Illustrated. Decorated cloth, 12mo, preparing
"The Kingdom" is a country place of about two hundred acres and the "two" are the writer's husband and herself. Practical information for the homemaker and the gardener are happily blended in this book with sentiment and a pleasing vein of philosophical reflection. While the work is primarily one for lovers of the great outdoors, for Nature in its various moods is perhaps the central theme, it is much more than what is ordinarily termed a "nature volume." The story form, only half assumed, the charming personalities which are presented, their day to day lives, these all lend to it an added interest.
PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
America as I Saw It
By E. ALEC TWEEDIE. With illustrations.
Decorated cloth, 8vo, preparing
Many books have been written by people who have visited this country and have then returned to their native heath, but it is doubtful whether anyone has gone at the task with such an abundance of good humor as has the author of this sprightly volume. Mrs. Tweedie says things, to be sure, about America and Americans that will not be wholly acceptable, but she says them in such a way that even the most sensitive cannot take offense. In fact it is quite likely that her criticisms will provoke laughter as good humored in itself as the remarks which provoke it. There is hardly a spot on the broad continent that does not pass under Mrs. Tweedie's examination, and scarcely a person of importance. She finds much to praise openly, but amusing as it may seem, these praiseworthy factors are not those upon which we expect commendation. Our dinners, our clubs, our educational systems, our transportation facilities, our home life, our theatres, our books, our art, all are analyzed and Tweedie verdicts passed. Of course the book is to be taken seriously, but not too seriously. Mrs. Tweedie would be offended if we did not laugh at her cajolery; that is what she wrote it for.