The inner life of the Japanese is admirably shown in this series of tales and articles, and the chief points in their religion are perhaps for the first time thoroughly brought home to European readers.
Running Water. By A. E. W. Mason. 1 vol.—3958.
Chamonix and the neighbouring peaks of the Mont Blanc group form the background to this new dramatic story of Alpine climbing and of human scheming on lower levels.
The $30,000 Bequest. By Mark Twain. 1 vol.—3959.
A new volume by the greatest of living humourists, containing twenty-seven sketches, articles, and tales in his own inimitable style.
Temptation. By Richard Bagot. 2 vols.—3960/61.
This is a drama and romance of Italian high life, by an author who is well known by a number of novels dealing with the Roman aristocracy.
Representative Men. Seven Lectures on the Uses of Great Men, Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 v.—3962.
This volume appears in the Tauchnitz Edition, with the special consent of Emerson’s son, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the great American essayist’s death.
Susan. By Ernest Oldmeadow. 1 vol.—3963.