The Author’s Manual. By Percy Russell. With Prefatory Remarks by Mr Gladstone. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. net. (Eighth and Cheaper Edition.) With portrait.
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A Guide to British and American Novels. From the Earliest Period to the end of 1894. By Percy Russell, Author of “The Author’s Manual,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth. Price 3s. 6d. net. (Second Edition carefully revised.)
“Mr Russell’s familiarity with every form of novel is amazing, and his summaries of plots and comments thereon are as brief and lucid as they are various.”—SPECTATOR.
Nigh on Sixty Years at Sea. By Robert Woolward (“Old Woolward”). Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. With Portrait. (Second Edition.)
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Borodin and Liszt. I.—Life and Works of a Russian Composer. II.—Liszt, as sketched in the Letters of Borodin. By Alfred Habets. Translated with a Preface by Rosa Newmarch. With Portraits and Fac-similes. Crown 8vo, cloth, 5s.
“Well translated. It consists of two sections, the first a very interesting and sympathetic memoir of the exceedingly original Russian genius, and the second a vivid sketch of Liszt as he appeared to Borodin. The translator’s preface sums up the conditions of musical life in Russia very cleverly.”—THE TIMES.
POETRY AND THE DRAMA