“The girls with their Quaker and Moravian training, the worthy and benevolent Mrs. Pendlebury, and society generally, rich and poor, in Perford, are depicted with skill.”—Daily News.
“The picture he gives us here of the Enticknapp household, with its Moravian and Quaker traditions, is one nearly perfect of its kind for sobriety of taste and freedom from all sentimental exaggerations.”—Graphic.
THE PRINCE OF THE HUNDRED SOUPS: A Puppet Show in Narrative. Edited, with a Preface by Vernon Lee, Author of “Belcaro,” “Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy,” &c. With Four Illustrations in Sepia, by Sarah Birch. Cheaper edition. Square 8vo., cloth. 3s. 6d.
“There is more humour in the volume than in half-a-dozen ordinary pantomimes.”—Spectator.
“The preface is really more interesting than the ‘Prince of the Hundred Soups,’ and that—as we hope our readers will find out for themselves—is saying a good deal.”—Academy.
“For myself, I can say that it had upon me the appetising effect of that dish in Horace which ‘replaced the sated guest upon his elbow;’ for though, when I took it up, I was utterly weary and dazed with the number of books I had gone through, yet I devoured it from cover to cover with a new zest.”—Truth.
INDUSTRIAL CURIOSITIES: Glances Here and There in the World of Labour. Written and Edited by Alexander Hay Japp, LL.D., F.R.S.E. Third edition. Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
“Would make an excellent prize or present-book, especially for boys with a taste for miscellaneous information. Anyone, however, whose notion of a book is not limited to novels ought to be able to read it with pleasure, and can hardly do so without profit.”—Academy.
“Dr. Japp travels through a variety of subjects, always entertaining and instructive.”—Spectator.
“Nowadays boys are so fed upon story books and books of adventure that we welcome a book which tells them something about the facts of the world they live in.”—Graphic.
OLD FAITHS IN NEW LIGHT. By Newman Smyth, D.D. Crown 8vo., cloth. 3s. 6d.
PLANT LIFE: Popular Papers on the Phenomena of Botany. By Edward Step. With 148 Illustrations drawn by the Author. Third edition. Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
“The author has produced a little volume well suited to attract the attention and stimulate the curiosity of the student. By clothing the dry details of morphological construction with information as to the life history of plants, and by calling attention to the varied adaptations of form to function, he has followed in the wake of that numerous band of naturalists who have at once done so much to extend the bounds of botanical science, and to make it attractive to the amateur.”—Athenæum.
“More delightful reading for the country at this season of the year authors and publishers have not provided for us.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“An unpretending book, whose contents cover a very great extent of botanical ground.”—Science Gossip.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS, 1884. Comprising Seventy-five Facsimiles of Sketches by the Artists. Demy. 1s.