The COLOUR of the EASTBy ELIZABETH WASHBURNHere is the essence of the East pictured with all the instinct of a painter—pulsing colour, a sense of vivid life, elimination of non-essential detail. To quote from the book:“There are colours everywhere and always—in the dawns and sunsets, in the white moonlights and in the seas that drink in all the colour of the swimming skies. All day the native life pads along the roads without a sound. It meets, mixes in groups and separates—splashes of red in turbans, flowing muslins, scarfs of green and saffron and burnished naked skins.”With Frontispiece by Jules Guerin. $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.37.WHISPERING DUSTBy ELDRID REYNOLDSFrederic Taber Cooper writes in his introduction to this novel:“There can be no half measures in any reader’s attitude toward this book; it will either leave you cold, speaking to you in an unknown tongue, or else you will hail it with delight, as one of those rare and delicious discoveries, to be lingered over and reverted to, again and again, with ever new and infinite appreciation.”It is the story of a woman over 30 who is having her first taste of travel and pleasure.$1.10 net; postpaid, $1.22.THE TWO AMERICASBy GEN. RAFAEL REYESProbably the most authoritative and informing book yet published on the Latin-American republics. General Reyes, ex-President of Colombia and well known as a statesman, diplomat and explorer, relates his thrilling experiences in early exploration; presents many sidelights on the history of the republics and sets forth in a highly interesting manner the conditions in the more important of these countries with the opportunities they offer to American enterprise and commerce. A book of vital importance to the business man, as well as to every one who is interested in the great continent of the future. Fully illustrated from photographs.Cloth, 8vo; net $2.50; postpaid $2.70.Publishers: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, New York
The COLOUR of the EAST
By ELIZABETH WASHBURN
Here is the essence of the East pictured with all the instinct of a painter—pulsing colour, a sense of vivid life, elimination of non-essential detail. To quote from the book:
“There are colours everywhere and always—in the dawns and sunsets, in the white moonlights and in the seas that drink in all the colour of the swimming skies. All day the native life pads along the roads without a sound. It meets, mixes in groups and separates—splashes of red in turbans, flowing muslins, scarfs of green and saffron and burnished naked skins.”
With Frontispiece by Jules Guerin. $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.37.
WHISPERING DUST
By ELDRID REYNOLDS
Frederic Taber Cooper writes in his introduction to this novel:
“There can be no half measures in any reader’s attitude toward this book; it will either leave you cold, speaking to you in an unknown tongue, or else you will hail it with delight, as one of those rare and delicious discoveries, to be lingered over and reverted to, again and again, with ever new and infinite appreciation.”
It is the story of a woman over 30 who is having her first taste of travel and pleasure.
$1.10 net; postpaid, $1.22.
THE TWO AMERICAS
By GEN. RAFAEL REYES
Probably the most authoritative and informing book yet published on the Latin-American republics. General Reyes, ex-President of Colombia and well known as a statesman, diplomat and explorer, relates his thrilling experiences in early exploration; presents many sidelights on the history of the republics and sets forth in a highly interesting manner the conditions in the more important of these countries with the opportunities they offer to American enterprise and commerce. A book of vital importance to the business man, as well as to every one who is interested in the great continent of the future. Fully illustrated from photographs.
Cloth, 8vo; net $2.50; postpaid $2.70.
Publishers: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, New York