Edward Arnold dh Co.'s Autumn Announcements. 5 



RUSSIA AND RUSSIAN ART. 



By SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY, M.P. 



FORMEBLY SlADB PrOFESSOR OP FiNE ArTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAM- 

 BRIDGE. Author op " Palestine and Morocco," etc. 



One volume. Demy Svo. Illustrated. 16s. net. 



The present condition of Art in Russia has received little attention 

 since the war, and Sir Martin Conway's visit this summer cannot 

 fail to throw much new light upon an extremely interesting subject. 

 Magnificent collections of pictures and priceless objects of Art 

 formerly existed in Petrograd and Moscow, but how far they have 

 suffered destruction or dispersal during the last few years is an open 

 question. The result of Sir Martin Conway's inquiries will be 

 extremely valuable to all students and lovers of Art in this country, 

 and his shrewd and impartial observations on the general state of 

 the country in 1924 will be especially welcome in view of the too 

 often one-sided and interested glimpses which reach us from the 

 interior of that darkened land. 



ADVENTURES OF CARL RYDELL. 



THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEAFARING MAN. 



Edited by ELMER GREEN. 



One Volume. Demy Svo. With Illustrations and Map. 18s.net. 



This is a thrilling tale of adventure by a sailor of the old school, 

 in various parts of the world. Carl Rydell is a Swede who began 

 his remarkable career in the Swedish Navy. But being of an unruly 

 disposition he soon got into trouble with the authorities, worked his 

 way out to America and had a chequered career for many years, 

 finally coming to anchor as Superintendent of the Nautical School 

 in the Philippine Islands. *' I am not proud of some of my doings," 

 he says, " but I have told the bad along with the good " ; and as few 

 men can have seen more of the seamy side of a sailor's life, his narra- 

 tive is extraordinarily interesting. In 1888 Rydell found himself in 

 San Francisco, and it was on the Pacific coast that most of the follow- 

 ing years were spent. That was the exciting period of the gold rush 

 to Alaska, the period of sea-otter hunting and fur-seal " piracy," 

 when bold men defied the law at the risk of their lives and were 

 ready to suffer incredible hardships in their lust for gold. Many 

 curious characters, the flotsam and jetsam of civilization, figure in 

 these pages, and the whole book is one of those rare human docu- 

 ments which a seafaring life occasionally creates for the enjoyment 

 of the stay-at-home reader. 



