NEW BOOKS OFPERMANENT VALUEORIENTAL RUGSBy WALTER A. HAWLEY. With 11 Color Plates, 80 Half-Tone Engravings, including 4 Maps. 4to. Cloth. $7.50 net.“The book is of especial importance to American readers because of its reference to the carpets on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.... For the student of art the book is of real value also.”—The Outlook.“Covers familiar ground, but with more thoroughness than any previous English work on the subject.... As a working treatise for collectors and rug-buyers generally, it seems to us the best now in the field.”—New York Evening Post.ROBERT FULTON: ENGINEER AND ARTISTHis life and work. By H. W. DICKINSON, A. M. I., Mech. E. 31 Illustrations. Cloth. 8vo. $3.00 net.“Mr. Dickinson has performed a useful task with distinction, striking a nice balance between the usual human element and the special scientific element of his subject’s career. In workmanlike fashion he presents a portrait fair and true of Robert Fulton as a man, as an artist and as an inventor.”—New York Evening Sun.ANTHONY TROLLOPE: His Work, Associates and OriginalsBy T. H. ESCOTT. Illustrated. 8vo. $3.50 net.“Mr. Escott has so arranged Trollope’s qualities and his defects as to summon a life-like figure from the vast mass of his written words. The frontispiece of the volume is a portrait which is almost a biography in itself.”—The Living Age.“A biography that has charm and interest.... This book was needed and Mr. Escott has executed his task in a manner that insures him the gratitude of his readers.”—New York Times.THE SOUL OF PARISBy VERNER Z. REED. Colored Frontispiece and 8 other Illustrations by Ernest C. Peixotto. Large 12mo. Cloth. Gilt top. $2.50 net.“Mr. Reed’s essays are charming in their spirit of repose and fulness of life as he sees it.”—Boston Transcript.THE WORKS OF FRANCIS GRIERSON“Mr. Grierson has a right to speak; he succeeds in one of the most difficult forms of literature, the essay.”—The Spectator.“You have deliciously and profoundly surprised me—you have said so many things which I should like to have written myself.”—Maurice Maeterlinck.THE INVINCIBLE ALLIANCE$1.50netTHE CELTIC TEMPERAMENT$1.00netMODERN MYSTICISM(New Edition)$1.25netPARISIAN PORTRAITS$1.00netTHE HUMOUR OF THE UNDERMAN$1.00netLA VIE ET LES HOMMES(In French)$1.00netTHE VALLEY OF SHADOWS.With 13 illustrations in colour by EVELYN PAUL$1.50netJOHN LANE COMPANY, NEW YORK
NEW BOOKS OFPERMANENT VALUE
ORIENTAL RUGS
By WALTER A. HAWLEY. With 11 Color Plates, 80 Half-Tone Engravings, including 4 Maps. 4to. Cloth. $7.50 net.
“The book is of especial importance to American readers because of its reference to the carpets on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.... For the student of art the book is of real value also.”—The Outlook.
“Covers familiar ground, but with more thoroughness than any previous English work on the subject.... As a working treatise for collectors and rug-buyers generally, it seems to us the best now in the field.”—New York Evening Post.
ROBERT FULTON: ENGINEER AND ARTIST
His life and work. By H. W. DICKINSON, A. M. I., Mech. E. 31 Illustrations. Cloth. 8vo. $3.00 net.
“Mr. Dickinson has performed a useful task with distinction, striking a nice balance between the usual human element and the special scientific element of his subject’s career. In workmanlike fashion he presents a portrait fair and true of Robert Fulton as a man, as an artist and as an inventor.”—New York Evening Sun.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE: His Work, Associates and Originals
By T. H. ESCOTT. Illustrated. 8vo. $3.50 net.
“Mr. Escott has so arranged Trollope’s qualities and his defects as to summon a life-like figure from the vast mass of his written words. The frontispiece of the volume is a portrait which is almost a biography in itself.”—The Living Age.
“A biography that has charm and interest.... This book was needed and Mr. Escott has executed his task in a manner that insures him the gratitude of his readers.”—New York Times.
THE SOUL OF PARIS
By VERNER Z. REED. Colored Frontispiece and 8 other Illustrations by Ernest C. Peixotto. Large 12mo. Cloth. Gilt top. $2.50 net.
“Mr. Reed’s essays are charming in their spirit of repose and fulness of life as he sees it.”—Boston Transcript.
THE WORKS OF FRANCIS GRIERSON
“Mr. Grierson has a right to speak; he succeeds in one of the most difficult forms of literature, the essay.”—The Spectator.
“You have deliciously and profoundly surprised me—you have said so many things which I should like to have written myself.”—Maurice Maeterlinck.
THE INVINCIBLE ALLIANCE$1.50netTHE CELTIC TEMPERAMENT$1.00netMODERN MYSTICISM(New Edition)$1.25netPARISIAN PORTRAITS$1.00netTHE HUMOUR OF THE UNDERMAN$1.00netLA VIE ET LES HOMMES(In French)$1.00netTHE VALLEY OF SHADOWS.With 13 illustrations in colour by EVELYN PAUL$1.50net
JOHN LANE COMPANY, NEW YORK