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A Selection fromHerbert & Daniel’s ListSecond Edition]THE IDEAL BIRTHDAY PRESENT[Fifth ThousandFor Her Namesake. An Anthology of Poetical Addresses by Devout Lovers to Gentle Maidens.Edited by STEPHEN LANGTON.‘The most fastidious of lovers will find something to please him in this industrious collection of passages of verse—a maiden of a different name being the chosen subject of each of them.’—Times.‘Made with excellent taste and most attractively produced.’—The Lady.UNIFORM WITH ABOVEA Series of Dainty AnthologiesEach with Decorated End Papers and Cover DesignsFcap 8vo.3s. 6d. net; leather 5s. net.The Book of the Seven Ages.Edited by HENRY W. CLARKE.An Artist’s Day-Book.Edited by THOMAS BURKE.The Charm of India.Edited by CLAUD FIELD.An Anthology of Poetic Prose.ByProfessor COWL, of Bristol University.Music in Poetry and Prose.Edited by ADA INGPEN.POETRYA Book of Verse by Living Women.With an IntroductionbyLady MARGARET SACKVILLE.List of Authors—Anonymous, Jane Barlow, Anna Bunston, Frances Cornford, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas), Michael Field, Mrs Hamilton-King, Emily Hickey, Winifred Lucas (Mrs Le Bailly), Eva M. Martin, Annie Matheson, Alice Meynell, Rosa Mulholland, Dolly Radford, Mary Robinson, Lady Margaret Sackville, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Cicely Fox Smith, Elinor Sweetman, Laurence Alma Tadema, Rachel Annand Taylor, Hon. Grace Tollemache, Rosalind Travers, Katharine Tynan, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Margaret L. Woods—Bibliography. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth,3s. 6d. net;leather,5s. net.‘This dainty volume is full of good things. The selection is one of the best I have ever seen.’ —C.K. S. in theSphere.‘The volume is proof indisputable of a widespread intellectual and poetic vitality amongst our contemporaries of the sweeter sex.’—Yorkshire Observer.Eyes of Youth: A Book of VerseByPADRAIC COLUM, Hon. Mrs LYTTON, SHANE LESLIE, VIOLA and OLIVIA MEYNELL, Hon. Mrs LINDSAY, HUGH AUSTIN, MONICA SALEEBY, MAURICE HEALY and FRANCIS MEYNELL.With four Early Poems by FRANCIS THOMPSON, now first published in book form. The Foreword by G. K. CHESTERTON. Crown 8vo.3s. 6d. net.‘Most of the contents show a pure and modest poetic purpose; and the whole helps one to realise that much good verse is being written in quietness by people who write it for its own sake.’—Times.‘It is not possible to cite all the “variety verging on quaintness” represented in this interesting little book, which may be commended to the notice of all interested in poetry.’—Daily Telegraph.The Porch of Paradise. An Allegorical Poem.ByANNA BUNSTON, Author ofMingled Wine. Crown 8vo.3s. 6d. net.‘A poem of high endeavour and sustained accomplishment.’—T. P.’s Weekly.ESSAYSAdventures in Prose. A Book of Essays.ByHENRY NOEL BRAILSFORD. Crown 8vo.5s. net.CONTENTSI.—On CatsA Policy towards Cats—The State and the Cat—On the Purring of Cats—The Black Cat and Christopher Wren.II.—On BooksOn a Great Novel—On Burns and Bacchanalian Verse—The Country House—The Truth of Midnight.III.—On Music‘Chopin Villa’—The Spell of Old Music—On Handel’s Largo—The Sea in Music—Of Fauns and Oboes.IV.—On Various ThemesThe Decay of Melodrama—Micromania—Little Jim—The Okapi and the Financier—Inspiration of Grandfathers—The Goatherds—The Sport of War—An Indian Saint—On Waterproof Skins—Confessions of a Juror—On Faddists—On Great Families—A Remonstrance with Moralists—On Cycling in London—The Modern Peep-show.V.—Eastern SketchesOsman Digna—Doolie’s Traitor—The Sultan’s Birthday—A Book of Martyrs—The Lady of the Bridge—A Levantine Messiah.Studies in Arcady. And other Essays from a Country Parsonage.ByR. L. GALES. Crown 8vo.5s. net.CONTENTSI.—Studies in ArcadyThe Literature of the People—Dicta of the Poor—More Dicta of the Poor—Village Theology—The Labourer’s Listlessness—The Humours of Parish Visiting—Thrift on Fifteen Shillings a Week—A Goodly Heritage—Professor Jack’s ‘Mad Shepherd’s’—A Sunday Dinner Table.II.—Folk-Lore and TraditionThe Christian Lore of Angels—The Devil in Christian Legend and Tradition—Judas in Legend and Folk-lore—Spiders in Legend and Folk-lore—Birds in Christian Legend and Symbol—The Christian Tradition in Shakespeare—Christian Dogma and Folk-lore—Christian Popular Poetry—Easter Traditions—On the Ox and the Ass of the Nativity—A Green Heaven—On Nursery Rhymes.III—Speech and LanguageSome Old-fashioned Phrases—On Victorian English—The Destruction of Dialect—On Proverbs—The Names of the Days of the Week—On the Names of Flowers—Beautiful Words.IV.—Discussions and DigressionsCatholicism and Happiness—Life Living Creatures—Christian and Romantic—On Pan-cakes and Pan-pipes—Christmas Beer in Workhouses—Arts and Mysteries.‘Whether he gossips of beautiful words, or the names of flowers, or old-fashioned phrases, or Catholicism and happiness, or the ox and the ass of the Nativity, or birds in Christian legend and symbol, or thrift on 15s. per week, he gives one the impression of a real good sort; a parson who is also a scholar. Men are scarce; and so are good books. Here is a good book by a man.’—Sunday Chronicle.A Modern Outlook. Studies of English and American Tendencies.ByJ. A. HOBSON. Crown 8vo.5s. net.CONTENTSLife and LettersThe Lost Art of Conversation—Co-Partnership in Nature—The Population Question among Books—The Compensations of Stupidity—A Go as-you-please Philosophy—A Plea for Controversy—A Puritan Document—The Grip of the Specialist—The Confession of Mr Wells—To the Memory of Thomas Paine—The Case of Samuel Butler.The Woman of the FutureThe Woman of the Future—The Sex War—The Alarm of Motherhood—The Business of Marriage.American TraitsThe Genius of Lincoln—The Autocrat—A Critic of America—The American Woman—The Spirit of American Humour—Is America Heading for Aristocracy?—The Romance of America—The Boom-Child.The Church of the FutureThe Church for the People—An Anglican Bishop—The Faith of Free Thought—The Churches and the Social Soul.Of PoliticsThe Sovranty of Society—The Wild Man—Agitation—The Game of Efficiency—The Politician’s Soul—Our Lost Romance—The Two Englands—The Sacred Rage of the People.‘On politics in general Mr Hobson says many acute and true things.’—Spectator.‘Mr J. A. Hobson is one of those fortunate men whose names at once suggest a quality.’—The Bookman.‘A volume full of keen perception and ripe thought.’—Inquirer.FICTIONOliver’s Kind Women.ByPHILIP GIBBS, Author ofThe Street of Adventure. Crown 8vo.6s.‘Virginia Garland was a woman of indomitable spirit and fine sensibility, one of the best realised and the best worth realising characters in modern fiction—a sensitive spring of finely polished steel might describe her roughly—but she cannot be fully known save in Mr Gibbs’ full-length portrait of her.…’—Morning Post.Martha Vine. A Love Story of Simple Life.ByVIOLA MEYNELL Crown 8vo.6s.‘It is a very unusual pleasure to take up an anonymous novel and to find in it interest beyond the common, and a skill in psychological analysis approaching genius.’—Observer.Zoe. A Portrait.ByW. F. CASEY. Crown 8vo.6s.‘It is a capital canvas—a very Sargent—of one of those doubtful women moving in society.’—Manchester Guardian.‘It is quite excellent. Zoe is wonderfully pretty and attractive; she is also selfish, sensuous, and designing—just the sort of spider that plays havoc with the heart of the poor male butterfly.’—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.The Forward in Love. An Improbable Comedy.ByRICHARD BIRD.6s.SHORT STORIESThe Hermit of Dreams.ByThe Hon. Mrs LINDSAY. With Three Drawings byClaude Shepperson. Beth, Incense and Myrrh, The Trembling of the Scales, The Story of Innocent Heart, Mary Had a Little Lamb. Crown 8vo.3s. 6d. net.‘A book of absorbing interest. At the first assault she has carried the difficult citadel of literary achievement and has planted thereon her distinctive flag.’—Tablet.‘Five stories instinct with mystic charm, with grace, beauty and reverence. They are told by the tall, emaciated, suffering Hermit, and they seem to bring the three worlds—the Past, the Present, and the Future—very simply, clearly, naturally and beautifully close to one another and to us. It is a little book to stir thought, to give comfort and to win affection.’—The Bookman.The Land of the Yellow Spring and other Japanese Stories.ByF. HADLAND DAVIS.5s. net.‘Stories which are all poems in prose, beautifully conceived and carefully executed. Lafcadio Hearn would have welcomed these ardent studies of exotic romance.’—Morning Post.In the Fighting Days at Sea. A Book for Boys.ByEDWARD FRASER. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo.6s.The Story of Pierrot.ByS. R. LITTLEWOOD. With Black and White Illustrations bySidney Filmore.BIOGRAPHYGeneral Booth and the Salvation Army.ByA. M. NICOL. Crown 8vo,6s. net.‘If the book is taken calmly and deliberately as a whole, all the confidences, flattering and unflattering, estimated in due proportion, it will prove of exceptional value and interest. No such collection of human documents and data about the Salvation Army has ever before been presented to the friendly and unfriendly public.’—Daily Chronicle.The Life of Cardinal Vaughan.ByJ. G. SNEAD-COX. With Seven Photogravure Portraits. 2 Vols. Demy 8vo.21s. net.Fourth Thousand‘Almost an autobiography. Done with discretion, although the candours of the narrative are not the least of its conspicuous merits.’—Athenæum.‘A piece of genuine and permanent literature, warmhearted and communicative.’—Daily Telegraph.‘From a literary point of view, the best biography we have read for years.’—British Weekly.Life and Letters of John Lingard, D.D.ByMARTIN HAILE and EDWIN BONNEY. Demy 8vo.12s. 6d. net.The Romance of Modern Surgery. A Tribute to Listerism.ByC. W. SALEEBY, M.D. Demy 8vo.10s. 6d. net.Talleyrand the Man. Translated from the French of Bernard de Lacombe.With Two Portraits in Collotype. Demy 8vo.15s. net.‘There is something enigmatic in the extraordinary, personality, which is newly and effectively studied in this volume, a volume which few people will read without having their mental portrait of Talleyrand softened and humanised.’—Daily Telegraph.Benedictine Pioneers in Australia.ByDOM NORBERT BIRT, O.S.B. 2 vols. demy 8vo.25s. net.The practically unknown story of the Benedictine Pioneers in Australia forms an important chapter in Colonial history. Dom Norbert Birt has spent several years in the study of the documents bearing on the subject, and his work is both a valuable piece of research and a vivid description of the romantic adventures of the first missionaries in the Southern Hemisphere.The Life of St Teresa.Adapted from the FrenchbyALICE LADY LOVAT, with a Preface by Mgr.Robert Hugh Benson. Demy 8vo.10s 6d. net.ILLUSTRATED BOOKSAn Artist in Corfu.BySOPHIE ATKINSON. With Fourteen Coloured Illustrations and Cover Design and End-Papers by the Author.18s. net.On ancient and modern authority the author claims that the little-known island is one of the loveliest spots of Greece, and supports her claim with enthusiastic pen and a choice of dainty water-colours.‘The water-colour drawings are highly accomplished, full of light and colour, and so indeed is her text.’—The Times.‘A very attractively got-up work.’—Westminster Gazette.Perrault’s Fairy Tales.Newly translatedbyS. R. LITTLEWOOD. With Twelve Coloured Illustrations byHonor C. Appleton.5s. net.Songs of Innocence.ByWILLIAM BLAKE. With a Preface byThomas Seccombe, and Twelve Coloured Illustrations byHonor C. Appleton. Small Quarto.5s. net.‘It is a joy to handle this truly lovely volume, which all lovers of childhood should possess.’—The Child.The Baby of the Future.ByH. D. TRAILL. Reprinted by kind permission of the Proprietors ofPunch, and Illustrated in Colour byHonor C. Appleton.1s. net.The Regent LibrarySmall crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. neteach vol.The general reader and the busy man who can spare but little time to devote to books will find in these carefully chosen volumes of extracts useful Introductions to Authors of perennial interest. Both the selections and the Introduction have been entrusted to writers who can speak with the authority of full knowledge on their subjects.JOHNSONByAlice Meynell. With Introduction byG. K. ChestertonLEIGH HUNTByEdward StorerRICHARDSONBySheila Kaye-SmithWORDSWORTHByE. Hallam MoorhouseBLAISE DE MONLUCByA. W. EvansFANNY BURNEYByThomas SeccombeMRS GASKELLByC. A. ChadwickSHELLEYByRoger IngpenCOWPERByEdward StorerNEWMANByDaniel O’Connor[In preparationDISRAELIByWilfrid Meynell[In preparationOther vols. in preparationHERBERT & DANIEL21 MADDOX STREET, LONDON, W.

A Selection fromHerbert & Daniel’s List

Second Edition]THE IDEAL BIRTHDAY PRESENT[Fifth Thousand

For Her Namesake. An Anthology of Poetical Addresses by Devout Lovers to Gentle Maidens.Edited by STEPHEN LANGTON.

‘The most fastidious of lovers will find something to please him in this industrious collection of passages of verse—a maiden of a different name being the chosen subject of each of them.’—Times.‘Made with excellent taste and most attractively produced.’—The Lady.

‘Made with excellent taste and most attractively produced.’—The Lady.

UNIFORM WITH ABOVE

A Series of Dainty Anthologies

Each with Decorated End Papers and Cover Designs

Fcap 8vo.3s. 6d. net; leather 5s. net.

The Book of the Seven Ages.Edited by HENRY W. CLARKE.

An Artist’s Day-Book.Edited by THOMAS BURKE.

The Charm of India.Edited by CLAUD FIELD.

An Anthology of Poetic Prose.ByProfessor COWL, of Bristol University.

Music in Poetry and Prose.Edited by ADA INGPEN.

POETRY

A Book of Verse by Living Women.With an IntroductionbyLady MARGARET SACKVILLE.List of Authors—Anonymous, Jane Barlow, Anna Bunston, Frances Cornford, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas), Michael Field, Mrs Hamilton-King, Emily Hickey, Winifred Lucas (Mrs Le Bailly), Eva M. Martin, Annie Matheson, Alice Meynell, Rosa Mulholland, Dolly Radford, Mary Robinson, Lady Margaret Sackville, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Cicely Fox Smith, Elinor Sweetman, Laurence Alma Tadema, Rachel Annand Taylor, Hon. Grace Tollemache, Rosalind Travers, Katharine Tynan, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Margaret L. Woods—Bibliography. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth,3s. 6d. net;leather,5s. net.

‘This dainty volume is full of good things. The selection is one of the best I have ever seen.’ —C.K. S. in theSphere.‘The volume is proof indisputable of a widespread intellectual and poetic vitality amongst our contemporaries of the sweeter sex.’—Yorkshire Observer.

‘This dainty volume is full of good things. The selection is one of the best I have ever seen.’ —C.K. S. in theSphere.

‘The volume is proof indisputable of a widespread intellectual and poetic vitality amongst our contemporaries of the sweeter sex.’—Yorkshire Observer.

Eyes of Youth: A Book of VerseByPADRAIC COLUM, Hon. Mrs LYTTON, SHANE LESLIE, VIOLA and OLIVIA MEYNELL, Hon. Mrs LINDSAY, HUGH AUSTIN, MONICA SALEEBY, MAURICE HEALY and FRANCIS MEYNELL.With four Early Poems by FRANCIS THOMPSON, now first published in book form. The Foreword by G. K. CHESTERTON. Crown 8vo.3s. 6d. net.

‘Most of the contents show a pure and modest poetic purpose; and the whole helps one to realise that much good verse is being written in quietness by people who write it for its own sake.’—Times.‘It is not possible to cite all the “variety verging on quaintness” represented in this interesting little book, which may be commended to the notice of all interested in poetry.’—Daily Telegraph.

‘It is not possible to cite all the “variety verging on quaintness” represented in this interesting little book, which may be commended to the notice of all interested in poetry.’—Daily Telegraph.

The Porch of Paradise. An Allegorical Poem.ByANNA BUNSTON, Author ofMingled Wine. Crown 8vo.3s. 6d. net.

‘A poem of high endeavour and sustained accomplishment.’—T. P.’s Weekly.

ESSAYS

Adventures in Prose. A Book of Essays.ByHENRY NOEL BRAILSFORD. Crown 8vo.5s. net.

CONTENTS

I.—On Cats

A Policy towards Cats—The State and the Cat—On the Purring of Cats—The Black Cat and Christopher Wren.

II.—On Books

On a Great Novel—On Burns and Bacchanalian Verse—The Country House—The Truth of Midnight.

III.—On Music

‘Chopin Villa’—The Spell of Old Music—On Handel’s Largo—The Sea in Music—Of Fauns and Oboes.

IV.—On Various Themes

The Decay of Melodrama—Micromania—Little Jim—The Okapi and the Financier—Inspiration of Grandfathers—The Goatherds—The Sport of War—An Indian Saint—On Waterproof Skins—Confessions of a Juror—On Faddists—On Great Families—A Remonstrance with Moralists—On Cycling in London—The Modern Peep-show.

V.—Eastern Sketches

Osman Digna—Doolie’s Traitor—The Sultan’s Birthday—A Book of Martyrs—The Lady of the Bridge—A Levantine Messiah.

Studies in Arcady. And other Essays from a Country Parsonage.ByR. L. GALES. Crown 8vo.5s. net.

CONTENTS

I.—Studies in Arcady

The Literature of the People—Dicta of the Poor—More Dicta of the Poor—Village Theology—The Labourer’s Listlessness—The Humours of Parish Visiting—Thrift on Fifteen Shillings a Week—A Goodly Heritage—Professor Jack’s ‘Mad Shepherd’s’—A Sunday Dinner Table.

II.—Folk-Lore and Tradition

The Christian Lore of Angels—The Devil in Christian Legend and Tradition—Judas in Legend and Folk-lore—Spiders in Legend and Folk-lore—Birds in Christian Legend and Symbol—The Christian Tradition in Shakespeare—Christian Dogma and Folk-lore—Christian Popular Poetry—Easter Traditions—On the Ox and the Ass of the Nativity—A Green Heaven—On Nursery Rhymes.

III—Speech and Language

Some Old-fashioned Phrases—On Victorian English—The Destruction of Dialect—On Proverbs—The Names of the Days of the Week—On the Names of Flowers—Beautiful Words.

IV.—Discussions and Digressions

Catholicism and Happiness—Life Living Creatures—Christian and Romantic—On Pan-cakes and Pan-pipes—Christmas Beer in Workhouses—Arts and Mysteries.‘Whether he gossips of beautiful words, or the names of flowers, or old-fashioned phrases, or Catholicism and happiness, or the ox and the ass of the Nativity, or birds in Christian legend and symbol, or thrift on 15s. per week, he gives one the impression of a real good sort; a parson who is also a scholar. Men are scarce; and so are good books. Here is a good book by a man.’—Sunday Chronicle.

Catholicism and Happiness—Life Living Creatures—Christian and Romantic—On Pan-cakes and Pan-pipes—Christmas Beer in Workhouses—Arts and Mysteries.

‘Whether he gossips of beautiful words, or the names of flowers, or old-fashioned phrases, or Catholicism and happiness, or the ox and the ass of the Nativity, or birds in Christian legend and symbol, or thrift on 15s. per week, he gives one the impression of a real good sort; a parson who is also a scholar. Men are scarce; and so are good books. Here is a good book by a man.’—Sunday Chronicle.

A Modern Outlook. Studies of English and American Tendencies.ByJ. A. HOBSON. Crown 8vo.5s. net.

CONTENTS

Life and Letters

The Lost Art of Conversation—Co-Partnership in Nature—The Population Question among Books—The Compensations of Stupidity—A Go as-you-please Philosophy—A Plea for Controversy—A Puritan Document—The Grip of the Specialist—The Confession of Mr Wells—To the Memory of Thomas Paine—The Case of Samuel Butler.

The Woman of the Future

The Woman of the Future—The Sex War—The Alarm of Motherhood—The Business of Marriage.

American Traits

The Genius of Lincoln—The Autocrat—A Critic of America—The American Woman—The Spirit of American Humour—Is America Heading for Aristocracy?—The Romance of America—The Boom-Child.

The Church of the Future

The Church for the People—An Anglican Bishop—The Faith of Free Thought—The Churches and the Social Soul.

Of Politics

The Sovranty of Society—The Wild Man—Agitation—The Game of Efficiency—The Politician’s Soul—Our Lost Romance—The Two Englands—The Sacred Rage of the People.‘On politics in general Mr Hobson says many acute and true things.’—Spectator.‘Mr J. A. Hobson is one of those fortunate men whose names at once suggest a quality.’—The Bookman.‘A volume full of keen perception and ripe thought.’—Inquirer.

The Sovranty of Society—The Wild Man—Agitation—The Game of Efficiency—The Politician’s Soul—Our Lost Romance—The Two Englands—The Sacred Rage of the People.

‘On politics in general Mr Hobson says many acute and true things.’—Spectator.

‘Mr J. A. Hobson is one of those fortunate men whose names at once suggest a quality.’—The Bookman.

‘A volume full of keen perception and ripe thought.’—Inquirer.

FICTION

Oliver’s Kind Women.ByPHILIP GIBBS, Author ofThe Street of Adventure. Crown 8vo.6s.

‘Virginia Garland was a woman of indomitable spirit and fine sensibility, one of the best realised and the best worth realising characters in modern fiction—a sensitive spring of finely polished steel might describe her roughly—but she cannot be fully known save in Mr Gibbs’ full-length portrait of her.…’—Morning Post.

Martha Vine. A Love Story of Simple Life.ByVIOLA MEYNELL Crown 8vo.6s.

‘It is a very unusual pleasure to take up an anonymous novel and to find in it interest beyond the common, and a skill in psychological analysis approaching genius.’—Observer.

Zoe. A Portrait.ByW. F. CASEY. Crown 8vo.6s.

‘It is a capital canvas—a very Sargent—of one of those doubtful women moving in society.’—Manchester Guardian.‘It is quite excellent. Zoe is wonderfully pretty and attractive; she is also selfish, sensuous, and designing—just the sort of spider that plays havoc with the heart of the poor male butterfly.’—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

‘It is a capital canvas—a very Sargent—of one of those doubtful women moving in society.’—Manchester Guardian.

‘It is quite excellent. Zoe is wonderfully pretty and attractive; she is also selfish, sensuous, and designing—just the sort of spider that plays havoc with the heart of the poor male butterfly.’—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

The Forward in Love. An Improbable Comedy.ByRICHARD BIRD.6s.

SHORT STORIES

The Hermit of Dreams.ByThe Hon. Mrs LINDSAY. With Three Drawings byClaude Shepperson. Beth, Incense and Myrrh, The Trembling of the Scales, The Story of Innocent Heart, Mary Had a Little Lamb. Crown 8vo.3s. 6d. net.

‘A book of absorbing interest. At the first assault she has carried the difficult citadel of literary achievement and has planted thereon her distinctive flag.’—Tablet.‘Five stories instinct with mystic charm, with grace, beauty and reverence. They are told by the tall, emaciated, suffering Hermit, and they seem to bring the three worlds—the Past, the Present, and the Future—very simply, clearly, naturally and beautifully close to one another and to us. It is a little book to stir thought, to give comfort and to win affection.’—The Bookman.

‘A book of absorbing interest. At the first assault she has carried the difficult citadel of literary achievement and has planted thereon her distinctive flag.’—Tablet.

‘Five stories instinct with mystic charm, with grace, beauty and reverence. They are told by the tall, emaciated, suffering Hermit, and they seem to bring the three worlds—the Past, the Present, and the Future—very simply, clearly, naturally and beautifully close to one another and to us. It is a little book to stir thought, to give comfort and to win affection.’—The Bookman.

The Land of the Yellow Spring and other Japanese Stories.ByF. HADLAND DAVIS.5s. net.

‘Stories which are all poems in prose, beautifully conceived and carefully executed. Lafcadio Hearn would have welcomed these ardent studies of exotic romance.’—Morning Post.

In the Fighting Days at Sea. A Book for Boys.ByEDWARD FRASER. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo.6s.

The Story of Pierrot.ByS. R. LITTLEWOOD. With Black and White Illustrations bySidney Filmore.

BIOGRAPHY

General Booth and the Salvation Army.ByA. M. NICOL. Crown 8vo,6s. net.

‘If the book is taken calmly and deliberately as a whole, all the confidences, flattering and unflattering, estimated in due proportion, it will prove of exceptional value and interest. No such collection of human documents and data about the Salvation Army has ever before been presented to the friendly and unfriendly public.’—Daily Chronicle.

The Life of Cardinal Vaughan.ByJ. G. SNEAD-COX. With Seven Photogravure Portraits. 2 Vols. Demy 8vo.21s. net.Fourth Thousand

‘Almost an autobiography. Done with discretion, although the candours of the narrative are not the least of its conspicuous merits.’—Athenæum.‘A piece of genuine and permanent literature, warmhearted and communicative.’—Daily Telegraph.‘From a literary point of view, the best biography we have read for years.’—British Weekly.

‘Almost an autobiography. Done with discretion, although the candours of the narrative are not the least of its conspicuous merits.’—Athenæum.

‘A piece of genuine and permanent literature, warmhearted and communicative.’—Daily Telegraph.

‘From a literary point of view, the best biography we have read for years.’—British Weekly.

Life and Letters of John Lingard, D.D.ByMARTIN HAILE and EDWIN BONNEY. Demy 8vo.12s. 6d. net.

The Romance of Modern Surgery. A Tribute to Listerism.ByC. W. SALEEBY, M.D. Demy 8vo.10s. 6d. net.

Talleyrand the Man. Translated from the French of Bernard de Lacombe.With Two Portraits in Collotype. Demy 8vo.15s. net.

‘There is something enigmatic in the extraordinary, personality, which is newly and effectively studied in this volume, a volume which few people will read without having their mental portrait of Talleyrand softened and humanised.’—Daily Telegraph.

Benedictine Pioneers in Australia.ByDOM NORBERT BIRT, O.S.B. 2 vols. demy 8vo.25s. net.

The practically unknown story of the Benedictine Pioneers in Australia forms an important chapter in Colonial history. Dom Norbert Birt has spent several years in the study of the documents bearing on the subject, and his work is both a valuable piece of research and a vivid description of the romantic adventures of the first missionaries in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Life of St Teresa.Adapted from the FrenchbyALICE LADY LOVAT, with a Preface by Mgr.Robert Hugh Benson. Demy 8vo.10s 6d. net.

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

An Artist in Corfu.BySOPHIE ATKINSON. With Fourteen Coloured Illustrations and Cover Design and End-Papers by the Author.18s. net.

On ancient and modern authority the author claims that the little-known island is one of the loveliest spots of Greece, and supports her claim with enthusiastic pen and a choice of dainty water-colours.‘The water-colour drawings are highly accomplished, full of light and colour, and so indeed is her text.’—The Times.‘A very attractively got-up work.’—Westminster Gazette.

‘The water-colour drawings are highly accomplished, full of light and colour, and so indeed is her text.’—The Times.

‘A very attractively got-up work.’—Westminster Gazette.

Perrault’s Fairy Tales.Newly translatedbyS. R. LITTLEWOOD. With Twelve Coloured Illustrations byHonor C. Appleton.5s. net.

Songs of Innocence.ByWILLIAM BLAKE. With a Preface byThomas Seccombe, and Twelve Coloured Illustrations byHonor C. Appleton. Small Quarto.5s. net.

‘It is a joy to handle this truly lovely volume, which all lovers of childhood should possess.’—The Child.

The Baby of the Future.ByH. D. TRAILL. Reprinted by kind permission of the Proprietors ofPunch, and Illustrated in Colour byHonor C. Appleton.1s. net.

The Regent Library

Small crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. neteach vol.

The general reader and the busy man who can spare but little time to devote to books will find in these carefully chosen volumes of extracts useful Introductions to Authors of perennial interest. Both the selections and the Introduction have been entrusted to writers who can speak with the authority of full knowledge on their subjects.

JOHNSON

ByAlice Meynell. With Introduction byG. K. Chesterton

LEIGH HUNT

ByEdward Storer

RICHARDSON

BySheila Kaye-Smith

WORDSWORTH

ByE. Hallam Moorhouse

BLAISE DE MONLUC

ByA. W. Evans

FANNY BURNEY

ByThomas Seccombe

MRS GASKELL

ByC. A. Chadwick

SHELLEY

ByRoger Ingpen

COWPER

ByEdward Storer

NEWMAN

ByDaniel O’Connor[In preparation

DISRAELI

ByWilfrid Meynell[In preparation

Other vols. in preparation

HERBERT & DANIEL21 MADDOX STREET, LONDON, W.

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