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 A CATALOGUE OF MEMOIRS OF MADEMOISELLE DES ECHEROLLES. Translated from the French by MARIE CLOTHILDE BALFOUR. With an Introduction by G. K. FORTESCUE, Portraits, etc. 5/. net. Liverpool Mercury. ". . . this absorbing book. . . . The work has a very decided historical value. The translation is excellent, and quite notable in the preservation of idiom." JANE AUSTEN'S SAILOR BROTHERS. Being the life and Adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet, and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen. By J. H. and E. C. HUBBACK. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 1 2s. 6d. net. Morning- Post. ". . . May be welcomed as an important addition to Austeniana . . .; it is besides valuable for its glimpses of life in the Navy, its illustrations of the feelings and sentiments of naval officers during the period that preceded and that which followed the great battle of just one century ago, the battle which won so much but which cost us Nelson." Globe. " The book is doubly fortunate in its appearance, for it appeals not only to the lovers of Jane Austen's novels, but also to those who value sidelights on the most stirring times of the Navy." POETRY AND PROGRESS IN RUSSIA. By ROSA NEWMARCH. With 6 full-page Portraits. Demy 8vo (9 x 5 J inches), js. 6d. net. %* This book deals ivith an aspect of Russian literature hitherto unjustly neglected in favour of the school of realistic fiction. Nevertheless, the poets of the earlier half of trie iqth century were the pioneers of the intellectual progress which culminated in i he work of that Pleiad of novelists : Gogol, Tourgeniev, Dostoievsky, and Tolstoi. The spirit of Russia can never be more than imperfectly understood by those who, without preparation, plunge straightway into this tide of realism which marks only the second stage in the evolution of the national genius. Mrs. Neivmarch's volume covers a period extending from the first publications of Poushkin, in 1814, to the death of Nadson, in i836, and consists of an Introduction and six studies, as follows '. Poushkin, the first and greatest of the Russian national poets ; Lermontov, the meteoric poet of the Romantic School; Koltsov, the Russian Burns; Nikitin, the singer of Russian rural life; Nekrassov, the poet of revolution ; and Nadson, whose work is characteristic of the decadence of Russian poetry. THE LIFE OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893). By his Brother, MODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY. Edited and abridged from the Russian and German Editions by ROSA NEWMARCH. With Numerous Illustrations and Facsimiles and an Introduction by the Editor. Demy 8vo. zu. net. Second edition. The Times. "A most illuminating commentary on Tchaikovsky's music." World." One of the most fascinating self-revelations by an artist which has been given to the world. The translation is excellent, and worth reading for its own sake." Contemporary Review. " The book's appeal is, of course, primarily to the music-lover ; but there is so much of human and literary interest in it, such intimate revelation of a singularly interesting personality, that many who have never come under the spell of the Pathetic Symphony will be strongly attracted by what is virtually the spiritual autobiography of its composer. High praise is due to the translator and editor for the literary skill with which she has prepared the English version of this fascinating work . . . There have been few collections of letters published within recent years that give so vivid a portrait of the writer as that presented to us in these pages."