'Most delightful, most stimulating. Its racy humour, its original imaginings, its perfectly unique history, make it one of the freshest, breeziest volumes.'—Methodist Times.
'A survey at once graphic, acute, and quaintly written.'—Times.
Malden. ENGLISH RECORDS. A Companion to the History of England. By H. E. Malden, M.A. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
A book which aims at concentrating information upon dates, genealogy, officials, constitutional documents, etc., which is usually found scattered in different volumes.
Biography
Collingwood. JOHN RUSKIN: His Life and Work. By W. G. Collingwood, M.A., Editor of Mr. Ruskin's Poems. 2 vols. 8vo. 32s. Second Edition.
This important work is written by Mr. Collingwood, who has been for some years Mr. Ruskin's private secretary, and who has had unique advantages in obtaining materials for this book from Mr. Ruskin himself and from his friends. It contains a large amount of new matter, and of letters which have never been published, and is, in fact a full and authoritative biography of Mr. Ruskin. The book contains numerous portraits of Mr. Ruskin including a coloured one from a water-colour portrait by himself, and also 13 sketches, never before published, by Mr. Ruskin and Mr. Arthur Severn. A bibliography is added.
'No more magnificent volumes have been published for a long time....'—Times.
'This most lovingly written and most profoundly interesting book.'—Daily News.
'It is long since we have had a biography with such varied delights of substance and of form. Such a book is a pleasure for the day, and a joy for ever.'—Daily Chronicle.