6 Mr. Edward Arnold's Spring Announcements 



A SUMMER ON THE CANADIAN 

 PRAIRIE. 



By GEORGINA BINNIE CLARK. 

 With Illustrations. Crown 8w. 6s. 

 This is a genial and breezy account of how two young English 

 ladies went out to Canada and joined their brother, who, with 

 another young Englishman, had taken up a grant of land in the 

 North-West and was trying to convert it into a farm. The story 

 is ' told like a novel,' but it is obviously founded very closely on 

 facts, and is realistic in the best sense of the word — a piece of 

 actual everyday life. The sisters do not fall in love with their 

 brother's partner, and the young men do not display any heroic 

 capacity for triumphing over difficulties. On the contrary, they 

 are rather an ordinary pair of amiable inefficient people, and they 

 fare accordingly. What happens is consequently very much 

 more amusing than if the book had been constructed to point a 

 moral, while there is plenty to be learned from it by those who 

 choose to read between the lines. 



AN ENGLISH STUDENT'S 

 WANDER-YEAR IN AMERICA. 



By A. G. BOWDEN-SMITH. 

 One Volume. Crown 8vo., cloth. 5s. net. 

 The author of this book has made a study of an aspect of 

 American life which will be novel to most English readers. She 

 was fortunate enough to be able to visit representative specimens 

 of every variety of higher educational centre — and in America 

 there are many varieties. Being fresh from the life of Newnham 

 College, she was peculiarly alert to note the points in which they 

 resembled and differed from the corresponding institutions in 

 England ; and she has traced with remarkable shrewdness the 

 resulting effects, not only in respect to education in the narrower 

 sense, but on individual character, and in the form of influences, 

 subtle and far-reaching, on social development. She had the 

 advantage of meeting the students on an equal footing, and so 

 gained many opportunities of seeing things as they are which an 

 ' educational expert ' of higher standing and authority could not 

 have enjoyed. But Miss Bowden Smith is herself an educational 

 expert in a very real sense, and readers of her comprehensive and 

 sympathetic survey will feel that they have gained a quite new 

 insight into the character of the American people. 



