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BY

JAMES HUNEKER

"He is an indefatigable and entertaining critic, endowed with a wealth of understanding rarely found in critical literature. 'Iconoclasts' is a brilliant addition to the literature of the stage."

Italian Letters
of a Diplomat's Wife

By MARY KING WADDINGTON

- Boston Herald.

$1.50 net,

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13 cts.

"Madame Waddington's first volume of letters created an appetite for more. Chatty, yet brilliant, these letters run along, affording most delightful glimpses of Italian society."-Pittsburgh Gazette.

With 24 full-page illustrations, $2.50 net, postage 20 cts.

FOLLOWING THE SUN-FLAG

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A VAIN PURSUIT THROUGH MANCHURIA

By JOHN FOX, JR.

The story is so graphically told in the writer's original and inimitable style that

it has not a dull page from beginning to end."-Buffalo Courier.

"There are several bits of very fine description in this volume.”

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A Few Books of Importance

THE APPROACH TO PHILOSOPHY

By RALPH BARTON PERRY, Ph.D.

A stimulating and valuable introducton to philosophy.

THE BIBLE: Its Origin and Nature

By MARCUS DODS, D.D.

$1.50 net

"His convictions in the end are clear and unmistakable and his reasoning singularly apt to win assent."-Chicago Evening Post.

$1.00 net, postage 10 cts.

OUTLINES OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST

By WILLIAM SANDAY, D.D.

"Accurate scholarship and spiritual beauty are happily blended."-The Churchman.

AMOS AND HOSEA

By W. R. HARPER, Ph.D.

$1.25 net, postage 12 cts.

"The commentary is remarkable for its clear analysis and exhaustive in its minute completeness."-Watchman.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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SCRIBNER'S NEW IMPORTATIONS

WAGNER'S LETTERS TO MME. WESENDONCK
With portraits and facsimiles.

LETTERS AND LEAVES FROM A DIARY. By RICHARD WAGNER.
Translated by WILLIAM ASHTON ELLIS. 8vo, $4.00 net.

This is one of the most remarkable volumes ever published about the great composer Richard Wagner. In Mme. Wesendonck's friendship Wagner found his greatest inspiration and out of their relations grew his most beautiful work, "Tristan and Isolde."

THE CONFESSIONS OF LORD BYRON

A Collection of His Private Opinions of Men and of Matters, taken from the new and enlarged edition of his Letters and Journals. Arranged by W. A. LEWIS BETTANY.. With a photogravure portrait. Square 8vo, $2.50 net.

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

HER LIFE STORY. By A. H. MILLAR, F.S.A.Scot. With portraits and illustrations.

12mo, $1.00

net. A concise and most readable account of the romantic history of this unfortunate queen by a competent hand.

POLO: PAST AND PRESENT

By T. P. F. DALE. With numerous illustrations. (The "Country Life" Library of Sport.) 8vo, $3.75 net. ALREADY ISSUED in The " Country Life" Library of Sport. CRICKET, I Vol. SHOOTING,

2 vols. FISHING, 2 vols. Each, with numerous illustrations. $3.75 net a volume.

IN AND AROUND VENICE

BY HORATIO F. BROWN, author of "Venice: An Historical Sketch" and "Life on the Lagoons,” etc. With 15 illustrations and Map. 8vo, $1.50 net.

WILLIAM HOGARTH

By G. BALDWIN BROWN, M.A. Professor of Fine Arts in the University of Edinburgh. With a Photogravure portrait and twenty plates. (MAKERS OF BRITISH ART.) Sq. 12mo, $1.25 net.

BY THE IONIAN SEA

12mo,

Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy. By GEORGE GISSING. With map and illustrations. $1.75 net. A delightful book of reminiscences of travel in Calabria. Full of charming description and pleasant anecdote.

Vol. III.

A HISTORY OF EGYPT

From the XIXth to the XXXth Dynasties. By W. M. FLINDERS-PETRIE. illustrations. 12mo, $2.25 net.

"Ideal Pocket Editions"

With numerous

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Shakespeare's Complete Plays and Poems. 3 vols. Illustrated. $3.75 net.

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SUPERB GARDEN VIEWS

THE GARDENS OF ITALY

Being a Series of Illustrations from Photographs of the most Famous Examples of The Gardens of Italy by CHARLES LATHAM. With descriptive text by E. MARCH PHILLIPPS. With 300 beautiful half-tone illustrations. 2 vols., folio, $18.00 net.

A superbly illustrated work, treating most completely the deservedly famous and beautiful Gardens of Italy, fascinating alike to the lovers of Gardening, Architecture, Art, and History.

HISTORY OF ANCIENT POTTERY

GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN.

By H. B. WALTERS, M.A., F.S.A. Based on the work of Samuel Birch. With 300 illustrations, including 8 colored plates. 2 vols., 8vo, $15.00 net.

The standard book on this subject, authoritative and exhaustive.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY

AND ITS MEMBERS. A History from 1768 to 1830. By the late J. E. HODGSON, R.A., and F. A. EATON, M.A., Secretary of the Royal Academy. With photogravure portraits and illustrations. Large 8vo, $5.00 net.

An authentic history of the first 60 years of this brilliant Academy with biographical accounts of the great men who made its annals famous.

PICTURES IN UMBRIA

BY KATHERINE S. MACQUOID. With fifty original illustrations by Thomas R. Macquoid, R.I. 12mo, $1.50 net.

LIBRARY OF THE APPLIED ARTS

A new series of practical value to collectors and students, while care has been taken to avoid all unnecessary and unimportant details which might in any way perplex the general reader. The volumes are illustrated profusely, and great care has been taken to have these illustrations of the highest quality. Each volume, 8vo, with colored and other illustrations, $2.50 net.

New volume: SHEFFIELD PLATE. By B. WYLLIE.

Previously published: English Table Glass-English Embroidery-Dutch Pottery and PorcelainOld English Furniture.

FAMOUS ART CITIES. NUREMBERG

NUREMBERG, AND ITS ART TO THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY. BY DR. P. J. RÉE.

With 123 illustrations. Square 8vo, $1.50 net. The third volume of a splendidly illustrated series under the title of "Famous Art Cities." The succeeding volumes will treat of Florence, Rome, Siena, Ravenna, Cairo, Rome, Paris, Bruges, Seville, Pisa, Moscow, Strassburg and others, and form excellent supplementary guides for the traveler of artistic tastes.

No. I. POMPEII, with 144 illustrations. No. II. VENICE. By GUSTAV PAULI, with 137 illustrations.

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New volumes. ROME AS AN ART CITY. By ALBERT ZACHER. With 16 illustrations. ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE. Being a Brief Account of Its Principles and Progress. By J. WOOD BROWN. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLISH CARICATURE. By SELWYN BRINTON, M. A. illustrations. Each Sq. 16mo, leather, $1.00 net.

With

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THE XXTH CENTURY CITIZEN'S ATLAS

OF THE WORLD. Containing 156 pages of maps and plans, with an Index, a Gazetteer, and Geographical Statistics. Edited by J. G. BARTHOLOMEW, F.R.G.S. Small folio. Cloth, $6.00 net. 1⁄2 morocco, $7.50 net.

THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT'S ATLAS

OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY. A Series of 115 Physical, Political and Statistical Maps compiled from British and Foreign Surveys, and the Latest Results of International Research. Under the direction of J. G. BARTHOLOMEW, F.R.S. E., F.R.C.S., etc. 4to, $2.00 net.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York

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Mr. Kimball, whose work has recently attracted more than usual attention, has made a set of cartoons which will strike a new note in this field. He has an eye for beauty and a sureness of drawing and a capacity for invention that give his pictures great distinction. These very popular reproductions possess all the color charm of the originals.

Four pictures in full colors, each 12 x 16 in., on mounts 19 x 24 in. Price, $3.50 Net.

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