A Room with a View/Adverts
NEW AND RECENT BOOKS.
CHRONICLES OF SERVICE LIFE
IN MALTA.
By Mrs. ARTHUR STUART.
Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 6s.
Fiction is always the more interesting the more closely it is drawn from life, and these sketches of naval and military society in Malta, depicted in the form of stories, come from the pen of a lady who is intimately acquainted with the life of which she writes. The names of some of the stories, such as 'The Temptation of the Engineer,' 'The Red Parasol,' 'The Prince, the Lady, and the Naval Captain,' will indicate the character of the book. It will doubtless appeal especially to those familiar with society at naval and military stations, while the fact of its having a specific milieu should in no way detract from its general interest. 'Plain Tales from the Hills' did not appeal only to the Anglo-Indian.
LONDON SIDE-LIGHTS.
By CLARENCE ROOK.
With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. 6s.
The author of these entertaining sketches has taken his place as an ordinary Londoner who is a journalist as well. He has walked and ridden about London with pennies in his pocket, eyes in his head, and a brain behind the eyes. He has found secrets of London hotels, he has pierced the problem of London traffic, he has been to queer boxing contests, and he has been present at the birth of popular song. He has sat in the gallery of the House of Commons, and in the newspaper office that cuts and carves its speeches. And he knows the story of the famous block in Piccadilly.
A ROOM WITH A VIEW.
By E. M. FORSTER,
Author of 'The Longest Journey, 'Where Angels Fear to Tread,' etc.
Crown 8vo. 6s.
A novelist's third book, when its predecessors have shown great promise, is generally held to make or mar his reputation. There can be no question that Mr. Forster's new story will effectually establish his position. The author's whimsical humour, and unexpected turns of satire, have attained a still more piquant quality. He excels especially in satirizing the banalities of ordinary conversation, and his dialogue is always deliciously amusing.
Readers of 'Valerie Upton' will turn eagerly to Miss Sedgwick's new novel. The relations between a mother and her son form the basis of the story, and the dramatic situation begins when the son, a youth of nineteen, broaches to his mother the question why she and his father do not live together. Curiosity is thus awakened, and the emotional atmosphere charged with uneasy expectation. Thereafter events move quickly, reaching a dramatic climax within the space of a week. Further than this it would not be fair to the author to reveal her plot.
This is a promising first novel by a new writer, whose style is remarkable for delicate workmanship. The story moves round the dying fortunes of an old country family and its ancestral home. The hero belongs to another branch of this family, and there is a mystery about his birth. The heroine is an orphan, the daughter of a yeoman father and a French mother. Another important character is a scheming lawyer, and with these threads of love and intrigue the author has woven an interesting plot which is cleverly worked out.
In this story the vacillating relations of a young married lady with a man who has divested himself of his wealth in order to devote his life to service among the poor, are handled in a manner extremely modern.
This is a stirring novel of adventure in Eastern Europe. A learned Professor astonishes the British Association by announcing that he has located the famous lost treasure of Diocletian, as buried somewhere in the principality of 'Montenera.' This little State with its brave Prince is hard pressed for funds to defend itself against more powerful neighbours who aim at absorbing it, and the treasure would be invaluable. Whether it was discovered or not the reader learns in the course of a spirited and exciting story.
This work, by a new author, is of a highly imaginative and romantic tendency, and deals with a most interesting period in Scottish history. The mystery of Flodden, and the strange events grouped round the ancient tradition as to the fate of the gallant James, are stirringly told, and lead up to the dénouement, which comes with vivid unexpectedness at the close of the book.
A tender love idyll is woven into the tale and relieves the scenes of violence through which the wearer of the Witch's Sword must fight his way to honour and acceptance.
Claudius Clear, in the British Weekly, says: 'Mr. Sinclair describes for us without preaching the social life of the very rich in New York. Nothing could be more awful than his delineation. It is an America without conscience, without pity, without God.'
ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS.
By REGINALD FARRER,
Author of 'My Rock-Garden,' etc.
With Illustrations. Large Crown 8vo. 7s, 6d. net.
Like most hobbies, rock-gardening provides an endless topic of interest for its devotees, and the lore of the subject is inexhaustible. At any rate, Mr. Reginald Farrer, who is a recognized authority on the art, by no means exhausted his stock of information and anecdote in his previous work, 'My Rock-Garden.' That garden, as most of his fellow-enthusiasts know, is on the slopes of Ingleborough in Yorkshire, and it is a place of pilgrimage for the faithful of this cult. As a writer, Mr. Farrer combines a light and genial style with sound practical information, so that his books are at once readable and instructive.
MY ROCK-GARDEN.
By REGINALD FARRER,
Author of 'The Garden of Asia,' 'The House of Shadows,' The Sundered Streams,' etc.
Large Crown 8vo. With Illustrations. 7s. 6d. net.
A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. By the late Very Rev. S. Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester. Illustrated by G. H. Moon and G. S. Elgood, R.I. Twenty-fourth Impression. Presentation Edition, with Coloured Plates, 6s. Popular Edition, 3s. 6d.
A BOOK ABOUT THE GARDEN AND THE GARDENER. By the late Very Rev. S. Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester. Popular Edition. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d.
COMMON-SENSE COOKERY: Based on Modern English and Continental Principles worked out in Detail. By Colonel A. Kenney-Herbert. New and Revised Edition. Large crown 8vo., over 500 pages. Illustrated. 6s. net.
FIFTY BREAKFASTS: Containing a great variety of New and Simple Recipes for Breakfast Dishes. By Colonel A. Kenney-Herbert. 8vo., cloth, 2s. 6d.
FIFTY DINNERS. By Colonel A. Kenney-Herbert. 8vo., cloth, 2s. 6d.
FIFTY LUNCHES. By Colonel A. Kenney-Herbert. 8vo., cloth, 2s. 6d.
A HUNTING CATECHISM.
By COLONEL R. F. MEYSEY-THOMPSON,
Author of 'Reminiscences of the Course, the Camp, and the Chase.'
Foolscap 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
This, the third of Colonel Meysey-Thompson's invaluable handbooks, will appeal to hunting men as strongly as the previous volumes did to lovers of rod and gun. The information given is absolutely practical, the result of forty years' experience, and is largely conveyed in the form of Question and Answer. The arrangement is especially calculated to facilitate easy reference.
A FISHING CATECHISM.
By COLONEL R. F. MEYSEY-THOMPSON.
Foolscap 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
A SHOOTING CATECHISM.
By COLONEL R. F. MEYSEY-THOMPSON.
Foolscap 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
WALLET SERIES OF HANDBOOKS.
Foolscap 8vo., cloth, 2s. net; paper, 1s. net.
DRESS OUTFITS FOR ABROAD. By Ardern Holt.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING FOR THE INEXPERIENCED. By Hubert Walter.
HOCKEY AS A GAME FOR WOMEN. With the New Rules. By Edith Thompson.
ON COLLECTING ENGRAVINGS, POTTERY, PORCELAIN, GLASS, AND SILVER. By Robert Elward.
WATER-COLOUR PAINTING. By Mary L. Breakell ('Penumbra').
THE MANAGEMENT OF BABIES. By Mrs. Leonard Hill.
ON COLLECTING MINIATURES, ENAMELS, AND JEWELLERY. By Robert Elward.
MOTORING FOR MODERATE INCOMES. By H. Revell Reynolds.
ON TAKING A HOUSE. By W. Beach Thomas.
COMMON AILMENTS AND ACCIDENTS AND THEIR TREATMENT. By M. H. Naylor, M.B., B.S.
THE REMINISCENCES OF
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.
By Mrs. GEORGE CORNWALLIS WEST.
Demy 8vo. With Portraits. 15s. net.
The title of this delightful book gains point from its contents. Mrs. George Cornwallis West is unable to bring her recollections down to the immediate present, and so she brings them to a close when she ceased to be Lady Randolph Churchill. But that was only a few years ago, and it is doubtful whether any volume of reminiscences of Society has ever described the life of the interesting and distinguished people so close to our own day.
Lady Randolph Churchill's earliest experiences were in Paris during the last gay days of the Empire and the horrors of the Franco-German War. Then came her marriage and introduction to all that was best and highest in English Society. In 1876 Lord and Lady Randolph accompanied the Duke of Marlborough to Dublin, and her account of life at the Viceregal Court is full of entertainment. Then come recollections of political society in London, of the formation of the Primrose League, and anecdotes of well-known politicians, such as Mr. Balfour, Sir William Harcourt, Mr. Chamberlain, and others.
Lady Randolph has visited the Royal Family both at Windsor and at Sandringham. She has also many interesting glimpses to give of Continental Society, including an audience of the Czar in Russia, Court functions at Berlin, a dinner-party with Bismarck, a friendship with General Boulanger. Such are some of the varied items that catch the eye as one turns over the pages. They are samples from a mine of well-chosen topics, handled with tact, courage and grace.
PEEP-IN-THE-WORLD.
A Story for Children.
By Mrs. F. E. CRICHTON.
Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
The author of this charming tale ought to take rank with such writers as Mrs. Molesworth in the category of childhood's literature. The story tells of a little girl who visits her uncle in Germany and spends a year in an old castle on the borders of a forest. There she makes friends with a dwarf cobbler, who lives alone in a hut in the forest, and knows the speech of animals and birds. Knut, the cobbler, is something of a hermit and a misanthrope, but he is conquered by Peep-in-the-World, whom he eventually admits to the League of Forest Friends.
FROM THEIR POINT OF VIEW.
By M. LOANE,
Author or 'The Next Street but One,' 'The Queen's Poor,' etc.
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Miss Loane is a district nurse; she has lived among the poor and for the poor; she knows the society of the poor from the inside, yet she comes in from the outside, consequently she sees closely enough to descry details accurately.
This new book, full of real knowledge, common sense, and robust humour, is urgently recommended to the attentive perusal of all men and women who are interested in the problem of life among the poor. Miss Loane has a great gift for telling anecdotes, and employs it with effect in the present instance.
THE NEXT STREET BUT ONE. By M. Loane. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d.
THE QUEEN'S POOR. Life as they find it in Town and Country. By M. Loane. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d.
Sir Arthur Clay, Bart., says of this book: 'I have had a good deal of experience of "relief" work, and I have never yet come across a book upon the subject of the "poor" which shows such true insight and such a grasp of reality in describing the life, habits, and mental attitude of our poorer fellow-citizens. . . . The whole book is not only admirable from a common-sense point of view, but it is extremely pleasant and interesting to read, and has the great charm of humour.'
AT THE WORKS. A Study of a North Country Town. By Lady Bell, author of 'The Dean of St. Patrick's,' 'The Arbiter,' etc., etc. Crown 8vo., 6s. This little book is a description of the industrial and social condition of the ironworkers of the North Country.
OUT OF CHAOS. A Personal Story of the Revolution in Russia. By Prince Michael Trubetzkoi. Crown 8vo., 6s. This book, which is a nightmare of spies and passports, of underground printing presses and smuggled literature, of hideous anxieties and hairbreadth escapes, gives a lurid picture of modern Russia from the reformer's point of view.
THE MYSTERY OF MARIA STELLA, LADY NEWBOROUGH. By Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart. Demy 8vo. With over 20 Illustrations and a Photogravure Frontispiece. 7s. 6d. net. The strange story of Maria Stella is one of the most interesting of unsolved mysteries. Whether she was Princess or peasant, a Bourbon of France or a humble Chiappini of Tuscany, is a problem still unsettled, and upon its issue depends the real identity of the child who afterwards became Louis Philippe, King of France.
THE BOOK OF WINTER SPORTS.
With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. the EARL OF LYTTON, and contributions from experts in various branches of sport.
Edited by EDGAR SYERS.
Fully Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.
Every winter more and more visitors are attracted to Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Scandinavia, to take part in the various winter sports of which this book is the first and only comprehensive account in English. Each sport is dealt with separately by an expert. Thus, Mr. and Mrs. Syers write on Skating, Mr. C. Knapp on Tobogganing, Mr. E. Wroughton on Ski-running, Mr. Bertram Smith on Curling, Mr. E. Mavrogordato on Bandy, and Mr. Ernest Law on Valsing on Ice. The various chapters give instructions in practice, rules, records, and exploits, as well as useful information as to hotels, hours of sunshine, the size and number of rinks, and competitions open to visitors at the different centres.
VEGETARIAN COOKERY.
By FLORENCE A. GEORGE,
Author of 'King Edward's Cookery Book.'
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
Some are vegetarians for conscience' sake, and others for the sake of their health. Miss George caters for both these classes in her new book; but she does not strictly exclude all animal food, since eggs, butter, milk, cream and cheese form a large part of her dishes. As far as possible, dietetic foods have been avoided in the recipes, as they are often difficult to procure. Every recipe given has been tested to ensure accuracy, and the simplest language is used in explaining what has to be done.
LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD, 41 & 43, MADDOX ST., BOND ST., W.