IMPORTANT FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Westminster Cathedral
and Its Architect
By W. DE L’HOPITAL
With numerous Illustrations from Mr. Bentley’s drawings including coloured plates, plans and reproductions from photographs.
In 2 large handsome volumes, Crown 4-to, cloth gilt and gilt top, £3 3s. 0d. net.
The history of Westminster Cathedral, and of its architect, the late John Francis Bentley, will undoubtedly form one of the principal publishing features of the autumn season. Westminster Cathedral is acknowledged to be among the most important buildings of modern times, and as the Chief Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the British Empire it has a further importance of the first mark. Bentley’s own life, and the story of how the great Byzantine cathedral grew into being from Cardinal Manning’s first proposals, and how it fell to his successor, Cardinal Vaughan, to initiate and carry out the work, has been told by the architect’s daughter, Mrs. de l’Hopital, who has made full use of her father’s papers. An important feature of the book is the illustrations, which comprise some full page plates in colour from Mr. Bentley’s watercolour drawings, and numerous illustrations in line and from photographs, besides many plans.
The Madman
By KAHLIL GIBRAN
“The William Blake of the Twentieth Century.”—Rodin.