IMPORTANT NEW SCRIBNER BOOKSThrough the Brazilian WildernessBy THEODORE ROOSEVELTHere is Colonel Roosevelt’s own vivid narrative of his explorations in South America; his adventures on the famous “River of Doubt,” his visits to remote tribes of naked and wholly barbarous Indians, his 500-mile journey on mule-back across the height of the land between the river systems of Paraguay and the Amazon, his observations on the most brilliant and varied bird life of the South American tropics; hunting of the jaguar, the tapir, the peccary, the giant ant-eater, and other unusual animals of the jungle; all of this varied panorama is depicted in the author’s most graphic and picturesque style, full of the joy of new adventures. The book is a permanent addition to the literature of exploration.Profusely illustrated. $3.50 net; postage extra.Half HoursByJ. M. BARRIEFrom the delightful, romantic fantasy of “Pantaloon” to the present-day realism of “The Twelve Pound Look,” represents the wide scope of Mr. Barrie’s dramatic work. All four of the plays in this volume, though their subjects are quite diverse, are beautifully suggestive of Barrie at his best with all his keenest humor, brightest spontaneity, and deepest insight.“Pantaloon,” “The Twelve Pound Look,” “Rosalind” and “The Will.” $1.25 net; postage extra.HENRY VAN DYKEhas written a new volume of poems:The Grand CanyonAnd Other PoemsThis collection of Dr. van Dyke’s recent verse takes its title from that impressive description of the Grand Canyon of Arizona at daybreak, which stands among the most beautiful of Dr. van Dyke’s poems. The rest of the collection is characterized by those rare qualities that, asThe Outlookhas said, have enabled the author “to win the suffrage of the few as well as the applause of the many.”$1.25 net; postage extra.Robert FrankBySigurd IbsenHenry Ibsen’s only son is the author of this drama, which William Archer, the distinguished English critic, considers convincing proof that he possesses “dramatic faculty in abundance.” Mr. Archer defines it as “a powerful and interesting play which claims attention on its own merits,” “eminently a play of today, or, rather, perhaps, of tomorrow.”$1.25 net; postage extra.Artist and Public And Other Essays on Art SubjectsByKenyon CoxThere is no one writing of art today with the vitality that fills every paragraph of Mr. Cox’s work. Its freedom from what has become almost a conventional jargon in much art criticism, and the essential interest of every comment and suggestion, account for an altogether exceptional success that his book on The Classic Spirit has had within the last few years, and that will be repeated with this volume.Illustrated. $1.50 net; postage extra.In Dickens’ LondonByF. Hopkinson SmithThe rare versatility of an author who can transfer to paper his impressions of atmosphere as well in charcoal sketch as in charmingly told description has made this book an inspiration to the lover of Dickens and to the lover of London. The dusty old haunts of dusty old people, hid forever but for Dickens, are visited again and found little changed. Where modern things have crept in they are noticed with quick observation, keen humor, and that sympathy with the human which the author shares with the great Dickens himself.Illustrated with 24 full-page illustrations from the author’s drawings in charcoal. $3.50 net; postage extra.Path-Flower and Other VersesByOlive T. Dargan“Her vocabulary is varied, glowing, expressive. Indubitably a poet of great charm and power has appeared in the person of Olive Tilford Dargan.”—James Huneker,in the North American Review.$1.25 net.The Poems of Edgar Allan PoeWith an Introduction byE. C. Stedmanand Notes byProfessor G. E. WoodberryNearly half a century passed after the death of Poe before the appearance of the Stedman-Woodberry Edition of his works, which embodies in its editorial departments critical scholarship of the highest class. In this volume of Poe’s “Poems” the introduction and the notes treat not only of the more significant aspects of Poe’s genius as a poet, but his technical methods, and of scores of bibliographical and personal matters suggested by his verses. Entirely reset in larger type.Half morocco, $4.00 net; half calf, $3.50 net; cloth, with portrait, $2.00 net.The Diary of Mrs. Robert Louis StevensonThe Cruise of the “JANET NICHOL” Among the South Sea IslandsThere can be no greater inspiration and pleasure for lovers of Stevenson and his work than in the diary of his wife, written during their cruise in 1890, with no thought of publication, but, as she says, “to help her husband’s memory where his own diary had fallen in arrears.” It is full of vivid descriptions of strange characters, both native and white, and also gives most fascinating glimpses of Stevenson himself which are a delightful addition to our knowledge of Stevenson, as they have never before been given to the public in any way.Fully illustrated from photographs taken during the trip. $1.75 net; postage extra.MemoriesByJohn GalsworthyThis is a charmingly sympathetic biographical sketch of a dog—a cocker spaniel that came into the author’s possession almost at birth and remained with him through life. It has none of the imaginative exaggeration common in modern animal stories—records nothing improbable at all. But the author’s insight and his power of interpretation individualize the little spaniel and bring him into the reader’s intimate sympathy.Illustrated with four full-page colored illustrations and a large number in black and white byMaud Earl.$1.50 net; postage extra.The End of the TrailByE. Alexander Powell, F.R.G.S.A narrative of the most remarkable journey ever made by automobile on this continent—a narrative upon which are strung descriptions of the climate, customs, characteristics, resources, problems, and prospects of every State and province between Texas and Alaska in such a manner as to form the only comprehensive and recent volume on the Far West.With 45 full-page illustrations and map. $3.00 net; postage extra.The British Empire and the United StatesA Review of Their Relations During the Century of Peace Following the Treaty of Ghent, byWilliam Archibald Dunning. With an Introduction by theRight Honorable Viscount Bryceand a Preface byNicholas Murray ButlerThis is the psychological moment for the appearance of a book which explains the century of peace between Great Britain and the United States. When nearly every world power except the United States is at war, the history of our relations with a country, one of whose dominions borders ours for a distance of 3,000 miles, cannot help being intensely interesting and helpful to an understanding of war and peace and their underlying causes.$2.00 net; postage extra.The Diplomatic History of the WarEdited byM. P. Price, M.A.This volume is the first complete record of the events preceding the war. It includes a Diary of Negotiations and Events in the Different Capitals, the Texts of the Official Documents of the Various Governments, full report of the public speeches in all the European Parliaments by the leaders of the different parties concerning the War, an account of the military preparations, of the countries concerned, and much original matter.$2.25 net.Una MaryByUna A. HuntHere is child idealism beautifully described in personal reminiscences. A sensitive and imaginative child creates in her fancy a second self embodying her dearest ideals. The two selves grow up together and eventually become one. The book is intensely interesting, not only from a human point of view, but also from that of a scientific psychologist.$1.25 net; postage extra.Notes on Novelists With Some Other NotesByHenry JamesHere is a book which describes with penetrating analysis and in a thoroughly entertaining manner of telling the work not only of the great modern novelists of the last century, Stevenson, Zola, Balzac, Flaubert, and Thackeray, but also takes up in a chapter entitled “The New Novel” the work of Galsworthy, Mrs. Wharton, Conrad, Wells, Walpole, Bennett and the other more important contemporary novelists. This chapter gives in a short space as keen and authoritative a criticism of present-day fiction as can be found.$2.50 net; postage extra.The Man Behind the BarsByWinifred Louise TaylorTo gain the confidence of convicts, to know their inner lives, and through this knowledge to attempt to better prison conditions and methods of punishment throughout the country is Miss Taylor’s life aim. In this book, composed of a series of anecdotes, amusing, pathetic, and all intensely interesting, she has embodied the experience of many years of concentrated work in this field. In its sympathy, an essentially human quality, the book is thoroughly fascinating and gives the point of view of a class too little known to most of us.$1.50 net; postage extra.FablesByRobert Louis Stevenson“I am very much struck with Mr. Hermann’s drawings to the Stevenson ‘Fables.’ They seem to me to show remarkable power, both of invention and hand.”—Sydney Colvin.Illustrated with 20 full-page illustrations, 20 initials, and 20 tail-pieces, byE. R. Hermann.$3.00 net.One Woman to Another And Other PoemsByCorinne Roosevelt Robinson“Mrs. Robinson has a gift of poetic thought and expression and an ear for the music of poetry which rarely permits a discordant line, but it is this constant impression of deep sincerity which is her most appealing and distinguishing quality.”—Springfield Republican.$1.25 net; postage extra.CriticismByW. C. BrownellThis suggestive essay is a systematic exposition and defense of criticism by one of the foremost American critics. It considers philosophically the field, function, equipment, criterion and method of criticism in a way that will equally delight readers, authors, and critics.75 cents net; postage extra.
IMPORTANT NEW SCRIBNER BOOKS
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
By THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Here is Colonel Roosevelt’s own vivid narrative of his explorations in South America; his adventures on the famous “River of Doubt,” his visits to remote tribes of naked and wholly barbarous Indians, his 500-mile journey on mule-back across the height of the land between the river systems of Paraguay and the Amazon, his observations on the most brilliant and varied bird life of the South American tropics; hunting of the jaguar, the tapir, the peccary, the giant ant-eater, and other unusual animals of the jungle; all of this varied panorama is depicted in the author’s most graphic and picturesque style, full of the joy of new adventures. The book is a permanent addition to the literature of exploration.
Profusely illustrated. $3.50 net; postage extra.
Half HoursByJ. M. BARRIEFrom the delightful, romantic fantasy of “Pantaloon” to the present-day realism of “The Twelve Pound Look,” represents the wide scope of Mr. Barrie’s dramatic work. All four of the plays in this volume, though their subjects are quite diverse, are beautifully suggestive of Barrie at his best with all his keenest humor, brightest spontaneity, and deepest insight.“Pantaloon,” “The Twelve Pound Look,” “Rosalind” and “The Will.” $1.25 net; postage extra.
Half Hours
ByJ. M. BARRIE
From the delightful, romantic fantasy of “Pantaloon” to the present-day realism of “The Twelve Pound Look,” represents the wide scope of Mr. Barrie’s dramatic work. All four of the plays in this volume, though their subjects are quite diverse, are beautifully suggestive of Barrie at his best with all his keenest humor, brightest spontaneity, and deepest insight.
“Pantaloon,” “The Twelve Pound Look,” “Rosalind” and “The Will.” $1.25 net; postage extra.
HENRY VAN DYKE
has written a new volume of poems:
The Grand Canyon
And Other Poems
This collection of Dr. van Dyke’s recent verse takes its title from that impressive description of the Grand Canyon of Arizona at daybreak, which stands among the most beautiful of Dr. van Dyke’s poems. The rest of the collection is characterized by those rare qualities that, asThe Outlookhas said, have enabled the author “to win the suffrage of the few as well as the applause of the many.”
$1.25 net; postage extra.
Robert Frank
BySigurd Ibsen
Henry Ibsen’s only son is the author of this drama, which William Archer, the distinguished English critic, considers convincing proof that he possesses “dramatic faculty in abundance.” Mr. Archer defines it as “a powerful and interesting play which claims attention on its own merits,” “eminently a play of today, or, rather, perhaps, of tomorrow.”
$1.25 net; postage extra.
Artist and Public And Other Essays on Art Subjects
ByKenyon Cox
There is no one writing of art today with the vitality that fills every paragraph of Mr. Cox’s work. Its freedom from what has become almost a conventional jargon in much art criticism, and the essential interest of every comment and suggestion, account for an altogether exceptional success that his book on The Classic Spirit has had within the last few years, and that will be repeated with this volume.
Illustrated. $1.50 net; postage extra.
In Dickens’ London
ByF. Hopkinson Smith
The rare versatility of an author who can transfer to paper his impressions of atmosphere as well in charcoal sketch as in charmingly told description has made this book an inspiration to the lover of Dickens and to the lover of London. The dusty old haunts of dusty old people, hid forever but for Dickens, are visited again and found little changed. Where modern things have crept in they are noticed with quick observation, keen humor, and that sympathy with the human which the author shares with the great Dickens himself.
Illustrated with 24 full-page illustrations from the author’s drawings in charcoal. $3.50 net; postage extra.
Path-Flower and Other Verses
ByOlive T. Dargan
“Her vocabulary is varied, glowing, expressive. Indubitably a poet of great charm and power has appeared in the person of Olive Tilford Dargan.”—James Huneker,in the North American Review.
$1.25 net.
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
With an Introduction byE. C. Stedmanand Notes byProfessor G. E. Woodberry
Nearly half a century passed after the death of Poe before the appearance of the Stedman-Woodberry Edition of his works, which embodies in its editorial departments critical scholarship of the highest class. In this volume of Poe’s “Poems” the introduction and the notes treat not only of the more significant aspects of Poe’s genius as a poet, but his technical methods, and of scores of bibliographical and personal matters suggested by his verses. Entirely reset in larger type.
Half morocco, $4.00 net; half calf, $3.50 net; cloth, with portrait, $2.00 net.
The Diary of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
The Cruise of the “JANET NICHOL” Among the South Sea Islands
There can be no greater inspiration and pleasure for lovers of Stevenson and his work than in the diary of his wife, written during their cruise in 1890, with no thought of publication, but, as she says, “to help her husband’s memory where his own diary had fallen in arrears.” It is full of vivid descriptions of strange characters, both native and white, and also gives most fascinating glimpses of Stevenson himself which are a delightful addition to our knowledge of Stevenson, as they have never before been given to the public in any way.
Fully illustrated from photographs taken during the trip. $1.75 net; postage extra.
MemoriesByJohn GalsworthyThis is a charmingly sympathetic biographical sketch of a dog—a cocker spaniel that came into the author’s possession almost at birth and remained with him through life. It has none of the imaginative exaggeration common in modern animal stories—records nothing improbable at all. But the author’s insight and his power of interpretation individualize the little spaniel and bring him into the reader’s intimate sympathy.Illustrated with four full-page colored illustrations and a large number in black and white byMaud Earl.$1.50 net; postage extra.
Memories
ByJohn Galsworthy
This is a charmingly sympathetic biographical sketch of a dog—a cocker spaniel that came into the author’s possession almost at birth and remained with him through life. It has none of the imaginative exaggeration common in modern animal stories—records nothing improbable at all. But the author’s insight and his power of interpretation individualize the little spaniel and bring him into the reader’s intimate sympathy.
Illustrated with four full-page colored illustrations and a large number in black and white byMaud Earl.$1.50 net; postage extra.
The End of the Trail
ByE. Alexander Powell, F.R.G.S.
A narrative of the most remarkable journey ever made by automobile on this continent—a narrative upon which are strung descriptions of the climate, customs, characteristics, resources, problems, and prospects of every State and province between Texas and Alaska in such a manner as to form the only comprehensive and recent volume on the Far West.
With 45 full-page illustrations and map. $3.00 net; postage extra.
The British Empire and the United States
A Review of Their Relations During the Century of Peace Following the Treaty of Ghent, byWilliam Archibald Dunning. With an Introduction by theRight Honorable Viscount Bryceand a Preface byNicholas Murray Butler
This is the psychological moment for the appearance of a book which explains the century of peace between Great Britain and the United States. When nearly every world power except the United States is at war, the history of our relations with a country, one of whose dominions borders ours for a distance of 3,000 miles, cannot help being intensely interesting and helpful to an understanding of war and peace and their underlying causes.
$2.00 net; postage extra.
The Diplomatic History of the War
Edited byM. P. Price, M.A.
This volume is the first complete record of the events preceding the war. It includes a Diary of Negotiations and Events in the Different Capitals, the Texts of the Official Documents of the Various Governments, full report of the public speeches in all the European Parliaments by the leaders of the different parties concerning the War, an account of the military preparations, of the countries concerned, and much original matter.
$2.25 net.
Una Mary
ByUna A. Hunt
Here is child idealism beautifully described in personal reminiscences. A sensitive and imaginative child creates in her fancy a second self embodying her dearest ideals. The two selves grow up together and eventually become one. The book is intensely interesting, not only from a human point of view, but also from that of a scientific psychologist.
$1.25 net; postage extra.
Notes on Novelists With Some Other Notes
ByHenry James
Here is a book which describes with penetrating analysis and in a thoroughly entertaining manner of telling the work not only of the great modern novelists of the last century, Stevenson, Zola, Balzac, Flaubert, and Thackeray, but also takes up in a chapter entitled “The New Novel” the work of Galsworthy, Mrs. Wharton, Conrad, Wells, Walpole, Bennett and the other more important contemporary novelists. This chapter gives in a short space as keen and authoritative a criticism of present-day fiction as can be found.
$2.50 net; postage extra.
The Man Behind the Bars
ByWinifred Louise Taylor
To gain the confidence of convicts, to know their inner lives, and through this knowledge to attempt to better prison conditions and methods of punishment throughout the country is Miss Taylor’s life aim. In this book, composed of a series of anecdotes, amusing, pathetic, and all intensely interesting, she has embodied the experience of many years of concentrated work in this field. In its sympathy, an essentially human quality, the book is thoroughly fascinating and gives the point of view of a class too little known to most of us.
$1.50 net; postage extra.
Fables
ByRobert Louis Stevenson
“I am very much struck with Mr. Hermann’s drawings to the Stevenson ‘Fables.’ They seem to me to show remarkable power, both of invention and hand.”—Sydney Colvin.
Illustrated with 20 full-page illustrations, 20 initials, and 20 tail-pieces, byE. R. Hermann.$3.00 net.
One Woman to Another And Other Poems
ByCorinne Roosevelt Robinson
“Mrs. Robinson has a gift of poetic thought and expression and an ear for the music of poetry which rarely permits a discordant line, but it is this constant impression of deep sincerity which is her most appealing and distinguishing quality.”—Springfield Republican.
$1.25 net; postage extra.
Criticism
ByW. C. Brownell
This suggestive essay is a systematic exposition and defense of criticism by one of the foremost American critics. It considers philosophically the field, function, equipment, criterion and method of criticism in a way that will equally delight readers, authors, and critics.
75 cents net; postage extra.