The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer Volume 51 (Paperback, Annotated edition)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...and her idealism, runs counter to the advice of her best friends, and wins the day. The novel is said to have a strong bearing on one of the big topics of the day. Blue China. By B. M. Croker. $1.50. (Oct. IS.) The well known author in a dramatic story in which is unfolded a plot within a plot. Juvenile. The Child's Own Art Book. By Helen Strong and Maurice Le Cocq. 111. 4vo. $2.00. (Oct. 15.) Compiled by artists this work is designed to foster in children the real love of art. It contains twenty reproductions of world-famous paintings, accompanying each of which is a descriptive text, giving the story of the painting, and details in the life of the artist. History, Biography and Letters. The Cossacks: Their History and Countrv. By W. P. Cresson. $2.50. (Oct. 15.) Mr. Cresson was for years attached to the American Embassy in Petrograd, and is at present lecturer on International Law at Princeton University. Intimately acquainted with the past and present history of the Cossack people his book is said to be an authoritative work on the subject. Edward Jerningham and His Friends: A Book of Eighteenth Century Letters. Edited by Louis Bcttany. 8vo. $7.50. (Just out.) Edward Jerningham, a minor poet of the ISth century, is not only interesting for himself, but for the place he held among his contemporaries. Horace Walpole, Edmund Burke. Norton Nichols, the Countess of Jersey, and the sculptiess Mrs, Dotner, all these knew and wrote to Jerningham. Besides this correspondence, the book contains letters from the Rev. W. J. Temple, the spiritual advisor of Boswell. The letters are annotated with a great number of 18th century personalia. Pages and Portraits from the Past: Being the Private Papers of Sir William Hotham, G. C. B., Admiral of the Red. By A. M. Stirling...