GEORGE BUBB DODDINGTON, LORD MELCOMBE. By Lloyd Sanders. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.
CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ARTHUR HELPS, K.C.B., D.C.L. By E. A. Helps. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.
⁂ Sir Arthur Helps was a notable figure among the literary men of the last generation, and as Clerk to the Privy Council enjoyed the confidence and friendship of Queen Victoria, while his magnetic personality drew round him a distinguished coterie, many of whose witty and wise sayings are here preserved. Not only was he on terms of intimacy with Tennyson, Dean Stanley, John Stuart Mill, Gladstone, Disraeli, Ruskin, Frowde, Carlyle, Dickens, Kingsley, and other men of light and leading, many letters from whom are included in the volume, but he was ever in the vanguard of philanthropic movements.
The present collection of letters deals with the topics of the day, and burning questions such as the Chartist agitation, the American Civil War, and the cholera epidemics; and they are handled with great acumen by the various writers, and still possess an absorbing interest. The letters have a peculiarly intimate touch, and yet carry with them the weight of authority.
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.
MEMORIES. By the Honble. Stephen Coleridge. With 12 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
⁂ “Mr. Coleridge’s memories are very crisply and clearly written. He makes a real addition to our knowledge of the essentially human aspects of justly celebrated figures of the past. He was brought up amid the society of many of the most cultivated men of the past half-century. Among a host of notabilities of whom Mr. Coleridge speaks are Lewis Morris, Browning, Jowett, Jenny Lind, Lord Leighton, Ruskin, Watts, Whistler, and Irving. It was at Lord Coleridge’s house that Cardinal Newman and Matthew Arnold first met.”—Daily Telegraph.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE: HIS WORK, ASSOCIATES AND ORIGINALS. By T. H. S. Escott. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ “The whole of this book is admirably done, and no one who is interested in Trollope or, indeed, in nineteenth century literature, can afford to overlook it.”—Globe.