MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. ii 
GATES OF THE DOLOMITES. By L. Marion 
Davidson. With 32 Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. 
Crown 8 vo. Second Edition. 5s. net. 
*** Whilst many English books have appeared on the Lande Tirol, few have 
given more than a chapter on the fascinating Dolomite Land, and it is in the hope 
of helping other travellers to explore the mountain land with less trouble and 
inconvenience than fell to her lot that the author has penned these attractive 
pages. The object of this book is not to inform the traveller how to scale the 
apparently inaccessible peaks of the Dolomites, but rather how to find the roads, 
and thread the valleys, which lead him to the recesses of this most lovely part of 
the world’s face, and Miss Davidson conveys just the knowledge which is wanted 
for this purpose ; especially will her map be appreciated by those who wish to 
make their own plans for a tour, as it shows at a glance the geography of the 
country. 
THE INTIMATE LETTERS OF HESTER 
PIOZZI AND PENELOPE PENNINGTON 1788-1821. 
Edited by Oswald G. Knapp. With 32 Illustrations. Demy 8vo„ 
1 6s. net. 
*** This work is a most important find and should arouse immense interest 
amongst the large number of persons whom the Johnson cult attracts to anything 
concerning Mrs. Piozzi. 
Mr. Knapps gives 198 letters dating; from 1788 to 1821. The letters are most 
delightful reading and place Mrs. Piozzi in a somewhat different aspect than she 
has been viewed in hitherto. The attitude of her Thrale daughters to her is 
shown to be quite unwarrantable, and her semi humorous acceptance of the 
calumny and persecution she suffered arouses our admiration. 
The Illustrations to this charming work have been mainly supplied from 
Mr. A. M. Broadley’s unique collection. 
CHANGING RUSSIA. A Tramp along the Black 
Sea Shore and in the Urals. By Stephen Graham. Author of 
“Undiscovered Russia,” “A Vagabond in the Caucasus,” etc. 
With Illustrations and a Map. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net. 
\* In “ Changing Russia,” Mr. Stephen Graham describes a journey from 
Rostof-on-the-Don to Batum and a summer spent on the Ural Mountains. The 
author has traversed all the region which is to be developed by the new railway 
from Novo-rossisk to Poti. It is a tramping diary with notes and reflections. 
The book deals more with the commercial life of Russia than with that of the 
peasantry, and there are chapters on the Russia of the hour, the Russian town, 
life among the gold miners of the Urals, the bourgeois, Russian journalism, the 
intelligentsia, the election of the fourth Duma. An account is given of Russia at 
the seaside, and each of the watering places of the Black Sea shore is 
described in detail. 
ROBERT FULTON ENGINEER AND ARTIST : 
HIS LIFE AND WORK. By H. W. Dickinson, A.M.I.Mech.E. 
Demy 8vo. ios 6d. net. 
No Biography dealing as a whole with the life-work of the celebrated 
Robert Fulton has appeared of late years, in spite of the fact that the introduction 
of steam navigation on a commercial scale, which was his greatest achievement 
has recently celebrated its centenary. 
The author has been instrumental in bringing to light a mass of documentary 
matter relative to Fulton, aud has thus been able to present the facts about him in 
an entirely new light . The interesting but little known episode of his career as 
an artist is for the first time fully dealt wfth. His sfay in France and his 
experiments under the Directory and the Empire with the submarine and with 
the steamboat are elucidated with the aid of documents preserved in the Archives 
Nationales at Paris. His subsequent withdrawal from France and his 
employment by the British Cabinet to destroy the Boulogne flotilla that Napoleon 
had prepared in 1804 to invade England are gone into fully. The latter part of his 
career in the United States, spent in the introduction of steam navigation and in 
the construction of the first steam-propelled warship, is of the greatest interest. 
With the lapse of time facts assume naturally their true perspective. 
It is believed that practically nothing of moment in Fulton’s career has been 
omitted. The illustrations, which are numerous, are drawn in nearly every case 
from the original sources. It may confidently be expected, therefore, that this 
book will take its place as the authoritative biography which everyone interested 
in the subjects enumerated above will require to possess. 
