Chapter XV: Closing Acquaintances, Scenes, and Books (4)

The use of a smaller _format_ and of thinner paper renders the
present edition easier to handle as a book of reference.

COKE OF NORFOLK AND HIS FRIENDS. The Life of Thomas Coke, First Earl of Leicester and of Holkham. By A. M. W. STIRLING. New Edition, revised, with some additions. With 19 Illustrations. In one volume. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE. By JOSEPH TURQUAN. Author of “The Love Affairs of Napoleon,” “The Wife of General Bonaparte.” Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ “The Empress Josephine” continues and completes the graphically
drawn life story begun in “The Wife of General Bonaparte” by the
same author, takes us through the brilliant period of the Empire,
shows us the gradual development and the execution of the Emperor’s
plan to divorce his middle-aged wife, paints in vivid colours the
picture of Josephine’s existence after her divorce, tells us how
she, although now nothing but his friend, still met him
occasionally and corresponded frequently with him, and how she
passed her time in the midst of her miniature court. This work
enables us to realise the very genuine affection which Napoleon
possessed for his first wife, an affection which lasted till death
closed her eyes in her lonely hermitage at La Malmaison, and until
he went to expiate at Saint Helena his rashness in braving all
Europe. Comparatively little is known of the period covering
Josephine’s life after her divorce, and yet M. Turquan has found
much to tell us that is very interesting; for the ex-Empress in her
two retreats, Navarre and La Malmaison, was visited by many
celebrated people, and after the Emperor’s downfall was so
ill-judged as to welcome and fete several of the vanquished hero’s
late friends, now his declared enemies. The story of her last
illness and death forms one of the most interesting chapters in
this most complete work upon the first Empress of the French.

NAPOLEON IN CARICATURE: 1795-1821. By A. M. BROADLEY. With an Introductory Essay on Pictorial Satire as a Factor in Napoleonic History, by J. HOLLAND ROSE, Litt. D. (Cantab.). With 24 full-page Illustrations in Colour and upwards of 200 in Black and White from rare and unique originals. 2 Vols. Demy 8vo. 42s. net.

_Also an Edition de Luxe._ 10 guineas net.

NAPOLEON’S LAST CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY. By F. LORAINE PETRE. Author of “Napoleon’s Campaign in Poland,” “Napoleon’s Conquest of Prussia,” etc. With 17 Maps and Plans. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ In the author’s two first histories of Napoleon’s campaigns (1806
and 1807) the Emperor is at his greatest as a soldier. The third
(1809) showed the commencement of the decay of his genius. Now, in
1813, he has seriously declined. The military judgment of Napoleon,
the general, is constantly fettered by the pride and obstinacy of
Napoleon, the Emperor. The military principles which guided him up
to 1807 are frequently abandoned; he aims at secondary objectives,
or mere geographical points, instead of solely at the destruction
of the enemy’s army; he hesitates and fails to grasp the true
situation in a way that was never known in his earlier campaigns.
Yet frequently, as at Bautsen and Dresden, his genius shines with
all its old brilliance.

The campaign of 1813 exhibits the breakdown of his over-centralised
system of command, which left him without subordinates capable of
exercising semi-independent command over portions of armies which
had now grown to dimensions approaching those of our own day.

The autumn campaign is a notable example of the system of interior
lines, as opposed to that of strategical envelopment. It marks,
too, the real downfall of Napoleon’s power, for, after the fearful
destruction of 1813, the desperate struggle of 1814, glorious
though it was, could never have any real probability of success.

FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS IN PARIS. By JOHN JOSEPH CONWAY, M.A. With 32 Full-page Illustrations. With an Introduction by Mrs. JOHN LANE. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ Franklin, Jefferson, Munroe, Tom Paine, La Fayette, Paul Jones,
etc., etc., the most striking figures of a heroic age, working out
in the City of Light the great questions for which they stood, are
dealt with here. Longfellow the poet of the domestic affections;
matchless Margaret Fuller who wrote so well of women in the
nineteenth century; Whistler master of American artists;
Saint-Gaudens chief of American sculptors; Rumford, most
picturesque of scientific knight-errants and several others get a
chapter each for their lives and achievements in Paris. A new and
absorbing interest is opened up to visitors. Their trip to
Versailles becomes more pleasurable when they realise what Franklyn
did at that brilliant court. The Place de la Bastille becomes a
sacred place to Americans realizing that the principles of the
young republic brought about the destruction of the vilest old
dungeon in the world. The Seine becomes silvery to the American
conjuring up that bright summer morning when Robert Fulton started
from the Place de la Concorde in the first steam boat. The Louvre
takes on a new attraction from the knowledge that it houses the
busts of Washington and Franklyn and La Fayette by Houdon. The
Luxembourg becomes a greater temple of art to him who knows that it
holds Whistler’s famous portrait of his mother. Even the
weather-beaten bookstalls by the banks of the Seine become
beautiful because Hawthorne and his son loitered among them on
sunny days sixty years ago. The book has a strong literary flavour.
Its history is enlivened with anecdote. It is profusely
illustrated.

MEMORIES OF JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER: The Artist. By THOMAS R. WAY. Author of “The Lithographs of J. M. Whistler,” etc. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 4to. 10_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ This volume contains about forty illustrations, including an
unpublished etching drawn by Whistler and bitten in by Sir Frank
Short, A.R.A., an original lithograph sketch, seven lithographs in
colour drawn by the Author upon brown paper, and many in black and
white. The remainder are facsimiles by photo-lithography. In most
cases the originals are drawings and sketches by Whistler which
have never been published before, and are closely connected with
the matter of the book. The text deals with the Author’s memories
of nearly twenty year’s close association with Whistler, and he
endeavours to treat only with the man as an artist, and perhaps,
especially as a lithographer.
[38] Also an EDITION DE LUXE on hand-made paper, with the etching
printed from the original plate. Limited to 50 copies.

HISTORY OF THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY: A Record of a Hundred Years’ Work in the Cause of Music. Compiled by MYLES BIRKET FOSTER, F.R.A.M., etc. With 16 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ As the Philharmonic Society, whose Centenary is now being
celebrated, is and has ever been connected, during its long
existence, with the history of musical composition and production,
not only in this country, but upon the Continent, and as every
great name in Europe and America in the last hundred years (within
the realm of high-class music), has been associated with it, this
volume will, it is believed, prove to be an unique work, not only
as a book of reference, but also as a record of the deepest
interest to all lovers of good music. It is divided into ten
Decades, with a small narrative account of the principal happenings
in each, to which are added the full programmes of every concert,
and tables showing, at a glance, the number and nationality of the
performers and composers, with other particulars of interest. The
book is made of additional value by means of rare illustrations of
MS. works specially composed for the Society, and of letters from
Wagner, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, etc., etc., written to the
Directors and, by their permission, reproduced for the first time.

IN PORTUGAL. By AUBREY F. G. BELL. Author of “The Magic of Spain.” Demy 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ The guide-books give full details of the marvellous convents,
gorgeous palaces, and solemn temples of Portugal, and no attempt is
here made to write complete descriptions of them, the very name of
some of them being omitted. But the guide-books too often treat
Portugal as a continuation, almost as a province of Spain. It is
hoped that this little book may give some idea of the individual
character of the country, of the quaintnesses of its cities, and of
peasant life in its remoter districts. While the utterly opposed
characters of the two peoples must probably render the divorce
between Spain and Portugal eternal, and reduce hopes of union to
the idle dreams of politicians. Portugal in itself contains an
infinite variety. Each of the eight provinces (more especially
those of the _alemtejanos_, _minhotos_ and _beiröes_) preserves
many peculiarities of language, customs, and dress; and each will,
in return for hardships endured, give to the traveller many a day
of delight and interest.

A TRAGEDY IN STONE, AND OTHER PAPERS. By LORD REDESDALE, G.C.V.O., K.C.C., etc. Demy 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ “From the author of ‘Tales of Old Japan’ his readers always hope
for more about Japan, and in this volume they will find it. The
earlier papers, however, are not to be passed over.”--_Times._

⁂ “Lord Redesdale’s present volume consists of scholarly essays on
a variety of subjects of historic, literary and artistic
appeal.”--_Standard._

⁂ “The author of the classic ‘Tales of Old Japan’ is assured of
welcome, and the more so when he returns to the field in which his
literary reputation was made. Charm is never absent from his
pages.”--_Daily Chronicle._

MY LIFE IN PRISON. By DONALD LOWRIE. Crown 8vo. 6_s._ net.

⁂ This book is absolutely true and vital. Within its pages passes
the myriorama of prison life. And within its pages may be found
revelations of the divine and the undivine; of strange humility and
stranger arrogance; of free men brutalized and caged men humanized;
of big and little tragedies; of love, cunning, hate, despair, hope.
There is humour, too though sometimes the jest is made ironic by
its sequel. And there is romance--the romance of the real; not the
romance of Kipling’s 9.15, but the romance of No. 19,093, and of
all the other numbers that made up the arithmetical hell of San
Quentin prison.

Few novels could so absorb interest. It is human utterly. That is
the reason. Not only is the very atmosphere of the prison
preserved, from the colossal sense of encagement and
defencelessness, to the smaller jealousies, exultations and
disappointments; not only is there a succession of characters
emerging into the clearest individuality and genuineness,--each
with its distinctive contribution and separate value; but beyond
the details and through all the contrasted variety, there is the
spell of complete drama,--the drama of life. Here is the underworld
in continuous moving pictures, with the overworld watching. True,
the stage is a prison; but is not all the world a stage?

It is a book that should exercise a profound influence on the lives
of the caged, and on the whole attitude of society toward the
problems of poverty and criminality.

AN IRISH BEAUTY OF THE REGENCY: By MRS. WARRENNE BLAKE. Author of “Memoirs of a Vanished Generation, 1813-1855.” With a Photogravure Frontispiece and other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.

⁂ The Irish Beauty is the Hon. Mrs. Calvert, daughter of Viscount
Pery, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and wife of Nicholson
Calvert, M.P., of Hunsdon. Born in 1767, Mrs. Calvert lived to the
age of ninety-two, and there are many people still living who
remember her. In the delightful journals, now for the first time
published, exciting events are described.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By STEWART HOUSTON CHAMBERLAIN. A Translation from the German by JOHN LEES. With an Introduction by LORD REDESDALE. Demy 8vo. 2 vols. 25s. net. Second Edition.

⁂ “A man who can write such a really beautiful and solemn
appreciation of true Christianity, of true acceptance of Christ’s
teachings and personality, as Mr. Chamberlain has done...
represents an influence to be reckoned with and seriously to be
taken into account.”--_Theodore Roosevelt in the Outlook, New
York._

⁂ “It is a masterpiece of really scientific history. It does not
make confusion, it clears it away. He is a great generalizer of
thought, as distinguished from the crowd of mere specialists. It is
certain to stir up thought. Whoever has not read it will be rather
out of it in political and sociological discussions for some time
to come.”--_George Bernard Shaw in Fabian News._

⁂ “This is unquestionably one of the rare books that really matter.
His judgments of men and things are deeply and indisputably sincere
and are based on immense reading.... But even many well-informed
people... will be grateful to Lord Redesdale for the biographical
details which he gives them in the valuable and illuminating
introduction contributed by him to this English
translation.”--_Times._

THE SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, with a Topographical Account of Westminster at Various Epochs, Brief Notes on Sittings of Parliament and a Retrospect of the principal Constitutional Changes during Seven Centuries. By ARTHUR IRWIN DASENT, Author of “The Life and Letters of JOHN DELANE,” “The History of St. James’s Square,” etc., etc. With numerous Portraits, including two in Photogravure and one in Colour. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.

ROMANTIC TRIALS OF THREE CENTURIES. By HUGH CHILDERS. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.

⁂ This volume deals with some famous trials, occurring between the
years 1650 and 1850. All of them possess some exceptional interest,
or introduce historical personages in a fascinating style,
peculiarly likely to attract attention.

The book is written for the general reading public, though in many
respects it should be of value to lawyers, who will be especially
interested in the trials of the great William Penn and Elizabeth
Canning. The latter case is one of the most enthralling interest.

Twenty-two years later the same kind of excitement was aroused over
Elizabeth Chudleigh, _alias_ Duchess of Kingston, who attracted
more attention in 1776 than the war of American independence.

Then the history of the fluent Dr. Dodd, a curiously pathetic one,
is related, and the inconsistencies of his character very clearly
brought out; perhaps now he may have a little more sympathy than he
has usually received. Several important letters of his appear here
for the first time in print.

Among other important trials discussed we find the libel action
against Disraeli and the story of the Lyons Mail. Our knowledge of
the latter is chiefly gathered from the London stage, but there is
in it a far greater historical interest than would be suspected by
those who have only seen the much altered story enacted before
them.

THE OLD GARDENS OF ITALY--HOW TO VISIT THEM. By Mrs. AUBREY LE BLOND. With 100 Illustrations from her own Photographs. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

⁂ Hitherto all books on the old gardens of Italy have been large,
costly, and incomplete, and designed for the library rather than
for the traveller. Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, during the course of a
series of visits to all parts of Italy, has compiled a volume that
garden lovers can carry with them, enabling them to decide which
gardens are worth visiting, where they are situated, how they may
be reached, if special permission to see them is required, and how
this may be obtained. Though the book is practical and technical,
the artistic element is supplied by the illustrations, one at least
of which is given for each of the 71 gardens described. Mrs. Aubrey
Le Blond was the illustrator of the monumental work by H. Inigo
Triggs on “The Art of Garden Design in Italy,” and has since taken
three special journeys to that country to collect material for her
“The Old Gardens of Italy.”

The illustrations have been beautifully reproduced by a new process
which enables them to be printed on a rough light paper, instead of
the highly glazed and weighty paper necessitated by half-tone
blocks. Thus not only are the illustrations delightful to look at,
but the book is a pleasure to handle instead of a dead weight.

DOWN THE MACKENZIE AND UP THE YUKON. By E. STEWART. With 30 Illustrations and a Map. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

⁂ Mr. Stewart was former Inspector of Forestry to the Government of
Canada, and the experience he thus gained, supplemented by a really
remarkable journey, will prove of great value to those who are
interested in the commercial growth of Canada. The latter portion
of his book deals with the various peoples, animals, industries,
etc., of the Dominion; while the story of the journey he
accomplished provides excellent reading in Part I. Some of the
difficulties he encountered appeared insurmountable, and a
description of his perilous voyage in a native canoe with Indians
is quite haunting. There are many interesting illustrations of the
places of which he writes.

AMERICAN SOCIALISM OF THE PRESENT DAY. By JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN. With an Introduction by JOHN SPARGO. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

⁂ All who are interested in the multitudinous political problems
brought by the changing conditions of the present day should read
this book, irrespective of personal bias. The applications of
Socialism throughout the world are so many and varied that the book
is of peculiar importance to English Socialists.

THE STRUGGLE FOR BREAD. By “A RIFLEMAN” Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

⁂ This book is a reply to Mr. Norman Angell’s well-known work, “The
Great Illusion” and also an enquiry into the present economic state
of Europe. The author, examining the phenomenon of the high
food-prices at present ruling in all great civilized states, proves
by statistics that these are caused by a relative decline in the
production of food-stuffs as compared with the increase in general
commerce and the production of manufactured-articles, and that
consequently there has ensued a rise in the exchange-values of
manufactured-articles, which with our system of society can have no
other effect than of producing high food-prices and low wages. The
author proves, moreover, that this is no temporary fluctuation of
prices, but the inevitable outcome of an economic movement, which
whilst seen at its fullest development during the last few years
has been slowly germinating for the last quarter-century.
Therefore, food-prices must continue to rise whilst wages must
continue to fall.

THE LAND OF TECK & ITS SURROUNDINGS. By Rev. S. BARING-GOULD. With numerous Illustrations (including several in Colour) reproduced from unique originals. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

GATES OF THE DOLOMITES. By L. MARION DAVIDSON. With 32 Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. Crown 8vo. Second Edition. 5s. net.

⁂ Whilst many English books have appeared on the Lande Tirol, few
have given more than a chapter on the fascinating Dolomite Land,
and it is in the hope of helping other travellers to explore the
mountain land with less trouble and inconvenience than fell to her
lot that the author has penned these attractive pages. The object
of this book is not to inform the traveller how to scale the
apparently inaccessible peaks of the Dolomites, but rather how to
find the roads, and thread the valleys, which lead him to the
recesses of this most lovely part of the world’s face, and Miss
Davidson conveys just the knowledge which is wanted for this
purpose; especially will her map be appreciated by those who wish
to make their own plans for a tour, as it shows at a glance the
geography of the country.

KNOWLEDGE AND LIFE. By WILLIAM ARKWRIGHT. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

⁂ This is a remarkably written book--brilliant and vital. Mr.
Arkwright illumines a number of subjects with jewelled flashes of
word harmony and chisels them all with the keen edge of his wit.
Art, Letters, and Religion of different appeals move before the
reader in vari-coloured array, like the dazzling phantasmagoria of
some Eastern dream.

CHANGING RUSSIA. A Tramp along the Black Sea Shore and in the Urals. By STEPHEN GRAHAM. Author of “Undiscovered Russia,” “A Vagabond in the Caucasus,” etc. With Illustrations and a Map. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

⁂ In “Changing Russia,” Mr. Stephen Graham describes a journey from
Rostof-on-the-Don to Batum and a summer spent on the Ural
Mountains. The author has traversed all the region which is to be
developed by the new railway from Novo-rossisk to Poti. it is a
tramping diary with notes and reflections. The book deals more with
the commercial life of Russia than with that of the peasantry, and
there are chapters on the Russia of the hour, the Russian town,
life among the gold miners of the Urals, the bourgeois, Russian
journalism, the intelligentsia, the election of the fourth Duma. An
account is given of Russia at the seaside, and each of the watering
places of the Black Sea shore is described in detail.

ROBERT FULTON ENGINEER AND ARTIST: HIS LIFE AND WORK. By H. W. DICKINSON, A.M.I.Mech.E. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

⁂ No Biography dealing as a whole with the life-work of the
celebrated Robert Fulton has appeared of late years, in spite of
the fact that the introduction of steam navigation on a commercial
scale, which was his greatest achievement has recently celebrated
its centenary.

The author has been instrumental in bringing to light a mass of
documentary matter relative to Fulton, and has thus been able to
present the facts about him in an entirely new light. The
interesting but little known episode of his career as an artist is
for the first time fully dealt with. His stay in France and his
experiments under the Directory and the Empire with the submarine
and with the steamboat are elucidated with the aid of documents
preserved in the Archives Nationales at Paris. His subsequent
withdrawal from France and his employment by the British Cabinet to
destroy the Boulogne flotilla that Napoleon had prepared in 1804 to
invade England are gone into fully. The latter part of his career
in the United States, spent in the introduction of steam navigation
and in the construction of the first steam-propelled warship, is of
the greatest interest. With the lapse of time facts assume
naturally their true perspective. Fulton, instead of being
represented, according to the English point of view, as a charlatan
and even as a traitor, or from the Americans as a universal genius,
is cleared from these charges, and his pretensions critically
examined, with the result that he appears as a cosmopolitan, an
earnest student, a painstaking experimenter and an enterprising
engineer.

It is believed that practically nothing of moment in Fulton’s
career has been omitted. The illustrations, which are numerous, are
drawn in nearly every case from the original sources. It may
confidently be expected, therefore, that this book will take its
place as the authoritative biography which everyone interested in
the subjects enumerated above will require to possess.

A STAINED GLASS TOUR IN ITALY. By CHARLES H. SHERRILL. Author of “Stained Glass Tours in England,” “Stained Glass Tours in France,” etc. With 33 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

⁂ Mr. Sherrill has already achieved success with his two previous
books on the subject of stained glass. In Italy he finds a new
field, which offers considerable scope for his researches. His
present work will appeal not only to tourists, but to the
craftsmen, because of the writer’s sympathy with the craft. Mr.
Sherrill is not only an authority whose writing is clear in style
and full of understanding for the requirements of the reader, but
one whose accuracy and reliability are unquestionable. This is the
most important book published on the subject with which it deals,
and readers will find it worthy to occupy the position.

SCENES AND MEMORIES OF THE PAST. By the Honble. STEPHEN COLERIDGE. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.

⁂ Mr. Stephen Coleridge has seen much of the world in two
hemispheres and has been able to count among his intimate personal
friends many of those whose names have made the Victorian age
illustrious.

Mr. Coleridge fortunately kept a diary for some years of his life
and has religiously preserved the letters of his distinguished
friends; and in this book the public are permitted to enjoy the
perusal of much vitally interesting correspondence.

With a loving and appreciative hand the author sketches the
characters of many great men as they were known to their intimate
associates. Cardinals Manning and Newman, G. F. Watts, James
Russell Lowell, Matthew Arnold, Sir Henry Irving, Goldwin Smith,
Lewis Morris, Sir Stafford Northcote, Whistler, Oscar Wilde,
Ruskin, and many others famous in the nineteenth century will be
found sympathetically dealt with in this book.

During his visit to America as the guest of the American Bar in
1883, Lord Coleridge, the Chief Justice, and the author’s father
wrote a series of letters, which have been carefully preserved,
recounting his impressions of the United States and of the leading
citizens whom he met.

Mr. Coleridge has incorporated portions of these letters from his
father in the volume, and they will prove deeply interesting on
both sides of the Atlantic.

Among the illustrations are many masterly portraits never before
published.

From the chapter on the author’s library, which is full of
priceless literary treasures, the reader can appreciate the
appropriate surroundings amid which this book was compiled.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE: HIS WORK, ASSOCIATES AND ORIGINALS. By T. H. S. ESCOTT. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.

⁂ The author of this book has not solely relied for his materials
on a personal intimacy with its subject, during the most active
years of Trollope’s life, but from an equal intimacy with
Trollope’s contemporaries and from those who had seen his early
life. He has derived, and here sets forth, in chronological order,
a series of personal incidents and experiences that could not be
gained but for the author’s exceptional opportunities. These
incidents have never before appeared in print, but that are
absolutely essential for a right understanding of the
opinions--social, political, and religious--of which Trollope’s
writings became the medium, as well as of the chief personages in
his stories, from the “Macdermots of Ballycloran” (1847) to the
posthumous “Land Leaguers” (1883). All lifelike pictures, whether
of place, individual, character of incident, are painted from life.
The entirely fresh light now thrown on the intellectual and
spiritual forces, chiefly felt by the novelist during his
childhood, youth and early manhood, helped to place within his
reach the originals of his long portrait gallery, and had their
further result in the opinions, as well as the estimates of events
and men, in which his writings abound, and which, whether they
cause agreement or dissent, always reveal life, nature, and
stimulate thought. The man, who had for his Harrow schoolfellows
Sidney Herbert and Sir William Gregory, was subsequently brought
into the closest relations with the first State officials of his
time, was himself one of the most active agents in making penny
postage a national and imperial success, and when he planted the
first pillar-box in the Channel Islands, accomplished on his own
initiative a great postal reform. A life so active, varied and
full, gave him a greater diversity of friends throughout the
British Isles than belonged to any other nineteenth century worker,
literary or official. Hence the unique interest of Trollope’s
course, and therefore this, its record.

THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH PATRIOTISM. By ESMÉ C. WINGFIELD STRATFORD, Fellow King’s College, Cambridge. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo. With a Frontispiece to each volume, (1,300 pages). 25s. net.

⁂ This work compresses into about HALF A MILLION WORDS the
substance of EIGHT YEARS of uninterrupted labour.

The book has been read and enthusiastically commended by the
leading experts in the principal subjects embraced in this
encyclopædic survey of English History.

When this work was first announced under the above title, the
publisher suggested calling it “A New History of England.” Indeed
it is both. Mr. Wingfield Stratford endeavours to show how
everything of value that nations in general, and the English nation
in particular, have at any time achieved has been the direct
outcome of the common feeling upon which patriotism is built. He
sees, and makes his readers see, the manifold development of
England as one connected whole with no more branch of continuity
than a living body or a perfect work of art.

The author may fairly claim to have accomplished what few previous
historians have so much as attempted. He has woven together the
threads of religion, politics, war, philosophy, literature,
painting, architecture, law and commerce, into a narrative of
unbroken and absorbing interest.

The book is a world-book. Scholars will reconstruct their ideas
from it, economics examine the gradual fruition of trade, statesmen
devise fresh creative plans, and the general reader will feel he is
no insignificant unit, but the splendid symbol of a splendid world.

CHARLES CONDER: HIS LIFE AND WORK. By FRANK GIBSON. With a Catalogue of the Lithographs and Etchings by CAMPBELL DODGSON, M.S., Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. With about 100 reproductions of Conder’s work, 12 of which are in colour. Demy 4to. 21s. net.

⁂ With the exception of one or two articles in English Art
Magazines, and one or two in French, German, and American
periodicals, no book up to the present has appeared fully to record
the life and work of Charles Condor, by whose death English Art has
lost one of its most original personalities. Consequently it has
been felt that a book dealing with Conder’s life so full of
interest, and his work so full of charm and beauty, illustrated by
characteristic examples of his Art both in colour and in black and
white, would be welcome to the already great and increasing number
of his admirers.

The author of this book, Mr. Frank Gibson, who knew Conder in his
early days in Australia and afterwards in England during the rest
of the artist’s life, is enabled in consequence to do full justice,
not only to the delightful character of Conder as a friend, but is
also able to appreciate his remarkable talent.

The interest and value of this work will be greatly increased by
the addition of a complete catalogue of Conder’s lithographs and
engravings, compiled by Mr. Campbell Dodgson, M.A., Keeper of the
Print-Room of the British Museum.

PHILIP DUKE OF WHARTON. By LEWIS MELVILLE. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Henry Milton’s appointment was to the Office of the Secretary of War, before 1854 also the Colonial Minister. The other official of the Milton name, born 1820, was Henry Milton’s son, and consequently Anthony Trollope’s first cousin. He entered the same department in 1840 as his father had done before him. On the organisation of the War Office in 1856 he became Assistant Accountant-General; afterwards, having meanwhile been told off on much special service, he became in 1871 Accountant-General. The successive stages of a most brilliant career were crowned by his knighthood and retirement in 1878-9. His literary judgment and scholarship were of the greatest value to his cousin Anthony, and caused his services as “reader” to be in much demand with the second John Murray.

[2] Sir Henry Taylor survived Anthony Trollope by four years, dying in 1886. Forster died in 1876. Both told the present writer of their unavailing invitations of Anthony Trollope while a Post Office clerk to their house.

[3] Visiting Paris soon after the _coup d’état_ of 1851, his hostess at Gore House during his London exile found herself coldly received by her guest of other days. “Do you,” he carelessly asked, “make any long stay in Paris, Madame?” “And you, Monseigneur?” was the happy rejoinder.

[4] _The Macdermots_, p. 301.

[5] Here, as elsewhere, the reference is to Mr. John Lane’s series of Trollope reprints.

[6] _The Macdermots of Ballycloran_, p. 11.

[7] _The Macdermots of Ballycloran_, pp. 174, 175.

[8] The usual “e” in the last syllable of this historic name is always omitted by Trollope, and so not written here.

[9] _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, v. 1.

[10] Jeremiah vi. 16.

[11] _The Warden_, pp. 72-83.

[12] _Adventures of a Younger Son._ Published 1830. This was republished as recently as 1890, while shortly before his death (1881) Trelawny put forth the revised version of his _Byron and Shelley Reminiscences_.

[13] On this subject I am indebted to the present P. & O. chairman, Sir Thomas Sutherland, for an expression of opinion to this effect. The negotiation, indeed, was before his time, and he knows nothing about any record of it in the Company’s archives; but, he adds, “supposing the question to have been one of accelerating the transit of the mails through Egypt, the Company must surely have favoured an improvement which could, in no way that I could see, have been adverse to their interest.”

[14] _Castle Richmond_, p. 5, line 12.

[15] This was natural enough. Prinsep himself had been a sort of political Ulysses, having contested unsuccessfully several constituencies, till he secured his return for Harwich, only, upon petition, to be unseated.

[16] To see at his best Dickens on Thackeray, one should turn to Messrs. Chatto and Windus’s _Speeches of Charles Dickens_, and under the date March 29, 1858, read the just and generous eulogy bestowed by the author of _David Copperfield_ on him who wrote _Vanity Fair_.

[17] Trollope’s _Thackeray_ (English Men of Letters Series), p. 49.

[18] See _Masters of English Journalism_ (T. Fisher Unwin), p. 244, &c. The account here referred to was that given the writer by the founder and first editor of the _The Pall Mall_, F. Greenwood.

[19] “Our years keep taking toll as they roll on” (Conington’s translation, Horace’s _Epistles_, Bk. II., ii. 5).

[20] Reprinted by Chapman and Hall (1865-6).

[21] Messrs. Bradbury and Evans were the well-known printers with whom Dickens had so much to do.

[22] Conington’s rendering for the _grata protervitas_ of Horace, Ode i, 19, 7, more compactly, and perhaps not less faithfully translatable by “sweet sauciness.”

[23] Tennyson, _Lady Clara Vere de Vere_.

[24] Such, and not the usually quoted “tu l’as voulu,” are Molière’s actual words.

[25] _Thackeray_ (Macmillan, pp. 48, 49).

[26] The fact thus referred to by Trollope was this. At the time of his own failure for Beverley the author of _Eothen_ was coming in for Bridgewater, but was promptly unseated on petition, the borough itself being, like Beverley, disfranchised a little later.

[27] Some of these names were celebrated in verses that Trollope loved to quote:

“Mr. Leech made a speech;
Learned, terse, and strong.
Mr. Hart on the other part,
Was glib and neat, but wrong.
Mr. Parker made that darker,
Which was dark enough without.
Mr. Cook cited a book,
The Chancellor said, ‘I doubt.’”

[28] Such cases of a state official’s temporary return to a department which he had finally left are quite exceptional. The best known, perhaps, is that of Sir Robert Herbert, who was permanent Under Secretary at the Colonial Office from 1873-1892, was succeeded in that capacity by Hon. R. Meade, but, on Meade’s death, returned for a time to his old room at the Colonial Office till Mr. Meade’s place was permanently filled. In the same year Mr. A. W. Moore retired from the India Office in or about 1880, and reappeared in it after an interval of five years as private secretary to the Indian Minister, Lord Randolph Churchill.

[29] The courtesy of Mr. J. Henry Harper enables me to show exactly how this sum was made up:--

£
Mar. 1, 1859. _The Bertrams_ 25
May 29, 1860. _Castle Richmond_ 50
1867. _The Claverings_ (_Cornhill_)
Mar. 12, 1872. _The Golden Lion of Granpere_ 250
1874. _Lady Anna_ 200
Oct. 25, 1866. _The Last Chronicle of Barset_ 150
Dec. 31, 1868. _Phineas Finn_ 100
May 30, 1872. _The Eustace Diamonds_ 200
Feb. 7, 1861, and Apr. 15, 1862. _Orley Farm_ 200
Sept. 23, 1863. _Rachel Ray_ 50
Jan. 19, 1871. _Ralph the Heir_ 200
1870. _Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite_ (Plates, &c.) 750
Oct. 13, 1859. _West Indies_, &c. 30
Aug. 31, 1859. _Relics of General Chassé_, &c. 40
Mar. 13, 1874. _Phineas Redux_ 50
Mar. 13, 1874. _Harry Heathcote of Gangoil_ 50
Apr. 18, 1860. _The O’Conors of Castle Conor_ 40
Sept. 29, 1875. _The Way We Live Now_ (and _Electros_) 200
Feb. 7 and Mar. 10, 1876. _The Prime Minister_ 175
May 19, 1877. _The American Senator_ 70
Apr. 26, 1878. _Is He Popenjoy?_ 20
June 24, 1878. _The Lady of Launay_ 10
July 2, 1880. _The Duke’s Children_ 10
Dec. 2, 1880. _Dr. Wortle’s School_ 10
Dec. 28, 1880. _Life of Cicero_ 100
July 20, 1881. _Ayala’s Angel_ 10
Mar. 15, 1882. _The Fixed Period_ 10
May 16, 1882. _Kept in the Dark_ 50
Oct. 10, 1882. _The Two Heroines of Plumplington_ 10
July 30, 1883. _Mr. Scarborough’s Family_ 10
June 13, 1884. _An Old Man’s Love_ 10
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£3080
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[30] Trollope’s colonial novels, _Harry Heathcote of Gangoil_ and _John Caldigate_, were both written after his Australasian journey.

[31] _The Merchant of Venice_, Act v, Scene 1.

[32] That great word-painter, it should be said, had also visited South Africa some eight years earlier, had written and lectured concerning it, and by so doing, it may well be, at first set Trollope on going to Africa too.

[33] New edition, one vol.: Chapman & Hall.

[34] New impression, one vol.: Chatto & Windus, 1907.

[35] _Can You Forgive Her?_ vol. i. p. 18.

[36] _Is He Popenjoy?_ also appeared in _All the Year Round_ in 1878.

[37] _The Land Leaguers_, new edition, 1884: Chatto & Windus.

[38] This is Out of Print with the Publisher.