SPRING PUBLICATIONSHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY4 Park Street, Boston191416 E. 40th St., New YorkGeorge Borrow and His CircleBy CLEMENT K. SHORTER“A treasure and a delight to admirers of Borrow.”—London Athenæum.“A sane book about a sane and magnificently wholesome man.”—London Daily Express.With frontispiece. $3.00 net. Postage extra.What Men Live ByBy RICHARD C. CABOT, M.D.A physician’s contribution to the conduct of life. His application of work, play, love, and worship to daily life and his experience of their healing powers are set forth in this volume in an inspiring and readable way.$1.50 net. Postage extra.Our Friend John BurroughsBy Dr. CLARA BARRUSThe increasing thousands of lovers of John Burroughs and his writings will welcome this intimate book about the man, his life, and his personality. A picturesque and vivid account of his youth, written by Mr. Burroughs himself, is a prominent and important feature.Illustrated. $2.00 net. Postage extra.Annals and Memoirs of the Court of PekingBy J. O. P. BLAND and EDMUND BACKHOUSE“An extraordinarily vivid picture of life at the Court of Peking from the middle of the sixteenth century down to our day.”—London Truth.“Of the importance to us today of understanding or endeavoring to understand the Chinese, no one will entertain a doubt, and therefore we heartily welcome a book like this in which the attempt is made, and made, we believe, successfully, to trace cause and effect back to the buried foundations of Chinese philosophy and civilization and to look at things from the Chinese point of view.”—London Globe.Lavishly illustrated. $4.50 net. Postage extra.In the Old PathsBy ARTHUR GRANTA series of delightful essays, by a popular English writer, which recreate with charm and delicacy some of the great scenes of literature. Using as a starting-point some poet, Mr. Grant writes of the country in which he lived, or which lives in his work, and allows a sensitive fancy to draw pictures of the past.Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postage extra.Thomas Wentworth Higginson: The Story of His LifeBy MARY THACHER HIGGINSONThis intimate biography tells for the first time the full story of the life of one of the most interesting of American soldiers and writers. Fully illustrated from portraits, views of Colonel Higginson’s homes, friends, etc., and with facsimiles of interesting manuscripts.Illustrated. $3.00 net. Postage extra.The Ministry of ArtBy RALPH ADAMS CRAMAmong the subjects discussed are: Art as an Expression of Religion, the Place of Fine Arts in Public Education, the Significance of the Gothic Revival in American Architecture, American University Architecture.These papers all embody and eloquently exploit that view of the relation of mediæval ideals to modern life which has made the author the most brilliant exponent of Gothic architecture in America.$1.50 net. Postage extra.Elia W. Peattie’sTHE PRECIPICE“One of the most significant novels that have appeared this season ... so absolutely true to life that it is hard to consider it fiction.”—Boston Post.“A book which men and women alike will be better for reading, of which any true hearted author might be proud.... The author knows life and human nature thoroughly, and she has written out of ripened perceptions and a full heart.”—Chicago Record Herald.“An intimate and sympathetic study of new-century womanhood ... presents a profoundly interesting survey of the new social order of things.”—Philadelphia North American.With frontispiece. $1.35 net. Postage extra.
SPRING PUBLICATIONS
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
4 Park Street, Boston191416 E. 40th St., New York
George Borrow and His Circle
By CLEMENT K. SHORTER
“A treasure and a delight to admirers of Borrow.”—London Athenæum.“A sane book about a sane and magnificently wholesome man.”—London Daily Express.
With frontispiece. $3.00 net. Postage extra.
What Men Live By
By RICHARD C. CABOT, M.D.
A physician’s contribution to the conduct of life. His application of work, play, love, and worship to daily life and his experience of their healing powers are set forth in this volume in an inspiring and readable way.
$1.50 net. Postage extra.
Our Friend John Burroughs
By Dr. CLARA BARRUS
The increasing thousands of lovers of John Burroughs and his writings will welcome this intimate book about the man, his life, and his personality. A picturesque and vivid account of his youth, written by Mr. Burroughs himself, is a prominent and important feature.
Illustrated. $2.00 net. Postage extra.
Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking
By J. O. P. BLAND and EDMUND BACKHOUSE
“An extraordinarily vivid picture of life at the Court of Peking from the middle of the sixteenth century down to our day.”—London Truth.
“Of the importance to us today of understanding or endeavoring to understand the Chinese, no one will entertain a doubt, and therefore we heartily welcome a book like this in which the attempt is made, and made, we believe, successfully, to trace cause and effect back to the buried foundations of Chinese philosophy and civilization and to look at things from the Chinese point of view.”—London Globe.
Lavishly illustrated. $4.50 net. Postage extra.
In the Old Paths
By ARTHUR GRANT
A series of delightful essays, by a popular English writer, which recreate with charm and delicacy some of the great scenes of literature. Using as a starting-point some poet, Mr. Grant writes of the country in which he lived, or which lives in his work, and allows a sensitive fancy to draw pictures of the past.
Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postage extra.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson: The Story of His Life
By MARY THACHER HIGGINSON
This intimate biography tells for the first time the full story of the life of one of the most interesting of American soldiers and writers. Fully illustrated from portraits, views of Colonel Higginson’s homes, friends, etc., and with facsimiles of interesting manuscripts.
Illustrated. $3.00 net. Postage extra.
The Ministry of Art
By RALPH ADAMS CRAM
Among the subjects discussed are: Art as an Expression of Religion, the Place of Fine Arts in Public Education, the Significance of the Gothic Revival in American Architecture, American University Architecture.
These papers all embody and eloquently exploit that view of the relation of mediæval ideals to modern life which has made the author the most brilliant exponent of Gothic architecture in America.
$1.50 net. Postage extra.
Elia W. Peattie’s
THE PRECIPICE
“One of the most significant novels that have appeared this season ... so absolutely true to life that it is hard to consider it fiction.”—Boston Post.
“A book which men and women alike will be better for reading, of which any true hearted author might be proud.... The author knows life and human nature thoroughly, and she has written out of ripened perceptions and a full heart.”—Chicago Record Herald.
“An intimate and sympathetic study of new-century womanhood ... presents a profoundly interesting survey of the new social order of things.”—Philadelphia North American.
With frontispiece. $1.35 net. Postage extra.