In the Border Country

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Edited by W. Shaw Sparrow
THE ART AND LIFE LIBRARY. 1. The British Home of To-Day ( out of print ). 2. The Gospels in Art. 3. Women Painters of the World. 4. The Old Testament in Art, Vol. I. 5. The Modern Home ( out of print ). 6. The Old Testament in Art, Vol. II. 7. The Apostles in Art.
HISTORY, TRAVEL, RUSTIC LIFE. 1. Mary Queen of Scots, with 26 Pictures in Colour by Sir James Linton, R.I., and James Orrock, R.I.; the text by Walter Wood. 2. In The Border Country, with 25 Pictures in Colour by James Orrock, R.I., and Historical Notes by W. S. Crockett. 3. In Rustic England, with 25 Pictures in Colour by Birket Foster; the text by A. B. Daryll.
THE ART AND LIFE MONOGRAPHS. 1. Etchings by Van Dyck, in Rembrandt Photogravure the full size of the Original Proofs. Also an Édition de Luxe with Carbon Print Photographs of all the Etchings; the text by Prof. Dr. H. W. Singer. 2. Ingres—Master of Pure Draughtsmanship. Twenty-four Rembrandt Photogravures of important Drawings and Pictures; the introductions by Arsène Alexandre and W. Shaw Sparrow.
ARTISTS OF THE PRESENT DAY. I. Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. the introductions by Léonce Bénédite and W. Shaw Sparrow. 2. Lucy E. Kemp-Welch, the introductions by Professor Hubert von Herkomer and Edward F. Strange.
SERIES OF BIBLE PICTURES. The Saviour in Modern Art.
London: Hodder & Stoughton



Most of us prefer to spend our holiday tours away from our own country. There is a feeling of mild adventure when the land we behold is unknown to us, and when the language we hear filters into our questioning minds through an interpreter's suavity and chatter. And if we go to Switzerland we may earn even a reputation for intrepid pluck among the friends who listen to us on our return home, while the unlucky guides, who found for our trembling feet a pathway around each danger, will amuse their families during the winter with little tales at our expense, told with rough satire and with short, gruff peals of laughter resembling the noise of a crackling ice-sheet when it begins to slip downhill.