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 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BELLES LETTRES, ETC.

THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A HUMOURIST. Grave and Gay. By the late Arthur a Becket {late Assistant Editor of " Punch.**) With Photogravure Portrait. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top. 12s. 6d. net.

" The great interest of the book lies in its pictures of certain aspects of social life (and especially of cultured Bohemian club life), which have now passed almost entirely away, and which reproduce in real life many of the scenes over which everybody has laughed in the pages of Dickens, Sala, and Thackeray." — Daily News.

NEW ZEALAND REVISITED. Recollections of the Days of My Youth. By The Right Hon. Sir John Eldon Gorst. With sixteen illustrations. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 12s. 6d. net.

" Mature and mellow with the judgment of a wise and far-reaching career. . . . Full of the fruits of keen observation and mature judgment. . . . The author's descriptions are bright and stimulat- ing to the fancy. . . . The volume is charmingly illustrated by a series of capital photographs and is in every way equipped in a fashion worthy of its literary and historical importance." — Daily Telegraph.

REMINISCENCES OF MY LIFE. By Sir Charles Santley. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, with 15 illustrations, 16s. net

" Not a trace of the weary veteran is discernible in this enter- taining volume, to the intrinsic interest of which its author's perennial youthfulness of spirit and almost boyish love of fun add a peculiar and an irresistible charm." — The World.

BELLES LETTRES

THE LETTERSiOF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. , Containing over 450 letters. [Collected and edited by Roger Ingpen. With 42 illustrations and two photogravures. In two volumes, large crown Svo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 25s. net.

This new collection of Shelley's correspondence contains, with a few fragments, about 480 letters, that is, considerably three times as many as have appeared in any one previous collection. These letters are derived from a large variety of sources ; either from the owners of the manuscripts, or from books most of which are out of print, and many are difficult to obtain, as well as from privately printed pamphlets, newspapers, and magazine articles, issued either in England or America. Nearly 40 of the letters are now printed for the first time, and over 50 others contain matter not hitherto published. The editor has supplied a series of bio- graphical notes on Shelley's correspondents, and has had an oppor- tunity of printing some particulars for the first time regarding Shelley's lesser-known correspondents. The letters are printed in chronological form and annotated, and the volumes are furnished with a full index.

The illustrations comprise a collection of portraits of Shelley and his friends, and views of the places associated with him, as well as facsimiles of his manuscripts.

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