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 THE PRINCESS MATHILDE BONAPARTE

By Philip W. Sergeant, Author of " The Last Empress of the French," etc.

Demy ^vo, cloth gilt, fully illustrated, 16/- net.

Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, the niece of the great Emperor, died only ten years ago. She was the first serious passion of her cousin, the Emperor Napoleon III, and she might have been, if she had wished, Empress of the French. Instead, she preferred to rule for half a century over a salon in Paris, where, although not without fault, she was known as ** the good princess."

FROM JUNGLE TO ZOO

By Ellen Velvin, F.Z.S., Author of ** Behind the Scenes with Wild Animals," etc.

Large crown Svo, cloth gilt, with many remarkable photographs, 6/- net,

A fascinating record of the many adventures to which wild animals and their keepers are subject from the time the animals are captured until their final lodgment in Zoo or menagerie. The author has studied wild animals for sixteen years, and writes from personal knowledge. The book is full of exciting stories and good descriptions of the methods of capture, transportation and caging of savage animals, together with accounts of their tricks, training, and escapes from captivity.

THE ADMIRABLE PAINTER : A study of Leonardo da Vinci

By A. J. Andbbson, Author of '* The Romance of Fra Filippo Lippi," *' His Magnificence," etc.

Demy Svo, cloth gilt, fully illustrated, 10/6 net.

In this book we find Leonardo da Vinci to have been no absorbed, religious painter, but a man closely allied to every movement of the brilliant age in which he lived. Leonardo jotted down his thoughts in his notebooks and elaborated them with his brush, in the modelJing of clay, or in the planning of canals, earthworks and flying-machines. These notebooks form the groundwork of Mr. Anderson's fascinating study, which gives us a better understanding of Leonardo, the man, ai well as the painter, than was possible before.

WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA

By Lieut. -Col. Andrew C. P. Haggard, D.S.O., Author of " Remarkable Women of France, 1431— 1749," etc.

Demy Svo, cloth gilt, fully illustrated, 16/- net,

Lieut.-Col. Haggard has many times proved that history can be made as fascinating as fiction.' Here he deals with the women whose more or less erratic careers influenced, by their love of display, th« outbreak which culminated in the Reign of Terror. Most of them lived till after the beginning of the Revolution, and some, like Marie Antoinette, Th^roigne de M6ricourt and Madame Roland, were sucked down in the maelstrom which their own actions had intensified.