# The Waning of the Middle Ages/Advertisements

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THE YEARS OF MY PILGRIMAGE. By the Right Hon. Sir JOHN ROSS, Bart., last Lord Chancellor of Ireland. One Volume. Demy 8 vo. With Portrait. 18 s. net.
LIFE OF JOHN WILLIAM STRUTT, THIRD BARON RAYLEIGH, O. M. Sometime President of the Royal Society and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. By his Son, ROBERT JOHN STRUTT, FOURTH BARON RAYLEIGH, F. R. S. Late Fellow or Trinity College, Cambridge. One Volume. Demy 8 vo. With Portraits. 25 s. net.
In writing this book, Lord Rayleigh’s aim has been not so much to give an account of his father’s scientific work as to depict him as a man. The narrative would, however, be without substance if his scientific career was not made its guiding thread. In the selection of topics, it was clearly impossible to refer to more than a small fraction of the papers in the six large volumes of his collected writings. The topics have been chosen for their comparative simplicity and for their bearing on the external circumstances of his life. Many investigations of epoch-making importance have necessarily been left unnoticed. But it is hoped that some others have been brought within the reach of readers who would be repelled by the severely technical form of the original account.
Lord Rayleigh’s friends included the most eminent men of his day in the spheres that appealed to him: among those who figure in these pages are Dr. Routh, Charles Darwin, Clerk Maxwell, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, Lord Balfour, Lord Kelvin, Mrs. Sidgwick, Joseph Chamberlain, Sir J. J. Thomson, Sir J. Larmor and many others. In his later years Lord Rayleigh amused himself by making a collection of humorous stories and anecdotes, and though some of them may be familiar, it has been thought worth while reprinting the collection in an Appendix.
MEMORIES OF A MILITANT. By ANNIE KENNEY. One Volume. Demy 8 vo. With Illustrations. 16 s. net.
The reader will not get far into this volume without falling in love with Miss Annie Kenney, however strongly opposed he may have been to the Suffragette campaign. The fight is over and the angry passions roused by it have subsided, so that in a calmer atmosphere we can admire the courage, resourcefulness, and devotion to their cause of women who like Miss Kenney were ready to sacrifice everything for a principle. She and her friends possessed the qualities of which martyrs are made, and though we may laugh at the humours of the struggle, actual tragedy was never far off. Fearsome and terrible indeed to the feminine nature must have been the hostile crowds, the certain prospect of rough handling, of arrest, prosecution, imprisonment, and forcible feeding. The protagonists were no viragoes, but well-educated women from happy and comfortable homes, to whom the mere thought of making themselves conspicuous would in ordinary life have been abhorrent. Miss Kenney herself is evidently one of the kindliest folk, though her zeal knew no bounds. Probably she seemed to her opponents a dangerous fanatic, but she reveals herself in this book a true woman, tender-hearted, sympathetic, cheerful, and gaily humorous whatever happens. Her devotion to the other leaders of the Movement was unbounded, and it is interesting to read her affectionate tribute to ladies whose very names were anathema to the other side during the heat of the fray. Interesting too are the interviews she reports with statesmen of the day—Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Balfour, and Mr. Asquith—whose methods of dealing with very perplexing and novel situations differed widely.
HUIA ONSLOW. A Memoir by MURIEL ONSLOW. One Volume. Demy 8 vo. With Portraits. Price 12 s. 6 d. net.
FROM CHINA TO HKAMTI LONG. By Captain F. KINGDON WARD, F. R. G. S. Author of “The Romance of Plant Hunting,” “The Mystery Rivers of Tibet,” etc. One Volume. Demy 8 vo. With Illustrations and Map. 18 s. net.
Captain Kingdon Ward has already made a reputation as one of the most intrepid explorers of the difficult and little-known country on the marches of Burma, China, and Tibet. The important journey described in this volume gives the reader an insight into the changes—physical, climatic, and botanical—which take place as the traveller passes westwards from the Yangtze across that narrow strip of earth’s crust where the great rivers of South-East Asia escape from Tibet, and where jungle hides the head-waters of the mighty Irrawaddy. Captain Ward’s primary object was to discover new plants, but to reach the wild districts which are his hunting-ground is no light task. Even to reach the city of Likiang in the heart of Asia involves a formidable journey, for there is no “Magic Carpet” to transport one thither. A glance at the Map which accompanies the book shows how formidable were the obstacles he had afterwards to surmount, at one moment bathed in tropical heat in the river valleys, at another well-nigh frozen on mountain ridges, 16,000 feet above sea-level. Of great interest, apart from the difficulties of travel, are his accounts of the inhabitants and their manners and customs. Captain Ward possesses striking descriptive gifts and an admirable style: he has the philosophy of a man who has spent much of his life in the vast open spaces of the world; above all, he has the spirit of adventure.
ADVENTURES OF CARL RYDELL. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEAFARING MAN. Edited by ELMER GREEN. One Volume. Demy 8 vo. With Illustrations and Map. 18 s. net.
This is a thrilling tale of adventure by a sailor of the old school, in various parts of the world. Carl Rydell is a Swede who began his remarkable career in the Swedish Navy. But being of an unruly disposition he soon got into trouble with the authorities, worked his way out to America and had a chequered career for many years, finally coming to anchor as Superintendent of the Nautical School in the Philippine Islands. “I am not proud of some of my doings,” he says, “but I have told the bad along with the good;” and as few men can have seen more of the seamy side of a sailor’s life, his narrative is extraordinarily interesting. In 1888 Rydell found himself in San Francisco, and it was on the Pacific coast that most of the following years were spent. That was the exciting period of the gold rush to Alaska, the period of sea-otter hunting and fur-seal “piracy,” when bold men defied the law at the risk of their lives and were ready to suffer incredible hardships in their lust for gold. Many curious characters, the flotsam and jetsam of civilization, figure in these pages, and the whole book is one of those rare human documents which a seafaring life occasionally creates for the enjoyment of the stay-at-home reader.
A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE HIGHLANDS. By OSGOOD MACKENZIE. New and Cheaper Edition: Cr. 8 vo. Illustrated. 7 s. 6 d. net.
The late Mr. Osgood Mackenzie’s delightful collection of Highland lore and memories, including those of his uncle, Dr. John Mackenzie, has passed through several editions in its original form, and has been acclaimed as worthy to rank with such classics as Scrope, St. John,and Colquhoun. This new and cheaper edition will undoubtedly be warmly welcomed by a large circle of readers for whom the price of the original work was somewhat high and will enable the possessor of the smallest library to add to it a work of the highest interest. “To all those,” said The Times, “who reverence ancient customs and lore of the West Coast Highlands, this book will be a real delight.” All forms of Highland sport are familiar to him, and he possesses a keen and kindly sense of humour, which gives rise to many a well-told anecdote and permeates the whole book.
JORROCKS’S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES.
By R. S. SURTEES, Author of “Handley Cross,” “Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour,” etc. With 15 Coloured Plates after H. Alken. Crown 4 to. 21 s. net.
Robert Smith Surtees, the greatest hunting novelist of all time, whose biography has just been published sixty years after his death, has only recently begun to receive his due from the literary critics. Yet he is the man whose gift Thackeray once said he envied more than that of any man. And no wonder he did—for Surtees is the Dickens of the hunting field, and many of his odd characters are more alive to-day than most of our flesh-and-blood acquaintances. Surtees is a national treasure, for he is one of the most peculiarly English writers of the last century. His pages are crowded with delightfully drawn types, and of them all none is more beloved than the immortal John Jorrocks. It was the success of “Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities,” according to Mr. Thomas Seccombe in the Dictionary of National Biography, which led to the conception of a similar scheme which resulted in “The Pickwick Papers.”
“To be taken before ‘Handley Cross’” is the author’s recommendation in his preface to the second edition of this jolly book, in which are recorded the “eccentric and extravagant” exploits of Surtees’ greatest character. And those people who have not already made the famous grocer-sportsman’s acquaintance will do well to follow it and read of the earlier doings of the M. F. H. of Handley Cross. Those who are already devotees of this delectable story-teller will need no recommendation, beyond the fact that they have here for a reasonable price a handsome reproduction, including Alken’s famous coloured plates, of a work which in its earlier editions costs from fifty to a hundred pounds, according to the state of the copy purchased.
UNSCIENTIFIC ESSAYS. By F. WOOD JONES, M. B., D. Sc. Elder Professor of Anatomy in the University of Adelaide. Author of “Arboreal Man,” etc. One Volume. Crown 8 vo. 6 s. net.
Professor Wood Jones is one of those men whose scientific attainments are combined with the possession of a charming literary style, and who, like Huxley, Drummond, and Fabre, have the art of writing round science in a way that the public can understand and enjoy. The pages of this volume are the products of his idle moments, some of them passed in London, some in Australia, and some upon a Coral Island in the Indian Ocean. The short essays have fascinating titles. Who would not envy the author his acquaintance with Fire-flies, with the Sea Serpent, with Wer Tigers? The first chapter on “Marvels” strikes the keynote of much that follows. Such essays as those on Evil Spirits, Moon-gazing, the Crab’s Secret, Oily Patches, Sights and Scents, show how varied and uncommon is the menu presented to us. In others, less intriguing headings such as Coco-nuts, Seals and Sea Birds, Coral Islands and Clay Pans serve as pegs on which to hang a wealth of original thought and suggestion. And all through the book runs a strong vein of sentiment and romance which adds to the subtle spell the author weaves for our enchantment.
ANTIQUES: THEIR RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION. By A. LUCAS, F. I. C., Chemist in the Department of Antiquities, Cairo. Crown 8 vo. 6 s. net.
ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE CHAUCER. By P. G. THOMAS, M. A., Reader in English Language and Literature in the University of London. One Volume. Demy 8 vo. 8 s. 6 d. net.
The time has gone by in which it was possible to speak of Chaucer “the Father of English poetry.” He will always remain one of its greatest masters, but investigation into the sources of English literature has brought to light materials many centuries older, and these not merely of antiquarian interest, but evidently the products of an advanced civilization.
In this book the author has set himself the task of giving within moderate compass and without excessive detail a reasoned serial recital of the examples we possess of Old and Middle English literature, and an illuminating exposition of their value and characteristics, both linguistic and literary, thus bringing into clear perspective the development of the various forms which served as the prototypes for later work.
Not only will the book prove a useful introduction to the student preparatory to a more detailed study of individual texts, but the reader whose literary interests are more general, and to whom this period has been perhaps a terra incognita, will find much to attract him in the early examples of English epic poetry, romance, lyric, satire, and the short story, with whose later manifestations he is familiar.
TRAGEDY. By W. MACNEILE DIXON, Ll. B., Litt. D. Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow. Crown 8 vo. Probable price, 6 s. net.
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MUCH DELUSION. By GERTRUDE SPINNY, Author of “The Painted Castle.” Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.
Miss Spinny’s first novel, “The Painted Castle,” won golden opinions from discerning critics who were quick to recognize qualities revealing unusual promise. In her new novel, the author has chosen a less difficult subject and one that will appeal more directly to the experience of the reader. The story is lightly and amusingly told while developing a situation that becomes increasingly exciting. It begins quietly with the appearance of a stranger, Andrew Redman, who takes a furnished cottage in Sussex to recover from a nervous breakdown. He becomes acquainted with his neighbours, in particular with the Vicar, who is morbidly interested in Spiritualism, and with Miss Charlotte Masters, who lives there with her grandparents. Charlotte is regarded by the Vicar as a promising medium, and by Redman with eyes of love. Gradually the reader perceives that Redman is living under an assumed name, and learns that his breakdown was caused by circumstances not unconnected with the Vicar’s mental disturbance. Redman’s identity, when revealed, adds to the difficulty of his winning Charlotte. But a more terrible obstacle arises through the menacing attitude of the Vicar, whose delusions rapidly develop into mania and bring about a catastrophe in which Charlotte barely escapes a horrible death. The story is carefully constructed and interesting from start to finish.
THE PAPER MOON. By L. C. HOBART, Author of “The Silken Scarf.” Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.
Miss Hobart’s second novel is in every way stronger and more interesting than her first. The plot is well constructed and developed with much emotional power. She has the gift of bringing her characters and their setting vividly before the reader, and communicates the strong sympathy and antipathy she herself feels for them.
The book opens amid idyllic surroundings on Dartmoor, but the scene soon shifts to a certain house in Chelsea, in outward appearance not different from its neighbours, but pregnant with some strange uncanny influence, some dimly apprehended evil lurking in the background, waiting for the moment of consummation. This malign atmosphere, the tense expectancy, the breathless suspense, Miss Hobart renders most vividly.
The inhabitants of the house are Jonathan Fane and his son Greville; from them also there seems to emanate a mysterious suggestion of hidden evil, of menace that may become reality. Greville is the villain of the story: he is a man who exercises irresistible fascination over the opposite sex, and first April Arless, then Rachel Strangways fall victims to his Mephistophelean attractions. In strong contrast with Greville is his cousin, Jake Fane, who is also in love with Rachel, and the characters of these two men typify the forces of good and evil which contend for mastery throughout the book.
THE BIRTHMARK. By ALAN SULLIVAN. Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.
To Molding-on-the-Ooze, in “the lowest, flattest and dampest section of the Midlands,” the seat of Henry Hardinger, Esq., come Colonel and Mrs. Bostwick, desiring its owner as a husband for their daughter Grace. Henry (who looks on life “as something between a polo match and a satiric comedy”) has no money: the Colonel has no money: each is ignorant of the other’s want: each sees in Grace a solution of his difficulty. Every one takes a hand in the game of deceits, and as all concerned are both deceivers and deceived, the complications and the fun can be imagined.
​Mr. Sullivan is never at a loss: he “keeps the ball rolling” merrily. Unhesitatingly he puts his finger on the laughter-feeding qualities in every one and every thing. He mocks, but it is with a kindly mockery that adds zest to life.
SMITE THE ROCK. By OSWALD H. DAVIS, Author of “Soft Goods.” Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.
All readers of Mr. Davis’s brilliant first novel must have looked forward with eager interest to a second book from his pen. They will not be disappointed.
“Smite the Rock” is, like “Soft Goods,” a chronicle of the great Midland city of Ardencester, and is marked by the same sincerity and fineness of detail that distinguished the earlier book. Life in a provincial city: the niceties of its class distinctions: its “high teas:” its chapel “socials:” the ugliness of its industrialism, are described with a vividness that is almost uncanny.
Against these pettinesses of existence: these social differentiations: the drabness of the workers’ lives: the things that “always have been and always will be,” Frank Calder rebelled. The son of an employer and a capitalist, he ranges himself on the side of Labour, only to find his idealism shaken by contact with the individual representatives of the class he champions, and by the brute force of the mass. But the ideal of service, the purity of his conception, the instinct to fight for an idea, survive, and the book ends on a note of high hopefulness.
Mr. Davis’s subject is a fascinating one—the gradual development of a young man’s character, his aspirations, his temptations—and he has handled it with masterly skill.
A QUEST FOR A FORTUNE. By PHILIPPA TYLER. Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.
THE MIND OF MARK. By H. HERMAN CHILTON. Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.
As Mark’s wealth had increased, so had his self-confidence and dominance. Once resolved on a course of action, he bends his Board of Directors to his will. When a strike occurs, he thinks to dominate his workpeople in like manner. But they are of less pliant material, and in the uproar Mark receives an injury to his head which brings on a long illness.
For the first time in his life, he becomes an onlooker: he has leisure to think, and begins to readjust his values, to see that there is such a thing as compromise.
But this new Mark Rawson is incomprehensible to his colleagues and—with the exception of his daughter Amy—to his family: ​he loses the support of the one and the sympathy of the other.
YOUNG MRS. CRUSE. By VIOLA MEYNELL, Author of “Columbine,” “Second Marriage,” etc. Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.
The seven stories which go to make up this volume will serve to increase the author’s already well-established reputation. “The Letter,” “We were saying…,” and the story which gives its title to the book are perhaps especially noteworthy, but each in its own way is a model of what such stories should be. All is here; the imaginative outlook; the portrayal of situation, atmosphere, character with a few well-placed touches; the swiftly moving development of the theme; and, not least, the sting in the tail.
A PASSAGE TO INDIA. By E. M. FORSTER, Author of “Howards End,” etc. 7 s. 6 d. net.
⁂ Also a Collector’s Large Paper Edition, limited to 200 copies, each copy signed by the Author, printed on Hand-made paper. Demy 8 vo., price £2 2 s. net.
“It is an ironic tragedy, but also a brilliant comedy of manners, and a delightful entertainment. Its passages of humour or beauty might, quoted, fill several columns.”
“‘A Passage to India’ is a delicious and terrible book….”
“‘A Passage to India’ is a disturbing, uncomfortable book. Its surface is so delicately and finely wrought that it pricks us at a thousand points…. The humour, irony, and satire that awake the attention and delight the mind on every page all leave their sting.”
Uniform Edition of Mr. E. M. Forster's Earlier Works. A new uniform edition can now be obtained of the following books. Bound in cloth, 5 s. net per volume.
A ROOM WITH A VIEW.
“Mr. Forster’s new novel clearly admits him to the limited class of writers who stand above and apart from the manufacturers of contemporary fiction.”—Spectator.
“It is packed with wonderful impressions and radiant sayings.”—Evening Standard.
“We have originality and observation, and a book as clever as the other books that Mr. Forster has written already.”—Times.
THE LONGEST JOURNEY.
“This novel is a very remarkable and distinguished piece of work. Its abundant cleverness fills even the more strenuous passages with vivacity. The strength of the book consists in its implicit indictment of the mean, conventional, self-deceitful insincerity of so much of modern English educated, middle-class life. This is certainly one of the cleverest and most original books that have appeared from a new writer since George Meredith first took the literary critics into his confidence.”—Daily Telegraph.
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD.
“A remarkable book. Not often has the reviewer to welcome a new writer and a new novel so directly conveying the impression of power and an easy mastery of material. Here there are qualities of style and thought which awaken a sense of satisfaction and delight; a taste in the selection of words; a keen insight into the humour (and not merely the humours) of life; and a challenge to its accepted courses. It is told with a deftness, a lightness, a grace of touch, and a radiant atmosphere of humour which mark a strength and capacity giving large promise for the future.”—Daily News.
HOWARDS END. Crown 8 vo. 6 s. net. A few copies still obtainable.
“There is no doubt about it whatever. Mr. E. M. Forster is one of the great novelists. All will agree as to the value of the book, as to its absorbing interest, the art and power with which it is put together, and they will feel with us that it is a book quite out of the common by a writer who is one of our assets, and is likely to be one of our glories.”—Daily Telegraph.
MAN AND MYSTERY IN ASIA. By FERDINAND OSSENDOWSKI, Officier d’Académie Française; Author of “Beasts, Men and Gods.” With Map. Demy 8 vo. Third Impression. 14 s. net.
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THE ROMANCE OF PLANT HUNTING. By Captain F. KINGDON WARD, Author of “The Land of the Blue Poppy,” etc. With Illustrations and Map. Demy 8 vo. 12 s. 6 d. net.
Mr. Horace Hutchinson in The Queen.—“It is a book to be much commended to the expert and to the general reader alike.”
THE LAND OF THE SUN (QUEENSLAND). By E. J. BRADY, Author of “Australia Unlimited,” “The King’s Caravan,” etc. With Illustrations and Map. Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.
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LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN PEACE AND WAR. By Major-General Sir ELLIOTT WOOD, K. C. B. One Volume. With Portrait. Demy 8 vo. 16 s. net.
THE ASSAULT ON MOUNT EVEREST. By Brig.-General the Hon. C. G. BRUCE, And other Members of the Mount Everest Expedition. With 33 Full-page Illustrations and 2 Maps. Med. 8 vo. 25 s. net.
THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES: A STUDY OF THE FORMS OF LIFE, THOUGHT AND ART IN FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES. By J. HUIZINGA, Professor in the University of Leiden. With Illustrations. Demy 8 vo. 16 s. net.
“This thoughtful and well-ordered book, full of strange facts and shrewd comment, deserves careful study. The illustrations are delightful, and have evidently been selected with great care and judgment.”—Times Literary Supplement.
THE DISINHERITED FAMILY: A PLEA FOR FAMILY ENDOWMENT. By ELEANOR F. RATHBONE, M. A., J. P., C. C., Author of “How the Casual Labourer Lives,” etc. Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.
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SUNSHINE AND OPEN AIR: THEIR INFLUENCE ON HEALTH, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ALPINE CLIMATE. By LEONARD HILL, M. B., F. R. S., Director, Department of Applied Physiology, National Institue of Medical Research. Illustrated. Demy 8 vo. 10 s. 6 d. net.
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CRIME AND INSANITY. By W. C. SULLIVAN, M. D., Medical Superintendent, State Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Broadmoor. One Volume. Demy 8 vo. 12 s. 6 d. net.
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