Chapter II

Then a light cloud rose up for hardihood,
Trailing a veil of snow that whirled and broke,
Blown softly like a shroud of steam or smoke,
Sallied across a knoll where maples stood,
Charged over broken country for a rood,
Then seeing the night withdrew his force and fled,
Leaving the ground with snow-flakes thinly spread,
And traces of the skirmish in the wood.

The stars sprang out and flashed serenely near,
The solid frost came down with might and main,
It set the rivers under bolt and bar;
Bang! went the starting eaves beneath the strain,
And e’er Orion saw the morning-star
The winter was the master of the year.

IN NOVEMBER

TO J. A. R.

The ruddy sunset lies
Banked along the west;
In flocks with sweep and rise
The birds are going to rest.

The air clings and cools,
And the reeds look cold,
Standing above the pools,
Like rods of beaten gold.

The flaunting golden-rod
Has lost her worldly mood,
She’s given herself to God,
And taken a nun’s hood.

The wild and wanton horde,
That kept the summer revel,
Have taken the serge and cord,
And given the slip to the Devil.

The winter’s loose somewhere,
Gathering snow for a fight;
From the feel of the air
I think it will freeze to-night.

THE SLEEPER

Touched with some divine repose,
Isabelle has fallen asleep,
Like the perfume from the rose
In and out her breathings creep.

Dewy are her rosy palms,
In her cheek the flushes flit,
And a dream her spirit calms
With the pleasant thought of it.

All the rounded heavens show
Like the concave of a pearl,
Stars amid the opal glow
Little fronds of flame unfurl.

Then upfloats a planet strange,
Not the moon that mortals know,
With a magic mountain range,
Cones and craters white as snow;

Something different yet the same--
Rain by rainbows glorified,
Roses lit with lambent flame--
’Tis the maid moon’s other side.

When the sleeper floats from sleep,
She will smile the vision o’er,
See the veinéd valleys deep,
No one ever saw before.

Yet the moon is not betrayed,
(Ah! the subtle Isabelle!)
She’s a maiden, and a maid
Maiden secrets will not tell.

A NIGHT IN JUNE

The world is heated seven times,
The sky is close above the lawn,
An oven when the coals are drawn.

There is no stir of air at all,
Only at times an inward breeze
Turns back a pale leaf in the trees.

Here the syringa’s rich perfume
Covers the tulip’s red retreat,
A burning pool of scent and heat.

The pallid lightning wavers dim
Between the trees, then deep and dense
The darkness settles more intense.

A hawk lies panting in the grass,
Or plunges upward through the air,
The lightning shows him whirling there.

A bird calls madly from the eaves.
Then stops, the silence all at once
Disturbed, falls dead again and stuns.

A redder lightning flits about,
But in the north a storm is rolled
That splits the gloom with vivid gold;

Dead silence, then a little sound,
The distance chokes the thunder down,
It shudders faintly in the town.

A fountain plashing in the dark
Keeps up a mimic dropping strain;
Ah! God, if it were really rain!

MEMORY

I see a schooner in the bay
Cutting the current into foam;
One day she flies and then one day
Comes like a swallow veering home.

I hear a water miles away
Go sobbing down the wooded glen;
One day it lulls and then one day
Comes sobbing on the wind again.

Remembrance goes but will not stay;
That cry of unpermitted pain
One day departs and then one day
Comes sobbing to my heart again.

YOUTH AND TIME

Move not so lightly, Time, away,
Grant us a breathing-space of tender ruth;
Deal not so harshly with the flying day,
Leave us the charm of spring, the touch of youth.

Leave us the lilacs wet with dew,
Leave us the balsams odorous with rain,
Leave us of frail hepaticas a few,
Let the red osier sprout for us again.

Leave us the hazel thickets set
Along the hills, leave us a month that yields
The fragile bloodroot and the violet,
Leave us the sorrage shimmering on the fields.

You offer us largess of power,
You offer fame, we ask not these in sooth,
These comfort age upon his failing hour,
But oh, the charm of spring, the touch of youth!

A MEMORY OF THE ‘INFERNO’

An hour before the dawn I dreamed of you;
Your spirit made a smile upon your face,
As fleeting as the visionary grace
That music lends to words; and when it flew,
I thought of how the maid Francesca grew,
So lovely at Ravenna, until Time
Ripened the fruit of her immortal crime.
As pure as light my vision took this hue
To paint our sorrow: so your lips made moan;
‘Upon that day we read no more therein’:
I wept, such tears Paolo might have known;
And all the love, the immemorial pain,
Swept down upon me as I felt begin,
That furious circle rage and reel again.

LA BELLE FERONIÈRE

I never trod where Leonardo was,
Then why art thou within this house of dreams,
Strange Lady? From thy face a memory streams,
Of things, forgotten now, that came to pass;
The flower of Milan floated in thy glass:
Thy dreaming smile; thy subtle loveliness!
Ah! laughter airier far than ours, I guess,
Lighted thy brow, fleeter than fire in grass.

Yet, there is something fateful in thy face:
Say, when the master caught it, didst thou know,
Almost thy name would perish with thy grace,
Thine artifices melt away like snow,
And all the power within this painted space,
Be his alone to hold and haunt us so?

A NOVEMBER DAY

There are no clouds above the world,
But just a round of limpid grey,
Barred here with nacreous lines unfurled,
That seem to crown the autumnal day,
With rings of silver chased and pearled.

The moistened leaves along the ground,
Lie heavy in an aureate floor;
The air is lingering in a swound;
Afar from some enchanted shore,
Silence has blown instead of sound.

The trees all flushed with tender pink
Are floating in the liquid air,
Each twig appears a shadowy link,
To keep the branches mooréd there,
Lest all might drift or sway and sink.

This world might be a valley low,
In some lost ocean grey and old,
Where sea-plants film the silver flow,
Where waters swing above the gold
Of galleons sunken long ago.

OTTAWA

City about whose brow the north winds blow,
Girdled with woods and shod with river foam,
Called by a name as old as Troy or Rome,
Be great as they, but pure as thine own snow;
Rather flash up amid the auroral glow,
The Lamia city of the northern star,
Than be so hard with craft or wild with war,
Peopled with deeds remembered for their woe.

Thou art too bright for guile, too young for tears,
And thou wilt live to be too strong for Time;
For he may mock thee with his furrowed frowns,
But thou wilt grow in calm throughout the years,
Cinctured with peace and crowned with power sublime,
The maiden queen of all the towered towns.

SONG

Here’s the last rose,
And the end of June,
With the tulips gone
And the lilacs strewn;
A light wind blows
From the golden west,
The bird is charmed
To her secret nest:
Here’s the last rose--
In the violet sky
A great star shines,
The gnats are drawn
To the purple pines;
On the magic lawn
A shadow flows
From the summer moon:
Here’s the last rose,
And the end of the tune.

NIGHT AND THE PINES

Here in the pine shade is the nest of night,
Lined deep with shadows, odorous and dim,
And here he stays his sweeping flight,
Here where the strongest wind is lulled for him,
He lingers brooding until dawn,
While all the trembling stars move on and on.

Under the cliff there drops a lonely fall,
Deep and half heard its thunder lifts and booms;
Afar the loons with eerie call
Haunt all the bays, and breaking through the glooms
Upfloats that cry of light despair,
As if a demon laughed upon the air.

A raven croaks from out his ebon sleep,
When a brown cone falls near him through the dark;
And when the radiant meteors sweep
Afar within the larches wakes the lark;
The wind moves on the cedar hill,
Tossing the weird cry of the whip-poor-will.

Sometimes a titan wind, slumbrous and hushed,
Takes the dark grove within his swinging power;
And like a cradle softly pushed,
The shade sways slowly for a lulling hour;
While through the cavern sweeps a cry,
A Sibyl with her secret prophecy.

When morning lifts its fragile silver dome,
And the first eagle takes the lonely air,
Up from his dense and sombre home
The night sweeps out, a tireless wayfarer,
Leaving within the shadows deep,
The haunting mood and magic of his sleep.

And so we cannot come within this grove,
But all the quiet dusk remembrance brings
Of ancient sorrow and of hapless love,
Fate, and the dream of power, and piercing things
Traces of mystery and might,
The passion-sadness of the soul of night.

A NIGHT IN MARCH

At eve the fiery sun went forth
Flooding the clouds with ruby blood,
Up roared a war-wind from the north
And crashed at midnight through the wood.

The demons danced about the trees,
The snow slipped singing over the wold,
And ever when the wind would cease
A lynx cried out within the cold.

A spirit walked the ringing rooms,
Passing the locked and secret door,
Heavy with divers ancient dooms,
With dreams dead laden to the core.

‘Spirit, thou art too deep with woe,
I have no harbour place for thee,
Leave me to lesser griefs, and go,
Go with the great wind to the sea.’

I faltered like a frightened child,
That fears its nurse’s fairy brood,
And as I spoke, I heard the wild
Wind plunging through the shattered wood.

‘Hast thou betrayed the rest of kings,
With tragic fears and spectres wan,
My dreams are lit with purer things,
With humbler ghosts, begone, begone.’

The noisy dark was deaf and blind,
Still the strange spirit strayed or stood,
And I could only hear the wind
Go roaring through the riven wood.

‘Art thou the fate for some wild heart,
That scorned his cavern’s curve and bars,
That leaped the bounds of time and art,
And lost thee lingering near the stars?’

It was so still I heard my thought,
Even the wind was very still,
The desolate deeper silence brought
The lynx-moan from the lonely hill.

‘Art thou the thing I might have been,
If all the dead had known control,
Risen through the ages’ trembling sheen,
A mirage of my desert soul?’

The wind rushed down the roof in wrath,
Then shrieked and held its breath and stood,
Like one who finds beside his path,
A dead girl in the marish wood.

‘Or have I ceased, as those who die
And leave the broken word unsaid,
Art thou the spirit ministry
That hovers round the newly dead?’

The auroras rose in solitude,
And wanly paled within the room,
The window showed an ebon rood,
Upon the blanched and ashen gloom.

I heard a voice within the dark,
That answered not my idle word,
I could not choose but pause and hark,
It was so magically stirred.

It grew within the quiet hour,
With the rose shadows on the wall,
It had a touch of ancient power,
A wild and elemental fall;

Its rapture had a dreaming close:
The dawn grew slowly on the wold,
Spreading in fragile veils of rose,
In tender lines of lemon-gold.

The world was turning into light,
Was sweeping into life and peace,
And folded in the fading night,
I felt the dawning sink and cease.

SEPTEMBER

The morns are grey with haze and faintly cold,
The early sunsets arc the west with red;
The stars are misty silver overhead,
Above the dawn Orion lies outrolled.
Now all the slopes are slowly growing gold,
And in the dales a deeper silence dwells;
The crickets mourn with funeral flutes and bells,
For days before the summer had grown old.

Now the night-gloom with hurrying wings is stirred,
Strangely the comrade pipings rise and sink,
The birds are following in the pathless dark
The footsteps of the pilgrim summer. Hark!
Was that the redstart or the bobolink?
That lonely cry the summer-hearted bird?

BY THE WILLOW SPRING

TO E. W.

Come hither, Care, and look on this fair place,
But leave your gossip and your puckered face
Beyond that flowering carrot in the glow,
Where the red poppies in the orchard blow,
And come with gentle feet; the last thing there
Was a white butterfly upon the air,
And even now a thrush was in the grass,
To feel the sovereign water slowly pass.
This pool is quiet as oblivion,
Hidden securely from the flooding sun;
Its crystal placid surface here receives
The wan grey under light of the willow leaves;
And shy things brood about the grass unheard;
Only in sunny distance sings the bird.
O Time long dead, O days reclaimed and done,
Thou broughtest joy and tears to every one,
And here by this deep pool thou wast not slow,
To deal a maiden all her tender woe;
Be kindlier to her now that she is dead,
Let her charmed spirit visit this well-head
More often, for at eve in honey-time,
Drifting in silence from her ghostly clime,
She haunts the pool about the willows pale:
Be gentle, for my feeling art may fail,
I’ll freshen sorrow and retell her tale.

She was a fragile daughter of the earth,
And touched with faery from her fatal birth;
For many summers she was hardly shy,
Not clouded with her hovering destiny,
But only wild as any woodland thing,
That comes at even to a trodden spring;
And scarce she seemed of any settled mood,
That lights the peaceful hills of maidenhood,
But shifted strangely on the whimsy air,
Not quiet nor contented anywhere.
She gathered sunshine in an earthen cruse,
And thought to keep it for her own sweet use;
Or fluttered flowers from her window high,
And wept upon them when they would not fly;
And when she found the brownish mignonette
Had blossomed where a little seed was set,
She planted her rag playmate in the sun,
Because she wanted yet another one;
And when she heard the enraptured sparrow sing,
She clamoured for a song from everything.
For many years she was as strange and free,
As a pine linnet in a cedar tree.
Her folk thought: She is very wild and odd,
But she is good, we’ll wait and trust in God.
O love, that watched the weird and charméd child,
Change from her airy fancies sweet and mild,
Like a blue brook that clears a meadow spring,
And threads the barley where the bobolinks sing,
Then wimples by the roots of dusky firs,
And gathers darkness in those deeps of hers,
Then makes an arrowy movement through a pass,
Where rocks are crannied with the clinging grass,
Then falls, almost dissolved in silver rain,
She gathers deeply to a pool again;
But something wild in her new spirit lies,
She never can regain her limpid eyes:
O love, alas! ’twas ever so to be,
When streams set out to reach the bitter sea.
It was a time within the early spring,
Before the orchards had done blossoming,
Before the kinglet on his northern search,
Had ceased his timorous piping in the birch,
When streams were bright before the coming leaves
And gurgled like the swallows in the eaves,
She wandered led by fancy to this place,
And looked upon the water’s crystal face;
She saw--what thing of beauty or of awe
I know not, no one knoweth what she saw.
But ever after she was constant here,
As silent as her shadow in the mere,
Sitting upon a stone which many feet
Had grooved and trodden for the water sweet,
And leaning gravely on her slanted arm,
Her fingers buried in the gravel warm,
She gazed and gazed and did not speak or sigh,
As if this gazing was her destiny.
They led her nightly from the magic pool,
Before the shadows grew too deep and cool;
They thought to win her from the liquid spell,
And tried to tease the elfin maid to tell,
What was the charm that led her to the spring;
But all their words availed not anything.
Then gazed they on the surface of the pool
To read the reason of such subtle rule;
Their eyes were overclouded, they could see
(Who had drawn water there perpetually)
Nothing but water in a depth serene,
With a few moony stones of palish green.
They thought perchance it was her face she saw
And answered, beauty unto beauty’s law,
But when they showed her image in a glass,
She was not cured and nothing came to pass;
So then they left her to her own strange will,
And here she stayed when the fair pool was still.
But when the wind would hurl the heavy rain,
She peered out sadly from her window-pane;
And when the night set wildly close and deep,
She took her trouble down the dale of sleep:
But when the night was warm and no dew fell,
She waked and dreamed beside the starlit well.

Then came a change, each day some offering
She laid beside the clear soft flowing spring;
And there she found them at the break of morn,
And everything would take away forlorn;
Until beside the unconscious spring was laid
Each treasure held most precious by a maid.
After, she offered flowers and often set
A bowlful of the pleasant mignonette,
And starred the stones with the narcissus white,
And pansies left athinking all the night,
Then ruffled dewy dahlias, and at last,
When sundown told the summer-time had passed,
The stainéd asters; but from day to day,
Sadly she took the untouched flowers away.
With autumn and the sounding harvest flute,
She brought her timid god the heavy fruit;
But found it still and cool at early dawn,
Beaded with dew upon the crispy lawn.
At last one eve she placed an apple here,
Smooth as a topaz and as golden clear,
Scented like almonds, with a flesh like dew
And luscious-sweet as honey through and through.
She left it sadly on the sleepy lawn,
But when she came again her apple gold was gone.

Day after day for days she mutely strove,
Not to be separate from her placid love;
Perchance she thought that, breaking through the spell,
Her shadow-god, deep in the tranquil well,
Had taken her last gift;--no man may know;
Her fancies merged with all mute things that go
The poppied path, dreams and desires foredone,
The unplucked roses of oblivion.
But now she searched for words that would express
Something of all her spirit’s loneliness;
And formed a liquid jargon, full of falls
As weird and wild as ariel madrigals;
Our human tongue was far too harsh for this,
Or her slight spirit bore too great a bliss;
But always grew she very faint and pale,
Day after day her beauty grew more frail,
More mute, more eerie, more ethereal;
Her soul burned whitely in its waning shell.

Then came the winter with his frosty breath
And made the world an image of white death,
And like to death he found the charméd child;
Yet could not kill her with his bluster wild.
Only in his first days she went about,
And sadly hearkened to his hearty shout;
From windows where the wizard frost had traced
Moth-wings of rime with silver ferns inlaced,
She saw her pool set coldly in the drift,
Where in the autumn she had left her gift,
Capped with a cloud of silver steam or smoke,
That hovered there whether she dreamed or woke;
And often stealing from her early sleep,
She watched the light cloud in the midnight deep,
Waver and blow beneath the moon’s white globe,
Shivering and whispering in her chilly robe.
At last she would not look or speak at all,
And turned her large eyes to the shaded wall.
Now she is dead, they thought; but never so,
She died not when the winter winds did blow;
She was a spirit of the summer air,
She would not vanish at the year’s despair.

At length the merry sun grew warm and high,
And changed the wildwood with his alchemy;
The violet reared her bell of drooping gold,
And over her the robin chimed and trolled.
When the first slender moon of May had come,
That finds the blithe bird busy at his home,
They missed the spirit maiden from the room,
That now was sweet with light and spring perfume,
And called her all the echoing afternoon;
She answered not, but when the growing moon
Went down the west with the last bird awing,
They found her dead beside her darling spring.

This is her tale, her murmurous monument
Flows softly where her fragile life was spent,
Not grooved in brass nor trenched in pallid stone,
But told by water to the reeds alone.

She cometh here sometimes on summer eves,
Her quiet spirit lingers in the leaves,
And while this spring flows on, and while the wands
Sway in the moonlight, while in drifting bands,
The thistledown blows gleaming in the air,
And dappled thrushes haunt the precinct fair;
She will return, she will return and lean
Above the crystal in the covert green,
And dream of beauty on the shadow flung
Of irised distance when the world was young.

Let us be gone; this is no place for tears,
Let us go slowly with the guardian years;
Let us be brave, the day is almost done,
Another setting of the pleasant sun.

Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty,
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sympathetic pen of Mrs. Oliphant, which will be welcome to a large
circle of readers. It is issued uniform with Mr. Lock’s ‘Life of
John Keble.’

=Anthony Hope.= A CHANGE OF AIR: A Novel. By ANTHONY HOPE, Author of
‘Mr. Witt’s Widow,’ etc. _1 vol. Crown 8vo. 6s._

[_Ready._

A bright story by Mr. Hope, who has, the Athenum says, ‘a decided
outlook and individuality of his own.’

=Baring Gould.= MRS. CURGENVEN OF CURGENVEN. By S. BARING GOULD,
Author of ‘Mehalah,’ ‘Old Country Life,’ etc. _Crown 8vo. 3 vols.
31s. 6d._

[_Ready._

A powerful and characteristic story of Devon life by the author of
‘Mehalah.’

=Benson.= DODO: A DETAIL OF THE DAY. By E. F. BENSON. _Crown 8vo. 2
vols. 21s._

[_Ready._

A story of society by a new writer, full of interest and power,
which will attract considerable notice.

=Parker.= MRS. FALCHION. By GILBERT PARKER, Author of ‘Pierre and His
People.’ _2 vols. Crown 8vo. 21s._

[_Ready._

A new story by a writer whose previous work, ‘Pierre and his
People,’ was received with unanimous favour, and placed him at once
in the front rank.

‘There is strength and genius in Mr. Parker’s style.’--_Daily
Telegraph._

‘His style of portraiture is always effectively picturesque, and
sometimes finely imaginative--the fine art which is only achieved
by the combination of perfect vision and beautifully adequate
rendering.’--_Daily Chronicle._

‘He has the right stuff in him. He has the story-teller’s
gift.--_St. James’s Gazette._

=Pearce.= JACO TRELOAR. By J. H. PEARCE, Author of ‘Esther
Pentreath.’ _2 vols. Crown 8vo. 21s._

[_Ready._

A tragic story of Cornish life by a writer of remarkable power,
whose first novel has been highly praised by Mr. Gladstone.

=Norris.= HIS GRACE. By W. E. NORRIS, Author of ‘Mademoiselle de
Mersac,’ ‘The Rogue,’ etc. Third and Cheaper Edition. _Crown 8vo.
6s._

[_October._

An edition in one volume of a novel which in its two volume form
quickly ran through two editions.

=Pryce.= TIME AND THE WOMAN. By RICHARD PRYCE, Author of ‘Miss
Maxwell’s Affections,’ ‘The Quiet Mrs. Fleming,’ etc. New and
Cheaper Edition. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

[_October._

Mr. Pryce’s work recalls the style of Octave Feuillet, by its
clearness, conciseness, its literary reserve.’--_Athenæum._

=Dickenson.= A VICAR’S WIFE. By EVELYN DICKENSON. _Cheap Edition.
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

[_Ready._

=Prowse.= THE POISON OF ASPS. By R. ORTON PROWSE. _Cheap Edition.
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

[_Ready._

=Taylor.= THE KING’S FAVOURITE. By UNA TAYLOR. _Cheaper Edition. 1
vol. Crown 8vo. 6s._

[_Ready._

A cheap edition of a novel whose style and beauty of thought
attracted much attention.

=Baring Gould.= THE STORY OF KING OLAF. By S. BARING GOULD, author of
‘Mehalah,’ etc. Illustrated. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

[_October._

A stirring story of Norway, written for boys by the author of ‘In
the Roar of the Sea.’

=Cuthell.= TWO CHILDREN AND CHING. By Mrs. CUTHELL. Illustrated.
_Crown 8vo. 6s._

[_October._

Another story, with a dog hero, by the author of the very popular
‘Only a Guard-Room Dog.’

=Blake.= TODDLEBEN’S HERO. By M. BLAKE, author of ‘The Siege of
Norwich Castle.’ With over 30 Illustrations. _Crown 8vo. 5s._

[_October._

A story of military life for children.

NEW TWO-SHILLING EDITIONS

_Crown 8vo, Picture Boards._

2/-

A DOUBLE KNOT. By G. MANVILLE FENN.
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AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. By M. C. POTTER. Copiously Illustrated. _Crown
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SOCIAL QUESTIONS OF TO-DAY

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WOMEN’S WORK. By LADY DILKE, MISS BULLEY, and MISS ABRAHAM.

BACK TO THE LAND. By HAROLD E. MOORE, F.S.I., Author of ‘Hints on
Land Improvements,’ ‘Agricultural Co-operation,’ etc.

New and Recent Books

Poetry

=Rudyard Kipling.= BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS; And Other Verses. By RUDYARD
KIPLING. _Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s._

A Special Presentation Edition, bound in white buckram, with extra
gilt ornament. 7_s._ 6_d._

‘Mr. Kipling’s verse is strong, vivid, lull of character....
Unmistakable genius rings in every line.’--_Times._

‘The disreputable lingo of Cockayne is henceforth justified before
the world; for a man of genius has taken it in hand, and has shown,
beyond all cavilling, that in its way it also is a medium for
literature. You are grateful, and you say to yourself, half in envy
and half in admiration: “Here is a _book_; here, or one is a
Dutchman, is one of the books of the year.”’--_National Observer._

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Kipling has ever done, which is saying a good deal. “Fuzzy-Wuzzy,”
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‘These ballads are as wonderful in their descriptive power as they
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the cunningly ordered words tingle with life; and if this be not
poetry, what is?’--_Pall Mall Gazette._

=Henley.= LYRA HEROICA: An Anthology selected from the best English
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ERNEST HENLEY, Author of ‘A Book of Verse,’ ‘Views and Reviews,’
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‘Mr. Henley has brought to the task of selection an instinct alike
for poetry and for chivalry which seems to us quite wonderfully,
and even unerringly, right.’--_Guardian._

=Tomson.= A SUMMER NIGHT, AND OTHER POEMS. By GRAHAM R. TOMSON. With
Frontispiece by A. TOMSON. _Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d._

Also an edition on handmade paper, limited to 50 copies. _Large
crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. net._

‘Mrs. Tomson holds perhaps the very highest rank among poetesses of
English birth. This selection will help her reputation.’--_Black
and White._

=Ibsen.= BRAND. A Drama by HENRIK IBSEN. Translated by WILLIAM
WILSON. _Crown 8vo. 5s._

‘The greatest world-poem of the nineteenth century next to “Faust.”
“Brand” will have an astonishing interest for Englishmen. It is in
the same set with “Agamemnon,” with “Lear,” with the literature
that we now instinctively regard as high and holy.’--_Daily
Chronicle._

“=Q.=” GREEN BAYS: Verses and Parodies. By “Q.,” Author of ‘Dead
Man’s Rock’ etc. _Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d._

‘The verses display a rare and versatile gift of parody, great
command of metre, and a very pretty turn of humour.’--_Times._

“=A. G.=” VERSES TO ORDER. By “A. G.” _Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt
top. 2s. 6d. net._

A small volume of verse by a writer whose initials are well known
to Oxford men.

‘A capital specimen of light academic poetry. These verses are very
bright and engaging, easy and sufficiently witty.’--_St. James’s
Gazette._

=Langbridge.= A CRACKED FIDDLE. Being Selections from the Poems of
FREDERIC LANGBRIDGE. With Portrait. _Crown 8vo. 5s._

=Langbridge.= BALLADS OF THE BRAVE: Poems of Chivalry, Enterprise,
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‘A very happy conception happily carried out. These “Ballads of the
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the taste of the great majority.’--_Spectator._

‘The book is full of splendid things.’--_World._

History and Biography

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GLADSTONE, M.P. With Notes and Introductions. Edited by A. W.
HUTTON, M. A. (Librarian of the Gladstone Library), and H. J.
COHEN, M.A. With Portraits. _8vo. Vol. X. 12s. 6d._

=Russell.= THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD. By W. CLARK RUSSELL,
Author of ‘The Wreck of the Grosvenor.’ With Illustrations by F.
BRANGWYN. _8vo. 15s._

‘A really good book.’--_Saturday Review._

‘A most excellent and wholesome book, which we should like to see
in the hands of every boy in the country.’--_St. James’s Gazette._

=Clark.= THE COLLEGES OF OXFORD: Their History and their Traditions.
By Members of the University. Edited by A. CLARK, M.A., Fellow and
Tutor of Lincoln College. _8vo. 12s. 6d._

‘Whether the reader approaches the book as a patriotic member of a
college, as an antiquary, or as a student of the organic growth of
college foundation, it will amply reward his attention.’--_Times._

‘A delightful book, learned and lively.’--_Academy._

‘A work which will certainly be appealed to for many years as the
standard book on the Colleges of Oxford.’--_Athenæum._

=Hulton.= RIXAE OXONIENSES: An Account of the Battles of the Nations,
The Struggle between Town and Gown, etc. By S. F. HULTON, M.A.
_Crown 8vo. 5s._

=James.= CURIOSITIES OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY PRIOR TO THE REFORMATION.
By CROAKE JAMES, Author of ‘Curiosities of Law and Lawyers.’ _Crown
8vo. 7s. 6d._

=Perrens.= THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE FROM THE TIME OF THE MEDICIS TO
THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC. By F. T. PERRENS. Translated by HANNAH
LYNCH. In three volumes. _Vol. I. 8vo. 12s. 6d._

This is a translation from the French of the best history of
Florence in existence. This volume covers a period of profound
interest--political and literary--and is written with great
vivacity.

‘This is a standard book by an honest and intelligent historian,
who has deserved well of his countrymen, and of all who are
interested in Italian history.’--_Manchester Guardian._

=Kaufmann.= CHARLES KINGSLEY. By M. KAUFMANN, M.A. _Crown 8vo. 5s._

A biography of Kingsley, especially dealing with his achievements
in social reform.

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conscientiousness and industry.’--_Sheffield Daily Telegraph._

=Lock.= THE LIFE OF JOHN KEBLE. By WALTER LOCK, M.A., Fellow of
Magdalen, Subwarden of Keble, Oxford. With Portrait. _Fourth
Edition. Crown 8vo. Buckram, 5s._

‘This modest, but thorough, careful, and appreciative biography
goes very far to supply what has been wanted. It is high but
well-deserved praise to say that the tone and tenor of the memoir
are thoroughly in harmony with the character and disposition of
Keble himself.... All Churchmen must be indebted to Mr. Lock for
this admirable memoir, which enables us to know a good and great
churchman better than before; and the memoir, which to be
appreciated must be carefully read, makes one think Mr. Keble a
better and greater man than ever.’--_Guardian._

=Hutton.= CARDINAL MANNING: A Biography. By A. W. HUTTON, M.A. With
Portrait. _Crown 8vo. 6s. Cheap Edition, 2s. 6d._

=Wells.= THE TEACHING OF HISTORY IN SCHOOLS. A Lecture delivered at
the University Extension Meeting in Oxford, Aug. 6th, 1892. By J.
WELLS, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College, and Editor of
‘Oxford and Oxford Life.’ _Crown 8vo. 6d._

=Pollard.= THE JESUITS IN POLAND. By A. F. POLLARD, B.A. Oxford Prize
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=Clifford.= THE DESCENT OF CHARLOTTE COMPTON (BARONESS FERRERS DE
CHARTLEY). By her Great-Granddaughter, ISABELLA G. C. CLIFFORD.
_Small 4to. 10s. 6d. net._

General Literature

=Bowden.= THE IMITATION OF BUDDHA: Being Quotations from Buddhist
Literature for each Day in the Year. Compiled by E. M. BOWDEN. With
Preface by Sir EDWIN ARNOLD. _Second Edition. 16mo. 2s. 6d._

=Ditchfleld.= OUR ENGLISH VILLAGES: Their Story and their
Antiquities. By P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A., F.R.H.S., Rector of
Barkham, Berks. _Post 8vo. 2s. 6d._ Illustrated.

‘An extremely amusing and interesting little book, which should
find a place in every parochial library.’--_Guardian._

=Ditchfleld.= OLD ENGLISH SPORTS. By P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A. _Crown
8vo. 2s. 6d._ Illustrated.

‘A charming account of old English Sports.’--_Morning Post._

=Burne.= PARSON AND PEASANT: Chapters of their Natural History. By J.
B. BURNE, M.A., Rector of Wasing. _Crown 8vo. 5s._

‘“Parson and Peasant” is a book not only to be interested in, but
to learn something from--a book which may prove a help to many a
clergyman, and broaden the hearts and ripen the charity of
laymen.’--_Derby Mercury._

=Massee.= A MONOGRAPH OF THE MYXOGASTRES. By GEORGE MASSEE. With 12
Coloured Plates. _Royal 8vo. 18s. net._

This is the only work in English on this important group. It
contains 12 Coloured Plates, produced in the finest style of
chromo-lithography.

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it is one of the most important contributions to systematic natural
science which have lately appeared.’--_Westminster Review._

‘A work much in advance of any book in the language treating of
this group of organisms. It is indispensable to every student of
the Mxyogastres. The coloured plates deserve high praise for their
accuracy and execution.’--_Nature._

=Cunningham.= THE PATH TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE: Essays on Questions of the
Day. By W. CUNNINGHAM, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,
Professor of Economics at King’s College, London. _Crown 8vo. 4s.
6d._

Essays on Marriage and Population, Socialism, Money, Education,
Positivism, etc.

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a Profit Sharing Employer. With an Introduction by SEDLEY TAYLOR,
Author of ‘Profit Sharing between Capital and Labour.’ _Crown 8vo.
2s. 6d._

=Anderson Graham.= NATURE IN BOOKS: Studies in Literary Biography. By
P. ANDERSON GRAHAM. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

The chapters are entitled: I. ‘The Magic of the Fields’
(Jefferies). II. ‘Art and Nature’ (Tennyson). III. ‘The Doctrine of
Idleness’ (Thoreau). IV. ‘The Romance of Life’ (Scott). V. ‘The
Poetry of Toil’ (Burns). VI. ‘The Divinity of Nature’ (Wordsworth).

=Wells.= OXFORD AND OXFORD LIFE. By Members of the University. Edited
by J. WELLS, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College. _Crown 8vo.
3s. 6d._

This work contains an account of life at Oxford--intellectual,
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review of recent changes, a statement of the present position of
the University, and chapters on Women’s Education, aids to study,
and University Extension.

‘We congratulate Mr. Wells on the production of a readable and
intelligent account of Oxford as it is at the present time, written
by persons who are, with hardly an exception, possessed of a close
acquaintance with the system and life of the
University.’--_Athenæum._

=Driver.= SERMONS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT. By S.
R. DRIVER, D.D., Canon of Christ Church, Regius Professor of Hebrew
in the University of Oxford. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

An important volume of sermons on Old Testament Criticism preached
before the University by the author of ‘An Introduction to the
Literature of the Old Testament.’

‘A welcome volume to the author’s famous ‘Introduction.’ No man can
read these discourses without feeling that Dr. Driver is fully
alive to the deeper teaching of the Old Testament.’--_Guardian._

WORKS BY S. Baring Gould.

Author of ‘Mehalah,’ etc.

OLD COUNTRY LIFE. With Sixty-seven Illustrations by W. PARKINSON,
F. D. BEDFORD, and F. MASEY. _Large Crown 8vo, cloth super extra,
top edge gilt, 10s. 6d. Fourth and Cheaper Edition. 6s._

[_Ready._

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be excelled by any book to be published throughout the year. Sound,
hearty, and English to the core.--_World._

HISTORIC ODDITIES AND STRANGE EVENTS. _Third Edition, Crown 8vo.
6s._

‘A collection of exciting and entertaining chapters. The whole
volume is delightful reading.’--_Times._

FREAKS OF FANATICISM. (First published as Historic Oddities, Second
Series.) _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._

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. FLEETWOOD SHEPPARD, M.A. Arranged for Voice and
Piano. In 4 Parts (containing 25 Songs each), _Parts I., II., III.,
3s. each. Part IV., 5s. In one Vol., roan, 15s._

‘A rich and varied collection of humour, pathos, grace, and poetic
fancy.’--_Saturday Review._

YORKSHIRE ODDITIES AND STRANGE EVENTS. _Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo.
6s._

SURVIVALS AND SUPERSTITIONS. With Illustrations. By S. BARING
GOULD. _Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d._

A book on such subjects as Foundations, Gables, Holes, Gallows,
Raising the Hat, Old Ballads, etc. etc. It traces in a most
interesting manner their origin and history.

‘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.’--_Notes and Queries._

THE TRAGEDY OF THE CAESARS: The Emperors of the Julian and Claudian
Lines. With numerous Illustrations from Busts, Gems, Cameos, etc.
By S. BARING GOULD, Author of ‘Mehalah,’ etc. _2 vols. Royal 8vo.
30s._

This book is the only one in English which deals with the personal
history of the Caesars, and Mr. Baring Gould has found a subject
which, for picturesque detail and sombre interest, is not rivalled
by any work of fiction. The volumes are copiously illustrated.

‘A most splendid and fascinating book on a subject of undying
interest The great feature of the book is the use the author has
made of the existing portraits of the Caesars, and the admirable
critical subtlety he has exhibited in dealing with this line of
research. It is brilliantly written, and the illustrations are
supplied on a scale of profuse magnificence.’--_Daily Chronicle._

‘The volumes will in no sense disappoint the general reader.
Indeed, in their way, there is nothing in any sense so good in
English.... Mr. Baring Gould has most diligently read his
authorities and presented his narrative in such a way as not to
make one dull page.’--_Athenæum._

JACQUETTA, and other Stories. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

ARMINELL: A Social Romance. _New Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

‘To say that a book is by the author of “Mehalah” is to imply that
it contains a story cast on strong lines, containing dramatic
possibilities, vivid and sympathetic descriptions of Nature, and a
wealth of ingenious imagery. All these expectations are justified
by “Arminell.”’--_Speaker._

URITH: A Story of Dartmoor. _Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

‘The author is at his best.’--_Times._

‘He has nearly reached the high water-mark of
“Mehalah.”’--_National Observer._

MARGERY OF QUETHER, and other Stories. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

IN THE ROAR OF THE SEA: A Tale of the Cornish Coast. _New Edition.
6s._

Fiction

=Author of ‘Indian Idylls.’= IN TENT AND BUNGALOW: Stories of Indian
Sport and Society. By the Author of ‘Indian Idylls.’ _Crown 8vo.
3s. 6d._

=Fenn.= A DOUBLE KNOT. By G. MANVILLE FENN, Author of ‘The Vicar’s
People,’ etc. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

=Pryce.= THE QUIET MRS. FLEMING. By RICHARD PRYCE, Author of ‘Miss
Maxwell’s Affections,’ etc. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. Picture Boards,
2s._

=Pryce.= TIME AND THE WOMAN. By RICHARD PRYCE, Author of ‘Miss
Maxwell’s Affections,’ ‘The Quiet Mrs. Fleming,’ etc. New and
Cheaper Edition. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

Mr. Pryce’s work recalls the style of Octave Feuillet, by its
clearness, conciseness, its literary reserve.--_Athenæum._

=Gray.= ELSA. A Novel. By E. M’QUEEN GRAY. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

‘A charming novel. The characters are not only powerful sketches,
but minutely and carefully finished portraits.’--_Guardian._

=Gray.= MY STEWARDSHIP. By E. M’QUEEN GRAY. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

=Cobban.= A REVEREND GENTLEMAN. By J. MACLAREN COBBAN, Author of
‘Master of his Fate,’ etc. _Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. Picture boards, 2s._

‘The best work Mr. Cobban has yet achieved. The Rev. W. Merrydew is
a brilliant creation.’--_National Observer._

‘One of the subtlest studies of character outside
Meredith.’--_Star._

=Lyall.= DERRICK VAUGHAN, NOVELIST. By EDNA LYALL, Author of
‘Donovan.’ _Crown 8vo. 31st Thousand. 3s. 6d.; paper, 1s._

=Lynn Linton.= THE TRUE HISTORY OF JOSHUA DAVIDSON, Christian and
Communist. By E. LYNN LINTON. Eleventh and Cheaper Edition. _Post
8vo. 1s._

=Grey.= THE STORY OF CHRIS. By ROWLAND GREY, Author of
‘Lindenblumen,’ etc. _Crown 8vo. 5s._

=Dicker.= A CAVALIER’S LADYE. By CONSTANCE DICKER. _With
Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

=Author of ‘Vera.’= THE DANCE OF THE HOURS. By the Author of ‘Vera,’
‘Blue Roses,’ etc. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

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realisation, is vividly represented in this book.... Well written
and possessing many elements of interest. The success of “The Dance
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=Norris.= A Deplorable Affair. By W. E. NORRIS, Author of ‘His
Grace.’ _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

‘What with its interesting story, its graceful manner, and its
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come from its author’s pen.’--_Scotsman._

=Dickinson.= A VICAR’S WIFE. By EVELYN DICKINSON. _Crown 8vo. 3s.
6d._

=Prowse.= THE POISON OF ASPS. By R. ORTON PROWSE. _Crown 8vo. 3s.
6d._

=Parker.= PIERRE AND HIS PEOPLE. By GILBERT PARKER. _Crown 8vo.
Buckram. 6s._

‘Stories happily conceived and finely executed. There is strength
and genius in Mr Parker’s style.’--_Daily Telegraph._

=Marriott Watson.= DIOGENES OF LONDON and other Sketches. By H. B.
MARRIOTT WATSON, Author of ‘The Web of the Spider.’ _Crown 8vo.
Buckram. 6s._

‘Mr. Watson’s merits are unmistakable and irresistible.’--_Star._

‘A clever book and an interesting one.’--_St. James’s Gazette._

=Clark Russell.= MY DANISH SWEETHEART. By W. CLARK RUSSELL, Author of
‘The Wreck of the Grosvenor,’ ‘A Marriage at Sea,’ etc. With 6
Illustrations by W. H. OVEREND. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

‘The book is one of the author’s best and breeziest.’--_Scotsman._

=Bliss.= A MODERN ROMANCE. By LAURENCE BLISS. _Crown 8vo. Buckram.
3s. 6d. Paper. 2s. 6d._

‘Shows much promise.... Excellent of dialogue.’--_Athenæum._

Novel Series

MESSRS. METHUEN will issue from time to time a Series of copyright
Novels, by well-known Authors, handsomely bound, at the above
popular price of three shillings and sixpence. The first volumes
(ready) are:--

3/6

1. THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. By F. MABEL ROBINSON.

2. JACQUETTA. By S. BARING GOULD, Author of ‘Mehalah,’ etc.

3. MY LAND OF BEULAH. By Mrs. LEITH ADAMS (Mrs. De Courcy Laffan).

4. ELI’S CHILDREN. By G. MANVILLE FENN.

5. ARMINELL: A Social Romance. By S. BARING GOULD, Author of
‘Mehalah,’ etc.

6. DERRICK VAUGHAN, NOVELIST. With Portrait of Author. By EDNA
LYALL, Author of ‘Donovan,’ etc. Also paper, 1_s._

7. DISENCHANTMENT. By F. MABEL ROBINSON.

8. DISARMED. By M. BETHAM EDWARDS.

9. JACK’S FATHER. By W. E. NORRIS.

10. MARGERY OF QUETHER. By S. BARING GOULD.

11. A LOST ILLUSION. By LESLIE KEITH.

12. A MARRIAGE AT SEA. By W. CLARK RUSSELL.

13. MR. BUTLER’S WARD. By F. MABEL ROBINSON.

14. URITH. By S. BARING GOULD.

15. HOVENDEN, V.C. By F. MABEL ROBINSON.

Other Volumes will be announced in due course.

NEW TWO-SHILLING EDITIONS

2/-

_Crown 8vo, Ornamental Boards._

ARMINELL. By the Author of ‘Mehalah.’
ELI’S CHILDREN. By G. MANVILLE FENN.
DISENCHANTMENT. By F. MABEL ROBINSON.
THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. By F. MABEL ROBINSON.
JACQUETTA. By the Author of ‘Mehalah.’

_Picture Boards._

THE QUIET MRS. FLEMING. By RICHARD PRYCE.
JACK’S FATHER. By W. E. NORRIS.
MR. BUTLER’S WARD. By MABEL ROBINSON.
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‘This is a charming story. Tangle was but a little mongrel Sky
terrier, but he had a big heart in his little body, and played a
hero’s part more than once. The book can be warmly
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=Collingwood.= THE DOCTOR OF THE JULIET. By HARRY COLLINGWOOD, Author
of ‘The Pirate Island,’ etc. Illustrated by GORDON BROWNE. _Crown
8vo. 6s._

‘“The Doctor of the Juliet,” well illustrated by Gordon Browne, is
one of Harry Collingwood’s best efforts.’--_Morning Post._

=Walford.= A PINCH OF EXPERIENCE. By L. B. WALFORD, Author of ‘Mr.
Smith.’ With Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

‘The clever authoress steers clear of namby-pamby, and invests her
moral with a fresh and striking dress. There is terseness and
vivacity of style, and the illustrations are
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=Molesworth.= THE RED GRANGE. By Mrs. MOLESWORTH, Author of
‘Carrots.’ With Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

‘A volume in which girls will delight, and beautifully
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=Clark Russell.= MASTER ROCKAFELLAR’S VOYAGE. By W. CLARK RUSSELL,
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‘Mr. Clark Russell’s story of “Master Rockafellar’s Voyage” will be
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=Adams.= MY LAND OF BEULAH. By MRS. LEITH ADAMS. With a Frontispiece
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CARDINAL NEWMAN. By R. H. HUTTON.

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insight it displays into the nature of the Cardinal’s genius and
the spirit of his life.’--WILFRID WARD, in the _Tablet_.

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JOHN WESLEY. By J. H. OVERTON, M.A.

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observed, and there is no lack either of discrimination or of
sympathy.’--_Manchester Guardian._

BISHOP WILBERFORCE. By G. W. DANIEL, M.A.

CHARLES SIMEON. By H. C. G. MOULE, M.A.

CARDINAL MANNING. By A. W. HUTTON, M.A.

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THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By H. DE B. GIBBINS, M.A., late
Scholar of Wadham College, Oxon., Cobden Prizeman. _Second
Edition._ With Maps and Plans.

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A compact and clear story of our industrial development. A study of
this concise but luminous book cannot fail to give the reader a
clear insight into the principal phenomena of our industrial
history. The editor and publishers are to be congratulated on this
first volume of their venture, and we shall look with expectant
interest for the succeeding volumes of the series.’--_University
Extension Journal._

A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POLITICAL ECONOMY. By L. L. PRICE, M.A.,
Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon.

PROBLEMS OF POVERTY: An Inquiry into the Industrial Conditions of
the Poor. By J. A. HOBSON, M.A.

VICTORIAN POETS. By A. SHARP.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By J. E. SYMES, M.A.

PSYCHOLOGY. By F. S. GRANGER, M.A., Lecturer in Philosophy at
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THE EVOLUTION OF PLANT LIFE: Lower Forms. By G. MASSEE, Kew
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AIR AND WATER. Professor V. B. LEWES, M.A. Illustrated.

THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE AND HEALTH. By C. W. KIMMINS, M.A. Camb.
Illustrated.

THE MECHANICS OF DAILY LIFE. By V. P. SELLS, M.A. Illustrated.

ENGLISH SOCIAL REFORMERS. H. DE B. GIBBINS, M.A.

ENGLISH TRADE AND FINANCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By W. A. S.
HEWINS, B.A.

Social Questions of To-day

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TRADE UNIONISM--NEW AND OLD. By G. HOWELL, M.P., Author of ‘The
Conflicts of Capital and Labour.’

THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT TO-DAY. By G. J. HOLYOAKE, Author of ‘The
History of Co-operation.’

MUTUAL THRIFT. By Rev. J. FROME WILKINSON, M.A., Author of ‘The
Friendly Society Movement.’

PROBLEMS OF POVERTY: An Inquiry into the Industrial Conditions of
the Poor. By J. A. HOBSON, M.A.

THE COMMERCE OF NATIONS. By C. F. BASTABLE, M.A., Professor of
Economics at Trinity College, Dublin.

THE ALIEN INVASION. By W. H. WILKINS, B.A., Secretary to the
Society for Preventing the Immigration of Destitute Aliens.

THE RURAL EXODUS. By P. ANDERSON GRAHAM.

LAND NATIONALIZATION. By HAROLD COX, B.A.

A SHORTER WORKING DAY. By H. DE B. GIBBINS and R. A. HADFIELD, of
the Hecla Works, Sheffield.

BACK TO THE LAND, being an inquiry as to the possible conditions
under which those now unemployed can be provided with rural work,
with practical suggestions as to the means by which a larger number
of persons than at present can be maintained from the land. By
HAROLD E. MOORE, F.S.I., Author of ‘Hints on Land Improvements.’