Great Condottiere.” By
Christopher Hare. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
THE NELSONS OF BURNHAM THORPE: A Record of a Norfolk Family compiled
from Unpublished Letters and Note Books, 1787-1843. Edited by M. Eyre
Matcham. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other illustrations.
Demy 8vo. 16s. net.
⁂ This interesting contribution to Nelson literature is drawn from the
journals and correspondence of the Rev. Edmund Nelson, Rector of
Burnham Thorpe and his youngest daughter, the father and sister of
Lord Nelson. The Rector was evidently a man of broad views and
sympathies, for we find him maintaining friendly relations with his
son and daughter-in-law after their separation. What is even more
strange, he felt perfectly at liberty to go direct from the house of
Mrs. Horatio Nelson in Norfolk to that of Sir William and Lady
Hamilton in London, where his son was staying. This book shows how
completely and without any reserve the family received Lady Hamilton.
MARIA EDGEWORTH AND HER CIRCLE IN THE DAYS OF BONAPARTE AND BOURBON. By
Constance Hill. Author of “Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends,”
“Juniper Hall,” “The House in St. Martin’s Street,” etc. With numerous
Illustrations by Ellen G. Hill and Reproductions of Contemporary
Portraits, etc. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.
CESAR FRANCK: A Study. Translated from the French of Vincent d’Indy,
with an Introduction by Rosa Newmarch. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
John Lane, The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, London, W.