_H. G. WELLS on America._
=The Future in America
A Search after Realities.=
=By H. G. WELLS=,
Author of “Anticipations,”
“Mankind in the Making,”
“A Modern Utopia,” &c.
=Demy 8vo.
10s. 6d. net.=
_The Future in America_ is an attempt to make a comprehensive picture of
one intelligent visitor’s impression of America as a whole. It contains
some vivid description of the town scenery of America, but it aims to be
much more than a record of things seen. There is a close and intimate
criticism of the economic process, enlivened by thumbnail sketches of
typical personalities, and a wide and acute review of the American mind.
Mr. Wells gives impressions of several American universities, makes a
vigorous onslaught on the culture of Boston and the refinement of
Washington; there are conversations with the President, Mr. Booker T.
Washington, and other typical figures.
_Prince Kropotkin’s New Book._
=The Conquest of Bread=
=By PRINCE PETER KROPOTKIN=,
Author of “Fields, Factories, and Workshops,”
“The Memoirs of a Revolutionist,” &c.
=Demy 8vo.
10s. 6d. net.=
This brilliantly-written, sincere, and penetrative study of modern
conditions of life and labour, by one of the foremost sociologists of
his age, must appeal to any one who is interested in the common welfare
of humanity. Examples are drawn from every European country, and a
definite programme laid down for the amelioration of contemporary
hardships and inequalities.
_New Work by L. T. HOBHOUSE._
=Morals in Evolution=
=A Study in Comparative Ethics.=
=By L. T. HOBHOUSE=,
Author of “The Labour Movement,”
“The Theory of Knowledge,”
“Mind in Evolution,”
“Democracy and Reaction,” &c.
=Two Volumes,
Demy 8vo.
21s. net.=
This book deals historically with the private and the moral
consciousness in man. It falls into two parts. The first deals with
custom, _i.e._ the rules of conduct which are generally recognised in
any society. The most important of these are discussed under different
heads, _e.g._ laws of marriage and the position of women; class
relations, caste, slavery and free labour; the laws of war; commercial
and private property; methods of providing for the poor. In each case
the attempt is made to sketch in outline the changes encountered as we
pass from the lowest savagery to contemporary civilisation. The second
volume deals with the ideas lying at the root of custom, _i.e._
principally in religion on its ethical side. Primitive religions are
briefly examined, and the principal ethical features of the great world
religions are passed in review. The ethical doctrines of Confucius and
of ancient and modern moral philosophy are next dealt with, and the work
concludes with certain inferences as to the general trend of ethical
development.
_A New Study of Rousseau._
=Jean Jacques Rousseau
A New Criticism.=
=By FREDERIKA MACDONALD=,
Author of “Iliad of the East,”
“Studies in the France of Voltaire and Rousseau.”
With Numerous Illustrations, Facsimiles, &c.
=Two Volumes,
Demy 8vo.
24s. net.=
This book claims to contain one of the most important literary
revelations ever made. The author has discovered that the original
documents upon which the existing view of Rousseau’s life and character
is based were entirely falsified by his enemies, and photographs are
given to show where the corrections have been made. The result is that
the whole story of Rousseau’s life will have to be reconsidered, and
that all existing biographies must be rectified.
The author contributes an introduction in which she states the purpose
and the method of her new criticism. The body of the book is divided
into five parts: Part I. showing the actual conditions of the question
before the new criticism commenced; Part II. giving details of the
historical inquiry, documentary proofs that Madame D’Epinay’s “Memoirs”
represent an instrument of the plot to create a false reputation for
Rousseau, and to hand it down to posterity; Part III. is devoted to the
plan and purpose of the false history of Rousseau interpolated in Madame
D’Epinay’s work, the mythical Jean Jacques of Grimm and Diderot, and
Diderot’s Tablettes and the legend of Rousseau’s seven crimes; Part IV.
deals with the legend of Rousseau’s seven crimes; whilst Part V. treats
of the _correspondance littéraire_: the second instrument of the plot.
A number of photographs and facsimiles of manuscripts are supplied with
the text.
_New Carlyle Letters._
=Carlyle and the London Library=
=A Collection of Original Letters to
W. D. Christie on the Founding of
the London Library in 1841.=
=By THOMAS CARLYLE.=
Arranged by MARY CHRISTIE, and Edited by FREDERIC HARRISON, Litt.D.
=Crown 8vo.
3s. 6d. net.=
Every one knows that it is to the energies of Thomas Carlyle that London
owes the great library bearing its name. Experiencing the great
disadvantage of not having books of reference at hand to work from, and
the utter impossibility of working on such gigantic schemes as his were
at the British Museum, he set on foot an agitation. The end was
recognised as good, and the great men of the day took up the cause and
carried it through. This little volume comprises the collection of
letters written by Carlyle to W. D. Christie, which brought about the
establishment of the valuable institution known as the London Library,
in St. James’s Square, now looked upon as indispensable.
_The Economics of the Future._
=The Return to the Land=
=By SENATOR JULES MELINE=,
Leader of the Moderate Republicans in France: Former Minister of
Agriculture; Minister of Commerce; Premier. With a Preface by JUSTIN
MCCARTHY.
=Crown 8vo.
5s. net.=
Mr. Justin McCarthy, in his Preface, says:—“This book seems to me
destined to make a deep mark upon the age. Senator Jules Méline, leader
of the Moderate Republicans in France, was Minister of Agriculture in
the Cabinet of Jules Ferry from 1883 to 1885; was elected President of
the representative chamber of France in 1889; and in 1896 became Prime
Minister, an office which he resigned not long after, having found
probably that his political views were not radical enough for the public
opinion of the country. The book is remarkable in every sense. With all
its practical teaching, with its minute and careful instruction on
manufacturing and industrial questions, there is not a dull page in it
from first to last. M. Méline has much of the feeling of the poet as
well as the reasoning power of the practical and the scientific teacher.
Even where the reader may not accept all the principles of political
economy on which M. Méline founds many parts of his case, that reader,
if he have an appreciative mind, cannot fail to admire the sincerity,
the power, and the persuasiveness of the author.
“The great object of the book is to convince the world that the return
to the land, and to the work which the land still offers in all or most
countries, is now the nearest and the surest means for the mitigation or
the removal of the troubles which have come on the working populations
everywhere, and that the present is the appropriate time for the
beginning of such a movement.
“The reader who begins this volume with nothing more than a creditable
desire to learn something about the development of manufacturing
industry here, there, and everywhere, soon finds himself absorbed in M.
Méline’s exposition as much as if he were reading a story of magic from
the _Thousand and One Nights_.”
_Reminiscences of an Actor._
=Joseph Jefferson
Reminiscences of a Fellow-Player.=
=By FRANCIS WILSON=,
Author of “The Eugene Field I Knew,”
“Recollections of a Player,” &c., &c.
With 33 Portraits and other Illustrations.
=Demy 8vo.
10s. 6d. net.=
It is seldom that a biographic volume brings together more fitly the
subject and the chronicler than does this juxtaposition of Joseph
Jefferson and Francis Wilson. Men in the same profession, they were
still further sympathetic by reason of their love of good books and good
pictures, and through their kindly and humorous view of human nature,
and in their enjoyment of the oddities of every-day life and character.
For many years Mr. Wilson was a hero-worshipper of Joseph Jefferson; as
a small boy he rubbed against him in the street, in order, boy-fashion,
to feel that he had touched the hem of his garment. When he grew to know
the man, he set down from time to time a full record of Jefferson’s
charming conversation. During the weeks of the all-star tour he made a
further record of the table-talk of Mr. Jefferson when surrounded with
that splendid body of actors which included Mrs. Drew, William H. Crane,
the Hollands, Julia Marlowe, Nat Goodwin, Fanny Rice, Robert Taber, and
Mr. Wilson himself. It was a company to draw out the best of Jefferson’s
varied experiences, and the best was set down by Mr. Wilson, and has
been reproduced in this delightful volume of reminiscences. Mr. Wilson
has written one of those books about the American stage that is sure to
have a permanent place; and moreover, by the good taste with which he
has written it, and by the excellent literary skill which he has shown,
he has produced a volume worthy of very high praise as a literary
performance.
_A Study of Hypnotism._
=Hypnotism and Spiritism
A Critical and Medical Study.=
=By Dr. GIUSEPPE LAPPONI=,
Chief Physician to Their Holinesses Leo XIII. and Pius X.;
Professor of Anthropology in the Academy at Rome.
Translated by Mrs. PHILIP GIBBS.
=Crown 8vo.
6s.=
This book, which has made a tremendous stir upon the Continent, traces
the study of Hypnotism and Spiritism from the earliest ages to the
present day, and defines the future of the science and its probable
bearing upon national life.
_A New Work by CHARLES G. HARPER._
=The Old Inns of Old England=
=A Picturesque Account of the Ancient
and Storied Hostelries of our own
Country.=
=By CHARLES G. HARPER=,
Author of “The Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore,”
“The Brighton Road,” &c., &c.
With upwards of 200 Illustrations, chiefly by the Author.
=Two Volumes,
Demy 8vo.
Gilt Top,
42s. net.=
Principal Chapters: General History of Inns—Pilgrims’ Inns and Monastic
Hostels—Inns in Literature—Pickwickian Inns—Dickensian Inns—Inns of Old
Romance—Rural Inns—Inns with Relics and Curiosities—Rhymes and
Inscriptions—Visitors’ Books—Innkeepers’ Epitaphs—Signs Painted by
Artists—Queer Signs in Quaint Places—Historic Inns—Highwaymen’s Inns—The
Highest Inns in England—Ingle-Nooks—Inns Retired from Business.
It is somewhat singular that no book has hitherto been published dealing
either largely or exclusively with inns and their story. This vacant
niche in the literature of the road is filled by the present volumes,
the latest in the series of works on the Historic Roads of England, and
the literature of travel in general, written by Mr. Charles G. Harper,
and intended eventually to comprise every aspect of our ancient
highways, and the life upon them in days of yore. It is believed that,
while, of necessity, not every picturesque inn could be mentioned or
illustrated in two large volumes, a fully representative set has been
included.
As in his earlier works, the author’s aim has been the entirely modern
one of seeking to amuse and interest the general reader, and the book is
therefore in no sense an architectural or antiquarian disquisition.
_A Study in Sociology._
=The Polish Jew
His Social and Economic Value.=
=By BEATRICE C. BASKERVILLE.=
=Demy 8vo.
10s. 6d. net.=
“Many of the facts set forth in the book are so much at variance with
accepted opinions of the Polish Jew—both in Great Britain and the United
States of America—that I have been advised to preface them with the
assurance that they are not the outcome of a short visit to Poland, but
the result of eight years’ residence in the country. During this time I
have had every opportunity of observing the Polish Jew both in the towns
and settlements, and have been in contact with the leaders of thought on
all sides of the question from the Anti-Semite to the Jewish
nationalist. I have witnessed the growth of that revival which has now
spread throughout most of the settlements and all the large ghettos of
the country, and which has engendered hostility to the Gentile and
revolution against the powers that be. The fact that thousands of the
men and women here discussed annually emigrate to compete with the
English-speaking nations, has caused me to investigate their social and
economic value the more carefully, both for the sake of the pauper
aliens themselves and for that of the people among whom they eventually
settle.”—Extract from Author’s Preface.