"This is a book which no intelligent student of human affairs, whether he be a biologist or no, can possibly afford to ignore. In knowledge, in style, in method, in purpose, in logical power, in every necessary or desirable character, it is a model of what such a treatise should be."—The Outlook.
A NEW BOOK BY THE AUTHOR OF 'HONORIA'S PATCHWORK'
A COAT OF MANY COLOURS. Woven from Honoria's Letters to the Best Friend, and Patched with Pieces from a Certain Note-Book. By the Author of 'Honoria's Patchwork.' With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 6s.
Those who admired Honoria's Patchwork, published last year, will be glad to be again in her delightful company, surrounded by her friends, to be interested again in her household duties, her cultured conversation and views on books, pictures, and kindred subjects, and to once more sojourn for a time in her charming Homemead. A Coat of Many Colours will be found to be as fresh, as sincere, and as intimately personal as the Patchwork, and will be fully illustrated by reproductions from charming photographs.
AN EDITION DE LUXE, WITH COLOURED PLATES, OF
THE FIELDS OF FRANCE. By Madame Mary Duclaux (A. Mary F. Robinson). With Twenty Illustrations in Colour by W. B. MacDougall. Crown 4to, 21s. net.
It may be justly said that Madame Duclaux's book on rural France has become a classic. Its interest and value was in no way ephemeral, for in it Madame Duclaux gives the sense of that wonderful world of out-of-doors which seems fading from the horizon of the modern town-dweller. "The little book," said the Daily Telegraph, "presents a perfect gallery of pictures, a sort of literary complement to Corot and Millet."
It is a book eminently suited for illustration, and Mr. MacDougall spent a long period in the districts dealt with in the volume in making a series of artistic paintings which are reproduced by the best colour process. Unlike many such books, the paintings were done to illustrate the text and not the text written to the pictures.
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF DICKENS
THE BOZ BIRTHDAY BOOK. Compiled by J. W. T. Ley, Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship. Containing an Index to Subjects and a Portrait of Dickens. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net, cloth; in leather, 5s. net.