s many portraits, and merely to
turn them over is to gain a more living and reliable idea of the course
of her tragic life, and of the characters of those who surrounded her,
than the most careful of historical descriptions. The very actors and
actresses move before the reader's eyes; and their stories, ceasing to
be distant traditions, are seen to concern the movements, hesitations,
half-hopes, and human impulses of people strangely like ourselves. 224
pp. Buckram, 5/- net; Velvet Persian, 7/6 net.

R. L. STEVENSON: MEMORIES

Being twenty-five illustrations, reproduced from photographs, of Robert
Louis Stevenson, his homes and his haunts, many of these reproduced for
the first time. A booklet for every Stevenson lover. In Japon vellum
covers, 1/- net; bound in Japanese vellum, with illustrations mounted,
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BOOKS TO ENTERTAIN

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF IRISH LIFE

By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM. Its title suggests unbridled jocularity--and it
is in fact full of inimitable fun; but there is a basis of solid thought
and sympathy to all the mirth. While replenishing the common stock of
Irish stories, Mr Birmingham adjusts our conception of the race. Mr
Kerr's sixteen illustrations in colour form a gallery of genre studies,
sympathetic and yet sincere, that allows us to look with our own eyes
upon Ireland as she really is to-day. 288 pp. Buckram, 5/- net. Velvet
Persian, 7/6 net.

IRISH LIFE & CHARACTER

By Mrs S. C. HALL. "Tales of Irish Life" will remind the reader more of
Lever or Sam Lover than of "Lavengro." It is effervescent and audacious,
ringing with all the fun of the fair, and spiced with the constant
presence of a vivacious and irresistible personality. The sixteen
illustrations by Erskine Nicol are in precisely the same vein, matching
Mrs Hall's sketches so manifestly that it is strange they have never
been united before. To look at them is to laugh. 330 pp. Buckram,
5/- net. Velvet Persian, 7/6 net.

LORD COCKBURN'S MEMORIALS

"This volume," says _The Saturday Review_, "is one of the most
entertaining books a reader could lay his hands on." "The book," says
_The Edinburgh Review_, "is one of the pleasantest fireside volumes that
has ever been published." Cockburn's pen could tell a tale as well as
his tongue, and to read this book is to sit, unobserved, at that
immortal Round Table, with anecdote and reminiscence in full tide. With
twelve portraits in colour by Si