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i6 Messrs. Methuen's List

S. Baring Gould. HISTORIC ODDITIES AND STRANGE

EVENTS. By S. Baring Gould. Third Edition. Crown%vo. 6j. ' A collection of exciting and entertaining chapters. The whole volume is delightful reading.' — Times.

S. Baring Gould. FREAKS OF FANATICISM. By S. Baring

Gould. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. ' Mr. Baring Gould has a keen eye for colour and effect, and the subjects he has chosen give ample scope to his descriptive and analytic faculties. A perfectly fascinating book.' — Scottish Leader.

S. Baring Gould. A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG : English Folk Songs with their Traditional Melodies. Collected and arranged by S. Baring Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard. Demy t^to. 6s.

S. Baring Gould. SONGS OF THE WEST: Traditional Ballads and Songs of the West of England, with their Traditional Melodies. Collected by S. Baring Gould, M.A., and H. Fleet- wood Sheppard, M. A. Arranged for Voice and Piano. In 4 Parts (containing 25 Songs each), Parts /., //., ///., 35. each. Part IV., 5 J. In one Vol., French morocco, 15^. 'A rich collection of humour, pathos, grace, and poetic iaxicy.'— Saturday Review.

S. Baring Gould. YORKSHIRE ODDITIES AND STRANGE

EVENTS. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.

S. Baring Gould. STRANGE SURVIVALS AND SUPER- STITIONS. With Illustrations. By S. Baring Gould. Crozvn 8vo. Second Edition. 6s. ' We have read Mr. Baring Gould's book from beginning to end. It is full of quaint and various information, and there is not a dull page in it. ' — Motes and Queries.

S. Baring Gould. THE DESERTS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. By S. Baring. Gould, With numerous Illustrations by F. D. Bedford, S. Hutton, etc. 2 vols. Demy Svo. 32^.

This book is the first serious attempt to describe the great barren tableland that extends to the south of Limousin in the Department of Ave/ron, Lot, etc., a country of dolomite cliffs, and caiions, and subterranean riveLs. The region is full of prehistoric and historic interest, relics of cave-dwelbrs, of mediseval robbers, and of the English domination and the Hundred Years' War.

'His two richly-illustrated volumes are full of matter of interest to the geologist, the archaeologist, and the student of history and manners.' — Sco'.sman.

' It deals with its subject in a mauner which rarely fails to arrest attention.' — Times.

R. S. Baden-Powell. THE DOWNFALL OF PRZMPEH. A

Diary of Life with the Native Levy in Ashanti, 1895. By Lieut.-Col. Baden-Powell. With 21 Illustrations, a Map, and a Special Chapter on the Political and Commercial Position of Ashanti by Sir George Baden-Powell, K.C.M.G., M.P. Demy8vo. \os. 6d.

' A compact, faithful, most readable record of the campaign.' — Daily Neivs. ' A bluff and vigorous narrative.' — Glas^oiv Herald, ' A really interesting book.' — Yorkshire Post.