"There is an epicurian touch about the book whose author loves ease and leisure, old furniture and Italian villas and gardens."—The Friend.
Our Villa in Italy. By JOSEPH LUCAS (Second Edition.) Illustrated. Crown 8vo, cloth.
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"Mr. Lucas has written a book which will delight every English lover of Italy.... Many an agreeable story do we find in these simple, well-written pages so full of the lure of Florence, and, indeed, of all Italy."—The Guardian.
The Road to a Healthy Old Age. By T. BODLEY SCOTT, M.R.C.S. (Eng.). Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth. (Third Impression.)
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"In this book an attempt is made to demonstrate both to the medical profession and the laity that premature decay, physical and mental, may within limits be prevented.... We have perused the book with pleasure, and cordially recommend it to our readers."—Medical Times.
The Works of Augustus Jessopp, D.D. Uniform Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth.
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"We doubt if such an account of English village life, its bad and good sides, its specialities, its humours, and the odd, knarled characters it produces has ever been published.... Full of thought, but fuller yet of a subtle humorousness which is not Addison's or Lamb's, but something as separate and almost as attractive."—The Spectator.