Mr. Edward Arnold's Autumn Announcements. 15 



A BOY IN THE COUNTRY. 



By J. STEVENSON, 



Author of " Pat M'Carty : his Rhymes." 



One VoUmie. With Illustrations. 5s. net. 



The scene of this charming book is laid in Ulster, which formed 

 such a happy hunting ground for the author in his previous volume. 

 The boy, recalling in after years the days of his youth, describes his 

 intense love of Nature's varying moods and the stimulus given to a 

 lively imagination by the legends and traditions of an old-world 

 country district. The bulk of the book is in prose, but a few poems 

 are interspersed showing that the hand of '' Pat M'Carty" has not 

 lost its cunning. Like that popular work, " A Boy in the Country " 

 '^ utters native wood-notes wild, which charm by their truth and 

 simplicity." The promise of the author was well summed up by the 

 Spectator, which said : *' Mr. Stevenson has true pathos, humour 

 both of a broad and playful kind, a musical tilt which carries us 

 pleasantly through his descriptive narrative verses, and here and 

 again an impressiveness of thought and a power of phrase-making in 

 prose and verse which should bring him success in both modes of 

 literary expression." It is for the reader to judge how far that 

 promise is fulfilled. 



DARLING DOGS. 



By Mrs. M. L. WILLIAMS, 



Author of "A Manual of Toy Dogs," etc. 



With Illustrations. One Vohime. Crown Svo. 5s. net. 



"Darling Dogs" gives an account of the lives, ways, and works 

 of two people, young when the book begins, middle aged at its end, 

 whose hearts are set on their four-footed family. As a newly- 

 married pair, delighted with their liberty to surround themselves 

 with the pets denied to them in childhood, they proceed to experi- 

 ment with dogs of various breeds, the characteristics of each intro- 

 duction being described. The droll self-sufficiency of Cheev, 

 the Dandie, with the truculence of his ally. Jumbo, the Area- 

 Pest, are combined with various reminiscences and recollections, 

 doggy and otherwise, of childhood and early life. Later on, 

 as the couple grow in years, and perhaps a little in wisdom, the 

 dogs settle down into a family of one breed, the clever little Dutch 

 tailless dog, the Schipperke. Carried on from generation to genera- 

 tion, these Schipperkes become quite human in their ways ; and then 

 comes a happy time when the two are blissfully happy in the 

 possession of their ideal dog ; and the whole-hearted blessedness 

 lonely people can find in the love of a dog is set forth in the life and 

 career of this prettiest and most charming of pets. Some of the 

 dogs are delightful, some quite the contrary, but they all really lived, 

 and the mistakes as well as the successes of their owners are 

 candidly acknowledged. 



