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The Wonderful Weald and the Quest of the Crock of Gold.
By ARTHUR BECKETT, Author of "The Spirit of the Downs," "Emanc.i.p.ation,"
etc. With 20 Ill.u.s.trations in colour and 43 Initials by ERNEST MARILLIER. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
_Daily Telegraph_.--"A charmingly discursive, gossipy volume."
_Daily Chronicle_.--"A vast store of legends, facts, anecdotes, and customs of the Weald."
_Observer_.--"This buoyant and charming book."
_Sunday Times_.--" He adopts the quest in the Stevensonian manner, and creates the right atmosphere for the vivid presentment of the history and romance of the Weald. He knows the Weald so well, and can chat about it with such un.o.btrusive communicativeness, such a charm of literary allusion, and such whimsical humour, that we journey with him delightedly, and come to its end with regret."
Sixty-Eight Years on the Stage.
By MRS. CHARLES CALVERT. With a Photogravure and 17 Ill.u.s.trations.
Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
_Pall Mall Gazette_.--"Charming."
_Morning Post_.--"Agreeable and amusing."
_Westminster Gazette_.--"One of the most interesting works issued for some time."
Forty Years of Song.
By EMMA ALBANI. With a Frontispiece in Photogravure and 16 Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
_Spectator_.--"Her pleasant volume disarms criticism by its unfailing charity, goodwill, and cheerfulness."
_Westminster Gazette_.--"A very readable account of a very remarkable career."
_Standard_.--"Most interesting reading."
My Italian Year.
By RICHARD BAGOT, Author of "Casting of Nets," "A Roman Mystery,"
"Donna Diana," "The Lakes of Northern Italy," "The House of Serravalle," etc. With 25 Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
_The Observer_.--"'My Italian Year' will tell the reader more about the real present-day go-ahead Italy than any other book that has come to our notice."
_Daily Telegraph_.--"A thoughtful, knowledgeful book, and one that intending visitors to Italy will do well to read and ponder over."
_Daily Mail_.--"Absorbingly interesting."
_Daily Graphic_.--"Mr. Bagot knows the Italians better perhaps than any other English writer."
_Evening Standard_.--"No one can read this book without feeling convinced that they have facts before them."
Turkey and the Turks.
By Z. D. FERRIMAN, Author of "Home Life in h.e.l.las." With 16 Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
_Pall Mall Gazette_.--"This extremely fascinating and instructive volume is peculiarly welcome just now."
_Birmingham Daily Post_.--"An attractive book which helps us to see the Turk as he is, with occasional glimpses of the Turk's wife and children."
The Parson's Pleasance.
By P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.S.L., F.R.Hist.S., Author of "The Old-time Parson," etc. With 27 Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 10s.
6d. net.
_Daily Telegraph_.--"All lovers of the leisurely essay will here find a book after their own hearts."
Wagner at Home.
Fully translated from the French of Judith Gautier by EFFIE DUNREITH Ma.s.sIE. With 9 Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
_Tatler_.--"The whole book is very interesting indeed."
_Sketch_.--"None will have anything but praise for her most illuminating book."
Yvette Guilbert: Struggles and Victories.
By YVETTE GUILBERT and HAROLD SIMPSON. Profusely ill.u.s.trated with Caricatures, Portraits, Facsimiles of letters, etc. Demy 8vo. 10s.
6d. net.
_Daily Telegraph_.--"The volume is a real delight all through."
Sporting Stories.
By THORMANBY. Fully ill.u.s.trated. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
_Daily Express_.--"Contains the best collection of anecdotes of this generation. It is a perfect mine of good things."
My German Year.
By I. A. R. WYLIE, Author of "The Rajah's People." With 2 Ill.u.s.trations in Colour and 18 from Photographs. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
_Evening Standard_.--"Should be read by every household in the land."