moor, the forest, the meadow stream, the flowered lane, or the wild
sea-shore. The extreme penalty for reading one of these spring, summer,
autumn, or winter chapters is to be driven from one's chair into the
nearest field, there to forget town worries among the trees. The author
does not spare us for fog, rain, frost, or snow. Sometimes he makes us get
up by moonlight and watch the dawn come "cold as cold sea-shells" to the
fluting of blackbirds, or he takes us through the woods by night and shows
us invisible things by their sounds and scents. The spirit, even if the
body cannot go with it, comes back refreshed by these excursions to the
country.

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IN A GERMAN PENSION

BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD

_Crown 8vo. Cloth. 6s._

_DELIGHTFUL LITERARY NOVELTY_

Never before have Germans, from a social standpoint, been written about
with so much insight, or their manners and habits described with such
malicious naivete and minute skill. Miss Mansfield's power of detailed
observation is shown in numerous little touches of character painting
which enable us to realise almost as visibly as the authoress herself, the
heart, mind, and soul of the quaint Bavarian people. The occasional
cynicism and satiric strokes serve to heighten but not to distort the
general effect. The one or two chapters which might be called Bavarian
short stories rather than sketches are written in a most uncommon--indeed
thoroughly individual--vein, both in form and substance. Miss Mansfield's
style is almost French in its clearness, and her descriptions will remind
the reader of Russian masters like Turguenieff.

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MOTLEY AND TINSEL

A Story of the Stage

BY J. K. PROTHERO

_Crown 8vo. Cloth. 6s._

_A BOOK WITH DISTINGUISHED NAMES_

This story in serial form was the subject of an action for libel founded
on the coincidence of the plaintiff's name with that of one of the
characters. As a protest against the absurd state of the law, the author,
in revising the novel for publication in book form, has used the names of
distinguished writers and journalists who have kindly given their consent.
George Bernard Shaw represents a stage door keeper. George R. Sims, in
consenting to drive a hansom, fears there may be cabbies of the same name.
Edgar Jepson is disguised as an irascible old gentleman of seventy, while
Robert Barr offici