Books By Havelock EllisMr. Ellis is one of the most distinguished psychologists, and men of letters in the world today. He is a scientist with a vision and a sense of humor, a traveler who sees below the surface, and a scholar who has read and digested a great part of the world’s literature without becoming a pedant. To readers ofThe Little Reviewwho are not familiar with his work we confidently recommend any of the four books below.IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTS“A book of random observations, thoughts, and half-thoughts, crotchets, hobbies, guesses, and whims. One day Mr. Ellis muses over a drunken woman and on another he descants on the evolution of furniture, having in the meanwhile declared his taste in architecture, the women of Normandy, the ugliness of modern civilization, and the music of Franck and Elgar, and his opinion of the devil, Cornishmen, George Meredith, Raphael, Gaby Deslys, war, and nakedness.”F. M. Colby in The North American Review.$1.50 net.THE TASK OF SOCIAL HYGIENEA discussion of the changing status of woman, the emancipation of woman in relation to romantic love, the significance of the falling birth-rate, and other aspects of sex and society. “It is an inspiring and reassuring volume, which deserves not one but several readings from everyone who takes anything more than a predatory interest in the social organism.”Waldo R. Browne in the Chicago Dial.$2.50 net.THE WORLD OF DREAMSA scholarly, yet entertaining study of just the peculiarities and curiosities of the world of dreams which everybody has wondered at. It describes them with the vividness and fantastic imagery which combine so charmingly in Kipling’s “The Brushwood Boy,” and at the same time interprets them in the light of a psychologist’s special knowledge.$2.00 net.THE SOUL OF SPAINThis brilliant volume on the romance, the woman, the art, the dancing, and the gardens of Spain, and especially on the Spanish character, is probably the most illuminating as well as the most readable interpretation of this inscrutable people in literature.With photogravure frontispiece, $2.00 net.Order at your bookstore or direct from the publishers4 Park StreetHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANYBoston
Books By Havelock Ellis
Mr. Ellis is one of the most distinguished psychologists, and men of letters in the world today. He is a scientist with a vision and a sense of humor, a traveler who sees below the surface, and a scholar who has read and digested a great part of the world’s literature without becoming a pedant. To readers ofThe Little Reviewwho are not familiar with his work we confidently recommend any of the four books below.
IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTS
“A book of random observations, thoughts, and half-thoughts, crotchets, hobbies, guesses, and whims. One day Mr. Ellis muses over a drunken woman and on another he descants on the evolution of furniture, having in the meanwhile declared his taste in architecture, the women of Normandy, the ugliness of modern civilization, and the music of Franck and Elgar, and his opinion of the devil, Cornishmen, George Meredith, Raphael, Gaby Deslys, war, and nakedness.”
F. M. Colby in The North American Review.
$1.50 net.
THE TASK OF SOCIAL HYGIENE
A discussion of the changing status of woman, the emancipation of woman in relation to romantic love, the significance of the falling birth-rate, and other aspects of sex and society. “It is an inspiring and reassuring volume, which deserves not one but several readings from everyone who takes anything more than a predatory interest in the social organism.”
Waldo R. Browne in the Chicago Dial.
$2.50 net.
THE WORLD OF DREAMS
A scholarly, yet entertaining study of just the peculiarities and curiosities of the world of dreams which everybody has wondered at. It describes them with the vividness and fantastic imagery which combine so charmingly in Kipling’s “The Brushwood Boy,” and at the same time interprets them in the light of a psychologist’s special knowledge.
$2.00 net.
THE SOUL OF SPAIN
This brilliant volume on the romance, the woman, the art, the dancing, and the gardens of Spain, and especially on the Spanish character, is probably the most illuminating as well as the most readable interpretation of this inscrutable people in literature.
With photogravure frontispiece, $2.00 net.
Order at your bookstore or direct from the publishers
4 Park StreetHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANYBoston