In this volume the author carries the reader from the Orient to the outdoor life of our own country, of which he is so competent to speak. “In Gold and Silver” has been magnificently illustrated by two of the foremost American artists, W. Hamilton Gibson and A. B. Wenzell, who have furnished full-page drawings, vignettes, and initials; while there are several pen-and-ink drawings of Oriental articles by W. C. Greenough, and a specially designed title-page and cover by H. B. Sherwin. Altogether, this book may safely be called one of the best examples of fine book-making produced in recent years.
THE LAST WORDS OF THOMAS CARLYLE. Including Wotton Reinfred, Carlyle’s only essay in fiction; the Excursion (Futile Enough) to Paris; and letters from Thomas Carlyle, also letters from Mrs. Carlyle to a personal friend. With Portrait. 12mo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.75.
“‘Wotton Reinfred’ is interesting as a historical document. It gives Carlyle before he had adopted his peculiar manner, and yet there are some characteristic bits—especially at the beginning—in the Sartor Resartus vein. I take it that these are reminiscences of Irving and of the Thackeray circle, and there is a curious portrait of Coleridge, not very thinly veiled. There is enough autobiography, too, of interest in its way.”—Leslie Stephen.
“No complete edition of the Sage of Chelsea will be able to ignore these manuscripts.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
MEN, MINES, AND ANIMALS IN SOUTH AFRICA. By Lord Randolph S. Churchill. With Portrait, Sixty-five Illustrations, and a Map. 8vo. 337 pages. Cloth, $5.00.
“Lord Randolph Churchill’s pages are full of diversified adventures and experience, from any part of which interesting extracts could be collected.... A thoroughly attractive book.”—London Telegraph.
AN ENGLISH MAN IN PARIS. Notes and Recollections. Two volumes in one. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
This work gives an intimate and most entertaining series of pictures of life in Paris during the reigns of Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon. It contains personal reminiscences of the old Latin Quarter, the Revolution of 1848, the coup d’état, society, art, and letters during the Second Empire, the siege of Paris, and the reign of the Commune. The author enjoyed the acquaintance of most of the celebrities of this time; and he describes Balzac, Alfred de Musset, Sue, the elder Dumas, Taglioni, Flaubert, Auber, Félicien David Delacroix, Horace Vernet, Decamps, Guizot, Thiers, and many others, whose appearance in these pages is the occasion for fresh and interesting anecdotes. This work may well be described as a volume of inner history written from an exceptionally favorable point of view.
“... The reader of these volumes will not marvel more at the unfailing interest of each page than at the extraordinary collection of eminent persons whom the author all his life knew intimately and met frequently. A list would range from Dumas the elder to David the sculptor, from Rachel to Balzac, from Louis Napoleon to Eugène Delacroix, from Louis Philippe to the Princess Demidoff, and from Lola Montez to that other celebrated woman, Alphonsine Plessis, who was the original of the younger Dumas’s ‘Dame aux Caméllias.’ He knew these persons as no other Englishman could have known them, and he writes about them with a charm that has all the attraction of the most pleasing conversation.”—New York Times.
“We have rarely happened upon more fascinating volumes than these Recollections.... One good story leads on to another; one personality brings up reminiscences of another, and we are hurried along in a rattle of gayety.... We have heard many suggestions hazarded as to the anonymous author of these memoirs. There are not above three or four Englishmen with whom it would be possible to identify him. We doubted still until after the middle of the second volume we came upon two or three passages which strike us as being conclusive circumstantial evidence.... We shall not seek to strip the mask from the anonymous.”—London Times.