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THE GREY MAN.

By S. R. CROCKETT. Edition de Luxe.

With Portrait and 26 Drawings by SEYMOUR LUCAS, R.A. Limited to 250 copies, signed by Author. Crown 4to, cloth gilt, 21s. net.

Also an Edition in cloth, price 6s.

"Of the many passages dashed in with masterful and pathetic touches, let us take only two to

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serve by way of example. Here is the way in which Marjorie bids her love good-night, when handsome young Gilbert of Bargany is slain in the pride of his youth:

'She laid down his head very gently, taking a fine silken scarve, soft and white, from her own neck, and in the folds of that which was yet warm with the warmth of her pure and gracious bosom she wrapped from common sight the head of him who had died without knowledge of her love. Then she kneeled low down upon her knees, clasping hands, and holding the last fold of the napkin

ere she covered his face from sight. "Ah, best-beloved," she said very gently, yet so that I could hear, "fare thee well! So have I never said farewell before. But ever scornfully, being in fear of my own heart's treachery. Lie you there that wert the noblest man the sun shone on, of adversaries the most fearless, of enemies the most chivalrous, of friends the truest, of loves the sweetest-lie you there. . . . Lie you there, heart that never feared aught but that never took favour from man nor refused one to woman. sweetest lips that never of my own will have I touched before. sweet. The heavens receive your soul with honour, and the vanquished him stand up at your entrance to give you room.' “And this is a more awful scene, where the hero is imprisoned in the Cave of Death, in which the wild cannibals, who owned Sawny Bean as their master, held their revels :

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God and dishonour and a lie-heart
See, I will touch your lips-those
The earth be kind to your body,
angels that warred with Satan and

'But there was that nearer to me which smote me down like a blow taking a man at unawares. As I stood up to look, gripping nervously at my sword and peering over, there came a gust off the sea, roaring up the passages of the cavern. For with the moon the wind had risen without. The fire on the floor flickered upward and filled the place with light. I felt something touch my cheek. Speedily I turned, and, lo! it was a little babe's hand that swung by a cord. The wind had caught it, so light it was, and it had rubbed my cheek. By the Lord, it was enough, more than enough. I sank down, and the spirit within me became water because of that soft, sliding little hand. Had the naked devils come on to me then, I declare I had not found power to lift my hand against them, nor so much as to set a finger to the latch of a pistol.'

"With such passages as these, glowing with tender passion, or murky with horror, even the most insatiate lover of romance may feel that Mr. Crockett has given him good measure, well pressed down and running over."-Daily Telegraph.

CLIMBING REMINISCENCES OF THE DOLOMITES.

By LEONE SINIGAGLIA, Translated by MARY ALICE VIALLS. With an Introduction by FDMUND
J. GARWOOD, A.C. Member of the Italian Alpine Club. Profusely Illustrated.
With Map.

94 by 64. Cloth, 215. net.-Also an Edition on Japan paper, limited to 20 copies, lound by
Zachnsdorf, £5 5s, net.

CONTENTS,

Costina d'Ampezzo-Torre di Averau and Punta del Nuvolau-Becco di Mezzodi-Croda Rossa -Monte Cristallo-Croda da Lago-PelmoTofana di Mezzo and Tofana di Fuori-Drei schuster spitze - Elferkofel-Zwölferkofel Kleine Zinne (Piccola Cima di Lavaredo)ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY.

Croda da Lago (First Ascent by the North
Ridge)-Croda da Lago (First Ascent by the
West Face)-Monte Cristallo (First Ascent by
the South-West Face)-A Day's Adventures on

Antelao-Sorapis-Conclusion.

From the Sixth to the Eleventh Century. Historical and Critical Researches by RAFFAELE CATTANEO. Translated by the Contessa ISABEL CURTIS-CHOLMELEY in Bermani. With Photogravure Frontispiece and over 169 Illustrations. Crown 4to, parchment, 21s. net. CONTENTS. I-Latin - Barbarian Architecture during the Lombard Rule.

INTRODUCTION.

II.-Second Influence of Byzantine Art on Italian
Art-Byzantine-Barbarian Style.

III.-Italian Architecture from the End of the
Eighth to the Eleventh Century-Italian-Byzan-
tine Style.

IV. Architecture in the Lagoons of Venetia, from the Beginning of the Ninth Century to the Year 976.

V.-Architecture in the Lagoons and in Venetia, from the Year 976 to the Middle of the Eleventh Century.

APPENDIX.

INDEX of the monuments described or mentioned in the volume, and of the cities or places where they may be found.

THE LIFE OF GORDON. Second Edition.

INDEX of the monuments studied in this volume according to their class and chronology.

Major-General, R.E., C.B., Turkish Field-Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, and Pasha; Chinese Titu (Field-Marshal), Yellow Jacket Order. By DEMETRIUS C. BOULGER, Author of "The History of China," "England and Russia in Central Asia," &c., &c. Two vols., demy 8vo, with Portraits and Illustrations, 215.

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ON THE NILE WITH A CAMERA.

By ANTHONY WILKIN. With over 100 Illustrations from photographs by the Author. Demy 80,

cloth, 215.

The author had the good fortune to be on the Nile shortly before the commencement of the present campaign and to obtain a large number of photographs, some of which give a fair idea of the scenery and the general aspect of the country. Although the majority of the remainder are devoted to the remains of ancient Egypt, and may be found useful in illustrating the somewhat arid pages of the guide books, there are still, he hopes, more than a mere leavening whose subjects are sufficiently unfamiliar to warrant their reproduction on other than strictly artistic grounds.

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THE INNER LIFE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS:

Selected from the writings of WILLIAM WHITE, with a Prefatory Note by his Son, and an Introduction by JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M.P. 2 Vols. Demy 8vo, 16s.

SOME OF THE CONTENTS. (Selected promiscuously.)

The Kars Debate - The Canton Debate - The
Death of the Prince Consort-Mr. Lowe-Sir
Stafford Northcote-Lord Palmerston.
Lord Robert Cecil-Death of Sir George Lewis-
The Budget of 63-Marquis of Hartingdon.
Shaw Lefevre-Lord R. Cecil and Mr. Lowe-A
Prophesy (re Hartington)-Cobden-The Death
of Cobden.

Stuart Mill again-Thomas Hughes-Gladstone's
Reform Bill-Lord Cranborne-The Division-
Bank Charter.

Mr. Kavanagh-Disraeli on Reform -The "Historic" Night.

Mr. Mundella-Mr. Goschen-Sir Charles Dilke's Speech-Robert Peel himself again-Mr. Lowe and Mr. White-Gladstone and Disraeli-A Blunder.

Tact in "Leading "-Disraeli "sells" Mr. Adderley-Reform of Lord Cranborne-Disraeli as a Strategist.

Lord Hotham-The Israelitish Premier-Début of Mr. Jacob Bright-His Brother's Great Oration-Début of Mr. W. H. Gladstone-Glad stone. Disraeli-Lowe himself again-The Budget of '68-A Retrospect.

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Disraeli's Acting-Gladstone as Leader of the Opposition Disraeli v. Bright - Gladstone scores against Major Knox.-More Observation anent Gladstone's Leadership..

Disraeli and his Colleagues-He eulogises the Abyssinian Conquerors-He congratulates the Queen on the birth of a Princess-Historicus

The Irish Church Question-Mr. Bright in Office-Mr. Childers-Dr. Playfair-Disraeli as Jew-Mr. Lowe's Budget - Disraeli and Douse-Mr. Richard.

Sir Charles Dilke-O'Donovan Rossa DebateGladstone's Great Speech-W. E. Forster-Mr. Kavanagh Harcourt - Mr. Plunket's Début -Disraeli himself again-The War Debate.

THE EARLY CORRESPONDENCE OF HANS VON BÜLOW :
Edited by His WIFE. Selected and translated by CONSTANCE BACHE.
cloth, 16s.

With Portraits. Demy 8vo,

This volume contains the letters of Bülow's early years, ranging from the age of eleven to that of twenty-five. It gives the most graphic description of the early difficulties of the young musician, first in taking the step which decided his career, and secondly in making his way in that career when finally adopted. His long and close connection with Liszt and Wagner also comes prominently forward, to say nothing of other great, though lesser, lights in the musical and literary world, such as Joachim, Cossmann, Raff, Uhlig, Cornelius, Brendel, and many others who at that time centered around Liszt at Weimar, and with all of whom Bülow was on terms of the greatest intimacy. The most interesting feature of the work is perhaps the letters to his parents: the absolute confidence that existed between himself and his father, and, in a lesser degree and though broken for a while by his choice of a profession, between himself and his mother, gives to these an intimate and particularly naïve character all their own. The volume leaves him well launched in his career, but the difficulties he has to contend with, and the rebuffs he met with in many of his first attempts, not only form a most interesting narrative, but should also serve as a lesson and an encouragement to many another aspiring young artist.

TWO CAMPAIGNS:

Madagascar and Ashantee, 1895-6. By BENNET BURLEIGH, War Correspondent to the "Daily Telegraph." About 50 Illustrations and Map. Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 16s.

"The Madagascar section is excellent reading. This energetic war-correspondent of the Telegraph made the most of good opportunities of seeing the country, interviewing the inhabitants, investigating its prospects, and examining into the late quarrel that ended in a French Protectorate. With regard to the last, Mr. Burleigh brings a sweeping indictment against France. Besides a full record of the events that preceded the late war, and of the progress of the campaign, he gives an ample description of the physical and mental characteristics of an interesting and capable people, of the pathetic condition of the ruling family, defeated not by their own stupidity or barbarism, but because, in spite of their worth and intelligence, they had no conception of the force and resources of a European power. The book will probably send many adventurous holiday-seekers over the ground that Mr. Burleigh has shown to be worth travelling."-Bookman.

THE YEAR AFTER THE ARMADA.

And other Historical Studies. By MAJOR MARTIN A. S. HUME, Author of "The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth" (Fourth Edition). Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, Illustrated, 12s.

"In the first essay, which gives its title to the present volume, he gives a most graphic account of what he calls, appropriately enough, The Counter-Armada of 1589,' the abortive and even disastrous expedition against Spain undertaken by Drake and Norris by way of reprisals on Philip II. and for the purpose of replacing Dom Antonio on the throne of Portugal. It must have gratified even the sluggish humour of Philip to find that the endemoniada gente, which a year before had so roughly plucked the feathers of Medina Sidonia and his felecissima Armada, was destined even under the leadership of the redoubtable Drake himself to discover that no valour and no prestige can secure victory for an expedition so ill-planned, ill-equipped, and fatuously led as Major Hume shows this to have been. Drake, it is true, was not directly responsible for the doleful miscarriage of his venture. His counsels were overridden, and instead of attacking Lisbon direct from the sea, as he would have done, he was compelled to acquiesce in an expedition by land, which Norris under the influence of Dom Antonio insisted upon undertaking. From the narratives, unearthed by himself, of eye-witnesses on both sides, Major Hume tells the story in full detail and with great spirit. His style is rather too colloquial, perhaps, and sometimes not quite correct, but his matter is full of interest, and in his own way he does ample justice to it. The other papers in the volume are well worthy of companionship with the first."-The Times.

HERE AND THERE MEMORIES.

By H. R. N. Demy 8vo, cloth, 10s. 6d.

IN BOHEMIA WITH DU MAURIER.

Second Edition.

By FELIX MOSCHELES. Illustrated with 63 Original Drawings by G. DU MAURIER. Large crown 8vo, cloth, 10s. 6d.

TALKS ABOUT AUTOGRAPHS.

By GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, Editor of "Boswell's Life of Johnson." With Portraits and Facsimiles. Square 8vo, cloth, 12s.

Mr. Birkbeck Hill, the zealous "Johnsonian," is in his way a specialist in autographs; and can chat about them very pleasantly. The volume contains, moreover, a number of facsimiles, including letters from Charles Lamb, Southey, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and documentary signatures of leaders in French revolutionary movements,

RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING TRAIL.

By THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

cloth, 10s. 6d.

Illustrated by FREDERICK REMINGTON. New Edition.

Royal St,

"It not only contains a truthful account of life in a cattle ranch, but is written in an attractive style."-Field.

"Mr. Frederick Remington's drawings, both of man and beast, are at once true to nature, and admirably selected types. . . . Every line in them tells: every attitude is characteristic."

Saturday Review. By REV. EDWIN M. BLISS, Late of Constantinople; Editor of" Encyclopædia of Missions; " Assistant Editor of "The Independent." Assisted by REV. CYRUS HAMLIN, PROF. E. A. GROSVENOR, of Amherst College, and other Oriental Scholars; also several eye-witnesses of the Greatest Massacres. With an Introduction by MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD. Profusely Illustrated, Square Svo, cloth gilt, 10s, 64, A graphic and thrilling history of Turkey, the Armenians, and the events that have led up to the terrible massacres that have occurred in Armenia, with a full account of the same-so bloody and brutal in character and extent as to shock the entire Christian world.

TURKEY AND THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.

MODERN SCIENTIFIC WHIST. New Edition.

By C. D. P. HAMILTON. 1 Vol. Large crown 8vo. 600 pages; over 5,000 Pip Illustrations; 268 Diagrams, and 20 Tables. Beautifully printed in red and black, on paper specially manufactured for this book. Bound in cloth gilt, 8s. 6d. net.

This is a digest, by a practical whist-player, that will be appreciated by the beginner for its simplicity and clearness, and by the expert for its comprehensiveness. It is the most exhaustive treatise ever written on the subject of whist. The Times observes that it a'most reduces the game to an "exact science."

MY LONG LIFE. Second Edition.

By MARY COWDEN-CLARKE.

Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, with four Engravings and four Collotypes, 75, 64. "In My Long Life' (T. Fisher Unwin) Mrs. Cowden Clarke has given us a garrulous, good-hearted, and thoroughly entertaining book. Born in 1809, and married to Keats's guide, philosopher, and friend, the Daintie Davie' who first taught him to love poetry and read Spenser, she has a fund of reminiscence of all kinds upon which she draws with excellent effect."-World.

AUTHORS AND FRIENDS.

By MRS. JAMES T. FIELDS. Cloth, 7s. 6d.

The author's long friendship with the poet Longfellow led to her possession of many interesting literary souvenirs which are incorporated in these pleasant and unaffected pages. She gives interesting glimpses of Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mrs. Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Whittier, and the late Lord and Lady Tennyson. The chapter concerning Holmes contains some unpublished letters. The "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table was, it seems, a very modest man, and apologised on one occasion as follows: "I've talked too much I wanted to hear what our guest had to say." Speaking of an eating-house, he once said: "The host himself is worth seeing. He is the one good uncooked thing at his table." Tennyson, it appears, was very fond of reading poetry (his own, and others) aloud. He called Milton "the great organist of verse." "Nothing," adds Mrs. Fields, "could excel the effect of his rendering of Guinevère.'"

A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE EUROPEAN MILITARY ADVENTURES OF HINDUSTAN (1784-1803).

Compiled by HENRY COMPTON. New and cheaper edition. Map and Illustrations. (A New Volume îj the Adventure Series) Large crown 8vo, cloth, 7s. 6d.

"A strange and stirring chapter of almost forgotten history."-Times.

Much more than readable, more than interesting it is positively fascinating."-Westminster Revice

Sir Sbilling Movels.

THE GREY MAN. By S. R. CROCKETT. Uniform with “ The_Raiders.”

IN A MAN'S MIND. By JOHN REAY WATSON.

Have we here the Howells of Australia? It may be so; for the mingled subtlety and simplicity of the sophisticated colonial have been hit off in this story in quite the approved Bostonian manner, The hero is a Queenslander, and his life's romance is the subject of minute and dexterous analysis, and whether he will choose his blooming and commonplace cousin or the sensitive Brisbane shopgirl, his social inferior, is a matter of breathless interest till it is finally decided to his and the reader's satisfaction.

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