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Volumes for 1914
1. SOMETHING IN THE CITY Florence Warden2. THE TURNPIKE HOUSE Fergus Hume3. MIDSUMMER MADNESS Mrs. Lovett Cameron4. MRS. MUSGRAVE AND HER HUSBAND Richard Marsh5. THE SIN OF HAGAR Helen Mathers6. DELPHINE Curtis Yorke7. TRAITOR AND TRUE John Bloundelle-burton8. THE OTHER MRS. JACOBS Mrs. Campbell Praed9. THE COUNTESS OF MOUNTENOY John Strange Winter10. THE WOOING OF MONICA L. T. Meade11. THE WORLD MASTERS George Griffith12. HIS ITALIAN WIFE Lucas Cleeve13. No. 3, THE SQUARE Florence Warden14. MISS ARNOTT'S MARRIAGE Richard Marsh15. THE THREE DAYS' TERROR J. S. Fletcher16. THE JUGGLER AND THE SOUL Helen Mathers17. THE HARVEST OF LOVE C. Ranger Gull18. BITTER FRUIT Mrs. Lovett Cameron19. BENEATH THE VEIL Adeline Sergeant20. THE BRANGWYN MYSTERY David Christie Murray21. FUGITIVE ANNE Mrs. Campbell Praed22. IN SUMMER SHADE Mary E. Mann23. A JILT'S JOURNAL Rita24. THE SCARLET SEAL Dick Donovan
N.B.—The first Eight will be published March 16th. There will then be an interval of one month, when, commencing April 20th, the volumes will appear fortnightly, two at a time, until July 27th.
GENERAL LITERATURE
OSCAR WILDE AND MYSELF.By Lord Alfred Douglas. With rare Portraits and Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d.net.
Some of Oscar Wilde's biographers are persons who had only a nodding acquaintance with him, and others had no acquaintance at all. But in their writings there is one name which is linked with Wilde's and is second only in importance to it—the name of Lord Alfred Douglas. After long years Lord Alfred has decided to break the silence and to give the real facts about his relations with Wilde from the period when Wilde was at the top of his fame to the time of his tragedy and death. "Oscar Wilde and Myself" contains a serious side inasmuch as it deals with the grave disasters which this friendship has brought upon Lord Alfred. It possesses another side in the analysis of the purely literary aspect of Wilde's work; and a large number of anecdotes and sayings of Wilde are included which have never before been printed. It gives also an account of the Wilde circle, which included the most prominent persons of the period. Of Lord Alfred Douglas's literary gifts his worst enemy is in no doubt, and this work, apart from its great personal import, will give the quietus to much that is false which has grown round the Oscar Wilde tradition.
BELGIUM, HER KINGS, KINGDOM, AND PEOPLE.By John de Courcy Macdonnell. Fully illustrated. Demy 8vo. Price 15s.net.
The lives of Leopold I., Leopold II., and King Albert told with a wealth of intimate detail which up till now has been withheld, the true story of the Belgian Revolution, untold by any English writer ere this, and much that is new and interesting about all the leading people in Belgium, from Royalties to Anarchists. The author describes the Belgian people, their mode of living, their thrift, their industry—the country itself, the forests, the mining districts, the crowded cities—and throws fresh light on many aspects of Belgian politics.
THE BONDS OF AFRICA.By Owen Letcher, F.R.G.S., Author of "Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia." With 50 Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. Demy 8vo. Price 12s.6d.net.
Mr. Owen Letcher is a young Englishman who has spent the past eleven years in Africa and has wandered into well-nigh unknown portions of the Dark Continent to hunt big game and to pry into the lives of the natives inhabitant of the remotest corners of it. Quite apart from its value to the traveller, the sportsman, and the student of natural history, the book possesses a remarkable human interest. Mr. Letcher knows Africa from Cape Town to the City of the Pharaohs, and, as the work covers an enormous field of but little known land in Southern, North-Western and North-Eastern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, British East Africa, and Uganda, its merits from a geographical point of view are undoubted.
MADAME DU BARRY.By Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. With Photogravure and numerous other Portraits. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. net.
One of the most marvellously minute and realistic specimens of biography to be found. No pains have been spared to obtain all the information available with reference to the extraordinary woman who, born out of wedlock in the little French town of Vaucouleurs, became the mistress of Louis XV., and after a career of reckless extravagance, perished on the guillotine.
STORIES OF SOCIETY.By Charles E. Jerningham ("Marmaduke" ofTruth). With numerous Portraits. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net.
In his life spent amongst the clubs and the drawing-rooms of Mayfair the author (for more than twenty years "Marmaduke" ofTruth) has become familiar with the skeletons lurking in the cupboards of Society, and there is no writer of to-day who is more fully or happily equipped to fulfil the function of a social satirist.
THE PURPOSE: Reflections and Digressions.By Hubert Wales. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. Price 5s. net.
Mr. Hubert Wales' object in this book is to discuss serious subjects in a style and within a compass compatible with modern exigencies and habits. No longer the hidden operator pulling the strings that move his puppets, he draws aside the curtain, appears in his own person, and talks familiarly with his readers upon such absorbing and vital topics as Life and Death, Ethics, Sex and Beauty.
HOUNDS.By Frank Townend Barton, M.R.C.V.S. With 37 Illustrations from Photographs. Crown 8vo. Price 5s. net.
An entirely new and original work dealing with the most important varieties of hounds. Each variety is exhaustively dealt with, not only in relation to the conformation, but in matters appertaining to feeding, breeding, rearing, showing, health and sport, etc., etc.
ARTEGAL: a Drama; Poems and Ballads.By B. C. Hardy, Author of "Philippa of Hainault and Her Times," "The Princesse de Lamballe," etc. Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 6d. net.
BEQUEATHED MID-OCEAN.By Blanche Adelaide Brock, Author of "Fire Fantasies," etc. Crown 8vo. Price 3s, 6d. net. A Story in Verse.
GOLF FOR THE LATE BEGINNER.By Henry Hughes (One of Them). With Thirty-two Illustrations from Photographs specially taken for the Work. Fcap. 8vo. Price 1s. net. Third and Revised Edition.
World of Golfsays: "Every stroke and club are carefully explained. An excellent shillingsworth."
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
EUGÈNE DE BEAUHARNAIS: the Adopted Sonof Napoleon. By Violette M. Montagu, Author of "Sophie Dawes, Queen of Chantilly," "The Scottish College in Paris," etc. With 24 Portraits and Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Price 15s. net.
ROBESPIERRE AND THE WOMEN HE LOVED.By Hector Fleischmann, English Version by Dr. A.S. Rappoport. With Photogravure and 19 other Portraits. Demy 8vo. Price 13s. 6d. net.
ROSE BERTIN: the Creator of Fashion at the Court of Marie Antoinette.By Émile Langlade. English Version by Dr. A. S. Rappoport. With Photogravure and 24 Portraits. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. net.
BOHEMIAN DAYS IN FLEET STREET.By a Journalist. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net.
TRAVELS IN THE PYRENEES: including Andorra and the Coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne.By V. C. Scott O'Connor, Author of "The Silken East," "Mandalay," etc. With 4 Illustrations in colour, 158 other Illustrations, and a Map. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net.
GUN DOGS.By Frank Townend Barton, M.R.C.V.S., Author of "Terriers: Their Points and Management." With 46 Illustrations from Photographs. Crown 8vo. Price 5s. net.
HOME EXERCISE AND HEALTH: Five Minutes' Care to the Nerves.The Rational System of Exercising for Health rather than mere Strength. By Percival G. Masters, B.A. Cantab. With 32 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Price 2s. 6d. net. A System of Exercises devised to promote health, and not muscle development only. It particularly aims at building up the nervous system. [Second and Revised Edition.]
ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSION.By A. P. M. Fleming, M.I.E.E., and R. W. Bailey, Wh.Sc. Crown 8vo. Price 2s. 6d. net.
"Gives a general outline of the field of engineering activity, and sets forth the present facilities for obtaining satisfactory training and employment, with conditions of entry to the leading engineering institutions."—The Times.
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