MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. ii 

 GATES OF THE DOLOMITES. By L. Marion 



Davidson. With 32 Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. 

 Crown Hvo. Second Edition. 5s. net. 



%* Whilst many English books have appeared on the Lande Tirol, few have 

 given more than a chapter on the fascinating Dolomite Land, and it is in the hope 

 of helping other travellers to explore the mountain I. nd with less trouble and 

 inconvenience than fell to her lot that the author has penned these attractive 

 pages. The object of this book is not to inform the traveller h <\v to scale the 

 apparently inaccessible peaks of the Dolomites, but rather how to find the roads, 

 and thread the valleys, which lead him to the recesses of this most lovely part of 

 the world's face, and Miss Davidson conveys just the knowledge which is wanted 

 for this purpose ; especially will her map be appreciated by those who wish to 

 make their own plans for a tour, as it shows at a glance tlie geography of the 

 country. 



KNOWLEDGE AND LIFE. By William 



Arkwright. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net. 



%* This is a remarkably written book— brilliant and vital. Mr. Arkwright 

 illumines a number of subjects with jewelled flashes of word Iiarinonv and chisels 

 them all with the keen edge of his wit. Art, Letters, and Religion of different 

 appeals move before the reader in vari-coloured array, like the dazzling phan- 

 tasmagoria of some Eastern dream. 



CHANGING RUSSIA. A Tramp along the Black 



Sea Shore and in the Urals. By Stephen Grah.^m. Author of 

 " Undiscovered Russia," " A Vagabond in the Caucasus," etc. 

 With Illustrations and a Map. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net. 



%* In " Changing Russia," Mr. Stephen Graham describes a journey from 

 Rostof-on-the-Don to Batum and a summer spent on the Ural M untains. The 

 author has traversed all the region which is to be developed bv the new railway 

 from Novo-rossisk to Poti. It is a tramping diary with notes and reflections. 

 The book deals more with the commercial life of Russia than with that of the 

 peasantry, and there are chapters on the Russia of the hour, the Russian town, 

 life among the gold mmers of the Urals, the bourgeois, Russian journalism, the 

 intelligentsia, the election of the fourth Duma. An account is given of Rus-sia at 

 the seaside, and each of the watering places of the Black Sea shore is 

 described in detail. 



ROBERT FULTON ENGINEER AND ARTIST : 



HIS LIFE AND WORK. By H. W. Dickinson, A.M.I.Mech.E. 

 Demy 8vo. los 6d. net. 



%* No Biography dealing as a whole with the life-work of the celebrated 

 Robert Fulton has appeared of late years, in spite of the fact that the introduction 

 of steam navigation on a commercial scale, which was his greatest achievemeni 

 has recently celebrated its centenary. 



The author has been instrumental in bringing to light a mass of documentary 

 matter relative to Fulton, aud has thus been able to present the facts about him in 

 an entirely new 1 ight . The interesting but little known episode of his career as 

 an artist is for the first time fully dealt with. His sfay in France and his 

 experiments under the Directory and the Empire with the submarine and with 

 the steamboat are elucidated with the aid of documents preserved in tlie Archives 

 Nationales at Paris. His subsequent withdravvnl from France and his 

 employment by the British Cabinet to destroy the Boulogne flotilla that Napoleon 

 had prepared in 1804 to invade England are gone into fully. The latter part of his 

 career in the United States, spent in the introduction of steam navigation and in 

 the construction of the first steam-propelled warship, is of the greatest interest. 

 With the lapse of time facts assume naturallv their true perspective. Fultonl 

 instead of being represented, according to "the English point of view, as a 

 charlatan and even as a traitor, or from the Americans as a universal genius, is 

 cleared from these charges, and his pretensions critically examined, with the 

 result that he appears as a cosmopolitan, an earnest student, a painstaking 

 experimenter and an enterprising engineer. 



It is believed that practically nothing of moment in Fulton's career has been 

 omitted. The illustrations, which are numerous, are drawn in nearly every ca=e 

 from the original sources. It may confidently be expected, therefore, that this 

 book will take its place as the authoritative biographv which everyone interested 

 m the subjects enumerated above will require to possess. 



