This is the authorised life of the famous journalist and publicist, friend and biographer of Ruskin, who became during the War one of the chiefs of the Press Bureau. Sir Edward Cook was in his time editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, the Westminster Gazette, and the Daily News, and Mr. Saxon Mills’ book throws much valuable light on the political and social England of the last thirty years. Contents:—Parentage and School; Oxford Days; Early Journalism; Early Days on the Pall Mall; Politics in the ’Eighties; Editor of the Pall Mall; From Pall Mall to Westminster; The Westminster Gazette; The Daily News; The South African Scene; Sale of the Daily News; As Editor and Journalist; Literary Work; The Last Task; Death and Character; The Age of Puff; Some Stories.

“Mr. Osborne has approached his difficult task with ardour and taste.”—Edmund Gosse in the Sunday Times.

“A very careful and interesting piece of work.”—W. L. Courtney in the Daily Telegraph.

“A most admirable exposition of character of singular and beautiful integrity.”—New Statesman.

“This acute and interesting book.”—Times Literary Supplement.

“All the swift criticisms and unpremeditated comments that this indefatigable diarist has recovered from her treasures make it clear that Meredith’s wit was as spontaneous as it was characteristic.”—Saturday Westminster.

“Lady Butcher deserves very hearty thanks for this little volume of her charming memories.”—Clement Shorter in The Sphere.

? 100 copies on hand-made paper, bound in white and gold and signed by the author, were also issued.

“Life is more than politics, and if we deal with a book this week it is because we have found in it an ironic and reconciling charm to make us more content with existence as it is. We are restored to the forgotten grace of letters, and Mr. Birrell has done this with that way of his own which is like no other man’s. This little quarto with the rough edges, perfect in form and texture to a book lover’s eye, written with a deep-laid negligence, makes us surer that Mr. Birrell will be remembered when more ponderous reputations have foundered.... A collector can see at a glance that the book lovers of posterity will always gather this volume like amber.... This character sketch, followed by a little masterpiece of editing applied to family letters and a book list, makes us regret the fate that lured Mr. Birrell from writing and wasted him on political clubs.... He is a cross between Dr. Johnson and Charles Lamb.”—Observer.

“Nothing that Mr. Birrell has previously written has been conceived in so happy a vein as this monograph.... A charming little quarto.”—Daily Chronicle.

“The book to delight the heart of every one who really cares for literature. Written with a manly and tender affection and with the reverence which the subject demands. The publishers have done their part admirably.”—Claudius Clear in The British Weekly.

“This fascinating autobiography.... A brilliant picture of a social epoch now completely vanished, and a record of an intellectual pilgrimage which will stand along with the few perfect examples.”—Manchester Guardian.

“These letters written from Washington and during his travels in the Pacific, in Egypt, Paris, etc., leave in their playful and tender intimacy a pleasant impression which forms a welcome memorial of the inner life of a distinguished man of letters.”—Times Literary Supplement.

Arthur Duke Coleridge, born in 1830, was the grand-nephew of the great poet, S. T. Coleridge. Educated at Eton and King’s, Cambridge, he acted for fifty-four years as an official on the Midland Circuit. He died in October 1913. Very few people have had so fine a gift for friendship as Arthur Coleridge. Few also have had the privilege of knowing so many of those who interpreted the artistic feeling of their time. He himself did much to stimulate the vogue of the best in music. His musical recollections are a delightful account of his important work towards the musical revival in England.

A memorial volume to Victoria Florence de Burgh Gibbs, C.B.E., eldest daughter of the Rt. Hon. W. H. Long, M.P., and the wife of Lieut.-Col. G. A. Gibbs, M.P. “The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers, but they rise behind her steps, not before them.”—Ruskin.

“Mr. Roscoe has collected diligently and reverently and has been able to present a picture such as we have not had before of a great judge and a constructive jurist.”—Times Literary Supplement.

“Mr. Hutton gives an excellent account of the Bishop’s career.... Of Stubbs as a historian the book can only recount the achievements, but of Stubbs as a man it gives an excellent portrait.”—AthenÆum.

It is not easy to write a critical biography of Verlaine without either patronage or pomposity. Mr. Nicolson succeeds because he treats his subject whimsically but with respect. He does not seek to excuse or to minimise the failings of Verlaine as a man, nor does he make extravagant claims of poetical genius, but he tells with genial sympathy a rather pitiful life story, and by skilful quotation enables the reader to form his own judgment of Verlaine’s work. Contents:—Youth; Marriage; Arthur Rimbaud; “Sagesse”; Middle Age; The Last Phase; Verlaine’s Literary Position.

“Dante’s latest biographer has made out a very just summary of modern opinion and research.”—New Statesman.

“Very much more than a re-translation of an old work which was previously translated very imperfectly into English a hundred years ago.... Though it bears the name of Forkel on the cover, it contains material for a history of Bach criticism from the beginning of the 19th century until the present day, and incidentally suggests directions which future research may follow.”—Times Literary Supplement.

“Of inestimable value.... Sir Home Gordon must have had an extremely difficult and laborious task, and is to be congratulated on the way in which he has accomplished it.”—Field.