Houghton Mifflin Company’sLatest BooksRobert Herrick’s New NovelCLARK’S FIELD“In this virile book, Mr. Herrick studies the part played by ‘unearned increment’ in the life of a girl. A notable contribution to American realistic fiction.â€â€œMr. Herrick’s fiction is a force for the higher civilization which to be widely felt needs only to be widely known.â€â€”William Dean Howells.“To define him is, in a way, to define the American people itself. For among writers of recent times, living or dead, there is hardly any one who, in my opinion, has come nearer deserving the epithet ‘national.’â€â€”Edwin Bjorkman.$1.40 net. Postage extra.LETTERS OF A WOMAN HOMESTEADERBy Elinore Pruitt StewartThese letters, regarded by theNew York Evening Postas “the literary discovery of the year,†tell a connected story of pioneer life, full of buoyancy and pluck and the spirit of adventure. One of the most humorous, touching, and lively documents in recent literature.Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. $1.25 net. Postage extra.MEMOIRS OF YOUTHBy Giovanni Visconti VenostaTranslated by Rev. William Prall. With an Introduction by William Roscoe ThayerThese Memoirs, now translated into English, represent the aristocratic attitude among the patriotic Italians, and give a personal and vivid account of the abuses of Austrian and clerical rule; of the outbreaks of 1848-50, their failure and cruel repression.Illustrated. $4.00 net. Postage extra.THE MINISTRY OF ARTBy Ralph Adams CramThese 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.RELIGIOUS CONFESSIONS AND CONFESSANTSBy Anna Robeson BurrReaders of Mrs. Burr’s able literary and psychological study of “The Autobiography†will be in a measure prepared for the wealth of material that she has brought together in her account of the religious confession throughout the ages.$2.50 net. Postage extra.THE ART OF SPIRITUAL HARMONYBy Wassili KandinskyTranslated from the German, with an introduction by M. T. H. Sadler. Kandinsky gives a critical sketch of the growth of the abstract ideal in art, forecasts the future of the movement, and says in what way he considers Cubism to have failed in its object. The fairness and generosity of his argument, together with the interest of his own daring theories, will certainly attract the English as it has attracted the German public, who called for three editions of the book within a year of publication.Illustrated, $1.75 net. Postage extra.4 Park St. BostonHoughton Mifflin Company16 E. 40th St. New York
Houghton Mifflin Company’sLatest Books
Robert Herrick’s New Novel
CLARK’S FIELD
“In this virile book, Mr. Herrick studies the part played by ‘unearned increment’ in the life of a girl. A notable contribution to American realistic fiction.â€
“Mr. Herrick’s fiction is a force for the higher civilization which to be widely felt needs only to be widely known.â€â€”William Dean Howells.
“To define him is, in a way, to define the American people itself. For among writers of recent times, living or dead, there is hardly any one who, in my opinion, has come nearer deserving the epithet ‘national.’â€â€”Edwin Bjorkman.
$1.40 net. Postage extra.
LETTERS OF A WOMAN HOMESTEADER
By Elinore Pruitt Stewart
These letters, regarded by theNew York Evening Postas “the literary discovery of the year,†tell a connected story of pioneer life, full of buoyancy and pluck and the spirit of adventure. One of the most humorous, touching, and lively documents in recent literature.
Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. $1.25 net. Postage extra.
MEMOIRS OF YOUTH
By Giovanni Visconti Venosta
Translated by Rev. William Prall. With an Introduction by William Roscoe Thayer
These Memoirs, now translated into English, represent the aristocratic attitude among the patriotic Italians, and give a personal and vivid account of the abuses of Austrian and clerical rule; of the outbreaks of 1848-50, their failure and cruel repression.
Illustrated. $4.00 net. Postage extra.
THE MINISTRY OF ART
By Ralph Adams Cram
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.
RELIGIOUS CONFESSIONS AND CONFESSANTS
By Anna Robeson Burr
Readers of Mrs. Burr’s able literary and psychological study of “The Autobiography†will be in a measure prepared for the wealth of material that she has brought together in her account of the religious confession throughout the ages.
$2.50 net. Postage extra.
THE ART OF SPIRITUAL HARMONY
By Wassili Kandinsky
Translated from the German, with an introduction by M. T. H. Sadler. Kandinsky gives a critical sketch of the growth of the abstract ideal in art, forecasts the future of the movement, and says in what way he considers Cubism to have failed in its object. The fairness and generosity of his argument, together with the interest of his own daring theories, will certainly attract the English as it has attracted the German public, who called for three editions of the book within a year of publication.
Illustrated, $1.75 net. Postage extra.
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