BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON [8vo, $2.50 net. Postage 17 cents] Italian Backgrounds ILLUSTRATED BY PEIXOTTO CONTENTS An Alpine Posting Inn A Tuscan Shrine A Midsummer Week s Dream Sub Umbra Liliorum The Sanctuaries of the Pennine March in Italy Alps Picturesque Milan What the Hermits Saw Italian Backgrounds "Belongs in that small class of books of observation which are also books of artistic and spiritual interpretation ; which not only describe places and monuments, but convey an impression of peoples, a sense of society, with the elusive atmosphere in which everything of historical or artistic value is seen by those who have the gift of sight." The Outlook. mo, $1.25 net] The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben) A play in five acts, by HERMANN SUDERMANN. Trans lated from the German by EDITH WHARTON. [Large Svo, $2.50 net] The Decoration of Houses With 56 full-page illustrations, by EDITH WHARTON and OGDEN CODMAN, JR.
