A NEW SERIES OF COLOUR BOOKS
EACH CONTAINING 32 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
Large Square Demy 8vo. Price 7/6 net each. Bound in Cloth.
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BULGARIA. By Frank Fox.
This book will give to the reader an adequate idea of a wild and little-known corner of Europe, but to those who look upon Bulgaria as a place of endless massacres and savage inhospitality the book will bring many surprises. The Bulgarian artist shows us a land in which civilisation is evident and art not unknown. The Australian author (who was with the Bulgarian Army as correspondent for the London Morning Post during the former Balkan War) writes of a people whom he found usually courteous, gentle, and worthy. His personal experiences of the Bulgarian peasantry are vividly interesting, and hardly less interesting is the brief sketch of the early history of Bulgaria, the country where the Roman Empire met its doom.
ITALY. By Frank Fox.
Messrs. A. & C. Black have published many books on the various cities of Italy with colour illustrations. But before this they have not offered to the public a handy volume giving a general idea of the country which was the cradle of Christian civilisation. Whether to tourists who contemplate a visit to Italy or to those who cannot hope for that pleasure, Italy will be welcome. The author has left to the vivid pictures the main task of describing Italian scenery, and devoted most of his text to telling of the spirit of the people and showing how the Italy of to-day is linked up with the Italy of the Roman Republic and the Italy of the Renaissance.
SWITZERLAND. By Frank Fox.
This volume will give to the reader a good knowledge not only of the scenery of Europe's playground but of the Swiss people and their life. A little nation which has supplied Europe at various times with bands of both heroes and waiters, which is celebrated alike for generous hospitality to refugees and the most strictly commercial hospitality to tourists, has a paradoxical aspect whatever way it is regarded. The author seeks to describe rather than to explain the Swiss, but gives a closely compressed record of their early history as some key to the curiously contradictory elements of their national character.