FROM MR. MELROSE'S LIST. 



BELLES LETTRES. 



THE LOWLY ESTATE. 



A Book of Essays. 



Demy Svo, cloth, gilt top, 5s. net. 



THIS book, by an anonymous author, is one of the encouraging 

 signs that in these modern days the art of the Essay is reviving. 

 The chapters comprising the book are the intimate and, in large 

 measure, artless revelation of an unaffected mind, as well as a 

 fascinating picture of the simple life lived by a cultivated man of 

 scholarly and reflective instincts. It is a book difficult to char- 

 acterise, but probably it comes nearer to Gissing's " Private Papers 

 of Henry Ryecroft " than any book published since that work. 



ADVENTURES 

 IN CONTENTMENT. 



By DAVID GRAYSON. 

 Second Impression. Demy Sv0, gilt top, 5S. net. 



The Daily News says : " In his descriptions of nature there is, here 

 and there, a touch of the pensive beauty of 'The Road Mender/ 

 occasionally something of the clear sight of Richard Jefferies." 



The Evening Standard says : " Dekker's lines recur forcibly to the 

 memory when one reads this delightful series of eclogues." 



The Standard says : " There is a touch of uncommon distinction 

 about the best of these papers. . . . Altogether, 4 Adventures in Con- 

 tentment ' is a distinctly fresh and clever book." 



The Westminster Gazette says : " Mr. Grayson feels very vividly, 

 and his impressionism has an intimacy of feeling which gives a real 

 charm to his work. His impressions of men and women have the same 

 intimacy ; often enough they are quite slight, but they come home to us 

 very definitely and, above all, very sympathetically." 



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