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The Pangerman Plot Unmasked,

by André Chéradame. With an introduction by LORD Cromer

The author reveals what he believes to be a deliberate and longprepared project for such a plausible settlement in the peace conference that Germany, while getting practically the most important part of what she has fought for, will apparently make very liberal concessions and admit defeat. The author has written this book in order to inform the Allies of this scheme in time to thwart it, and Lord Cromer has written an introduction to it in which he expresses himself as holding "a strong opinion that M. Chéradame's diagnosis of the situation is correct." With maps. $1.25 net

With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand,

The French Ambassador to the United States
and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps

This book includes chapters on "Rochambeau and the Revolution," "L'Enfant and the Federal Capital," "Washington and the French," "Abraham Lincoln," and a literary chapter about Horace Howard Furness, the great Shakespearian. M. Jusserand has been a lifelong student of the literature of England and America, and writes of the close affiliation of the American and the French republics.

$1.50 net

Great Victorians, by T. H. S. Escott

Among the Old World celebrities drawn from life in this work are personages as widely representative of their age as, among churchmen, Bishop Phillpotts ("Henry of Exeter") and Archdeacon Denison. The soldiers include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Raglan, Lord Cardigan, Lord Hardinge, the Lawrences, Sir Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde), Sir Henry Norman, Sir Donald Stewart, Lord Roberts, Lord Wolseley, the chief members of the Wolseley group, and Lord Kitchener. The diplomatists begin with the great "Eltchi," Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, continue with his Constantinople successors, with Lord Dufferin, Lord Odo Russell, Sir A. H. Layard, ending with Lord Bertie and Lord Bryce. $3.50 net

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Full credit is given to German sincerity, originality, and profundity; and the utmost care is taken to show without prejudice or rancor. the standpoint of a philosophy which is acting as a motive power for what the author defines as "a double assault upon mankind."

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"Berlin's For

midable PeaceTrap of the Drawn Game"

The French Ambassador writes of Americans

Victorian soldiers, churchmen,

diplomats,

writers

Santayana's contribution

to war literature

$1.50 net

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The Navy as a Fighting Machine,
by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske
"What is the navy for?

"Of what parts should it be composed?

"What principles should be followed in designing, preparing, and operating it in order to get the maximum return for the money expended? "To answer these questions clearly and without technical language is the object of this book."-Author's Preface.

$2.00 net

A Book About the Theater, by Brander Matthews This fascinating volume, in which the author sets himself, as he lightly puts it, "to discuss the minor arts of the dancer and the acrobat, to chatter about the conjurer and the negro minstrel, to consider the principles of pantomime and the development of scene-painting, etc.," is the result of "excursions into the purlieus of the playhouse' which began some decades ago in his boyhood. These chapter headings suggest the scope of the book: "The Show Business," "Why Five Acts?" "Women Dramatists," "The Principles of Pantomime," "The Ideal of the Acrobat," "The Decline and Fall of Negro-Minstrelsy." Illustrated. $2.50 net

Financial Chapters of the War,

by Alexander Dana Noyes, Financial Editor of the

New York Evening Post

Mr. Noyes's book describes, with a view to the general reader, the remarkable episodes since July, 1914, and discusses the past, present, and future effects of the war on this country and the rest of the world. $1.25 net

Hawaii, by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The Hawaiian Islands of to-day are here described with the keen sense of the picturesque and the remarkable faculty for appreciating human beings that have made Mrs. Gerould's stories famous. Illustrated from photographs. $1.50 net

The Free Man and the Soldier,

Professor of Philosophy in

by Ralph Barton Perry, Harvard University

ESSAYS ON THE RECONCILIATION OF LIBERTY AND DISCIPLINE

These essays reveal the abstract principles underlying such great and pressing questions as those of preparedness, the righteousness of war, the duties implied by patriotism, which are so enormously discussed in the magazines in the purely current manner, and with emphasis on the purely practical aspects. $1.40 net

Our First War in Mexico, by Farnham Bishop

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Mr. Bishop's book supplies for the first time a very real need of the moment-a history, brief but most complete and readable, of our first war with Mexico over the question of Texas in 1846 to 1848, a subject on which a multitude of readers are seeking new light or the means of refreshing their memories in the present condition of our Mexican relations. With illustrations and map. $1.25 net

Europe Unbound,

by Lisle March Phillipps,

Author of "The Works of Man,"
"Form and Colour"

"My purpose in the present book," says the author, "has been to deal, however inadequately, not with the outward circumstances or immediate causes of the war, but with what I cannot help thinking are its real causes. I mean those slowly developing, intensely hostile, eternally incompatible philosophies of life of which the two opposing groups of the free and unfree nations of Europe are to-day the representatives." About $2.00 net

Twenty-Five Great Houses of France,

by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, Author of "Old Provence "

and "Old Touraine"

With an Introductory Chapter Outlining the Development of
French Domestic Architecture by W. H. WARD, M.A., F.S.A.,
F.R.I.B.A.

This book, containing over four hundred superb illustrations, plans, and diagrams, with a map of France, showing the position of each château, presents a pageant of the great figures who surrounded the throne of such kings as François Premier and Louis Quatorze.

$16.00 net

The Life of Francis Thompson, by Everard Meynell

This is a new edition, at less than half the original price, of a biography which has established itself as one of the classic literary biographies. $2.00 net

A Political History of Japan During the Meiji Era, 1867-1912, by W. W. McLaren, Ph.D.

The author, a teacher of politics in Keiogijuku, the oldest and most liberal of the universities of Japan, has had the advantage of association with students of the constitutional problems of that country, and he understands and sympathizes with the aims of the leaders of the reform movement initiated immediately after the death of the Meiki Tenno.

$3.75 net

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The Mexican

War

The inner meaning of the war

The French 'châteaux

Francis Thompson's life

in cheap edition

Japanese politics

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Enoch Crane, planned and begun by F. Hopkinson
Smith and completed by his son, F. Berkeley Smith

"Enoch Crane himself is the life and soul of the book. A delightful, old-fash-
ioned gentleman, courteous and chivalrous, capable of the fiercest kind of indignation."
-New York Times.
"Enoch Crane himself is one of Hopkinson Smith's happiest creations-a true
New Yorker of an older generation."-New York Tribune.

"Enoch Crane is one of those delightfully odd characters whom it pleased Hopkinson Smith to conceive for his readers."-Boston Advertiser.

"A story of very great charm."-James L. Ford, in the New York Herald.
$1.35 net

After the Manner of Men, by Francis Lynde

Mr. Lynde's new book is a new combination of his favorite elements of love, adventure, and psychology. The last factor is the one suggested in the title, the hero's variant of the classic struggle between love and duty exhibiting marked human, not to say particularly masculine, traits. The drama, however, is by no means altogether an interior one. There is plenty of action and, as no reader of Mr. Lynde needs to be told, a mystery around which it revolves.

Illustrated. $1.35 net

Souls Resurgent, by Marion Hamilton Carter

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An absorbing drama of souls groping toward readjustment. In the poise of the author, her analytic grasp, her unswerving regard for truth, there is no mark of the novice."-Boston Herald.

"It is a big and unusual book, a book carefully thought out, full of ideas and of a conscientious, dexterous psychological analysis. Very long, it never drags, but holds the reader's interest throughout. There is in it a marked absence of that haste and superficiality which mars so much of our current fiction; it is a carefully finished, sound, conscientious, and thoroughly worth-while piece of work-a book of which its author has a right to be very proud."-New York Times.

"Occasionally, at intervals that are far too long, there rises from the undistinguished and undistinguishable mass of current American fiction, facile, pretty, superficial, a realist of exceptional gifts and greater promise."-New York Tribune.

$1.35 net

Unfinished Portraits, by Jennette Lee

STORIES OF ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS

These are stories of some of the greatest of the world's artists and composers, in some cases based upon rumored or legendary incidents of their lives. The book includes "The Day Shall Declare It" of Albrecht Dürer, "The Serenade" of Franz Schubert, "The Unfinished Portrait" of Leonardo da Vinci, "Frederic Chopin - A Record," "The Man with the Glove" of Titian and Giorgione, and "By the Waters" of Johann Sebastian Bach.

$1.25 net

Xingu and Other Stories, by Edith Wharton

This volume is a brilliant successor to "Men and Ghosts," Mrs. Wharton's last group of stories. It includes "Xingu," "The Long Run," "The Triumph of Night," "Kerfol," "Coming Home," "Other Times, Other Manners," "The Choice," and "Bunner Sisters." The title-story is a humorous one, satirizing a community of literary and artistic souls. $1.40 net

The Eternal Feminine,

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

This volume of stories will be welcomed by the readers of Mrs. Andrews's former volume, "The Eternal Masculine," as well as by many new readers. The stories here grouped are among the cleverest she has ever written, and are linked together by playful satire of feminine weaknesses and whims which characterize each of them.

Illustrated. $1.35 net

Head Winds, by James B. Connolly

This book is remarkable for the variety of the stories it contains and their characters, which include Continental immigrants, Central American soldiery, Gloucester fishermen, Mississippi roustabouts and steamboat people, American bluejackets, and newspaper correspondents. These are among the best stories Mr. Connolly has ever written. Among them is "The Trawler," which won the twenty-fivehundred-dollar prize offered by Collier's.

Illustrated. $1.35 net

Remating Time, by Jesse Lynch Williams

This inimitably amusing story of the "happy divorce" by which four utterly mismated and quite unhappy persons are interchanged and plunged suddenly into a seventh heaven is one of Mr. Williams's most characteristic stories.

50 cents net

The Works of J. M. Barrie

Hitherto no complete uniform set of the Works of Barrie has been published in this country, with the exception of the Thistle Edition, sold only by subscription. This new set of ten volumes, substantially and attractively bound in leather and sold by the volume or by the set, will meet a popular demand. "Auld Licht Idylls," "When a Man's Single," "A Window in Thrums," "The Little Minister," "Sentimental Tommy," "Tommy and Grizel," "My Lady Nicotine," "The Little White Bird," "Peter and Wendy," "Half Hours and Der Tag.' Leather, 10 vols., each $1.65 net. The set in box, $16.50 net

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MAGAZINE

Mrs. Wharton's

new book, Xingu

The Eternal
Feminine

Containing a $2,500 prize story

Happy divorce

J. M. Barrie's novels and tales

10 volumes

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