ISH LIFE & CHARACTER

By MARY MITFORD. Done with a delicate Dutch fidelity, these little prose
pastorals of Miss Mitford's would live were they purely imaginary--so
perfect is their finish, so tender and joyous their touch. But they
have, in addition, the virtue of being entirely faithful pictures of
English village life as it was at the time they were written. With
sixteen illustrations in colour by Stanhope Forbes, R.A. 350 pp.
Buckram, 5/- net. Leather, 7/6 net.

THE RIVER OF LONDON

By HILAIRE BELLOC. Everybody who has read the "Path to Rome" will learn
with gladness that Mr. Hilaire Belloc has written another book in the
same sunny temper, dealing with the oldest highway in Britain. It is a
subject that brings into play all those high faculties which make Mr.
Belloc the most genuine man of letters now alive. The record of the
journey makes one of the most exhilarating books of our time, and the
series of Mr. Muirhead's sixteen pictures painted for this book sets the
glittering river itself flowing swiftly past before the eye. 200 pp.
Buckram, 5/- net. Leather, 7/6 net.

SOME SCOTTISH BOOKS

THE KIRK & ITS WORTHIES

By NICHOLAS DICKSON and D. MACLEOD MALLOCH. Our Scottish kirk has a
great reputation for dourness--but it has probably kindled more humour
than it ever quenched. The pulpits have inevitably been filled by a race
of men disproportionately rich in "characters," originals, worthies with
a gift for pungent expression and every opportunity for developing it.
There is a fund of good stories here which forms a worthy sequel to Dean
Ramsay's Reminiscences and a living history of an old-world life. The
illustrations consist of sixteen reproductions in colour of paintings by
eminent Scottish artists. The frontispiece is the famous painting "The
Ordination of Elders." 340 pp. Buckram, 5/- net; Leather, 7/6 net.

SCOTTISH LIFE & CHARACTER

By DEAN RAMSAY. The Reminiscences of Dean Ramsay are a kind of literary
haggis; and no dish better deserves to be worthily served up. "Next to
the Waverley Novels," says a chief authority, "it has done more than any
other book to make Scottish customs, phrases, and traits of character
familiar to Englishmen at home and abroad. Mr. Henry W. Kerr's
illustrations provide a fitting crown to the feast. These pictures of
characteristic Scottish scenes and Scottish faces give colour to the
pen-and-ink descriptions, and bring out the fu