The Life of ROBERT LOUIS By GRAHAM BALFOUR with valuable autobiographical material found after The New York THE MOST IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY OF THE SEASON CONTENTS VOLUME I. Infancy and Childhood— 1850-59. Boyhood-1859-67. Student Days-1867-73 Life at Five-and-Twenty 1. His Ancestors. 2. His Parents. 3. 4. 6. 10. 1880-82. The Riviera 1882-84 VOLUME II. Bournemouth-1884-87. II. 12. The United States 1887-88. "Mr. Balfour's work as editor could scarcely have been better done. The volumes, moreover, contain much entirely new mat ter, and even where familiar ground has necessarily been gone over the work has been done in sympathetic and unhackneyed fashion. Indeed, the memoir perhaps will have an even warmer welcome than that accorded to the letters. . Mr. Balfour's record tempts to quotation on almost every page. His entire sympathy with his subject, never degenerating into mere hero worship, makes his concluding chapter of some thirty pagesR. L. S.'-one of the most fascinating portions of an entirely fascinating book." In two volumes, uniform with the Letters, 500 pages, $4.00 net (postage 30 cents) CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS EUGENE FIELD A Study in Heredity and Contradictions By SLASON THOMPSON, of the Chicago "Record Herald," Collator of "Sharps and Flats." With many portraits, views, and reproductions in black and white and in colors of original manuscripts and drawings by Eugene Field, and many letters. THE HE real man as he appeared to his intimate friends in his hours of work and of relaxation-this is the portrait which Mr. Slason Thompson has drawn of his comrade in this book. The foundation of the work consists of the author's recollections. It recalls numberless incidents in Field's life all of which have, in addition to their intrinsic interest, dramatic, humorous, or what not, a high value for the light they throw upon the traits of the man-his kindliness, his sweetness, his love of practical jokes and all kinds of fun, his taste for books, his hatred of shams and pretense, his interest in politics and the theatre, his affection for children, etc. In two volumes, $3.00 net (postage 25 cents) CONTENTS Pedigree. Birth and Early Youth. Journalism. In Denver, 1881-1883. Coming to Chicago. Methods of Work. His First Book. His Second Visit to Eu rope. In the Saints' and Sinners' Political Relations. Last Days. The NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW says: It is long since any book of fiction has recalled so brilliantly the very spirit of days well known to a generation growing old." The BOSTON TRANSCRIPT says: "Not only are incidents crowded, they are jammed together, and these incidents are tremendously exciting." 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"The Graphic (London). turer verse, and the titular poem is an altogether original and important production. and OTHER POEMS By GEORGE SANTAY ANA Author of "The Sense of R. SANTAYA MRNA'S inspira tion is as clear as his execution is exquisite, and in those qualities of verse that re It is a review in varied ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES late to elevation of metres of the ideas and By AUGUSTINE BIRRELL John Wesley Robert Browning The House of Commons thought and perfection CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS |