By Clara Crawford Perkins.
With photogravure frontispieces and 62 half-tone plates. 2 vols. 8vo. $5.00 net, boxed, carriage extra.
A sumptuous and popular work similar to the author's "French Cathedrals and Chateaux." Its elaborate illustrations and historical and architectural comment make this work an admirable guide to intelligent sight-seeing.
"It is a pleasure to take up a beautiful book and find that the subject matter is quite as satisfactory as the artistic illustrations, the rich covers and the clear print.... The author handles with much skill a subject with which she is familiar and one which is much neglected by the average reader."—Springfield Republican.
"Written from ample knowledge and with much enthusiasm. They describe what is charming and interesting in a manner that is usually interesting and often charming."—Chicago Post.
"Her work on Spain is especially to be commended. Everyone knows that the history of the peninsula is a tangle of racial elements. Few writers are skilful enough to make that tangle clear, or, if they have the skill, they are disposed to leave it in abeyance while they indulge in large generalisations. The very modesty with which Miss Perkins has undertaken her task has contributed to its more effective fulfilment. She does not try to tell too much, but in brief chapters surveys the broad phases of her subject, glancing at the Romans, the Vizigoths, Arabs and Moors, and finally the Christian kings.... The different forces that have helped to build up the Spanish people are justly and interestingly characterized."—New York Tribune.
*** Uniform in style and price with the above the author's French Cathedrals and Chateaux.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
By R. M. Johnston, Assistant Professor in Harvard University 12mo. 278 pp., with special bibliographies following each chapter, and index. $1.25 net, by mail, $1.37.
The narrative merges into that of the author's "Napoleon."