JOHN LONG, LTD., PUBLISHERS, LONDON "FIRST 66 NOVELS FIRST NOVELS " than any other publisher. Many of the authors MESSRS. JOHN LONG have published more of these novels are now earning large incomes. For over fifteen years Messrs. John Long have published all the new novels of Mr. Nat Gould and have brought his sales to date up to over TWENTY MILLION copies, thus making him by far the most widely read author in the world. This could only have been achieved by the author confining himself to one publisher. Messrs. John Long have in their catalogue several other authors who have confined the sole publication of their novels to them and who are to-day in the front rank of popular authors. Below is the List of John Long's New Novels recently published and in preparation. author of "French Windows," "The Tideway," "Fernando," etc. THE KING'S PASSION. By AMY J. BAKER (Mrs. Maynard Crawford), author of "I Too Have Known," "The Snake Garden," "Moonflower," Tyrian Purple," etc. THE GATE OF TEMPTATION. By PERCY JAMES BREBNER, By CARLTON DAWE, A WIDOW'S WOOING. " By JAMES Blyth, THE SINS YE DO. By FARREN LE BRETON, author of "Inspiration," BERTHA IN THE BACKGROUND, THE BRIDE OF SHIVA. By HENRY BRUCE, author of "The Song of Surrender," " The Wonder Mist," etc. THE AMBITIONS OF JILL. author of "Ronald Lindsay," "For Faith and Navarre," "Henry of By MAY WYNNE, Navarre," etc. By HYLDA RHODES, author of "The Secret Bond," "The Unhallowed Vow," "What Snow Conceals," etc. OF FINER CLAY. THE SWEEP WINNER, By NAT GOULD. The Times, July 26, 1919, says: "If Art in any sphere in life finds a basis in the pleasing of a multit ude, then Nat Gould was an artist with few above his shoulders." AT STARTING PRICE. Morning Post, July 26, 1919, says: "He was the most widely read of all By NAT GOULD. modern story-tellers and a genius in his downright way.' Kindly note that Messrs. John Long have now at press their New Catalogue, 128 pages, demy 8vo. It embraces JOHN LONG, Ltd., Publishers, 12, 13, 14, Norris Street, Haymarket, London Telephone No.: Regent 6313. interest of the story remains literary and artistic. The author is evidently fond of gardens and roses. Merejkowski (Dmitri). THE FORERUNNER: the romance of Leonardo da Vinci. Constable [1919]. 71⁄2 in. 463 pp., 3/6 n. 891.73 The sixth impression of this translation of Merejkowski's powerful and striking romance, dealing with the life of a man who intellectually was two centuries in advance of his age, and only now is beginning to receive due appreciation for his extraordinarily wide interests and vast knowledge. *Ozaki (Yei Theodora, Madame Yukio), ed. ROMANCES OF OLD JAPAN; rendered into English from Japanese sources. Simpkin & Marshall [1919]. 10 in. 288 pp. 895 col. plates, in cardboard box, 30/ n. Some thirty pictures of Japanese artists adorn this beautifulbook, which contains eleven stories faithfully rendered by the translator of the "Japanese Fairy Book" (1903) and Warriors of Old Japan" (1909). They are stories of the past, like The Tragedy of Kesa Gozen and "Loyal even unto Death," cherished treasures of old romance, or like Ursato, or the Crow of Dawn," taken from the Gidayu or musical drama. These characteristic native idylls are charmingly translated. Riley (W.). JERRY 320 pp., 7/ n. AND BEN. Jenkins, 1920. 7 in. The two spinsters, one of whom receives a legacy of a cottage in the West Riding, are attractive women whose fortunes and daily lives it is pleasant to follow through the pages of Mr. Riley's book. The moorland scenery is ably described, but we fear that Peg, for all her culture, was weak in geology, or she could scarcely have christened the jumble of rocks in glacier." the valley a Moraine" would have been nearer Flitterkins," Tom Turnpenny, the seriousthe mark. minded Jerry, and "Gee-Gee" are all characters with whom the reader will like to become acquainted, and the story as a whole is a careful study of dalesfolk and their ways. Shaw (Frank H.). ON GREAT WATERS. Cassell [1919]. 71⁄2 in. 336 pp., 7/ n. " The British Merchant Service, to which Lord Fisher in his has recently paid a glowing tribute, is described Memories by Mr. Shaw with vigour, actuality, and skilful word-painting. The training of the sea-going apprentices; the personalities of a crew, from the skipper and mates to the ordinary seaman ; the perils and hardships, solitary watchings, and bewildering vicissitudes of weather, are admirably brought home to the reader. Tremlett (Mrs. Horace). PLATONIC PETER. Hutchinson [1919]. 71⁄2 in. 287 pp., 6/9 n. 920 BIOGRAPHY. I hear that a new order. of Knighthood is on the tapisO.M.G. (Oh! My God!)-Shower it on the Admiralty!!" King Edward's mild request, during one of the author's moments of berserker enthusiasm, "Would you kindly leave off shaking your fist in my face?" the tale of the old woman eating a penny bun in Trafalgar Square, who asked the author's friend Buggins, "What are them lions a-guarding of?" the story of the " red-haired, short, fat major, livid with rage," who complained to Fisher that a bluejacket had shoved him into a boat and said to him," Hurry up, you bloody lobster, or I'll be 'ung! the complaint of the young Grand Duchess Olga that at a picnic the gnats bit her ankles, in reply to which the Admiral telegraphed that he " wished to God" he "had been one of the gnats"; the remarks," One of the charms of the Christian religion is that the Foolish confound the Wise. The Atheists are all brainy men. Myself, I hate a brainy man," and "No one votes more for the Sermon on the Mount than I do; but I say to a blithering fool' Begone!"" -these are only a few of the bonnes bouches awaiting the reader. Lord Fisher's noble tribute to King Edward is absolutely frank, deliciously unconventional, and obviously from the heart. This, and the author's unstinted praise of "the magnificent Merchant Navy," his appreciation of Lord Kitchener, and the often repeated expressions of veneration for Nelson, are among the more serious features of an autobiography which, like most outstanding work, is both grave and gay. A review will appear. A bright and entertaining story, dealing with the dazzlingly attractive wife of a provincial mayor, who is to a susceptible brigade-major as a candle to a moth. Judy, the Mayoress, is quite a good sort," agile in skating over the thinnest of thin ice, and really fond of her husband. There is a terrible to-do," but the trouble is fleeting, and the end of the tale is quite satisfactory. Weyman (Stanley J.). THE GREAT HOUSE. Murray, 1919. 7 in. 384 pp, 7/ n. See review, p. 1153. 910 GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, ANTIQUITIES, &c. Forsyth (J.). THE HIGHLANDS OF CENTRAL INDIA: notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history, and sports. Chapman & Hall, 1919. 9 in. 400 pp. il. map, apps., 12/6 n. 915.43 A new edition of Captain Forsyth's work on sport in India. The book, which has long been out of print, and is now restored to circulation at the suggestion of the British authorities in Central India, was described by Theodore Roosevelt as the best sporting book he had read. *Koebel (W. H.). THE GREAT SOUTH LAND: the River Plate and Southern Brazil of to-day. Thornton Butterworth [1919]. 9 in. 314 pp. index, 15/ n. A recognized authority on the political, economic, and social geography of South America, Mr. Koebel has revisited the republics during the war, and is in a position to register recent changes and offer trustworthy information on present conditions, especially the prospects for British enterprise A map would have been helpful to the reader. 918 940.9 THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR. Coldicott (Rowlands). LONDON MEN IN PALESTINE; and how they marched to Jerusalem. Arnold, 1919. 9 in. 243 pp. il. maps, 12/6 n. 940.9 In vivid word-painting of the desert cities of Philistia; in a journal of marches over the bare and trackless plains," bivouacs, sedentary fighting, and battles of manoeuvre-in prose often more lyrical than the snatches of verse with which the narrative is interspersed-Capt. Coldicott pours out the impressions of a Londoner in the movements that ended in the capture of Jerusalem, at which he was wounded. His book is a good description of war from the individual soldier's point of view. The two sketch-maps are the work of Sergt. G. S. White, and some of the photographs are excellent. ¶ It is a motor carriage of high efficiency, stately appearance, ample ¶ Maintenance costs are small. Three years free inspection. ¶ The low price at which it is sold is made possible by its simple PRICE of CHASSIS Disc Wheels and one Spare Rim; four 820 x 135 £1,000 £720 ་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་ས་་་ I F we are to avoid national bankruptcy we must economise; that is imperative. We must at the same time build 500,000 new houses; this is equally imperative. The art of economy does not merely consist in avoiding expenditure, it consists in discriminating between productive and non-productive expenditure and in avoiding waste. By exercising forethought we can, whilst increasing the comfort of the houses we so urgently need, save £30 in building costs on each house erected. This means on the 500,000 houses a saving of £15,000,000 of public money. Instal from the outset gas fires which require only a small flue in the wall in place of the chimney, and avoid waste in the floor space of each room occupied by the unnecessary projecting chimney breasts of the coal fire chimney, waste of bricks and mortar and in the erection of unnecessary, ugly chimney stacks, waste in the use of coal and waste of energy in the labour of cleaning chimney flues and coal grates and porterage of coal. For further information apply to the Secretary--- THE POEMS OF WILFRID WILSON GIBSON & & No. II. of The Westminster Classics consists of a collection of twenty-three of the Poems of WILFRID WILSON GIBSON the special merits of which have been widely recognised by the Press. The Nation says of them :-"The main thing about these poems is just that they are extraordinary poems; by means of their psychology, no less and no more than by means of their metre, their rhyme, their intellectual form and their concrete imagery, they pierce us with flashing understanding of what war is and means not merely what it is to these individual pieces of ordinary human nature who are injured by it and who yet dominate it, but, by evident implication what war is in itself, as a grisly multitudinous whole. It seems to us beyond question that Mr. Gibson's Battle' is one of the most remarkable results the war has had in literature." Printed for the Proprietors of THE ATHEN ÆUM by POLSUE, LTD., 15 and 16, Gough Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C., and Published by THE ATHENÆUM PUBLISHING CO., LTD., at their Offices, 10, Adelphi Terrace, W.C.2. |