ARMINIUS VAMBÉRY; His Life and Adventures. Written by himself. With Portrait and 14 Illustrations. Fourth and Popular Edition. Square Imperial 16mo., cloth extra. 6s.
“A most fascinating work, full of interesting and curious experiences.”—Contemporary Review.
“It is partly an autobiographic sketch of character, partly an account of a singularly daring and successful adventure in the exploration of a practically unknown country. In both aspects it deserves to be spoken of as a work of great interest and of considerable merit.”—Saturday Review.
“This remarkable book is partly an autobiographical sketch of character, partly a record of a singularly bold and successful attempt to explore a country which at the time when Professor Vambéry undertook his journey was practically terra incognita. . . . Professor Vambéry’s Autobiography is omnium consensu a work of very great interest and merit.”—Life.
“We can follow M. Vambéry’s footsteps in Asia with pride and pleasure; we welcome every word he has to tell us about the ethnography and the languages of the East.”—Academy.
“Professor Vambéry, of Pest, has just published a book in England that tells the story of his life; a book that forms, under every aspect, most agreeable reading. It is not only a deeply interesting account of his adventurous career, but it is also written in a light and attractive manner, so that the reader’s attention does not flag for a moment.”—Die Gegenwart.
“The character and temperament of the writer come out well in his quaint and vigorous style. . . . The expressions, too, in English, of modes of thought and reflections cast in a different mould from our own gives additional piquancy to the composition, and, indeed, almost seems to bring out unexpected capacities in the language.”—Athenæum.
“There is something in his travels which reminds us of the wanderings of Oliver Goldsmith. . . . The English public will find their interest in him increased rather than diminished by this graphic account of his life and adventures.”—British Quarterly Review.
“Has all the fascination of a lively romance. It is the confession of an uncommon man; an intensely clever, extraordinarily energetic egotist, well-informed, persuaded that he is in the right and impatient of contradiction.”—Daily Telegraph.
“The work is written in a most captivating manner, and illustrates the qualities that should be possessed by the explorer.”—Novoe Vremya, Moscow.
“We are glad to see a popular edition of a book, which, however it be regarded, must be pronounced unique. The writer, the adventures, and the style are all extraordinary—the last not the least of the three. It is flowing and natural—a far better style than is written by the majority of English travellers.”—St. James’s Gazette.
*** Over Eighty other English and Foreign periodicals have reviewed this work.
THE AMAZON: An Art Novel. By Carl Vosmaer. With Preface by Professor George Ebers, and Frontispiece drawn specially by L. Alma Tadema, R.A. Crown 8vo., cloth. 6s.
“It is a delineation of inner life by the hand of a master. It belongs to the school of Corinne, but is healthier and nobler, and in its thought and style fully equal to Madame de Stäel’s famous work. We do not wonder at the European recognition of its great merits.”—British Quarterly Review.
“Throughout the book there is a fine air of taste, reminding one a little of Longfellow’s ‘Hyperion.’”—The World.
“It is a work full of deep, suggestive thought. M. Vosmaer, in writing it, has added another testimony to his artistic greatness and depth.”—The Academy.
“One meets with delicate and striking views about antique and modern art, about old Rome and Italy. Moreover, the plot is interesting. One cannot but feel interested in the persons. Their characters are drawn with great skill.”—Revue Suisse.
GLADYS FANE: The Story of Two Lives. By T. Wemyss Reid. Fourth and popular edition. In 1 vol. Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 6s.
“One of the most delightful novels it has been our pleasure to read for many a long day.”—Pictorial World.
“‘Gladys Fane’ is a good and clever book, which few readers who begin it are likely to put down unfinished, and which shows considerable powers of telling a story.”—Saturday Review.
“The author of the delightful monograph on ‘Charlotte Bronte’ has given us in these volumes a story as beautiful as life and as sad as death. . . . We could not ‘wear in our heart’s core’ the man who could read aloud with unfaltering voice and undimmed eyes the last pages of this prose story, which is almost a poem, and which
‘Dallies with the innocence of love
Like the old age.’”—Standard.“Mr. T. Wemyss Reid, the talented editor of the Leeds Mercury, has in ‘Gladys Fane’ developed wonderful power as a writer of fiction. ‘Gladys Fane’ is no ordinary tale; the conventionalities of the present-day novel writer are not observed, but Mr. Reid gives us what should be the aim of all who produce light literature, something novel.”—Guardian.
“She is thoroughly original; her portrait is carefully finished; and it may safely be said that if Mr. Reid has a few more characters like this in reserve, his success as a novelist is assured. . . . It is a sound piece of work, and, above all, it is very enjoyable reading.”—Academy.
“The beautiful and terse descriptions of scenery which we find in this story themselves suggest a genuine poetic element in Mr. Wemyss Reid. . . . We heartily welcome his success in this new field.”—Spectator.
SUMMER: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. Edited by H. G. O. Blake. With an Index. Map. Crown 8vo., cloth, 382 pp. 7s. 6d.
This volume will contain passages selected from Thoreau’s Journals, comprising his observations and reflections during the summers of many years. Some of these are descriptive, with that fine photographic accuracy which marks Thoreau’s pictures of natural scenes. Other passages contain those subtle reflections on society, religion, laws, literature, which also characterize whatever Thoreau wrote, and which pique the curiosity and stimulate the minds of his readers. The book has a full index. Thoreau himself seems to have contemplated a work of this kind, for in his Journal he writes of “A book of the seasons, each page of which should be written in its own season and out-of-doors, or in its own locality, wherever it may be.”
HENRY IRVING: in England and America, 1838–1884. By Frederic Daly. With a Vignette Portrait, specially etched from a Private Photograph taken by S. A. Walker, by Ad. Lalauze; printed on hand-made paper by M. Salmon, of Paris. Second thousand. Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 5s.