THE JOLLY DUCHESS: Harriot, Duchess of St. Albans. Fifty Years' Record of Stage and Society (1787-1837)
By Charles E. Pearce, Author of "Polly Peachum," etc.
Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, fully illustrated, 16/- net.
Mr. Charles E. Pearce tells in a lively, anecdotal style the story of Harriot Mellon, who played merry, hoydenish parts before the foot-lights a hundred years ago, until her fortunes were suddenly changed by her amazing marriage to Thomas Coutts, the banker prince, who died a few years later, leaving her a gigantic fortune. She then married the Duke of St. Albans.
SIR HERBERT TREE AND THE MODERN THEATRE: A Discursive Biography
By Sidney Dark, Author of "The Man Who Would not be King," etc.
Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, fully illustrated, 10/6 net.
Mr. Sidney Dark, the well-known literary and dramatic critic, has written a fascinating character-study of Sir Herbert Tree both as actor and as man, and he has used the striking personality of his subject as a text for a comprehensive survey and criticism of the modern English stage and its present tendencies. Mr. Dark's opinions have always been distinctive and individual, and his new book is outspoken, witty, and brilliantly expressed.
THE MASTER PROBLEM
By James Marchant, F.R.S. Ed., Author of "Dr. Paton," and editor of "Prevention," etc. With an Introduction by the Rev. F.B. Meyer, D.D.
Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5/- net.
This book deals with the social evil, its causes and its remedies. Necessarily, the writer is compelled to present many aspects of the case, and to describe persons and scenes which he has encountered, as Director of the National Council of Public Morals, in America, India, Europe, the Colonies, etc.; the overruling object of the book, however, is the more difficult and more useful task of discovering the root causes of this vice and of suggesting lasting remedies.
THE FRIEND OF FREDERICK THE GREAT: The Last Earl Marischall of Scotland
By Edith E. Cuthell, F.R.Hist.S., Author of "A Vagabond Courtier," etc.
Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, fully illustrated, 2 vols., 24/- net.
George Keith, a gallant young colonel of Life Guards under Marlborough and Ormonde, fought at Sheriffmuir, led the ill-fated Jacobite expedition from Spain, and was a prominent figure in all the Jacobite plottings before and after the '45. He was the ambassador and friend of Frederick the Great and the friend and correspondent of Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau and d'Alembert. This excellent biography is to be followed later by a work on James Keith, Frederick the Great's Field-Marshal, who was killed in attempting to retrieve the reverse of Hochkeich.
GAIETY AND GEORGE GROSSMITH: Random Reflections on the Serious Business of Enjoyment
By Stanley Naylor.
Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, with a coloured frontispiece, and 50 other illustrations, 5/- net.