BRITISH BATTLE BOOKSIllustrated with Coloured MapsBY HILAIRE BELLOCF’cap8vo, cloth,1s. net; leather,2s.6d. netHISTORY IN WARFAREThe British Battle Series will consist of a number of monographs upon actions in which British troops have taken part. Each battle will be the subject of a separate booklet illustrated with coloured maps, illustrative of the movements described in the text, together with a large number of line maps showing the successive details of the action. In each case the political circumstances which led to the battle will be explained; next, the stages leading up to it; lastly, the action in detail.1. BLENHEIM2. MALPLAQUET3. TOURCOING4. WATERLOOLater volumes will deal with Crecy, Poitiers, Corunna, Talaveras, Flodden, The Siege of Valenciennes, Vittoria, Toulouse.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BRITISH BATTLE BOOKSIllustrated with Coloured MapsBY HILAIRE BELLOCF’cap8vo, cloth,1s. net; leather,2s.6d. netHISTORY IN WARFAREThe British Battle Series will consist of a number of monographs upon actions in which British troops have taken part. Each battle will be the subject of a separate booklet illustrated with coloured maps, illustrative of the movements described in the text, together with a large number of line maps showing the successive details of the action. In each case the political circumstances which led to the battle will be explained; next, the stages leading up to it; lastly, the action in detail.1. BLENHEIM2. MALPLAQUET3. TOURCOING4. WATERLOOLater volumes will deal with Crecy, Poitiers, Corunna, Talaveras, Flodden, The Siege of Valenciennes, Vittoria, Toulouse.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
Illustrated with Coloured Maps
BY HILAIRE BELLOC
F’cap8vo, cloth,1s. net; leather,2s.6d. net
HISTORY IN WARFARE
The British Battle Series will consist of a number of monographs upon actions in which British troops have taken part. Each battle will be the subject of a separate booklet illustrated with coloured maps, illustrative of the movements described in the text, together with a large number of line maps showing the successive details of the action. In each case the political circumstances which led to the battle will be explained; next, the stages leading up to it; lastly, the action in detail.
1. BLENHEIM2. MALPLAQUET3. TOURCOING4. WATERLOO
Later volumes will deal with Crecy, Poitiers, Corunna, Talaveras, Flodden, The Siege of Valenciennes, Vittoria, Toulouse.
London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
THE PARTY SYSTEMBY HILAIRE BELLOC AND CECIL CHESTERTONCrown8vo.3s.6d. netTHE THOUGHTS OF THINKING MENNo book of the present season has been so much praised—and so much reviled: reviled by most of the Party organs, praised by independent papers. And yet mark the agreement of the following, as wide asunder as the poles often in their views.“Embodies the silent thoughts of almost all thinking men of to-day.”—The Evening Times.TheStarsays:—“Says in plain English what everybody in touch with reality thinks.”Lord Robert Cecil, in theMorning Post, says:—“So far the authors of ‘The Party System’ only say in plain terms what everyone who has been in Parliament knows to be in substance true.”“A complete proof of the necessity of restoring power to the people.”—The Daily Express.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
THE PARTY SYSTEMBY HILAIRE BELLOC AND CECIL CHESTERTONCrown8vo.3s.6d. netTHE THOUGHTS OF THINKING MENNo book of the present season has been so much praised—and so much reviled: reviled by most of the Party organs, praised by independent papers. And yet mark the agreement of the following, as wide asunder as the poles often in their views.“Embodies the silent thoughts of almost all thinking men of to-day.”—The Evening Times.TheStarsays:—“Says in plain English what everybody in touch with reality thinks.”Lord Robert Cecil, in theMorning Post, says:—“So far the authors of ‘The Party System’ only say in plain terms what everyone who has been in Parliament knows to be in substance true.”“A complete proof of the necessity of restoring power to the people.”—The Daily Express.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY HILAIRE BELLOC AND CECIL CHESTERTON
Crown8vo.3s.6d. net
THE THOUGHTS OF THINKING MEN
No book of the present season has been so much praised—and so much reviled: reviled by most of the Party organs, praised by independent papers. And yet mark the agreement of the following, as wide asunder as the poles often in their views.
“Embodies the silent thoughts of almost all thinking men of to-day.”—The Evening Times.
TheStarsays:—“Says in plain English what everybody in touch with reality thinks.”
Lord Robert Cecil, in theMorning Post, says:—“So far the authors of ‘The Party System’ only say in plain terms what everyone who has been in Parliament knows to be in substance true.”
“A complete proof of the necessity of restoring power to the people.”—The Daily Express.
London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
GORDON AT KHARTOUMBY WILFRED SCAWEN BLUNT15s. netPRIVATE AND INTIMATEThis book follows the lines of the author’s works on Egypt and India, consisting mainly of a private diary of a very intimate kind, and will bring down his narrative of events to the end of 1885.The present volume is designed especially as an answer to Lord Cromer’sModern Egypt, in so far as it concerned Gordon, and contains several important and hitherto unpublished documents throwing new light upon a case of perennial interest.It also includes an account of the author’s relations with Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Mr Gladstone, Mr Parnell, and other political personages of the day, as well as of the General Election of 1885, in which the author stood as a Tory Home Ruler.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
GORDON AT KHARTOUMBY WILFRED SCAWEN BLUNT15s. netPRIVATE AND INTIMATEThis book follows the lines of the author’s works on Egypt and India, consisting mainly of a private diary of a very intimate kind, and will bring down his narrative of events to the end of 1885.The present volume is designed especially as an answer to Lord Cromer’sModern Egypt, in so far as it concerned Gordon, and contains several important and hitherto unpublished documents throwing new light upon a case of perennial interest.It also includes an account of the author’s relations with Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Mr Gladstone, Mr Parnell, and other political personages of the day, as well as of the General Election of 1885, in which the author stood as a Tory Home Ruler.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY WILFRED SCAWEN BLUNT
15s. net
PRIVATE AND INTIMATE
This book follows the lines of the author’s works on Egypt and India, consisting mainly of a private diary of a very intimate kind, and will bring down his narrative of events to the end of 1885.
The present volume is designed especially as an answer to Lord Cromer’sModern Egypt, in so far as it concerned Gordon, and contains several important and hitherto unpublished documents throwing new light upon a case of perennial interest.
It also includes an account of the author’s relations with Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Mr Gladstone, Mr Parnell, and other political personages of the day, as well as of the General Election of 1885, in which the author stood as a Tory Home Ruler.
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AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORKBY JUVENALCrown8vo.5s. netVIVID ORIGINALITYIn these notes and studies on life in New York, Juvenal, by his vivid originality and his masterly deductions, has surpassed all other writers who have written on the same subject.Mr Eden Phillpotts writes of the Author: “The things seen are brilliantly set down. He writes with great force and skill.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORKBY JUVENALCrown8vo.5s. netVIVID ORIGINALITYIn these notes and studies on life in New York, Juvenal, by his vivid originality and his masterly deductions, has surpassed all other writers who have written on the same subject.Mr Eden Phillpotts writes of the Author: “The things seen are brilliantly set down. He writes with great force and skill.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY JUVENAL
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VIVID ORIGINALITY
In these notes and studies on life in New York, Juvenal, by his vivid originality and his masterly deductions, has surpassed all other writers who have written on the same subject.
Mr Eden Phillpotts writes of the Author: “The things seen are brilliantly set down. He writes with great force and skill.”
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PRINCE AZREELA Poem with Prose NotesBY ARTHUR LYNCHCrown8vo.5s. netDIRECT—INSPIRING—COMPELLINGThe cry for something new in literature, the indefinable, the unexpected, has been answered. Prince Azreel comes to claim his place, not as one who has sounded the depths and shoals of the current modes of the day, but as one entirely careless of these things, discoursing freely of life, easily throughout its whole purport and scope.The Devil comes into the action, but he also is new—rather the Spirit of the World, “man’s elder brother.” His methods are those neither ofFaustnor ofParadise Regained. His temptations are suasive, his lures less material.In the search for the Ideal of statesmanship Azreel and the Devil come to our own Parliament, Azreel filled with warm enthusiasm, high conceptions. They see, they learn; they discover “types,” and discuss them. We find the Devil at length defending the Commons, supplying the corrective to Azreel’s strange disillusions. This part will not be the least piquant.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
PRINCE AZREELA Poem with Prose NotesBY ARTHUR LYNCHCrown8vo.5s. netDIRECT—INSPIRING—COMPELLINGThe cry for something new in literature, the indefinable, the unexpected, has been answered. Prince Azreel comes to claim his place, not as one who has sounded the depths and shoals of the current modes of the day, but as one entirely careless of these things, discoursing freely of life, easily throughout its whole purport and scope.The Devil comes into the action, but he also is new—rather the Spirit of the World, “man’s elder brother.” His methods are those neither ofFaustnor ofParadise Regained. His temptations are suasive, his lures less material.In the search for the Ideal of statesmanship Azreel and the Devil come to our own Parliament, Azreel filled with warm enthusiasm, high conceptions. They see, they learn; they discover “types,” and discuss them. We find the Devil at length defending the Commons, supplying the corrective to Azreel’s strange disillusions. This part will not be the least piquant.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
A Poem with Prose Notes
BY ARTHUR LYNCH
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DIRECT—INSPIRING—COMPELLING
The cry for something new in literature, the indefinable, the unexpected, has been answered. Prince Azreel comes to claim his place, not as one who has sounded the depths and shoals of the current modes of the day, but as one entirely careless of these things, discoursing freely of life, easily throughout its whole purport and scope.
The Devil comes into the action, but he also is new—rather the Spirit of the World, “man’s elder brother.” His methods are those neither ofFaustnor ofParadise Regained. His temptations are suasive, his lures less material.
In the search for the Ideal of statesmanship Azreel and the Devil come to our own Parliament, Azreel filled with warm enthusiasm, high conceptions. They see, they learn; they discover “types,” and discuss them. We find the Devil at length defending the Commons, supplying the corrective to Azreel’s strange disillusions. This part will not be the least piquant.
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POEMSBY CHARLES GRANVILLEF’cap4to.5s. net.REAL POETIC TALENTThe present volume is composed of a selection from the previous poetical works of the Author, who is also well known as a writer of prose. The distinctive feature of the poems in this collection—the feature, indeed, that marks off and differentiates the work of this poet from the mass of verse produced to-day—is their spiritual insight. Mr Granville is concerned with the soul of man, with the eternal rather than the transitory, and his perception, which is that of the seer, invests his language with that quality of ecstasy that constitutes the indisputable claim of poetry to rank in the forefront of literature.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
POEMSBY CHARLES GRANVILLEF’cap4to.5s. net.REAL POETIC TALENTThe present volume is composed of a selection from the previous poetical works of the Author, who is also well known as a writer of prose. The distinctive feature of the poems in this collection—the feature, indeed, that marks off and differentiates the work of this poet from the mass of verse produced to-day—is their spiritual insight. Mr Granville is concerned with the soul of man, with the eternal rather than the transitory, and his perception, which is that of the seer, invests his language with that quality of ecstasy that constitutes the indisputable claim of poetry to rank in the forefront of literature.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY CHARLES GRANVILLE
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REAL POETIC TALENT
The present volume is composed of a selection from the previous poetical works of the Author, who is also well known as a writer of prose. The distinctive feature of the poems in this collection—the feature, indeed, that marks off and differentiates the work of this poet from the mass of verse produced to-day—is their spiritual insight. Mr Granville is concerned with the soul of man, with the eternal rather than the transitory, and his perception, which is that of the seer, invests his language with that quality of ecstasy that constitutes the indisputable claim of poetry to rank in the forefront of literature.
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THE HUMOUR OF THE UNDERMANAnd Other EssaysBY FRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap8vo.3s.6d. netCHARACTERISTICALLY INCISIVEThis volume contains the latest work of the greatest Essayist of our time. Maurice Maeterlinck has said of the Author, “He has, in his best moments, that most rare gift of casting certain shafts of light, at once simple and decisive, upon questions the most difficult, obscure, and unlooked for in Art, Morals, and Psychology ... essays among the most subtle and substantial that I know.”This opinion has been endorsed by every critic of note in the British Isles and in the United States of America. Indeed, in the latter country a veritable Grierson cult has sprung into existence.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
THE HUMOUR OF THE UNDERMANAnd Other EssaysBY FRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap8vo.3s.6d. netCHARACTERISTICALLY INCISIVEThis volume contains the latest work of the greatest Essayist of our time. Maurice Maeterlinck has said of the Author, “He has, in his best moments, that most rare gift of casting certain shafts of light, at once simple and decisive, upon questions the most difficult, obscure, and unlooked for in Art, Morals, and Psychology ... essays among the most subtle and substantial that I know.”This opinion has been endorsed by every critic of note in the British Isles and in the United States of America. Indeed, in the latter country a veritable Grierson cult has sprung into existence.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
And Other Essays
BY FRANCIS GRIERSON
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This volume contains the latest work of the greatest Essayist of our time. Maurice Maeterlinck has said of the Author, “He has, in his best moments, that most rare gift of casting certain shafts of light, at once simple and decisive, upon questions the most difficult, obscure, and unlooked for in Art, Morals, and Psychology ... essays among the most subtle and substantial that I know.”
This opinion has been endorsed by every critic of note in the British Isles and in the United States of America. Indeed, in the latter country a veritable Grierson cult has sprung into existence.
London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
LA VIE ET LES HOMMESBY FRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap.8vo.3s.6d. netPENSÉES PIQUANTES, INDÉPENDANTESSully Prudhomme(de l’Académie Française):—“J’ai trouvé ces méditations pleines d’aperçus profonds et sagaces. J’ai été frappé de l’originalité puissante de la pensée de l’auteur.”Jules Claretie(de l’Académie Française):—“J’ai été charmé par les idées originales et justes.”L’AbbéJoseph Roux:—“Il y a là des vues originales, des appréciations neuves et frappantes.”Frédéric Mistral:—“Ces pensées m’ont paru neuves et piquantes, et indépendantes de cette ambiance de préjugés à laquelle il est si difficile d’échapper.”Le PèreP. V. Delaporte, S.J.(Rédacteur des Etudes Religieuses):—“J’ai admiré dans ces pages délicates l’artiste, le penseur et l’écrivain, et j’ai été singulièrement touché de la façon dont vous appréciez le génie français. Vous avez su le comprendre et vous avez dit votre pensée franchement, je pouvais ajouterfrançaisement.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
LA VIE ET LES HOMMESBY FRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap.8vo.3s.6d. netPENSÉES PIQUANTES, INDÉPENDANTESSully Prudhomme(de l’Académie Française):—“J’ai trouvé ces méditations pleines d’aperçus profonds et sagaces. J’ai été frappé de l’originalité puissante de la pensée de l’auteur.”Jules Claretie(de l’Académie Française):—“J’ai été charmé par les idées originales et justes.”L’AbbéJoseph Roux:—“Il y a là des vues originales, des appréciations neuves et frappantes.”Frédéric Mistral:—“Ces pensées m’ont paru neuves et piquantes, et indépendantes de cette ambiance de préjugés à laquelle il est si difficile d’échapper.”Le PèreP. V. Delaporte, S.J.(Rédacteur des Etudes Religieuses):—“J’ai admiré dans ces pages délicates l’artiste, le penseur et l’écrivain, et j’ai été singulièrement touché de la façon dont vous appréciez le génie français. Vous avez su le comprendre et vous avez dit votre pensée franchement, je pouvais ajouterfrançaisement.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY FRANCIS GRIERSON
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PENSÉES PIQUANTES, INDÉPENDANTES
Sully Prudhomme(de l’Académie Française):—“J’ai trouvé ces méditations pleines d’aperçus profonds et sagaces. J’ai été frappé de l’originalité puissante de la pensée de l’auteur.”
Jules Claretie(de l’Académie Française):—“J’ai été charmé par les idées originales et justes.”
L’AbbéJoseph Roux:—“Il y a là des vues originales, des appréciations neuves et frappantes.”
Frédéric Mistral:—“Ces pensées m’ont paru neuves et piquantes, et indépendantes de cette ambiance de préjugés à laquelle il est si difficile d’échapper.”
Le PèreP. V. Delaporte, S.J.(Rédacteur des Etudes Religieuses):—“J’ai admiré dans ces pages délicates l’artiste, le penseur et l’écrivain, et j’ai été singulièrement touché de la façon dont vous appréciez le génie français. Vous avez su le comprendre et vous avez dit votre pensée franchement, je pouvais ajouterfrançaisement.”
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THE ROLL OF THE SEASONSNature EssaysBY G. G. DESMONDCrown8vo. Cloth.5s. netA NATURE BOOK FOR TOWN FOLKThis book for all Nature-lovers appeals perhaps most strongly to those in cities pent, for whom a word in season can call up visions of the open moor, the forest, the meadow stream, the flowered lane, or the wild sea-shore. The extreme penalty for reading one of these spring, summer, autumn, or winter chapters is to be driven from one’s chair into the nearest field, there to forget town worries among the trees. The author does not spare us for fog, rain, frost, or snow. Sometimes he makes us get up by moonlight and watch the dawn come “cold as cold sea-shells” to the fluting of blackbirds, or he takes us through the woods by night and shows us invisible things by their sounds and scents. The spirit, even if the body cannot go with it, comes back refreshed by these excursions to the country.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
THE ROLL OF THE SEASONSNature EssaysBY G. G. DESMONDCrown8vo. Cloth.5s. netA NATURE BOOK FOR TOWN FOLKThis book for all Nature-lovers appeals perhaps most strongly to those in cities pent, for whom a word in season can call up visions of the open moor, the forest, the meadow stream, the flowered lane, or the wild sea-shore. The extreme penalty for reading one of these spring, summer, autumn, or winter chapters is to be driven from one’s chair into the nearest field, there to forget town worries among the trees. The author does not spare us for fog, rain, frost, or snow. Sometimes he makes us get up by moonlight and watch the dawn come “cold as cold sea-shells” to the fluting of blackbirds, or he takes us through the woods by night and shows us invisible things by their sounds and scents. The spirit, even if the body cannot go with it, comes back refreshed by these excursions to the country.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
Nature Essays
BY G. G. DESMOND
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A NATURE BOOK FOR TOWN FOLK
This book for all Nature-lovers appeals perhaps most strongly to those in cities pent, for whom a word in season can call up visions of the open moor, the forest, the meadow stream, the flowered lane, or the wild sea-shore. The extreme penalty for reading one of these spring, summer, autumn, or winter chapters is to be driven from one’s chair into the nearest field, there to forget town worries among the trees. The author does not spare us for fog, rain, frost, or snow. Sometimes he makes us get up by moonlight and watch the dawn come “cold as cold sea-shells” to the fluting of blackbirds, or he takes us through the woods by night and shows us invisible things by their sounds and scents. The spirit, even if the body cannot go with it, comes back refreshed by these excursions to the country.
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THE MASTERY OF LIFEBY G. T. WRENCH, M.D.Lond.Demy8vo.15s. netOLD VALUES RE-VALUEDThis book is a review of the history of civilisation with the object of discovering where and under what conditions man has shown the most positive attitude towards life. The review has been based not so much upon scholarship as upon the direct evidence of the products and monuments of the different peoples of history, and the author has consequently travelled widely in order to collect his material. The author shows how the patriarchal system and values have always been the foundation of peoples, who have been distinguished for their joy in and power over life, and have expressed their mastery in works of art, which have been their peculiar glory and the object of admiration and wonder of other peoples. In contrast to them has been the briefer history of civilisation in Europe, in which the paternal and filial values of interdependence have always been rivalled by the ideal of independence from one’s fellow-man. The consequences of this ideal of personal liberty in the destruction of the art of life are forcibly delineated in the last chapters.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
THE MASTERY OF LIFEBY G. T. WRENCH, M.D.Lond.Demy8vo.15s. netOLD VALUES RE-VALUEDThis book is a review of the history of civilisation with the object of discovering where and under what conditions man has shown the most positive attitude towards life. The review has been based not so much upon scholarship as upon the direct evidence of the products and monuments of the different peoples of history, and the author has consequently travelled widely in order to collect his material. The author shows how the patriarchal system and values have always been the foundation of peoples, who have been distinguished for their joy in and power over life, and have expressed their mastery in works of art, which have been their peculiar glory and the object of admiration and wonder of other peoples. In contrast to them has been the briefer history of civilisation in Europe, in which the paternal and filial values of interdependence have always been rivalled by the ideal of independence from one’s fellow-man. The consequences of this ideal of personal liberty in the destruction of the art of life are forcibly delineated in the last chapters.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY G. T. WRENCH, M.D.Lond.
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OLD VALUES RE-VALUED
This book is a review of the history of civilisation with the object of discovering where and under what conditions man has shown the most positive attitude towards life. The review has been based not so much upon scholarship as upon the direct evidence of the products and monuments of the different peoples of history, and the author has consequently travelled widely in order to collect his material. The author shows how the patriarchal system and values have always been the foundation of peoples, who have been distinguished for their joy in and power over life, and have expressed their mastery in works of art, which have been their peculiar glory and the object of admiration and wonder of other peoples. In contrast to them has been the briefer history of civilisation in Europe, in which the paternal and filial values of interdependence have always been rivalled by the ideal of independence from one’s fellow-man. The consequences of this ideal of personal liberty in the destruction of the art of life are forcibly delineated in the last chapters.
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TORY DEMOCRACYBY J. M. KENNEDYCrown8vo. Cloth.3s.6d. netLORDS, GOVERNMENT, LIBERALISMThere are unmistakable indications that the system of politics at present pursued by the two chief political parties is not meeting with the approval of the electorate as a whole, though this electorate, as a result of the Caucus methods, finds it increasingly difficult to give expression to its views. In his book on Tory Democracy, Mr J. M. Kennedy, who is already favourably known through his books on modern philosophical and sociological subjects, sets forth the principles underlying a system of politics which was seriously studied by men so widely different as Disraeli, Bismarck, and Lord Randolph Churchill. Mr Kennedy not only shows the close connection still existing between the aristocracy and the working classes, but he also has the distinction of being the first writer to lay down a constructive Conservative policy which is independent of Tariff Reform. Apart from this, the chapters of his work which deal with Representative Government, the House of Lords, and “Liberalism at Work” throw entirely new light on many vexed questions of modern politics. The book, it may be added, is written in a style that spares neither parties nor persons.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
TORY DEMOCRACYBY J. M. KENNEDYCrown8vo. Cloth.3s.6d. netLORDS, GOVERNMENT, LIBERALISMThere are unmistakable indications that the system of politics at present pursued by the two chief political parties is not meeting with the approval of the electorate as a whole, though this electorate, as a result of the Caucus methods, finds it increasingly difficult to give expression to its views. In his book on Tory Democracy, Mr J. M. Kennedy, who is already favourably known through his books on modern philosophical and sociological subjects, sets forth the principles underlying a system of politics which was seriously studied by men so widely different as Disraeli, Bismarck, and Lord Randolph Churchill. Mr Kennedy not only shows the close connection still existing between the aristocracy and the working classes, but he also has the distinction of being the first writer to lay down a constructive Conservative policy which is independent of Tariff Reform. Apart from this, the chapters of his work which deal with Representative Government, the House of Lords, and “Liberalism at Work” throw entirely new light on many vexed questions of modern politics. The book, it may be added, is written in a style that spares neither parties nor persons.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY J. M. KENNEDY
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LORDS, GOVERNMENT, LIBERALISM
There are unmistakable indications that the system of politics at present pursued by the two chief political parties is not meeting with the approval of the electorate as a whole, though this electorate, as a result of the Caucus methods, finds it increasingly difficult to give expression to its views. In his book on Tory Democracy, Mr J. M. Kennedy, who is already favourably known through his books on modern philosophical and sociological subjects, sets forth the principles underlying a system of politics which was seriously studied by men so widely different as Disraeli, Bismarck, and Lord Randolph Churchill. Mr Kennedy not only shows the close connection still existing between the aristocracy and the working classes, but he also has the distinction of being the first writer to lay down a constructive Conservative policy which is independent of Tariff Reform. Apart from this, the chapters of his work which deal with Representative Government, the House of Lords, and “Liberalism at Work” throw entirely new light on many vexed questions of modern politics. The book, it may be added, is written in a style that spares neither parties nor persons.
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PRINCIPLES OF A NEW SYSTEM OF PSYCHOLOGYBY ARTHUR LYNCH,M.A., C.E., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.E., M.P.AUTHOR OF “HUMAN DOCUMENTS,” ETC., ETC.Two Vols. Demy8vo.10s.6d. net eachA BASIC WORK OF ANALYSISThis book is dynamic. It is new in the sense in which Schwann’s Cell Theory was new to Physiology, or Dalton’s Atomic Theory to Chemistry. The author has faced the problem in its widest extension: Can the entire realm of knowledge, and the whole possible scope of mental acts, be so resolved that we may formulate the unanalysable elements, the Fundamental Processes of the mind? This problem is solved, and thence the manner of all synthesis indicated. The argument is closely consecutive, but the severity is relieved by abundant illustrations drawn from many sciences. The principles established will afford criteria in regard to every position in Psychology. New light will be thrown, for instance, on Kant’s Categories, Spencer’s Hedonism, Fechner’s Law, the foundation of Mathematics, Memory, Association, Externality, Will, the Feeling of Effort, Brain Localisations, and finally on the veritable nature of Reason. A philosophy of Research is foreshadowed. The work offers a base on which all valid studies may be co-ordinated, and developments are indicated. It presupposes no technical knowledge, and the exposition is couched in simple language. It will give a new impetus to Psychology.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
PRINCIPLES OF A NEW SYSTEM OF PSYCHOLOGYBY ARTHUR LYNCH,M.A., C.E., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.E., M.P.AUTHOR OF “HUMAN DOCUMENTS,” ETC., ETC.Two Vols. Demy8vo.10s.6d. net eachA BASIC WORK OF ANALYSISThis book is dynamic. It is new in the sense in which Schwann’s Cell Theory was new to Physiology, or Dalton’s Atomic Theory to Chemistry. The author has faced the problem in its widest extension: Can the entire realm of knowledge, and the whole possible scope of mental acts, be so resolved that we may formulate the unanalysable elements, the Fundamental Processes of the mind? This problem is solved, and thence the manner of all synthesis indicated. The argument is closely consecutive, but the severity is relieved by abundant illustrations drawn from many sciences. The principles established will afford criteria in regard to every position in Psychology. New light will be thrown, for instance, on Kant’s Categories, Spencer’s Hedonism, Fechner’s Law, the foundation of Mathematics, Memory, Association, Externality, Will, the Feeling of Effort, Brain Localisations, and finally on the veritable nature of Reason. A philosophy of Research is foreshadowed. The work offers a base on which all valid studies may be co-ordinated, and developments are indicated. It presupposes no technical knowledge, and the exposition is couched in simple language. It will give a new impetus to Psychology.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY ARTHUR LYNCH,M.A., C.E., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.E., M.P.AUTHOR OF “HUMAN DOCUMENTS,” ETC., ETC.
Two Vols. Demy8vo.10s.6d. net each
A BASIC WORK OF ANALYSIS
This book is dynamic. It is new in the sense in which Schwann’s Cell Theory was new to Physiology, or Dalton’s Atomic Theory to Chemistry. The author has faced the problem in its widest extension: Can the entire realm of knowledge, and the whole possible scope of mental acts, be so resolved that we may formulate the unanalysable elements, the Fundamental Processes of the mind? This problem is solved, and thence the manner of all synthesis indicated. The argument is closely consecutive, but the severity is relieved by abundant illustrations drawn from many sciences. The principles established will afford criteria in regard to every position in Psychology. New light will be thrown, for instance, on Kant’s Categories, Spencer’s Hedonism, Fechner’s Law, the foundation of Mathematics, Memory, Association, Externality, Will, the Feeling of Effort, Brain Localisations, and finally on the veritable nature of Reason. A philosophy of Research is foreshadowed. The work offers a base on which all valid studies may be co-ordinated, and developments are indicated. It presupposes no technical knowledge, and the exposition is couched in simple language. It will give a new impetus to Psychology.
London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
EIGHT CENTURIES OF PORTUGUESE MONARCHYBY V. de BRAGANÇA CUNHADemy8vo.14Pencil Portraits.15s. netTHE TRUTH ABOUT PORTUGALThis book reveals the series of causes, both political and social, which have brought Portugal to its present condition and affected the character of its people.The entire history of Monarchical Portugal is reviewed in masterly fashion, and the work is based on a thorough knowledge and critical appreciation of all available sources. The author writes, not as an outsider, but as one who knows his country from within, and the book therefore constitutes a serious attempt to tell the English-speaking world the truth about Portugal.The author knows that he treads “forbidden ground,” but even where he apportions the severest blame he does so in the conviction that adverse criticism of any country, “however unpleasant it may be to all Chadbands and Stigginses,” cannot be considered abusive if it be made with the intention of stirring up the forces of reform and of remedying the defects which it discloses.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
EIGHT CENTURIES OF PORTUGUESE MONARCHYBY V. de BRAGANÇA CUNHADemy8vo.14Pencil Portraits.15s. netTHE TRUTH ABOUT PORTUGALThis book reveals the series of causes, both political and social, which have brought Portugal to its present condition and affected the character of its people.The entire history of Monarchical Portugal is reviewed in masterly fashion, and the work is based on a thorough knowledge and critical appreciation of all available sources. The author writes, not as an outsider, but as one who knows his country from within, and the book therefore constitutes a serious attempt to tell the English-speaking world the truth about Portugal.The author knows that he treads “forbidden ground,” but even where he apportions the severest blame he does so in the conviction that adverse criticism of any country, “however unpleasant it may be to all Chadbands and Stigginses,” cannot be considered abusive if it be made with the intention of stirring up the forces of reform and of remedying the defects which it discloses.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY V. de BRAGANÇA CUNHA
Demy8vo.14Pencil Portraits.15s. net
THE TRUTH ABOUT PORTUGAL
This book reveals the series of causes, both political and social, which have brought Portugal to its present condition and affected the character of its people.
The entire history of Monarchical Portugal is reviewed in masterly fashion, and the work is based on a thorough knowledge and critical appreciation of all available sources. The author writes, not as an outsider, but as one who knows his country from within, and the book therefore constitutes a serious attempt to tell the English-speaking world the truth about Portugal.
The author knows that he treads “forbidden ground,” but even where he apportions the severest blame he does so in the conviction that adverse criticism of any country, “however unpleasant it may be to all Chadbands and Stigginses,” cannot be considered abusive if it be made with the intention of stirring up the forces of reform and of remedying the defects which it discloses.
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SIR EDWARDA BRIEF MEMORIAL OF A NOBLE LIFEBy a Fellow of the Literary SocietyCrown8vo. Cloth.1s. netAN IRRESISTIBLE SATIREThe humour of this remarkable satire is irresistible. The truth concerning Sir Edward is gradually revealed by fantastic touches and sly suggestions, and with a manner so correct as almost to put the reader off his guard.Although the subject of this Æsopian biography is drawn in such a way as to suggest now one and now another familiar figure in modern life, yet these fleeting and shadowy resemblances are in reality an indication of the archetypal nature of Sir Edward; he is not a caricature but a symbol; not any particular individual but a composite type—a materialisation into one grotesque shape of the drifting ideas and false ideals of a muddled civilisation.The narrative gathers into its net both big and little fishes—a heavy haul. But people who regard Western civilisation as the final word in social wisdom should not read this book: or perhaps they should. Anyway, everyone else should.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
SIR EDWARDA BRIEF MEMORIAL OF A NOBLE LIFEBy a Fellow of the Literary SocietyCrown8vo. Cloth.1s. netAN IRRESISTIBLE SATIREThe humour of this remarkable satire is irresistible. The truth concerning Sir Edward is gradually revealed by fantastic touches and sly suggestions, and with a manner so correct as almost to put the reader off his guard.Although the subject of this Æsopian biography is drawn in such a way as to suggest now one and now another familiar figure in modern life, yet these fleeting and shadowy resemblances are in reality an indication of the archetypal nature of Sir Edward; he is not a caricature but a symbol; not any particular individual but a composite type—a materialisation into one grotesque shape of the drifting ideas and false ideals of a muddled civilisation.The narrative gathers into its net both big and little fishes—a heavy haul. But people who regard Western civilisation as the final word in social wisdom should not read this book: or perhaps they should. Anyway, everyone else should.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
A BRIEF MEMORIAL OF A NOBLE LIFE
By a Fellow of the Literary Society
Crown8vo. Cloth.1s. net
AN IRRESISTIBLE SATIRE
The humour of this remarkable satire is irresistible. The truth concerning Sir Edward is gradually revealed by fantastic touches and sly suggestions, and with a manner so correct as almost to put the reader off his guard.
Although the subject of this Æsopian biography is drawn in such a way as to suggest now one and now another familiar figure in modern life, yet these fleeting and shadowy resemblances are in reality an indication of the archetypal nature of Sir Edward; he is not a caricature but a symbol; not any particular individual but a composite type—a materialisation into one grotesque shape of the drifting ideas and false ideals of a muddled civilisation.
The narrative gathers into its net both big and little fishes—a heavy haul. But people who regard Western civilisation as the final word in social wisdom should not read this book: or perhaps they should. Anyway, everyone else should.
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PARISIAN PORTRAITSBY FRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap8vo.2s.6d. netAN APPRECIATION OF FRENCH GENIUSThese profoundly sagacious studies and finely drawn portraits are of the greatest interest, not only in virtue of the author’s intimate knowledge of Paris and Parisian life (dating from 1869), but also because Mr Grierson is one of the few living Englishmen who thoroughly understand and appreciate the French Genius. The book will be an enduring delight to all lovers of fine literature.MrRichard Le Galliennesays:—“Mr Francis Grierson, cosmopolite and subtile critic of the arts, is one of those sudden new acquaintances that assume immediate importance in one’s world of thought.... Everywhere with remarkable rectitude of perception, Mr Grierson puts his finger on the real power, and it is always spiritual.”The Spectatorsays:—“Mr Grierson has a right to speak, for he uses with success one of the most difficult of literary forms, the essay.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
PARISIAN PORTRAITSBY FRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap8vo.2s.6d. netAN APPRECIATION OF FRENCH GENIUSThese profoundly sagacious studies and finely drawn portraits are of the greatest interest, not only in virtue of the author’s intimate knowledge of Paris and Parisian life (dating from 1869), but also because Mr Grierson is one of the few living Englishmen who thoroughly understand and appreciate the French Genius. The book will be an enduring delight to all lovers of fine literature.MrRichard Le Galliennesays:—“Mr Francis Grierson, cosmopolite and subtile critic of the arts, is one of those sudden new acquaintances that assume immediate importance in one’s world of thought.... Everywhere with remarkable rectitude of perception, Mr Grierson puts his finger on the real power, and it is always spiritual.”The Spectatorsays:—“Mr Grierson has a right to speak, for he uses with success one of the most difficult of literary forms, the essay.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY FRANCIS GRIERSON
F’cap8vo.2s.6d. net
AN APPRECIATION OF FRENCH GENIUS
These profoundly sagacious studies and finely drawn portraits are of the greatest interest, not only in virtue of the author’s intimate knowledge of Paris and Parisian life (dating from 1869), but also because Mr Grierson is one of the few living Englishmen who thoroughly understand and appreciate the French Genius. The book will be an enduring delight to all lovers of fine literature.
MrRichard Le Galliennesays:—“Mr Francis Grierson, cosmopolite and subtile critic of the arts, is one of those sudden new acquaintances that assume immediate importance in one’s world of thought.... Everywhere with remarkable rectitude of perception, Mr Grierson puts his finger on the real power, and it is always spiritual.”
The Spectatorsays:—“Mr Grierson has a right to speak, for he uses with success one of the most difficult of literary forms, the essay.”
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THE VALLEY OF SHADOWSBY FRANCIS GRIERSONSecond Edition. Demy8vo.6s. netMEMORIES OF LINCOLN’S COUNTRYIn this book Mr Grierson recalls in vivid memories the wonderful romance of his life in Lincoln’s country before the war. “The Valley of the Shadowsis not a novel,” says Mr W. L. Courtney in theDaily Telegraph, “yet in the graphic portraiture of spiritual and intellectual movements it possesses an attraction denied to all but the most significant kind of fiction.... With a wonderful touch Mr Grierson depicts scene after scene, drawing the simple, native characters with bold, impressive strokes.”“Told with wonderful charm ... enthralling as any romance ... truth, though often stranger than fiction, is almost always duller; Mr Grierson has accomplished the rare feat of making it more interesting. There are chapters in the book ... that haunt one afterwards like remembered music, or like passages in the prose of Walter Pater.”—Punch.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
THE VALLEY OF SHADOWSBY FRANCIS GRIERSONSecond Edition. Demy8vo.6s. netMEMORIES OF LINCOLN’S COUNTRYIn this book Mr Grierson recalls in vivid memories the wonderful romance of his life in Lincoln’s country before the war. “The Valley of the Shadowsis not a novel,” says Mr W. L. Courtney in theDaily Telegraph, “yet in the graphic portraiture of spiritual and intellectual movements it possesses an attraction denied to all but the most significant kind of fiction.... With a wonderful touch Mr Grierson depicts scene after scene, drawing the simple, native characters with bold, impressive strokes.”“Told with wonderful charm ... enthralling as any romance ... truth, though often stranger than fiction, is almost always duller; Mr Grierson has accomplished the rare feat of making it more interesting. There are chapters in the book ... that haunt one afterwards like remembered music, or like passages in the prose of Walter Pater.”—Punch.London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY FRANCIS GRIERSON
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MEMORIES OF LINCOLN’S COUNTRY
In this book Mr Grierson recalls in vivid memories the wonderful romance of his life in Lincoln’s country before the war. “The Valley of the Shadowsis not a novel,” says Mr W. L. Courtney in theDaily Telegraph, “yet in the graphic portraiture of spiritual and intellectual movements it possesses an attraction denied to all but the most significant kind of fiction.... With a wonderful touch Mr Grierson depicts scene after scene, drawing the simple, native characters with bold, impressive strokes.”
“Told with wonderful charm ... enthralling as any romance ... truth, though often stranger than fiction, is almost always duller; Mr Grierson has accomplished the rare feat of making it more interesting. There are chapters in the book ... that haunt one afterwards like remembered music, or like passages in the prose of Walter Pater.”—Punch.
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MODERN MYSTICISMAnd Other EssaysByFRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap.8vo.2s.6d. netORIGINAL, INCISIVE, SUBTLE, ACUTEThis book embodies profound thinking expressed in an original and happy style.MrMaurice Maeterlincksays:—“This volume is full of thoughts and meditations of the very highest order.... Mr Grierson has concentrated his thought on the profound and simple questions of life and conscience.... What unique and decisive things in ‘Parsifalitis,’ for example, what strange clairvoyance in ‘Beauty and Morals in Nature,’ in the essay on ‘Tolstoy,’ in ‘Authority and Individualism,’ in ‘The New Criticism’!”MrJames Douglassays:—“This little book is tremulous with originality and palpitating with style.”MrA. B. Walkleysays:—“A delectable book.... I shall keep it on the same shelf as ‘Wisdom and Destiny’ and ‘The Treasure of the Humble.’”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
MODERN MYSTICISMAnd Other EssaysByFRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap.8vo.2s.6d. netORIGINAL, INCISIVE, SUBTLE, ACUTEThis book embodies profound thinking expressed in an original and happy style.MrMaurice Maeterlincksays:—“This volume is full of thoughts and meditations of the very highest order.... Mr Grierson has concentrated his thought on the profound and simple questions of life and conscience.... What unique and decisive things in ‘Parsifalitis,’ for example, what strange clairvoyance in ‘Beauty and Morals in Nature,’ in the essay on ‘Tolstoy,’ in ‘Authority and Individualism,’ in ‘The New Criticism’!”MrJames Douglassays:—“This little book is tremulous with originality and palpitating with style.”MrA. B. Walkleysays:—“A delectable book.... I shall keep it on the same shelf as ‘Wisdom and Destiny’ and ‘The Treasure of the Humble.’”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
And Other Essays
ByFRANCIS GRIERSON
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ORIGINAL, INCISIVE, SUBTLE, ACUTE
This book embodies profound thinking expressed in an original and happy style.
MrMaurice Maeterlincksays:—“This volume is full of thoughts and meditations of the very highest order.... Mr Grierson has concentrated his thought on the profound and simple questions of life and conscience.... What unique and decisive things in ‘Parsifalitis,’ for example, what strange clairvoyance in ‘Beauty and Morals in Nature,’ in the essay on ‘Tolstoy,’ in ‘Authority and Individualism,’ in ‘The New Criticism’!”
MrJames Douglassays:—“This little book is tremulous with originality and palpitating with style.”
MrA. B. Walkleysays:—“A delectable book.... I shall keep it on the same shelf as ‘Wisdom and Destiny’ and ‘The Treasure of the Humble.’”
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THE CELTIC TEMPERAMENTBY FRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap8vo.2s.6d. netCHARMING AND FULL OF WISDOMThe late ProfessorWilliam Jamessaid:—“I find ‘The Celtic Temperament’ charming and full of wisdom.”TheGlasgow Heraldsays:—“A remarkable book, and by a remarkable man.... This book will be read and re-read by all who recognise acuteness of intellectual faculty, culture which has gained much from books, but more from human intercourse, deep thinking, and a gift of literary expression which at times it quite Gallic.”MrMaurice Maeterlincksays:—“In this volume I am privileged once more to breathe the atmosphere of supreme spiritual aristocracy which emanates from all Mr Grierson’s work. He has, in his best moments, that most rare gift of casting certain shafts of light, at once simple and decisive, upon questions the most difficult, obscure, and unlooked-for in art, morals, and psychology.... I place these essays among the most subtle and substantial that I know.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
THE CELTIC TEMPERAMENTBY FRANCIS GRIERSONF’cap8vo.2s.6d. netCHARMING AND FULL OF WISDOMThe late ProfessorWilliam Jamessaid:—“I find ‘The Celtic Temperament’ charming and full of wisdom.”TheGlasgow Heraldsays:—“A remarkable book, and by a remarkable man.... This book will be read and re-read by all who recognise acuteness of intellectual faculty, culture which has gained much from books, but more from human intercourse, deep thinking, and a gift of literary expression which at times it quite Gallic.”MrMaurice Maeterlincksays:—“In this volume I am privileged once more to breathe the atmosphere of supreme spiritual aristocracy which emanates from all Mr Grierson’s work. He has, in his best moments, that most rare gift of casting certain shafts of light, at once simple and decisive, upon questions the most difficult, obscure, and unlooked-for in art, morals, and psychology.... I place these essays among the most subtle and substantial that I know.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
BY FRANCIS GRIERSON
F’cap8vo.2s.6d. net
CHARMING AND FULL OF WISDOM
The late ProfessorWilliam Jamessaid:—“I find ‘The Celtic Temperament’ charming and full of wisdom.”
TheGlasgow Heraldsays:—“A remarkable book, and by a remarkable man.... This book will be read and re-read by all who recognise acuteness of intellectual faculty, culture which has gained much from books, but more from human intercourse, deep thinking, and a gift of literary expression which at times it quite Gallic.”
MrMaurice Maeterlincksays:—“In this volume I am privileged once more to breathe the atmosphere of supreme spiritual aristocracy which emanates from all Mr Grierson’s work. He has, in his best moments, that most rare gift of casting certain shafts of light, at once simple and decisive, upon questions the most difficult, obscure, and unlooked-for in art, morals, and psychology.... I place these essays among the most subtle and substantial that I know.”
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SOME NEIGHBOURSSTORIES, SKETCHES, AND STUDIESBY CHARLES GRANVILLESecond edition. Crown8vo.6s.FULL OF CLEVER CHARACTERISATIONA fine vein of poetic feeling runs through all these stories, sketches, and studies, which are, without exception, highly entertaining and full of clever characterisation. Mr Granville’s style is by turns naïve, deliberate and restrained, but always attractive.The Times.—“A pleasant book ... prettily conceived and told....”The Scotsman.—“The stories are always interesting, both as studies of odd aspects of humanity and for the curious modern reticence of their art.”Clement K. ShorterinThe Sphere.—“‘Some Neighbours’ deserves the highest commendation.”The Morning Leader.—“The treatment is invariably fresh and individual ... thoroughly readable.”Eastern Morning News.—“There can be nothing but praise—and that of a high quality—for a man who writes with Mr Granville’s sympathy and charm ... his art is so sure that he puts a world of life and reality into a few pages.”Liverpool Daily Post.—“Mr Granville is a writer possessing literary gifts very much above the average, and the versatility of his gifts is very fully indicated in the book under notice.”Yorkshire Observer.—“The author certainly shows that love of humanity which marks the creative mind.”Aberdeen Free Press.—“All of them are readable, and there are one or two ofquite surprising excellence.... These are characterised by real literary power, and suffused with true poetic feeling.”Westminster Review.—“Mr Granville’s humour is of that quality which perceives the sense of tears in human things. To those capable of appreciating fine literature we recommend ‘Some Neighbours.’”The Commentator.—“This clever writer’s characteristic originality and freshness both of thought and expression.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
SOME NEIGHBOURSSTORIES, SKETCHES, AND STUDIESBY CHARLES GRANVILLESecond edition. Crown8vo.6s.FULL OF CLEVER CHARACTERISATIONA fine vein of poetic feeling runs through all these stories, sketches, and studies, which are, without exception, highly entertaining and full of clever characterisation. Mr Granville’s style is by turns naïve, deliberate and restrained, but always attractive.The Times.—“A pleasant book ... prettily conceived and told....”The Scotsman.—“The stories are always interesting, both as studies of odd aspects of humanity and for the curious modern reticence of their art.”Clement K. ShorterinThe Sphere.—“‘Some Neighbours’ deserves the highest commendation.”The Morning Leader.—“The treatment is invariably fresh and individual ... thoroughly readable.”Eastern Morning News.—“There can be nothing but praise—and that of a high quality—for a man who writes with Mr Granville’s sympathy and charm ... his art is so sure that he puts a world of life and reality into a few pages.”Liverpool Daily Post.—“Mr Granville is a writer possessing literary gifts very much above the average, and the versatility of his gifts is very fully indicated in the book under notice.”Yorkshire Observer.—“The author certainly shows that love of humanity which marks the creative mind.”Aberdeen Free Press.—“All of them are readable, and there are one or two ofquite surprising excellence.... These are characterised by real literary power, and suffused with true poetic feeling.”Westminster Review.—“Mr Granville’s humour is of that quality which perceives the sense of tears in human things. To those capable of appreciating fine literature we recommend ‘Some Neighbours.’”The Commentator.—“This clever writer’s characteristic originality and freshness both of thought and expression.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
STORIES, SKETCHES, AND STUDIES
BY CHARLES GRANVILLE
Second edition. Crown8vo.6s.
FULL OF CLEVER CHARACTERISATION
A fine vein of poetic feeling runs through all these stories, sketches, and studies, which are, without exception, highly entertaining and full of clever characterisation. Mr Granville’s style is by turns naïve, deliberate and restrained, but always attractive.
The Times.—“A pleasant book ... prettily conceived and told....”
The Scotsman.—“The stories are always interesting, both as studies of odd aspects of humanity and for the curious modern reticence of their art.”
Clement K. ShorterinThe Sphere.—“‘Some Neighbours’ deserves the highest commendation.”
The Morning Leader.—“The treatment is invariably fresh and individual ... thoroughly readable.”
Eastern Morning News.—“There can be nothing but praise—and that of a high quality—for a man who writes with Mr Granville’s sympathy and charm ... his art is so sure that he puts a world of life and reality into a few pages.”
Liverpool Daily Post.—“Mr Granville is a writer possessing literary gifts very much above the average, and the versatility of his gifts is very fully indicated in the book under notice.”
Yorkshire Observer.—“The author certainly shows that love of humanity which marks the creative mind.”
Aberdeen Free Press.—“All of them are readable, and there are one or two ofquite surprising excellence.... These are characterised by real literary power, and suffused with true poetic feeling.”
Westminster Review.—“Mr Granville’s humour is of that quality which perceives the sense of tears in human things. To those capable of appreciating fine literature we recommend ‘Some Neighbours.’”
The Commentator.—“This clever writer’s characteristic originality and freshness both of thought and expression.”
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CIVIL WARA Play in Four ActsBY ASHLEY DUKESCrown8vo.2s. netA DRAMA WITHOUT ARTIFICIALITYThis play is that rarity, an English drama of ideas which is not in any sense imitative of Mr Bernard Shaw. It presents an intellectual conflict which is also a passionate conflict of individualities, and the theme is treated with sympathy and humanity. The portrait of life in a colony of revolutionists alone would make “Civil War” something of a dramatic curiosity, but it is more than that. It is at once effective and original. The play was given for the first time by the Incorporated Stage Society in June 1910, with remarkable success, and it will shortly be revived by several of our newer repertory theatres. It should be read as well as seen, however, for it is dramatic without artificiality, and literary without affectation.The following is what some of the Press think of the play:Pall Mall Gazette:—“A very interesting, sincere, and artistic piece of work.”Westminster Gazette:—“In producing ‘Civil War,’ by Mr Ashley Dukes, the Stage Society has rendered a real service to drama.... The play shows that the dramatist possesses in a high degree the capacity for writing dialogue—for finding phrases characteristic of the persons of the comedy, useful for the situations, and exhibiting a certain style that is rare and indefinable. There were scenes, notably one of great beauty between the old Socialist and his daughter, where, apart from the dramatic effect, one had real pleasure from the phrases, and this without there being any obvious attempt to write in a literary style.”Times:—“A piece of sound and promising work.”Daily News:—“His ‘Civil War’ has a strong motive, and, best of all, there is humanity and understanding in his treatment of it.... It is rarely indeed that we are given a play in which the drama is made inevitable by a clash of temperament and ideas.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
CIVIL WARA Play in Four ActsBY ASHLEY DUKESCrown8vo.2s. netA DRAMA WITHOUT ARTIFICIALITYThis play is that rarity, an English drama of ideas which is not in any sense imitative of Mr Bernard Shaw. It presents an intellectual conflict which is also a passionate conflict of individualities, and the theme is treated with sympathy and humanity. The portrait of life in a colony of revolutionists alone would make “Civil War” something of a dramatic curiosity, but it is more than that. It is at once effective and original. The play was given for the first time by the Incorporated Stage Society in June 1910, with remarkable success, and it will shortly be revived by several of our newer repertory theatres. It should be read as well as seen, however, for it is dramatic without artificiality, and literary without affectation.The following is what some of the Press think of the play:Pall Mall Gazette:—“A very interesting, sincere, and artistic piece of work.”Westminster Gazette:—“In producing ‘Civil War,’ by Mr Ashley Dukes, the Stage Society has rendered a real service to drama.... The play shows that the dramatist possesses in a high degree the capacity for writing dialogue—for finding phrases characteristic of the persons of the comedy, useful for the situations, and exhibiting a certain style that is rare and indefinable. There were scenes, notably one of great beauty between the old Socialist and his daughter, where, apart from the dramatic effect, one had real pleasure from the phrases, and this without there being any obvious attempt to write in a literary style.”Times:—“A piece of sound and promising work.”Daily News:—“His ‘Civil War’ has a strong motive, and, best of all, there is humanity and understanding in his treatment of it.... It is rarely indeed that we are given a play in which the drama is made inevitable by a clash of temperament and ideas.”London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi
A Play in Four Acts
BY ASHLEY DUKES
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A DRAMA WITHOUT ARTIFICIALITY
This play is that rarity, an English drama of ideas which is not in any sense imitative of Mr Bernard Shaw. It presents an intellectual conflict which is also a passionate conflict of individualities, and the theme is treated with sympathy and humanity. The portrait of life in a colony of revolutionists alone would make “Civil War” something of a dramatic curiosity, but it is more than that. It is at once effective and original. The play was given for the first time by the Incorporated Stage Society in June 1910, with remarkable success, and it will shortly be revived by several of our newer repertory theatres. It should be read as well as seen, however, for it is dramatic without artificiality, and literary without affectation.
The following is what some of the Press think of the play:
Pall Mall Gazette:—“A very interesting, sincere, and artistic piece of work.”
Westminster Gazette:—“In producing ‘Civil War,’ by Mr Ashley Dukes, the Stage Society has rendered a real service to drama.... The play shows that the dramatist possesses in a high degree the capacity for writing dialogue—for finding phrases characteristic of the persons of the comedy, useful for the situations, and exhibiting a certain style that is rare and indefinable. There were scenes, notably one of great beauty between the old Socialist and his daughter, where, apart from the dramatic effect, one had real pleasure from the phrases, and this without there being any obvious attempt to write in a literary style.”
Times:—“A piece of sound and promising work.”
Daily News:—“His ‘Civil War’ has a strong motive, and, best of all, there is humanity and understanding in his treatment of it.... It is rarely indeed that we are given a play in which the drama is made inevitable by a clash of temperament and ideas.”
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Footnotes:
[1]From which little place the lines as a whole take the name in history of “Lines of La Bassée.”
[2]As is common in the history of military affairs, the advocates of either party present these confused movements before the lines of La Bassée upon the eve of the siege of Tournai in very different and indeed contradictory lights.
The classical work of Mr Fortescue, to which I must, here as elsewhere, render homage, will have the whole movement, from its inception, to be deliberately designed; no battle intended, the siege of Tournai to be the only real object of the allies.
The French apologists talk of quarrels between Eugene and Marlborough, take for granted a plan of assault against Villars, and represent the turning off of the army to the siege of Tournai as an afterthought. The truth, of course, is contained in both versions, and lies between the two. Eugene and Marlborough did intend a destructive assault upon Villars and his line, but they were early persuaded—especially by the reconnoitring of Cadogan—that the defensive skill of the French commander had proved formidable, and we may take it that the determination to besiege Tournai and to abandon an assault upon the main of the French forces had been reached at least as early as the 26th. There is no positive evidence, however, one way or the other, to decide these questions of motive. I rely upon no more than the probable intention of the men, to be deduced from their actions, and I do not believe that the Dutch would have had orders to move as early as they did unless Marlborough had decided—not later than the moment I have mentioned—to make Tournai the first objective of the campaign.
[3]Mr Fortescue in his work makes it the 23rd. I cannot conceive the basis for such an error. The whole story of the 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th is in the French archives, together with full details of the capitulation on the 29th and 30th.
[4]As usual, there is a contradiction in the records. The French record definitely ascribes the proposal to Marlborough. Marlborough, in a letter to his wife of 5th August, as definitely ascribes it to Surville; and there is no positive evidence one way or the other, though Louis’ rejection of the terms and the ability of calculation and the character of the two men certainly make it more probable that Marlborough and not Surville was the author of the proposition.
[5]The dispute as to who was the author of the suggestion for an armistice is further illumined by this refusal on the part of the allies. The proposal to contain Tournai and yet to have free their vast forces in operation elsewhere, if a trifle crude, was certainly to their advantage, and as certainly to the disadvantage of the French.
[6]This excellent phrase is Mr Fortescue’s.
[7]Technically the line of defence was forced, for the line of Trouille was but a continuation of the lines of La Bassée—Douai—Valenciennes. So far as strategical results were concerned, the withdrawal of Villars behind the forest barrier was equivalent to the reconstruction of new lines, and in the event the action of Malplaquet proved that new defensive position to be strong enough to prevent the invasion of France. On the other hand, there is little doubt that if Villars had been in a little more strength he would have elected to fight on the old lines and not behind the woods.
It must further be remarked that if the operations had not been prolonged as they were by the existence of the posts on the lines, notably at St Ghislain, the defensive position of the French would probably have been forced and their whole line broken as early as September 4th.
[8]It is remarkable that these two roads, which are the chief feature both of the landscape and the local military topography, and which are of course as straight as taut strings, are represented upon Mr Fortescue’s map (vol. i. p. 424) as winding lanes, or, to speak more accurately, are not represented at all. In this perhaps the learned historian of the British army was misled by Coxe’s atlas to Marlborough’s campaign, a picturesque but grossly inaccurate compilation. The student who desires to study this action in detail will do well to consult the Belgian Ordnance Map on the scale of1⁄40,000contours at 5 metres, section Roisin, and the French General Staff Map,1⁄80,000, section Maubeuge, south-western quarter; the action being fought exactly on the frontier between Belgium and France, both maps are necessary. For the general strategic position the French1⁄200,000in colours, sheet Maubeuge, and the adjoining sheet, Lille, are sufficient.
[9]The reader who may compare this account of Malplaquet with others will be the less confused if he remembers that the forest of Sars is called on that extremity nearest to the gap the wood of Blaregnies, and that this name is often extended, especially in English accounts, to the whole forest.
[10]These 9000 found at St Ghislain a belated post of 200 French, who surrendered. Someone had forgotten them.
[11]For the discussion of this see later on p.75.
[12]They were commanded by Hamilton and Tullibardine. It is to be remarked that the command of the whole of the left of the Prince of Orange’s force, though it was not half Scotch, was under the command of Hamilton and Douglas. The two regiments of Tullibardine and Hepburn were under the personal command of the Marquis of Tullibardine, the heir of Atholl.
[13]Nominally under Tilly, but practically under the young Royal commander.
[14]Villars, wounded and fainting with pain, had been taken from the field an hour or two before, and the whole command was now in the hands of Boufflers.