SCRIBNER BOOKSThe Cruise of the “Janet Nichol” Among the South Sea IslandsBy Mrs. Robert Louis StevensonLovers of Stevenson and his work will discover a new inspiration in the diary of his wife written during their voyage in 1890 through the South Seas. This material has never been given to the public before in any way. The diary was written with no thought of publication, but, as Mrs. Stevenson says, “to help her husband’s memory where his own diary had fallen in arrears.”$1.75 net; postage extra.Notes on Novelists With Some Other NotesBy Henry 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 novelist 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 TaylorMiss Taylor has for many years devoted her life to the study of prisons and prisoners, and her book contains studies of intense human interest and deep and intelligent sympathy into the lives of convicts, the effects of prison life, the careers of men who have served their terms, and the prospects and sources of their reform.12mo. $1.50 net; postage extra.Artist and Public and Other Essays on Art SubjectsThere is no one writing of art to-day 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.By JOHNGALSWORTHYMEMORIESIllustrated with 4 full-page colored illustrations and a large number in black and white byMaud Earle.This is a charmingly sympathetic biographical sketch of a dog—a spaniel that came into the author’s possession almost at birth and remained with him through life.About $1.50 net; postage extra.In Dickens’s LondonBy F. Hopkinson SmithWith 24 full-page illustrations from the author’s drawings in charcoal.The reader of this volume will, in effect, have the delightful experience not only of visiting those London scenes frequented by Charles Dickens himself, but also those used by him as scenes in his novels and familiar through them in connection with Alfred Jingle, Nancy, Bob Sawyer, Sam Weller, Quilp, The Marchioness, Mr. Pickwick, Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and so on, in the company of that most sympathetic and eloquent guide, the author-artist.$3.50 net; postage extra.A Diary of James Gallatin in EuropeFrom the American Peace Through the Downfall of Napoleon and the Following Years.This journal of the son and secretary of Albert Gallatin, who accompanied his father during the negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent and afterward during his ministries to France, 1815-23, and to England, 1826-27, is at leastoneof the most entertaining and enlightening commentaries on that period ever written.Illustrated. 8vo. $2.50 net; postage extra.CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONSFifth Avenue at 48th Street, New York
SCRIBNER BOOKS
The Cruise of the “Janet Nichol” Among the South Sea Islands
By Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
Lovers of Stevenson and his work will discover a new inspiration in the diary of his wife written during their voyage in 1890 through the South Seas. This material has never been given to the public before in any way. The diary was written with no thought of publication, but, as Mrs. Stevenson says, “to help her husband’s memory where his own diary had fallen in arrears.”
$1.75 net; postage extra.
Notes on Novelists With Some Other Notes
By Henry 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 novelist 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 TaylorMiss Taylor has for many years devoted her life to the study of prisons and prisoners, and her book contains studies of intense human interest and deep and intelligent sympathy into the lives of convicts, the effects of prison life, the careers of men who have served their terms, and the prospects and sources of their reform.12mo. $1.50 net; postage extra.
The Man Behind the Bars
ByWinifred Louise Taylor
Miss Taylor has for many years devoted her life to the study of prisons and prisoners, and her book contains studies of intense human interest and deep and intelligent sympathy into the lives of convicts, the effects of prison life, the careers of men who have served their terms, and the prospects and sources of their reform.
12mo. $1.50 net; postage extra.
Artist and Public and Other Essays on Art SubjectsThere is no one writing of art to-day 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.
Artist and Public and Other Essays on Art Subjects
There is no one writing of art to-day 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.
By JOHNGALSWORTHYMEMORIESIllustrated with 4 full-page colored illustrations and a large number in black and white byMaud Earle.This is a charmingly sympathetic biographical sketch of a dog—a spaniel that came into the author’s possession almost at birth and remained with him through life.About $1.50 net; postage extra.
By JOHNGALSWORTHYMEMORIESIllustrated with 4 full-page colored illustrations and a large number in black and white byMaud Earle.This is a charmingly sympathetic biographical sketch of a dog—a spaniel that came into the author’s possession almost at birth and remained with him through life.About $1.50 net; postage extra.
By JOHNGALSWORTHY
MEMORIES
Illustrated with 4 full-page colored illustrations and a large number in black and white byMaud Earle.
This is a charmingly sympathetic biographical sketch of a dog—a spaniel that came into the author’s possession almost at birth and remained with him through life.
About $1.50 net; postage extra.
In Dickens’s London
By F. Hopkinson Smith
With 24 full-page illustrations from the author’s drawings in charcoal.
The reader of this volume will, in effect, have the delightful experience not only of visiting those London scenes frequented by Charles Dickens himself, but also those used by him as scenes in his novels and familiar through them in connection with Alfred Jingle, Nancy, Bob Sawyer, Sam Weller, Quilp, The Marchioness, Mr. Pickwick, Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and so on, in the company of that most sympathetic and eloquent guide, the author-artist.
$3.50 net; postage extra.
A Diary of James Gallatin in Europe
From the American Peace Through the Downfall of Napoleon and the Following Years.
This journal of the son and secretary of Albert Gallatin, who accompanied his father during the negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent and afterward during his ministries to France, 1815-23, and to England, 1826-27, is at leastoneof the most entertaining and enlightening commentaries on that period ever written.
Illustrated. 8vo. $2.50 net; postage extra.
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONSFifth Avenue at 48th Street, New York