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39- ARCHITECTURE
By Prof. W. R. Lethaby. (Over forty Illustrations.) “ Popular guide-books
to architecture are, as a rule, not worth much. This volume is a welcome excep
tion.”—Building News. “ Delightfully bright reading. ”—Christian World.
43- ENGLISH LITERATURE: MEDIÆVAL
By Prof. W. P. Ker, M.A. ‘‘Prof. Ker has long proved his worth as one of
the soundest scholars in English we have, and he is the very man to put an
outline of English Mediaeval Literature before the uninstructed public. His
knowledge and taste are unimpeachable, and his style is effective, simple, yet
never dry.”—The Athenäum.
45- THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
By L. Pearsall Smith, M.A. “A wholly fascinating study of the different
streams that went to the making of the great river of the English speech.”—
Daily News.
52. GREAT WRITERS OF AMERICA
By Prof. J. Erskine and Prof. W. P. Trent. A popular sketch by two
foremost authorities.
In Preparation
ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL. By Miss Jane Harrison, LL.D.,
D.Litt.
GREEK LITERA TURE. By Prof. Gilbert Murray, D.Litt.
LA TIN LITERA TURE. By Prof. J. S. Phillimore.
CHA UCF.R A ND HIS TIME. By Miss G. E. Hadow.
THE RENAISSANCE. By Mrs R. A. Taylor.
ITALIAN ART OF THE RENAISSANCE. By Roger E. Fry, M.A.
THE ART OF PAINTING. By Sir Frederick Wedmore.
DR JOHNSON AND HIS CIRCLE. By John Bailey, M.A.
THE VICTORIAN AGE. By G. K. Chesterton.
ENGLISH COMPOSITION. By Prof. Wm. T. Brewster.
GREA T WRITERS OF RUSSIA. By C. T. Hagberg Wright, LL.D.
THE LITERATURE OF GERMANY. By Prof. J. G. Robertson.
M.A., Ph.D.
SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE. By T. C.
Snow, M.A.
7. MODERN GEOGRAPHY
By Dr Marion Newbigin. (Illustrated.) “ Geography, again : what a dull,
tedious study that was wont to be ! . . . But Miss Marion Newbigin invests its
dry bones with the flesh and blood of romantic interest, taking stock of
geography as a fairy-book of science.”—Daily Telegraph.
9 . THE EVOLUTION OF PLANTS
By Dr I). H. Scott, M.A., F. R.S., late Hon. Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory,
Kew. (Fully illustrated.) “The information which the book provides is as
trustworthy as first-hand knowledge can make it. . . . Dr Scott’s candid and
familiar style makes the difficult subject both fascinating and easy.”—
Gardeners’ Chronicle.
17. HEALTH AND DISEASE
By W. Leslie Mackenzie, M.D., Local Government Board, Edinburgh.
“ The science of public health administration has had no abler or more attractive
exponent than Dr Mackenzie. He adds to a thorough grasp of the problems
an illuminating style, and an arresting manner of treating a subject often
dull and sometimes unsavoury.”—Economist.