Through Finland in Carts
Saturday Review (Books of the week).—“There is something that is almost, if not quite, fascinating about Mrs. Alec Tweedie and her manner of making a book. A monument of discursive energy. A mass of information both useful and entertaining.”
Daily Mail.—“Mrs. Alec Tweedie has added to our stock of entertaining books of travel in unfamiliar lands.”
Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (The book of the week).—“From first to last there is not a dull page in the volume, which is admirably written, well illustrated, and full of humour. It is one of the best books of travel we have read for many a year.”
The Speaker.—“There are many vivid pen-and-ink sketches in these pages of peasant life, and Mrs. Tweedie shows that she possesses not only a quick eye but ready powers of expression.”
Pall Mall Gazette.—“She saw everything and everybody in Finland, nothing—from the squalor of the peasants’ huts to the political outlook—escaped her lively observation. Her book is full of information and entertainment.”
Literary World.—“A most valuable book. It is more than a book of travel, it is the best study of Finland that has yet appeared; like the Finlanders themselves, it is extremely up to date, indeed it is difficult to imagine a better-balanced book of travel.”
Daily Telegraph.—“A spirited story of adventure in Finland. The account given of the women of Finland is very curious and instructive.”
Morning Post.—“Containing information of a very varied sort imparted in a very sprightly way. Sportsmen should read what Mrs. Alec Tweedie has to say about fishing in Finland.”
The Queen (The book of the week).—“Mrs. Alec Tweedie has written several good books of travel, each better than the last. Finland is really an excellent book—it is about the most entertaining and instructive travel book of the year.”
“A BOOK OF ABSORBING INTEREST.”
Hyde Park:
Its History and Romance
The Academy.—“In ‘Hyde Park’ Mrs. Tweedie is triumphantly encamped and any attempt to dislodge her would be quite futile. Her study of an extraordinarily interesting and attractive subject is thoroughly complete, and from first to last most delightfully done. It is a wholly delightful book, and what with the immense interest of the subject, the pleasant writing, and the number of well-chosen pictures, should have a really great success.”
Sunday Sun (The book of the week).—“Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s book is altogether delightful. She is frankly a gossip, and while she includes in her book all that appertains to the Park itself, she can never resist the temptation to tell a good story. No side of life escapes her attention.... In short, a great subject is worthily treated. Lovers of London and lovers of England should be grateful for this memorial of their great playground. Hyde Park may be called a picture book of history, and its history has been written with loving care and no little skill.”
Pall Mall.—“Mrs. Alec Tweedie is a capital stage manager of this wonderful play, bright, cheery, and always entertaining. She has saturated herself with the atmosphere of each period, and each character, good, bad, and indifferent, stands before us with wonderful reality.... To watch them is to realise how important Hyde Park is to our gregarious metropolis; and if distance intervenes and exiles you, you may still be transported thither on the magic carpet of Mrs. Tweedie’s most engrossing pages.”
The Nation.—“As delectable to the sociable as it is puzzling to the misanthropic, Hyde Park represents the same spirit of serious trifling and enforced idleness as in the days when it first became a pleasure ground for the High-World some three centuries ago. These are among the ghosts raised by Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s ‘Hyde Park.’ She devotes considerable space to the painful and gruesome chronicles of Tyburn, and tells an entertaining account of the evolution of the carriage.”
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Behind the Footlights
TWO EDITIONS
Morning Post.—“It ought to have an unusually large circulation in comparison with other books which describe the inner life of the stage. Mrs. Alec Tweedie touches the moral aspect of the acting life with delicacy and reticence.... Her pictures of rehearsals are realistic. She has many delightful anecdotes.”
Daily Express.—“A gossiping encyclopædia of the stage. If there is anything about the stage that is not touched upon, it is because it is not worth troubling about, and there is not a dull page in the book from start to finish, and scarcely one which is not brightened by an anecdote.”
Standard.—“‘Behind the Footlights’ contains a greater amount of direct personal information concerning leading contemporary actors, actresses, managers, and dramatists than can be found in any number of recently published books about the theatre in England.... She must be thanked for a singularly clever and entertaining volume.”
JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO STREET, W.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
George Harley,
F.R.S.;
or,
The Life of a Harley Street Physician
By HIS DAUGHTER
The Times.—“The authoress is well known by her pleasant and chatty books of travel.... She has succeeded, by a judicious combination of her father’s notes with her own recollections, in producing a readable and interesting memoir.”
Morning Post.—“The memoir contains much interesting reading, tracing as it does the career of a distinguished man of science, who, though he had to struggle for years against almost insuperable difficulties, reached at last a high place in the professional tree and maintained his position there.”
St. James’s Gazette.—“Mrs. Tweedie is to be congratulated both on her subject and on the way she has manipulated it.”
A Girl’s Ride in Iceland
FOUR EDITIONS
Morning Post.—“This account of an autumn trip to an unhackneyed land is much better worth reading than many more pretentious volumes.... The authoress has an eye for what is worth seeing, a happy knack of graphic description, and a literary style which is commendably free from adjectival exuberance.”
Manchester Guardian.—“Mrs. A. Tweedie’s account of her trip is so bright and lively that the novelty of her experience is rendered additionally interesting by her manner of describing it.... The authoress interests us from first to last, and her style is altogether free from affectation of fine writing ... her book, indeed, is both instructive and amusing.”
St. James’s Gazette.—“... Many interesting details of the history and social life of the Icelanders are set forth in a pleasant, chatty style by the spirited and observant lady who rode 160 miles like a man.”
Saturday Review.—“... people intent on new fields of travel; Mrs. Tweedie’s lively account of a voyage to Iceland, and its agreeable and entirely successful results, ought to inspire adventurous ladies to follow her example.... Mrs. Tweedie describes the wonders of the land with a keen appreciation, and has not forgotten to supply many useful hints.”
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
TORONTO: BELL AND COCKBURN