COURTS AND CAMPS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.
The Life and Times of Count Baldassare Castiglione, with an Epitome of “The Book of the Courtier.” By Christopher Hare, Author of “Louis XI.,” “Marguerite of Austria,” etc. Illustrated. 10s. 6d.
“Mr. Hare’s new book is a proper volume to set beside his fine study of ‘The Most Illustrious Ladies of the Italian Renaissance.’ It is a scholarly and sympathetic study of one of the most conspicuous gentlemen of that brilliant period, and is illustrated by appropriate and well-chosen portraits.”—Scotsman.
MADAME DE POMPADOUR.
New and Cheaper Edition.
By H. Noel Williams, Author of “Madame du Barry,” “Madame Recamier,” etc. With Photogravure Frontispiece. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. The quarto Edition de Luxe of this important work is out of print and very scarce.
“It is the first attempt to provide English readers with anything like a full account of Madame de Pompadour’s life, and the work has been thoroughly well done.”—St. James’s Gazette.
WORLDS IN THE MAKING.
The Evolution of the Universe. Svante Arrhenius, of the Nobel Institute, Stockholm. Illustrated. 6s. net; post free, 6s. 4d.
Explains the origin of nebulæ from suns and suns from nebulæ, the universal distribution of life, the conservation of energy, etc., and shows how all may be accounted for by the newly developed principle of the pressure of light.