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an influence on various poets and essayists of the time, all of whom are dealt with. =ONLY A DOG'S LIFE.= By BARON VON TAUBE. Crown 8vo, cloth. 5s. net. This fascinating work was originally published in German, and is now issued in the author's own English rendering. It has been most favourably received in Germany. A Siberian hound, whose sire was a wolf, tells his own story. The book, in fact, is a very clever satire on human nature, a satire which gains much charm and piquancy from its coming from the mouth of a masterful self-respecting hound. =SOME OLD ENGLISH WORTHIES.= Thomas of Reading, George a Green, Roger Bacon, Friar Rush. Edited with notes and introduction by DOROTHY SENIOR. Medium 8vo, cloth. 10s. 6d. net. =BY DIVERS PATHS.= By ELEANOR TYRRELL, ANNIE MATHESON, MAUDE P. KING, MAY SINCLAIR, Professor C. H. HERFORD, Dr. GREVILLE MACDONALD, and C. C. COTTERILL. New Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt. 3s. 6d. net. A volume of natural studies and descriptive and meditative essays interspersed with verse. =IN DEFENCE OF AMERICA.= By BARON VON TAUBE. Crown 8vo, cloth. 5s. net. This very remarkable book gives the American point of view in reply to criticisms of "Uncle Sam" frequently made by representatives of "John Bull." The author, a Russo-German, who has spent many active years in the United States, draws up about thirty "popular indictments against the citizens of Uncle Sam's realm," and discusses them at length in a very original and dispassionate way, exhibiting a large amount of German critical acumen together with much American shrewdness. Both "Uncle Sam" and "John Bull" will find in the book general appreciations of their several characteristics and not a few valuable suggestions. FICTION Crown 8vo, cloth. 6s. each =LADY ERMYNTRUDE AND THE PLUMBER.= By PERCY FENDALL. This is a tale fantastical and satirical, of the year 1920, its quaint humours arising out of the fact that a Radical-Socialist Government has passed an Act of Parliament requiring every man and woman to earn a living and to live on their earnings. There are many admirable strokes of wit dispersed throughout, not the least of these being the schedule of charges which the king is permitted to make, for he also, under the Work Act, is compelled to earn a living. =AN EXCELLENT MYSTERY.= By Countess RUSSELL. The scene opens in Ireland with a fascinating child, Will-o'-the-Wisp, and a doting father. A poor mother and a selfish eld
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