Mr. John Long's List of Publications
GENERAL LITERATURE
Dedicated by Special Permission to
Field-Marshal LORD WOLSELEY, K.P., &c.
SOCIAL LIFE IN THE BRITISH ARMY
By Capt. W. E. Cairnes. Author of "An Absent-Minded War." Crown 8vo,special cover design, 6s. With 16 full-page Illustrations on art paperby R. Caton Woodville. [_Third Edition._
Pall Mall Gazette.--"Brightly written by the Military expert of the_Westminster Gazette_, and neatly illustrated by Mr. Caton Woodville;this is a most interesting and instructive volume. It is just what waswanted now that the question of the cost of life in the Army and theimpossibility for an officer of living upon his pay has been broughtinto such prominence. The question is emphatically one of those whichmust not be allowed to slip away again should a long peace follow onthe present war, as questions have a way of doing. "A British Officer"makes some very shrewd points in the matter. He performs a usefulservice in clearing the ground of vulgar exaggerations, the French andRussian myths of the British Officer's wild luxuriousness, theagitator's "gilded popinjay" superficialities, the duties andrecreations of the officer, sketches life at Sandhurst and the StaffCollege, and devotes a chapter to Tommy and to Mrs. Tommy in themarried quarters."
Army and Navy Gazette.--"No volume has appeared dealing so thoroughlyand so competently with the inner life of the Army. It is not merelydescriptive, but will be welcomed by all those who contemplate puttingtheir sons in the Service, for they will realise better than otherwisethey might do what the conditions of military life are."
AUSTRALIA AT THE FRONT
A COLONIAL VIEW OF THE GREAT BOER WAR
By Frank Wilkinson (Special Correspondent of the _Sydney DailyTelegraph_). With Portrait, Map, and 20 Illustrations on art paper byNorman H. Hardy from Sketches on the spot, and Photos by the Author.Crown 8vo, special cover design, 6s. [_Second Edition._
The Times.--"Mr. Wilkinson's book is uniformly interesting, and has adirect bearing upon one of the great lessons of the war."
The Daily Mail.--"It may safely be said that no war correspondent'swork is more deserving of attention than Mr. Frank Wilkinson's. Hegives facts in a bright, humorous, unaffected way, and some of thesefacts require careful study by the nation. This is certainly a bookto be read and studied. It is convincing in its moderation andtruthfulness, excellently illustrated, and furnished with a good map."
The Daily News.--"We think we have never read a war correspondent'sstory on which scrupulous honesty was more clearly written. It is abook which deserves to be read by any student of the war, and willcertainly be welcomed by all Australians who shared in the campaign."
The Athenaeum.--"The book should be studied by all those who have thecondition of our Army at heart."
ON THE WAR PATH
A LADY'S LETTERS FROM THE FRONT
By Mrs. J. D. Leather-Culley. With 16 full-page Illustrations on artpaper from Photographs taken by the Author. Crown 8vo, special coverdesign, 3s. 6d.
The Globe.--"We can recommend it heartily for perusal, for it is soobviously frank, fresh, and free in its general atmosphere and tone.It is quite delightful to read passages so full of vivacity, so devoidof affectation, so thoroughly to the point. It is in such informalnarratives as these that we get at the 'true inwardness' of the warand its surroundings. We could quote many an instructive andsuggestive passage. This is undoubtedly a book to be read."
The Spectator.--"The book generally is full of interest. It should beread and judged as a whole. We might make a very startling column bychoosing extracts."
The Daily Mail.--"Mrs. Culley witnessed Major White's superb defenceof Ladybrand, of which feat she gives a very interesting account.Altogether a bright little book, illustrated with some goodphotographs."
The Outlook.--"As far as it goes the book is one of the best we haveseen."
THE KING'S RACE-HORSES
A HISTORY OF THE CONNECTION OF HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII. WITH THENATIONAL SPORT
By Edward Spencer, Author of "The Great Game," &c.
Printed on Hand-made Paper, with Twenty Plates in Photogravure,limited to 300 Copies. Royal 4to. Price L3 3s. net.
* * _Also a Special Edition, Imperial 4to, on Japanese Vellum, * limited to 50 Copies, the Plates on India Paper, one hand Coloured, with a Duplicate Set of Plates in handsome Portfolio for Framing. Each Copy Numbered and signed by the Author. Price L10 10s. net._
A four-page 4to Prospectus, giving a full description of the work,post free from the leading Booksellers and Libraries, or from thePublisher.
_See_ page 8 of this Catalogue.
RURAL LIFE: Its Humour and Pathos
By Caroline Gearey. Crown 8vo, special cover design, 6s.
The Academy.--"A pleasant 'pot-pourri' of observations and anecdotesrelating to village life. Well chosen and pleasantly knit together."The Daily News.--"The book is amusing." The Spectator.--"A sufficientlyreadable book." To-day.--"A pleasantly written book." The LeedsMercury.--"In her very entertaining book Miss Gearey is happy in herillustrations of village courtship." The Glasgow Herald.--"Thesketches are as good-natured as they are entertaining."
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
By the Right Hon. Sir Richard Temple, Bart., G.C.S.I., &c. Crown 8vo,cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. [_Second Edition._
The Daily News.--"We heartily congratulate Sir Richard Temple onproducing a particularly pleasing book about Parliament."
The Pall Mall Gazette.--"Every Parliamentarian and every Politicianwill find this book of deep interest."
The Athenaeum.--"We can strongly recommend Sir Richard Temple's book."
The Globe.--"A manual whose utility is equalled only by its brightnessand general readability."
THE LAST OF THE CLIMBING BOYS
By George Elson. With a Preface by the Dean of Hereford. Crown 8vo,cover design, 6s.
The Standard.--"A singularly interesting book ... the narrativebecomes remarkably interesting--the life of a sweep, such as it wasin those days, being told with a freshness and reality on a par withthe novelty and originality of the events recorded."
The Guardian.--"A remarkable life-sketch, which is as interestingas it is curious. The book is very readable and amusing as well asinteresting. It is impossible to close it without a feeling ofthankfulness that one deep blot that rests upon the past has beenthoroughly wiped away."
The Pall Mall Gazette.--"The book, which is enormously interesting,whether viewed as a human document or as a romance, is theautobiography of Mr. George Elson, who began his career in thefirst year of Queen Victoria's reign as a 'climbing boy.'"
HAPPINESS: Its Pursuit and Attainment
By Rev. W. J. Kelly. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. [_Second Edition._
The Tablet.--"The author has combined a systematic treatment whichreflects the training of the schools with a freshness and originalityof exposition which is all his own, while the whole work has aliterary flavour which bespeaks the scholar and--in the best sense ofthe term--the man of letters.... With much fervour and force oflanguage the author shows how in the beatific vision the desires ofthose whose natural inclinations lead them to seek for riches,honours, power, beauty of form or harmony of sound, wisdom, peace,love, joy, will severally and collectively be satisfied. We mostcordially recommend this excellent work to the notice and the use ofclergy and laity alike."
The Daily Express.--"The work of a ripe scholar and thinker. Dignityand restraint are marked features of a book that is eloquent and loftyand full of freshness, suggestion and truth."
APPEARANCES
HOW TO KEEP THEM UP ON A LIMITED INCOME
By Mrs. Alfred Praga, Author of "Dinners of the Day," "StartingHousekeeping," &c. Crown 8vo, cloth, 1s. [_New Edition._
The Queen.--"Her teaching possesses a distinct value; her counsels aredistinctly counsels of perfection. 'Appearances' is both suggestiveand valuable; one welcomes the book as an attempt to prove th
at alimited income does not necessarily entail slipshod housekeeping orcoarse cookery."
DRAMATIC CRITICISM (1899)
By J. T. Grein. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. net.
The Dally Telegraph.--"A series of careful, intelligent articles,distinguished by the soundness of their criticism and the determinedbut broad-minded views of the author. This volume may be read withprofit by the playwright, the critic, and the playgoer alike."
THE HISTORY OF "THE TEMPLE"
With Special Reference to that of the Middle Temple; also facsimilesof the Ancient Seals. By G. Pitt-Lewis, K.C., a Master of the Bench ofthe Middle Temple. Crown 8vo, paper cover, 1s. 6d.
The Daily Telegraph.--"The subject, always an attractive one, ishandled in a fashion which is as skilful as it is interesting."
Literature.--"An excellent account of one of the most illustrious ofour Inns of Court."
THE BOER IN PEACE AND WAR
With 16 full-page Copyright Photographic Illustrations on art paper.Crown 8vo, picture paper cover, price 1s.
The Westminster Gazette.--"An interesting description of thecharacteristics of the Boer."
THE OPERATIC PROBLEM
By William Johnson Galloway, M.P. Fcap. 4to. 1s. net.
* * A short account of the systems under which Opera is conducted * on the Continent, with a scheme for the establishment of a system of National Opera in this country.
IN HEAVEN'S PORCH
By Hugh Clement. Long 12mo, artistic paper cover, 6d. _New Edition,Revised._
The Notts Guardian.--"Is a visit which the writer pays in imaginationto the threshold of Paradise, and granted his theological postulates,it is very admirably and beautifully written."
SIDELIGHTS ON CONVICT LIFE
By George Griffith, Author of "In an Unknown Prison Land," etc. WithNumerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 6s.
THE UNCONQUERABLE COLONY
SOME EPISODES OF ULSTER IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
By James Henry Cochrane, M.A., late Vicar of Liscard, Liverpool,formerly Scholar Trinity College, Dublin, and Chancellor's Prizeman inPoetry. Author of "Episodes in the War," etc. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt,3s. 6d. net.
ETIQUETTE AND ENTERTAINING
By Mrs. L. Heaton Armstrong, Author of "Etiquette for Girls," "GoodForm," "Letters to a Bride," etc. Long 12mo, rounded edges, cloth, 1s.
HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A CONSUMPTIVE
By Mrs. M. Forrest Williams. Fcap. 8vo, paper cover, 1s. net.
POETRY
THE DEMON OF THE WIND, and Other Poems. By G. Hunt Jackson. Crown8vo, cloth gilt and gilt top, 3s. 6d. net.
The Scotsman.--"The book has no lack of pleasant reading. All arepicturesque, fluent and gracefully turned: and the volume ought notto lack readers."
The Manchester Guardian.--"Mr. Jackson's muse is pleasant companyenough, and in her lighter vein touches a genuine chord."
The Manchester Courier.--"This collection of poems contains many ofunusual merit, while all are well above the average."
NIGHTSHADE AND POPPIES: Verses of a Country Doctor. By Dugald Moore,M.B. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. net.
The Newcastle Daily Chronicle.--"He can swing a stirring rhythm, andcan handle even a professional subject in verse of vivid and vigorousidea and genuinely fine feeling. Genuine powers and remarkable range.Dr. Dugald Moore's verses have all a human pulse, and a picturesqueenergy."
The Bookman.--"Decidedly above the average."
THE MESSAGE OF THE MASTERS. By F. Hugh O'Donnell. Crown 8vo, clothgilt and gilt top, 2s. 6d. net.
"Very near to genius."--Newcastle Chronicle. "A striking and melodiouspoem."--Bookman. "Poetry of a high order and a powerful philippic inverse."--New Ireland Review. "We can recommend this poem to patriotswho have cut their teeth."--Outlook. "Strong and musical verse. Thisis a book to make one think."--Leeds Mercury. "Verses which Macaulaymight have been proud to have penned."--Punch.
LIFE'S LITTLE COMEDIES. By Hugh Bedwell. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt andgilt top, 3s. 6d. net.
THE BOER RIDE. By Frank Short. Crown 8vo, paper cover, 6d. net.
St. Paul's.--"A story of considerable and human interest."
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