The new volume gives much unique and interesting information especially relative to the magical power which precious stones have been supposed to exert over individuals and events during past ages.
Historic Virginia Homes and Churches
By ROBERT A. LANCASTER, JR.
316 illustrations, and a photogravure frontispiece. Net $7.50. Half morocco. Net $12.50. A Limited Edition Printed from Type. Uniform with the Pennells’ “Our Philadelphia.”
The most important work on any State yet published in this country. It describes practically all the houses of historic interest in Virginia, gives illustrations of most of them, as well as the churches most likely to engage attention.
Quaint and Historic Forts of North America
By JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND
With photogravure frontispiece and 71 illustrations. Ornamental cloth, gilt top, in a box. Net, $5.00.
Timely and interesting to the last degree in these days of war, is this volume, not on “fortifications” as such, but on the old and existing forts, with their great romantic and historical interest.
English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans