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In A German Pension
Belles Lettres
Belles Lettres
LONELY ENGLAND. By Maude Goldring, Author of “The Downsman,” “The Tenants of Pixy Farm,” etc. Three coloured illustrations and several pen-and-ink sketches by Agnes Pike. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net. This book deals with the England which Englishmen are beginning to rediscover with wonder and joy, after years of neglect and false ideals of living.
THE PASSING OF THE AMERICAN. By Monrok Royce. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net. The author reveals the prevailing conditions of his own race to-day. A startling presentation of the industrial, social, political, and religious life of the American people.
POEMS. By Charles Granville. F'cap. 4to. 5s. net. Mr Granville is concerned with the soul of man, with the eternal rather than the transitory, and his perception, which is that of the seer, invests his language with that quality of ecstasy that constitutes the indisputable claim of poetry to rank in the forefront of literature.
page 3PRINCE AZREEL. By Arthur Lynch, M.A., M.P. Crown 8vo. 5s. net. The cry for something new in literature, the indefinable, the unexpected, has been answered.
MORE PEERS. Verses by Hilaire Belloc. Pictures by B.T.B. Price 2s. 6d. net. “There is a laugh in every line of the verses and illustrations.”—Daily Express. “Those who have not already tasted the peculiar humour which these collaborators imported into ‘Cantionary Tales for Children’ and the ‘Bad Child's Book of Beasts,’ should by all means study the life-history of various peers as recorded in these brief verses.”—Times.
AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK. By Juvenal, Crown 8vo. 5s. net. Notes and studies on life in New York: vivid originality and masterly deductions. Mr Eden Phillpotts writes of the author: “The things seen are brilliantly set down. He writes with great force and skill.”
THE ROLL OF THE SEASONS. By G. G. Desmond, Crown 8vo. 5s. net. This book for all Nature-lovers appeals perhaps most strongly to those in cities pent. The spirit, even if the body cannot go with it, comes back refreshed by these excursions to the country.
TRIUMPHANT VULGARITY. By Charles Whitby, M.D., Author of “Makers of Man,” “The Wisdom of Plotinus,” etc. Crown 8vo. cloth. 3s. 6d. net. This book, whose title is ironically reminiscent of the “Triumphant Democracy” of a multi-millionaire, records a disillusioned impression of modernity. It is a rebuke to optimists and a warning to dreamers.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF A DON. By G. F. Abbott. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net. This highly original and thought-provoking book is a dramatic presentment of some of the intellectual forces which are at work in England to-day.
page 4CIVIL WAR, A Play in Four Acts. By Ashley Dukes. Crown 8vo. 2s. net. This play is that rarity, an English drama of ideas which is not in any sense imitative of Mr Bernard Shaw. It presents an intellectual conflict which is also a passionate conflict of individualities.
SIR EDWARD: A Brief Memorial of a Noble Life. By a Fellow of the Literary Society. Crown 8vo. cloth. 1s. net. The humour of this remarkable satirs is irresistible. Sir Edward is not a caricature but a symbol; a materialisation into one grotesque shape of the drifting ideas and false ideals of a muddled civilisation.
THE VALLEY OF SHADOW. By Francis Grierson. Crown 8vo. 6s. net. “Told with wonderful charm … enthralling as any romance. … Truth, though often stranger than fiction, is almost always duller; Mr Grierson has accomplished the rare feat of making it more interesting.”—Punch.
THE CELTIC TEMPERAMENT and Other Essays. By Francis Grierson, 2s. 6d. net. “I find ‘The Celtic Temperament’ charming and full of wisdom.”—Prof. William James.
MODERN MYSTICISM and Other Essays. By Francis Grierson. F'cap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. net. “It is a pleasure to read a critic who is serious and who takes his own opinion seriously.”—The Manchester Guardian.
PARISIAN PORTRAITS. By Francis Grierson. 2s. 6d. net. “The most remarkable feature of Mr Grierson's portraits is their extraordinarily clear and various detail … a finished, skilful, and richly aden book.”—Times.
THE HUMOUR OF THE UNDERMAN. By Francis Grierson. 3s. 6d. net. This volume contains the latest work of the greatest essayist of our time. … “Essays among the most subtle and substantial that I know.”—Maurice Maeterlinck.
LA VIE ET LES HOMMES. By Francis Grierson. 3s. 6d. net. “J'ai trouvé ces méditations pleines d'aperçus profonds et sagaces. J'ai été frappé de Poriginalite puissante de la pensée de l'auteur.”—Sully Prudhomme (de l'Académie Française).