T. N. FOULIS'S NEW PUBLICATIONS 



THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM 



I OS. 6d. net. 



Containing sixteen illustrations in colour by 

 Frank Brangwyn, R.A. 



Crown 4to, buckram, los. 6d. net. 



Also 250 copies printed on Hand-made Paper and bound in 

 Vellum, ^3, 3s. net. 



The sumptuous virility of Mr Frank Branr^yn^ s work is specially 

 suitable for the purpose of sustaining and emphasising that element of 

 rich senuousness which, in spite of some critics, is surely the ground- 

 note of the whole impassioned song ; and the pagan beauty of the six- 

 teen coloured pictures into which Mr Brangioyn has translated the 

 royal imagery of the old Persian dreamer is a complete justification of 

 tiie choice. By ignoring the modern tendency to see Omar as a symbolist 

 on the one hand, or a pessimist on the other, Air Brangwyn has been 

 saved frotn the danger of luring the reader s eye away from the text 

 into a second region of dispersing fancies. His designs are as physical 

 as the poet's Eastern 7netaphors, and as heady with wine and sun. 

 Luscious yet subsidiary, they hang among the intervals of the poem 

 like tropical fruits on a great tree. They may be detached and enjoyed 

 singly, but if left in their place, they setTe only to biing out the pur- 

 pose of the poejn itself and do nothing to obscure its design. In addition 

 to these sixteen oil paintings, each page is richly bordered and the paper 

 used throughout is specially thick, a deckle-edged paper, exquisitely 

 silken to the touch. 



LOVE LETTERS OF A CHINESE LADY 



6s. net. 



Tninslated by Elizabeth Cooper. Containing many illustrations 

 in colour and in black and white. 



Quarto, 6s. net. 



These letters, here translated so beautifully a/td sympathetically, 

 2Verc written by Kwei-li, tlie wife of a Chinese official, to her husband 

 when he accompanied his master, Prince Chung, on a trip round the 

 world. 



The writer stands at the parting of the ways between the old civil- 

 ization of China and the 7nodern era 'which has now superseded it, and 

 indirectly reveals much of the beauty of the old patriarchal Chinese life, 

 of which so little is knoivn. As to the human story, so /novingin its 

 pathos and simplicity, its theme is universal and will find an echo in 

 all hearts. " // is the ivritten tvord of Kwei-li, who sends with each 

 stroke of her brush a part of her herrf" 



