MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. 13 

 THE SOUL OF A TURK. By Mrs. de Bunsen. 



With 8 Full-page Illustrations. Demy 8vo. los. 6^. net. 



*,.* JVe hear tf I\Ioslem ^'fanaticism " and Christian " superstition" but it is not easy 

 to find a beck which goes to the heart oj the matter. " The Soul of a Turk" is the 

 outcome of several journeys in Asiatic and European Turkey, notably one through the 

 Armenian provinces, down the Tigris on a raft to Baghdad and across the Syrian Desert 

 to Damascus. Mrs. de Bunsen made a special study of the various forms of religion 

 existing in those countries. Here, side by side with the fortnal ceremonial of the village 

 tnosque and the Christian Church, is the resort to Magic and Mystery, 



THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROBERT 



Stephen Hawker, sometime Vicar of Morwenstow in Cornwall. 

 By C. E. Byles. With numerous Illustrations by J. Ley 

 Pethybridge and others. Demy 8vo. 7/. 6d. net. 



Daily Telegraph. — " ... As soon as the volume is opened one finds oneself in the presence 

 of a real original, a man of ability, genius and eccentricity, of whom one cannot know 

 too much . . . No one will read this fascinating and charmingly produced book without 

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THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE. By Alexander 



Gilchrist. Edited with an Introduction by W.Graham Robertson. 

 Numerous Reproductions from Blake's most characteristic and 

 remarkable designs. Demy 8vo. \cs.6d. net. New Edition. 



Birmingham Post. — "Nothing seems at all likely ever to supplant the Gilchrist biography. 

 Mr. Swinburne praised it magnificently in his own eloquent essay on Blake, and there 

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GEORGE MEREDITH : Some Characteristics. 



By Richard Le Gallienne. With a Bibliography (much en- 

 larged) by John Lane. Portrait, etc. Crown 8vo. 5/. net. Fifth 

 Edition. Revised. 



Punch. — "All Meredithians must possess 'George Meredith; Some Characteristics,' by 

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 the novels, a sort of Meredithian Bradshaw, with pictures of the traffic superintendent 

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 of Mr. Le Gallienne." 



LIFE OF LORD CHESTERFIELD. An account 



of the Ancestry, Personal Character, and Public Services of the 

 Fourth Earl of Chesterfield. By W. H. Craig, M.A. Numerous 

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Times.—" It is the chief point of Mr. Craig's book to show the sterling qualities which 

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 his character, and to exhibit him as a philosophic statesman, not inferior to any of his 

 contemporaries, except Walpolc at one end of his life, and Chatham at the other." 



