‘The most fastidious of lovers will find something to please him in this industrious collection of passages of verse—a maiden of a different name being the chosen subject of each of them.’—Times.

‘Made with excellent taste and most attractively produced.’—The Lady.

‘This dainty volume is full of good things. The selection is one of the best I have ever seen.’ —C.K. S. in the Sphere.

‘The volume is proof indisputable of a widespread intellectual and poetic vitality amongst our contemporaries of the sweeter sex.’—Yorkshire Observer.

‘Most of the contents show a pure and modest poetic purpose; and the whole helps one to realise that much good verse is being written in quietness by people who write it for its own sake.’—Times.

‘It is not possible to cite all the “variety verging on quaintness” represented in this interesting little book, which may be commended to the notice of all interested in poetry.’—Daily Telegraph.

‘A poem of high endeavour and sustained accomplishment.’—T. P.’s Weekly.

A Policy towards Cats—The State and the Cat—On the Purring of Cats—The Black Cat and Christopher Wren.

On a Great Novel—On Burns and Bacchanalian Verse—The Country House—The Truth of Midnight.

‘Chopin Villa’—The Spell of Old Music—On Handel’s Largo—The Sea in Music—Of Fauns and Oboes.

The Decay of Melodrama—Micromania—Little Jim—The Okapi and the Financier—Inspiration of Grandfathers—The Goatherds—The Sport of War—An Indian Saint—On Waterproof Skins—Confessions of a Juror—On Faddists—On Great Families—A Remonstrance with Moralists—On Cycling in London—The Modern Peep-show.

Osman Digna—Doolie’s Traitor—The Sultan’s Birthday—A Book of Martyrs—The Lady of the Bridge—A Levantine Messiah.

The Literature of the People—Dicta of the Poor—More Dicta of the Poor—Village Theology—The Labourer’s Listlessness—The Humours of Parish Visiting—Thrift on Fifteen Shillings a Week—A Goodly Heritage—Professor Jack’s ‘Mad Shepherd’s’—A Sunday Dinner Table.

The Christian Lore of Angels—The Devil in Christian Legend and Tradition—Judas in Legend and Folk-lore—Spiders in Legend and Folk-lore—Birds in Christian Legend and Symbol—The Christian Tradition in Shakespeare—Christian Dogma and Folk-lore—Christian Popular Poetry—Easter Traditions—On the Ox and the Ass of the Nativity—A Green Heaven—On Nursery Rhymes.

Some Old-fashioned Phrases—On Victorian English—The Destruction of Dialect—On Proverbs—The Names of the Days of the Week—On the Names of Flowers—Beautiful Words.

Catholicism and Happiness—Life Living Creatures—Christian and Romantic—On Pan-cakes and Pan-pipes—Christmas Beer in Workhouses—Arts and Mysteries.

‘Whether he gossips of beautiful words, or the names of flowers, or old-fashioned phrases, or Catholicism and happiness, or the ox and the ass of the Nativity, or birds in Christian legend and symbol, or thrift on 15s. per week, he gives one the impression of a real good sort; a parson who is also a scholar. Men are scarce; and so are good books. Here is a good book by a man.’—Sunday Chronicle.

The Lost Art of Conversation—Co-Partnership in Nature—The Population Question among Books—The Compensations of Stupidity—A Go as-you-please Philosophy—A Plea for Controversy—A Puritan Document—The Grip of the Specialist—The Confession of Mr Wells—To the Memory of Thomas Paine—The Case of Samuel Butler.

The Woman of the Future—The Sex War—The Alarm of Motherhood—The Business of Marriage.

The Genius of Lincoln—The Autocrat—A Critic of America—The American Woman—The Spirit of American Humour—Is America Heading for Aristocracy?—The Romance of America—The Boom-Child.

The Church for the People—An Anglican Bishop—The Faith of Free Thought—The Churches and the Social Soul.

The Sovranty of Society—The Wild Man—Agitation—The Game of Efficiency—The Politician’s Soul—Our Lost Romance—The Two Englands—The Sacred Rage of the People.

‘On politics in general Mr Hobson says many acute and true things.’—Spectator.

‘Mr J. A. Hobson is one of those fortunate men whose names at once suggest a quality.’—The Bookman.

‘A volume full of keen perception and ripe thought.’—Inquirer.

‘Virginia Garland was a woman of indomitable spirit and fine sensibility, one of the best realised and the best worth realising characters in modern fiction—a sensitive spring of finely polished steel might describe her roughly—but she cannot be fully known save in Mr Gibbs’ full-length portrait of her.…’—Morning Post.

‘It is a very unusual pleasure to take up an anonymous novel and to find in it interest beyond the common, and a skill in psychological analysis approaching genius.’—Observer.

‘It is a capital canvas—a very Sargent—of one of those doubtful women moving in society.’—Manchester Guardian.

‘It is quite excellent. Zoe is wonderfully pretty and attractive; she is also selfish, sensuous, and designing—just the sort of spider that plays havoc with the heart of the poor male butterfly.’—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

‘A book of absorbing interest. At the first assault she has carried the difficult citadel of literary achievement and has planted thereon her distinctive flag.’—Tablet.

‘Five stories instinct with mystic charm, with grace, beauty and reverence. They are told by the tall, emaciated, suffering Hermit, and they seem to bring the three worlds—the Past, the Present, and the Future—very simply, clearly, naturally and beautifully close to one another and to us. It is a little book to stir thought, to give comfort and to win affection.’—The Bookman.

‘Stories which are all poems in prose, beautifully conceived and carefully executed. Lafcadio Hearn would have welcomed these ardent studies of exotic romance.’—Morning Post.

‘If the book is taken calmly and deliberately as a whole, all the confidences, flattering and unflattering, estimated in due proportion, it will prove of exceptional value and interest. No such collection of human documents and data about the Salvation Army has ever before been presented to the friendly and unfriendly public.’—Daily Chronicle.

‘Almost an autobiography. Done with discretion, although the candours of the narrative are not the least of its conspicuous merits.’—AthenÆum.

‘A piece of genuine and permanent literature, warmhearted and communicative.’—Daily Telegraph.

‘From a literary point of view, the best biography we have read for years.’—British Weekly.

‘There is something enigmatic in the extraordinary, personality, which is newly and effectively studied in this volume, a volume which few people will read without having their mental portrait of Talleyrand softened and humanised.’—Daily Telegraph.

The practically unknown story of the Benedictine Pioneers in Australia forms an important chapter in Colonial history. Dom Norbert Birt has spent several years in the study of the documents bearing on the subject, and his work is both a valuable piece of research and a vivid description of the romantic adventures of the first missionaries in the Southern Hemisphere.

On ancient and modern authority the author claims that the little-known island is one of the loveliest spots of Greece, and supports her claim with enthusiastic pen and a choice of dainty water-colours.

‘The water-colour drawings are highly accomplished, full of light and colour, and so indeed is her text.’—The Times.

‘A very attractively got-up work.’—Westminster Gazette.

‘It is a joy to handle this truly lovely volume, which all lovers of childhood should possess.’—The Child.

The general reader and the busy man who can spare but little time to devote to books will find in these carefully chosen volumes of extracts useful Introductions to Authors of perennial interest. Both the selections and the Introduction have been entrusted to writers who can speak with the authority of full knowledge on their subjects.

By Alice Meynell. With Introduction by G. K. Chesterton

By Edward Storer

By Sheila Kaye-Smith

By E. Hallam Moorhouse

By A. W. Evans

By Thomas Seccombe

By C. A. Chadwick

By Roger Ingpen

By Edward Storer

By Daniel O’Connor [In preparation

By Wilfrid Meynell [In preparation