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drick (Gale). Monastic Seals of the XIIIth Century. A Series of examples, illustrating the Nature of their Design and Artistic Value. 4to., pp. ix, 144, with 50 plates; half vellum, gilt top

1902

rter (Robert P.). Industrial Cuba. Being a Study of Present Commercial and Industrial Conditions, with Suggestions as to the Opportunities presented in the Island for American Capital, Enterprise, and Labour. 8vo., pp. xi, 428, with maps and 62 illustrations; cloth

1899

This work is indispensable to those who are planning to take a practical part in the industrial reconstruction of Cuba, and also to all who desire to secure accurate and authoritative information concerning the economic and political condition of the island.

Mr. Porter has not based his conclusions upon his own observation alone. He has marshalled the facts, but back of the volume are the testimony and statements of over five hundred persons interested in the welfare of Cuba, and thoroughly versed in some branch of commercial, manufacturing, or agricultural interest.

The political future of Cuba is discussed, and the various views entertained by those capable of judging are carefully considered. In the important work of municipal reconstruction and sanitary reform, the author had the benefit of Colonel Waring's admirable report, and also of reports by E. Sherman Gould and Ricardo Narganes, and others.

As the United States Special Commissioner, Mr. Porter had charge of the fiscal problem relating to the starting of the new government of Cuba. The chapters on banks and currency, the Cuban debt, revenue and expenditures, and the amended tariff and internal taxation, may be regarded as official, and present the best exposition of the fiscal condition of the island that has yet been published in connected form. In addition to the foregoing, the work presents the latest statistics concerning transportation and navagation, and also concerning the industries of Cuba, such as sugar, tobacco, mines and mining, agriculture and stock, timber and fruit.

Mr. Porter is well known as an authority on economic subjects. He has been in active journalism for more than a quarter of a century, and is the author of several works. In 1880, Gen. Francis A. Walker invited him to make a report for the Tenth Census on the wealth, debt, and taxation of the United States and on transportation. In 1882, President Arthur appointed him a member of the tariff commission, and in 1889 he was called by President Harrison to take charge of the Eleventh United States Census.

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Randau (Paul.). Enamels and Enamelling. An Introduction to the Preparation and Application of all Kinds of Enamels for Technical and Artistic Purposes, for Enamel Makers, Workers in Gold and Silver and Manufacturers of Objects of Art. Translated from the German by Charles Salter. 8vo., pp. viii, 188, with 16 illustrations; cloth

1900

Schelling (Felix E.). The English Chronicle Play. A Study in the Popular Historical Literature environing Shakespeare. Post 8vo., 1p. xi, 310; cloth, gilt top

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"In the following pages an attempt has been made to tell the history of one of the many and various strands which, twisted and interwoven, form the brilliant and heterogeneous Elizabethan Drama."-Preface.

Sheppard (Edgar). The Old Royal Palace of Whitehall. 8vo., pp. xviii, 415, with 6 photogravure plates and 33 other illustrations; cloth, gilt top

1902

"The old Palace of Whitehall has great claims to public interest, both by reason of its antiquity and of its historical associations, to say nothing of its intimate connection with the lives of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns, and the dramatic events of which it was the scene. It is a curious fact that that story-so far as I am aware— has never been written in full and continuous detail.

"It has been my aim to supply such a narrative, and to give, as far as possible, a complete record of this old Palace."-Preface.

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Singleton (Esther). The Furniture of our Forefathers. With Critical Descriptions of Plates by Russell Sturgis. 2 vols., sm. folio, pp. xi, xvi, 664, with upwards of 150 plates, reproduced in photogravure and half-tone, and numerous line drawings in the text, exhibiting in all some 500 pieces of furniture; half vellum, gilt tops

1901

The work is devoted approximately to the following subjects, the division being
both according to chronology and locality:

I. Virginia and the South, Seventeenth Century: Carved Oak and Walnut.
II. Philadelphia and the South from 1700-1776. III. New England in the Seventeenth
Century. IV. New York and Dutch Furniture from the First Settlement. V. New
England, 1700-1776. VI. Chippendale and Sheraton Period. VII. Imported and
Domestic Furniture since the Revolution. VIII. Technical Details for the Collector
and Amateurs.

The many superb illustrations are a special feature of the work. The work
contains one hundred and fifty plates, reproduced by the firest photogravure, and half-
tones, and about two hundred artistic line drawings. The originals of these have been
selected from museums and private collections, both abroad and in this country. The
majority, particularly some splendid specimens of early Southern furniture, have never
before been reproduced, and the associations connected with several historic pieces-such
as Washington's bed, Jefferson's chair, the desks of Madison and Franklin, etc.—are
almost as strong in human interest as in artistic effect.

Elaborately decorated with unusually fine paper and typography, the work is remarkably handsome and attractive, and an essential addition to any library, public or private, and a necessity to everyone who either indulges in the luxury of old furniture or is at all interested in the subject. Both on account of its intrinsic beauty and its value in filling a gap in our literature "The Furniture of our Forefathers" is entitled to unusual attention.

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Starr (Frederick). The Indians of Southern Mexico.
Ethnographic Album. Oblong 4to., 32 pp. of descriptive text, and
141 magnificent plates; cloth
Chicago, 1899

This work presents some of the results of nine journeys to Mexico undertaken by
Prof. Frederick Starr, of the University of Chicago, for purposes of anthropological
study. Three of these journeys were into Southern Mexico. While the special
purpose of these journeys was the study of the physical types of the Indian tribes,
considerable attention was paid to the life and customs of the people.

Wagner. A Study, by Ernest Newman. 8vo., pp. xx, 401, with a synthetic table of Wagner's life and works and synchronous events ; cloth (pub. 128) 1899

The author is one of the greatest authorities on both music and musicians.

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Webb (Sidney and Beatrice). Industrial Democracy. New
Edition. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo., pp. lxi, 929, with a folding chart; cloth

1902

"We have attempted in these volumes to give a scientific analysis of Trade Unionism in the United Kingdom. To this task we have devoted six years' investigation, in the course of which we have examined, inside and out, the constitution of practically every Trade Union organisation, together with the methods and regulations which it uses to attain its ends.

"The first part of our work deals with Trade Union Structure.

"The second part of the book, forming more than half its total bulk, consists of
a descriptive analysis of Trade Union functions: that is to say, of the methods used,
the regulations imposed, and the policy followed by Trade Unions. We have done our
best to make this analysis both scientifically accurate and, as regards the United
Kingdom at the present day, completely exhaustive.

"It is only in the third part of our work-the last four chapters of the second
volume that we have ventured into the domain of theory. . . . Here, therefore, we
give our own theory of Trade Unionism-our own interpretation of the way in which
the methods and regulations that we have described actually affect the production and
distribution of wealth and the development of personal character.
In our final
chapter we even venture upon precept and prophecy; and we consider the exact scope
of Trade Unionism in the fully developed democratic state-the industrial democracy
of the future."-Preface.

Westminster Abbey Historically Described. By John Feasey. With an Account of the Abbey Buildings, by J. T. Micklethwaite, and an Appendix of the Medieval Monuments, by Edward Bell. Folio, pp. xv, 108, with 75 plates and 4 diagrams in the text; half vellum, gilt top (pub. £5. 58)

1899

Wilkin (Anthony). Among the Berbers of Algeria. 8vo., with 14 plates and 53 illustrations in the text; cloth gilt, gilt tops (pub. 16s)

1900

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Just published by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities and Ethnography, by O. M. Dalton, M.A., ASSISTANT IN THE DEPARTMENT. 4to., xxiv and 186 pp., with 35 fine plates, reproduced in collotype, and about 150 illustrations in the text; cloth

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1902

The collections included in the Catalogue are naturally somewhat miscellaneous in character, and the various divisions are rather unequally represented. For purposes of classification the whole has been divided into nine sections, viz. :-gems and rings, jewels, ivory carvings, silver, bronze, glass, pottery, sculptured stone, and miscellaneous antiquities. Of these classes the gems, ivories, silver, and glass are the most important. The section of rings and gems was chiefly enriched by the acquisition of the cabinets of the Abbé Hamilton in 1856, and of Signor Castellani in 1865 and 1872; while the bequest in 1897 of the collection formed by Sir A. Wollaston Franks, K.C B., added some of the finest examples to the series. The section of jewellery profited to an equal degree by the generosity of the same benefactor, who indeed contributed in a greater or less proportion to the increase of all the classes enumerated. Of the ivory carvings an important part was acquired in 1856, with the Maskell Collection, which included valuable examples of Early Christian Art such as the two sets of panels from caskets (nos. 291 and 292), one of which is well known among the earliest representations of the Crucifixion. Among other private collections from which this section has been angmented, may be mentioned those of Mr. Alexander Nesbitt, from which the pyxis with the martyrdom of St. Menas was derived; of Mr. Felix Slade, which included the remarkable panel (no. 299) with the Descent into Hell; and of Mr. Rohde Hawkins, to which the series is indebted for a similar panel (no. 300) with the scene of the Nativity. The nucleus of the series of glass is formed by the fine set of gilded glasses (fondi d'oro) chiefly obtained by the purchase in 1854 and 1863 of the collections belonging to the Chevalier Bunsen, and the Counts Matarozzi of Urbania. Two exceptional pieces of the same class (nos. 628 and 629) came from the Disch and Herstatt Collections at Cologne, the more remarkable of the two (no. 628) having been bequeathed by Mr. Felix Slade in 1868.

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MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

THE HONORABLE ALICIA AMHERST'S

HISTORY OF

GARDENING IN ENGLAND

IN ONE VOL. ROY SVO. XIV and 408 pp.

A NEW EDITION

With 67 Illustrations of Old English Gardens, and a revised text, extra cloth, 1896, price 18s

The First Edition was sold within two months of its publication

"A second edition of A History of Gardening in England,' by the Hon. Alicia Amherst, will shortly be issued by Mr. Bernard Quaritch. The first edition of this book, which is handsomely bound and illustrated, was mainly secured by early subscribers. The book is interesting both to gardening enthusiasts and general readers, and is strictly accurate with the exception that a view, erroneously stated to be of Ingestre, is, in fact, one of Castle Bromwich. This mistake is likely to be rectified in the second edition, and a plate of the real Ingestre added. A fuller description of Castle Bromwich would be appreciated. There will be added to the new issue a de-cription of the old garden at Gunnersbury Park,' and a description of the interesting imitation of an old garden, at 'Ascott.' Both are owned at the present time by Mr. Leopold Rothschild." -Sunday Times, June 14th, 1896.

"The literature relating to gardening is already large. It receives a welcome addition in the form of Miss Alicia Amherst's large and beautiful volume. Herein the reader is discoursed to pleasantly about all forms of gardening in England-about Rockingham and Loseley, Burghley and Castle Bromwich, Boscobel and Heslington, and many another beautiful place. Perhaps some readers would Ike to hear more of Montacute, or of Great Tangley Manor and Sutton Place; but England is so full of beautiful gardens that were all treated alike in literature, Miss Amberst would find her hands too full. As it is, our only regret in reading her book, is that we have not more of it to read. There is ample reference in those pages to other places besides those already mentioned, such as Ashridge and Ingestre, Bramham and Cassiobury. form the writer divides her work into chapters on Monastic Gardening; 13th, 14th, and 15th Century Gardening; Early Tudor and Elizabethan Gardens: 16th and 17th Century Gardening; Landscape Gardening and Gardening in the present Century. We wish the enumeration of these branches of the subject corresponded to progress in skill and beauty and artistic perfection. There is a noticeable

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reaction in favour of good taste and hostile to vulgar effects; but the reaction has come late, and though many now know the difference, yet most still prefer the worse. Such a book as Miss Amherst's goes far to teach the unwilling mind what beauty is gardening means. authoress knows well what perfection is. Her illustrations go far to show her taste. She appreciates Mr. Elgood's beautiful watercolour drawings of garden-landscapes and garden colour. In most cases the illustrations selected have been very carefully and successfully reproduced. The work is large and substantial; the bibliography is one of great interest and value. We trust that the successful authoress will one day publish a more complete work limited to the history of English gardening since 1720 or thereabouts."--Sunday Times, August 16th, 1896.

"A highly interesting and accurate historical sketch of a fascinating subject. No mere comp:lation, there is abundant evidence of original research and careful selection, the result is a book which the antiquary and the gardening expert will highly appreciate, and which yields much of interest to the ordinary reader."-Athenæum, August 29th, 1896.

"A careful division of the subject into historical periods and a praiseworthy abstention from discursiveness have enabled Miss Amherst to produce a clear and very readable sketch of the history of gardening. She has brought to her task a knowledge of practical gardening, a fondness for old garden literature, a very evident love of her subject, and much of the indispensable faculty for taking pains. The result is a work of very great merit, which rises far above the handbook modestly suggested. Condensed it is, and of necessity so; but it will none the less be found of value and of interest to the practical gardener, to the lover of the garden, and to the student of history."-Quarterly Review, July, 1896.

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Gardening is a subject which has lately been coming conspicuously to the front in the popular literature of the day. This is, however, the first book which takes up the historical side of this fascinating science. A consecutive

history of the development and progress of the art in England is now for the first time put within the reach of the general reader. True to the promise of its title, the pages of this handsome volume trace the evolution of the English garden through the several transitions and revolutions which have influenced its growth. Some of these revolutions were apparently as sadly destructive as the geological upheavals of primeval ages; but they have all led up to the present perfection of those gardens which win the admiration of our foreign visitors, and are unrivalled all the world over. Comprehensive as her subject is, Miss Amherst treats it in a scientific and exhaustive manner, and shows herself to be thoroughly mistress of a vast store of historical materials. In collecting these materials no pains have been spared. Public and private libraries alike have been searched for every scrap of genuine information that had any bearing on the subject. The authoress goes straight to the fountain head, and wherever it is possible has verified her facts by reference to original authorities. In the course of her researches Miss Amherst has discovered some very interesting manuscript materials in the collections of private families, which she now publishes for the first time. Among these are the household accounts of sundry great families, some of the Red Books of Repton, and several

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very interesting letters. Of special interest to Londoners is the description of the gardens which formerly occupied the sites of some of the most crowded thoroughfares. Faint memories of their beauties still survive in such familiar street names as Vine Street and Spring Gardens. The former of these recalls the garden of the Earl of Lincoln, which at one time covered Holborn. The earl sold his garden stuff to the citizens, and the prices it fetched are here quoted from the household accounts.

"The illustrations which embellish the pages of this attractive volume are taken from original sketches and photographs. Some interesting old gardens are here represented, and there are also reproductions of quaint illuminations from ancient manuscripts and elaborate designs of the quaint 'knottes' that were the originals of our modern flower-beds. The richly ornamented and artistic binding, the excellence of the paper and type, are in every way worthy of the text, and make the History of Gardening' an elegant gift-book, as well as a valuable work of reference. The illustrations in the second edition have been increased by the addition of a view of Ingestre and an early plan of Canterbury monastic precincts from a twelfth-century MS."-The Observer, August 2nd, 1896.

Americana: Four of the Rarest Early Narratives of American Discovery:

Columbus. The First Letter of Columbus (printed in Spanish at Barcelona in 1493); reduced Facsimile, with Translation. Small 4to.

1893

The Latin Columbus Letter (printed at Rome in 1493), reproduced in Facsimile, with a Preface.

Vespucci.

Small 4to.

1893

First Four Voyages
Voyages (printed

under the title of "Lettera" at Florence in 1505), reproduced in Facsimile from one of the extant Copies of the Italian Original, with a Translation. Small 4to., with 2 illustrations

Hariot.

1893.

Narrative of the First Plantation

of Virginia (printed in 1588 and 1590), reprinted. Small 4to., with facsimiles of the engravings made by De Bry from John White's designs 1893

-the above four works sold together (98), 7s 6d

1893

These cheap editions have been produced at the suggestion of Mr. Curtis, the head of the American Government Department connected with the Chicago Exhibition. He anticipates an enormous demand for them.

"These four pamphlets will make a library volume of rare interest, and are of great moment to the men of literary pursuits, the student searching after knowledge, and the literary man comparing notes."-The Baltimore Herald, April, 1893.

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