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Mr.EVELEIGH NASH'S LIST OF NEW BOOKS
"MY PAST"
MR. EVELEIGH NASH has acquired the world-rights of a sensational autobiography written by a relative of one of the reigning monarchs of Europe.
The memoirs, which are now in active preparation, will be published under the above title during the London season, but, owing to the terms of his agreement with the personage in question, Mr. Nash is unable to give particulars at present. The identity of the author and full details regarding the book will be announced in April.
MR. EVELEIGH NASH'S NEW BOOKS
ADVENTURES BEYOND THE ZAMBESIOf the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier-Man, and the Rebel Woman.By MRS. FRED MATURIN(Edith Cecil-Porch)
With Illustrations Price 10s.6d.net.
Four widely diverse, yet up-to-date people agreed to seek together the risks, excitements, discomforts and delights of sport, adventure and companionship beyond the Zambesi. One of these was Mrs. Fred Maturin (Mrs. Cecil-Porch) whose previous book "Petticoat Pilgrims on Trek" showed that she possesses a rare power of vivid and amusing narrative. Wanderers and stay-at-homes will revel in her lively description of the six months' trip of this delightful quartette in quest of big game and sport in the African wilds. Her buoyant optimism and her rich sense of humour found full play in the many adventures that befel them, and it is just this humorous, friendly and intrepid outlook of hers that lends such charm to her written record. The book is illustrated with some remarkably good photographs.
SPORTING RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD 'UNBy FRANK N. STREATFIELD, C.M.G.(Author of "Reminiscences of an Old 'Un.")
Illustrated Price 7s.6d.net.
A book after the heart of all good sportsmen, brimming over with cheerfulness and good fellowship. The author, who has been a universally popular figure in sporting circles for over a quarter of a century, relates many amusing anecdotes on shooting of every description, fishing, falconry and cricket, and has packed his book with incidents of interest to all who use the rod and gun.
THE ROMANCE OF THE ROTHSCHILDSBy IGNATIUS BALLA
Illustrated Price 7s.6d.net.
A full and picturesque narrative of the rise of the House of Rothschild. The characteristics and early vicissitudes of the famous Five Frankfurters who laid the foundations of the House are shown, and many amusing anecdotes are related of them in Mr. Balla's book.
Some Early Press Opinions
"The author takes us, in a sense, behind the scenes, gives us a hundred details of the Rothschilds' methods, and shows us, step by step, how the accumulation of these enormous sums was made possible."—The Globe.
"Extremely interesting."—Daily Express.
"Interesting all the way through."—Standard.
"Abounds in interesting quotations and anecdotes."—Liverpool Daily Post.
THE MARRIED LIFE OF QUEEN VICTORIABy CLARE JERROLD
Author of "The Early Court of Queen Victoria," etc.
Illustrated. Price 15s.net.
In this volume Mrs. Jerrold carries a stage further her interesting study of Queen Victoria's life. She endeavours to tell the real truth regarding the Queen's married life and her relations with the Prince Consort, and in doing so relies on their own recorded actions and words rather than upon the highly coloured and in many cases exaggerated pictures presented by the "lives" of Prince Albert which were authorised by the Queen.
The result is a human and fascinating story. The relations of the Queen and Prince with those around them, with their children and with their ministers—especially their hatred and fear of Palmerston—their love for Louis-Philippe, for the German confederation, and their complacency towards Russia are all dealt with and throw a strong new light upon the English Court during the years in which Prince Albert was virtually King.
THE SAILOR WHOM ENGLAND FEAREDBeing the Story of Paul Jones, Scotch Naval Adventurer and Admiral in the American and Russian Fleets.By M. MACDERMOT CRAWFORD.Author of "The Wife of Lafayette."
Illustrated. Price 15s.net.
John Paul Jones was unquestionably one of the most striking characters of the eighteenth century. Born in 1747, the son of a gardener in Kirkcudbrightshire, he was, at the age of seventeen, third mate on a slaver, at twenty a merchant captain; at twenty-eight lieutenant in the United States Revolutionary Navy; at twenty-nine a captain; at thirty-two commodore, "the ocean hero of the Old World and the New," spoiled, adulated, petted by great and small. A vice-admiral in the Russian Navy at forty-three—at forty-five he was dead!
A traitor who terrorised his countrymen, known alternately as "rebel," "corsair," and "pirate," Paul Jones was none the less a man of rare distinction and ability—a brilliant seaman endowed with courage and determination; and the record of his deeds is a story of unflagging interest.
A CANDID HISTORY OF THE JESUITSBy JOSEPH McCABE.Author of "The Decay of the Church of Rome," "Twelve Years in a Monastery," &c.
Price 10s.6d.net.
It is curious, in view of the endless discussion of the Jesuits, that no English writer has ever attempted a systematic history of that body. Probably no religious body ever had so romantic a history as the Jesuits, or inspired such deadly hatred. On the other hand, histories of the famous society are almost always too prejudiced, either for or against, to be reliable. Mr. McCabe, whose striking book "The Decay of the Church of Rome" attracted such widespread and well-merited attention, has attempted, in his new book, to give the facts impartially, and to enable the inquirer to form an intelligent idea of the history and character of the Jesuits from their foundation by Loyola to the present day. Every phase of their remarkable story—including the activity of political Jesuits and their singular behaviour on the foreign missions—is carefully studied, and the record of the Jesuits in England is very fully examined.
A KEEPER OF ROYAL SECRETSBeing the Private and Political Life of Madame de Genlis.By JEAN HARMAND
Illustrated. Price 15s.net.
The career of Madame de Genlis is one of the baffling enigmas of history. For the greater part of her life she played an importantrolein the social and political life of France.
By virtue of her intimate association with Philip Egalité, Duc d'Orleans, and her high position as the Governor of Louis Philippe and the other Orleans children, the influence she wielded practically amounted to royal power.
She cast her spell over a wide circle, winning admiration even from her enemies, and yet her life has been the subject of a storm of scandalous reports and speculations.
What was her exact relationship to the Duke? was she the mother of the famous "Pamela" whom Lord Edward Fitzgerald married? what was her share in the astounding affair of "Maria Stella"? what part did she play in the Revolution?—these are some of the mysteries surrounding her on which M. Harmand, with the help of many unpublished letters and documents, throws much new light.
The whole truth will probably never be known, but M. Harmand in his elaborate biography gives us an immensely fascinating and vivid story, and unearths many new details regarding her curious and romantic life.
THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMENBy C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY(Mrs.Walter M. Gallichan)
Price 6s.
This book is the outcome of twelve years' careful study of the conditions of women in this country and abroad. Believing that the time has now arrived when women must speak out, fearlessly, the truth about their own sex, the author has endeavoured to review the situation as it appears to her after her lengthy study of the subject. Her book is divided into three parts—the biological consideration of the question—the historical consideration, and the present day aspects of the woman problem. It is a book of much plain speaking and closely reasoned argument and, whether or not one agrees with its conclusions and directness, it is a work which undoubtedly merits the attention of every responsible person, male and female.
BY-PATHS IN COLLECTINGBy VIRGINIA ROBIE.
Profusely illustrated. Price 7s.6d.net.
Every enthusiast over rare and unique things which have passed the century-old mark will want this delightful book by Virginia Robie. It contains a wealth of sound advice upon the quest of the quaint, and much reliable information is given upon the collecting of such things as china, furniture, pewter, copper, brass, samplers, and sundials.
PRINTS AND THEIR MAKERSEssays on Engravers and Etchers Old and ModernEdited by FITZROY CARRINGTON
With 200 Illustrations. Price 10s.6d.net.
A volume exquisite in every detail of the planning and making. The chapters—contributed by notable authorities—discuss various phases of etching and engraving from the time of Raphael and Durer to the close of the nineteenth century. The plates for the illustrations (200) have all been made with unusual care from original engravings and etchings, and together form a valuable collection.
New Six-Shilling Novels.
VEILED WOMENBy MARMADUKE PICKTHALLAuthor of "Saïd the Fisherman," "Children of the Nile," etc.
A fine novel of the East telling the life story of an English girl who marries an Egyptian noble and lives the harem life. The gradual mental and physical effect of the secluded life of the harem upon a healthy western woman is shown with great effect, while the story of her ineffectual appeal to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of Occupation to take her back, of her escape from the harem and flight into the desert, of her return and eventual relapse into a state of resigned contentment with her lot, will appeal strongly to every woman. The wonderful world of the Cairene women, their comings and goings, their intrigues, their pleasures and pastimes, the gorgeous colouring and the subtle perfume of their surroundings, the mystery, the charm and the insidious influence of the harem life are depicted with the brilliance of characterisation and richness of detail that one has come to expect from the author of "Saïd the Fisherman."
LADY OF THE NIGHTBy BENJAMIN SWIFT
A charming story centreing round the romantic attachment of two delightful people—Ysmyn Veltry, the daughter of a wealthy French perfume manufacturer and Vivian Darsay, a great-grandson of an old Crimean veteran, Colonel Darsay—whom, years before the story opens, chance had brought together and made playmates of among the perfumed fields of roses, jasmine and all the other fragrant flowers which surrounded Veltry's world-renowned distillery at Grasse.
At the instigation of an ambitious sister-in-law, Veltry has come to London to inaugurate, on lines which shall outvie in magnificence any similar establishment, a shop in which to sell his perfumes. Ysmyn and Vivian meet again under dramatic and greatly changed conditions to find their path to happiness beset with difficulties, and it is not until the "Maison Merveille," which has quickly become the talk of fashionable London and developed into a veritable "palace of beauty culture" is, in the height of its success, overtaken by disaster, that the "Lady of the Night"—so called after jasmine, her father's favourite flower—becomes the wife of her erstwhile playmate.
THE EMPEROR'S SPYBy HECTOR FLEISCHMANN
"The Emperor's Spy," which deals with the struggle between Napoleon Bonaparte's secret police, headed by a beautiful woman spy—Elvire—and a gang of daring Royalist conspirators led by Georges Cadoudal and the Chevalier Lahaye Saint Hilare, is one of the most exciting, vivid and elaborate historical novels since Dumas's "Three Musketeers."
Famous historical characters, from Napoleon downwards, crowd its pages. Incident follows incident in quick succession, and plot is met by counter-plot, until, at last, under the shadow of the wild cliffs of Brittany the Emperor's Spy, having achieved the crowning triumph of her life, meets with a swift and tragic death at the hands of the last of the Royalists. The book is 576 pages long and there is not one page of this tremendous story which does not glow with living, human interest.
GLOOMY FANNY AND OTHER STORIESBy MORLEY ROBERTSAuthor of "Thorpe's Way," "David Bran," etc.
Readers of Mr. Morley Roberts's novel "Thorpe's Way" will remember that "Gloomy Fanny," otherwise the Hon. Edwin Fanshawe, was one of the most amusing characters in that very amusing story.
I'D VENTURE ALL FOR THEEBy J.S. FLETCHERAuthor of "The Town of Crooked Ways," "The Fine Air of Morning," etc.
A story of the Yorkshire coast, 1745.
THE LOST MILLIONby WILLIAM LE QUEUXAuthor of "The Mystery of Nine," "Without Trace," etc., etc.
CARNACKITHE GHOST-FINDERBy WILLIAM HOPE HODGSONAuthor of "The Night Land," "The Boats of Glen Carig," etc.
A NEW NOVELBy LADY TROWBRIDGE
A HAREM ROMANCEBy E. DE LA VILLENEUVE
A very lifelike picture of the Young Turk Revolution is contained in this novel. A double love story, full of thrilling incidents, is woven into the web of public events, the two heroines, one a lovely Turkish girl, the other a beautiful Armenian, having each been prisoners in the Palace of Yildiz. The personality of Abdul Hamid is vividly realised, and the cruel oppression to which he subjected the inmates of his harem is graphically described.
Three-and-Sixpence Net Novels.
POISONBy ALICE AND CLAUDE ASKEWAuthors of "The Shulamite," "The Woman Deborah," etc.
ROADS OF DESTINYBy O. HENRYAuthor of "Cabbages and Kings," "Heart of the West," etc.
Two-Shilling Net Novels.
QUEEN SHEBA'S RING By H. RIDER HAGGARDAuthor of "King Solomon's Mines," etc.
THE MYSTERY OF NINEBy WILLIAM LE QUEUXAuthor of "Without Trace," etc., etc.
SETH OF THE CROSSBy ALPHONSE COURLANDERAuthor of "Mightier than the Sword."