Methuen’s General Literature
A Selection of Messrs. Methuen’s Publications
This Catalogue contains only a selection of the more important books published by Messrs. Methuen. A complete catalogue of their publications may be obtained on application.
Part I. General Literature
Ashby (Thomas)
Bain (F. W.)
A Digit of the Moon. The Descent of the Sun. A Heifer of the Dawn. In the Great God’s Hair. A Draught of the Blue. An Essence of the Dusk. An Incarnation of the Snow. A Mine of Faults. The Ashes of a God. Bubbles of the Foam. A Syrup of the Bees. The Livery of Eve. The Substance of a Dream. All Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net. An Echo of the Spheres. Wide Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
Balfour (Sir Graham)
Barker (Ernest)
Belloc (Hilaire)
Paris. The Pyrenees. Each 8s. 6d. net. On Nothing. Hills and the Sea. On Something. This and That and the Other. On. Each 6s. net. First and Last. On Everything. On Anything. Emmanuel Burden. Each 3s. 6d. net. Marie Antoinette. 18s. net. A History of England. In 5 vols. Vols. I, II and III. 15s. net each. Hills and the Sea. Illustrated in Colour by Donald Maxwell. 15s. net.
Birmingham (George A.)
Budge (Sir E. A. Wallis)
Bulley (M. H.)
Chandler (Arthur), D.D.
Chesterton (G. K.)
Clutton-Brock (A.)
Cottenham (The Earl of)
Crawley (Ernest)
Dolls’ House (The Queen’s)
Dugdale (E. T. S.)
Edwardes (Tickner)
Einstein (Albert)
Relativity: The Special and General Theory. 5s. net. Sidelights on Relativity. 3s. 6d. net. The Meaning of Relativity. 5s. net. The Brownian Movement. 5s. net. Other books on the Einstein Theory. An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity. By Lyndon Bolton. 5s. net. The Principle of Relativity. By A. Einstein, H. A. Lorentz, H. Minkowski and H. Weyl. With Notes by A. Sommerfeld, 12s. 6d. net.
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Erman (Adolph)
Fouquet (Jean)
Fyleman (Rose)
Fairies and Chimneys. The Fairy Green. The Fairy Flute. The Rainbow Cat. Eight Little Plays for Children. Forty Good-night Tales. Fairies and Friends. The Adventure Club. Forty Good-Morning Tales. Seven Plays for Children. Each 3s. 6d. net. A Small Cruse. 4s. 6d. net. The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book. Illustrated. 10s. 6d. net. Letty. Illustrated. 6s. net. A Princess Comes to our Town. Illustrated. 5s. net. A Little Christmas Book. Illustrated. 2s. net. The Rose Fyleman Calendar. Illustrated. 2s. 6d. net.
Gibbon (Edward)
Glover (T. R.)
Gosling (Harry), C.H., J.P., M.P.
Graham (Harry)
Grahame (Kenneth)
Hadfield (J. A.)
Hall (H. R.)
Hamer (Sir W. H.) and Hutt (C. W.)
Heine (Heinrich)
Herbert (A. P.)
Hewlett (Maurice)
Hind (A. M.)
Holdsworth (W. S.)
Hudson (W. H.)
Hutton (Edward)
Inge (W. R.), D.D., Dean of St. Paul’s
Kipling (Rudyard)
Barrack-Room Ballads. 246th Thousand.
The Seven Seas. 180th Thousand.
The Five Nations. 143rd Thousand.
Departmental Ditties. 111th Thousand.
The Years Between. 95th Thousand.
Lamb (Charles and Mary)
The volumes are: I. Miscellaneous Prose. II. Elia and the Last Essays of Elia. III. Books for Children. IV. Plays and Poems. V. and VI. Letters.
Lankester (Sir Ray)
Lodge (Sir Oliver)
Lucas (E. V.)
The Life of Charles Lamb. 2 Vols. £1 1s. net. Edwin Austin Abbey, R.A. 2 Vols. £6 6s. net. Vermeer of Delft. 10s. 6d. net. A Wanderer in Rome. A Wanderer in Holland. A Wanderer in London. London Revisited (Revised). A Wanderer in Paris. A Wanderer in Florence. A Wanderer in Venice. Each 10s. 6d. net. A Wanderer among Pictures. 8s. 6d. net. E. V. Lucas’s London. £1 net. Introducing London. Introducing Paris. Each 2s. 6d. net. The Open Road. 6s. net. Also, illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson, A.R.W.S. 10s. 6d. net. Also, India Paper. Leather, 7s. 6d. net. The Joy of Life. 6s. net. Leather Edition. 7s. 6d. net. Also India Paper. Leather, 7s. 6d. net. Fireside and Sunshine. Character and Comedy. Each 6s. net. The Gentlest Art. 6s. 6d. net. And The Second Post. 6s. net. Also, together in one volume. 7s. 6d. net. Her Infinite Variety. Good Company. One Day and Another. Old Lamps for New. Loiterer’s Harvest. Cloud and Silver. A Boswell of Baghdad. ’Twixt Eagle and Dove. The Phantom Journal. Giving and Receiving. Luck of the Year. Encounters and Diversions. Zigzags in France. Events and Embroideries. 365 Days (and One More). A Fronded Isle. Each 6s. net. Urbanities. Illustrated by G. L. Stampa. 5s. net. You Know What People Are. Illustrated by George Morrow. 5s. net. The Same Star: A Comedy in Three Acts. 3s. 6d. net. Little Books on Great Masters. Each 5s. net. Roving East and Roving West. 5s. net. Playtime and Company. 7s. 6d. net. “The More I See of Men...” 3s. 6d. net. See also Dolls’ House (The Queen’s) and Lamb (Charles).
Lucas (E. V.) and Finck (Herman)
Lynd (Robert)
McDougall (William)
An Introduction to Social Psychology (Twenty-first Edition). 10s. 6d. net. National Welfare and National Decay. 6s. net. An Outline of Psychology (Fourth Edition). 10s. 6d. net. An Outline of Abnormal Psychology. 15s. net. Body and Mind (Sixth Edition). 12s. 6d. net. Character and the Conduct of Life (Third Edition). 10s. 6d. net. Ethics and Some Modern World Problems (Second Edition). 7s. 6d. net.
Mackenzie (W. Mackay)
Mallet (Sir C. E.)
Maxwell (Donald)
Maeterlinck (Maurice)
The Blue Bird. 6s. net. Also, illustrated by F. Cayley Robinson. 10s. 6d. net. Death. 3s. 6d. net. Our Eternity. 6s. net. The Unknown Guest. 6s. net. Poems. 5s. net. The Wrack of the Storm. 6s. net. The Miracle of St. Anthony. 3s. 6d. net. The Burgomaster of Stilemonde. 5s. net. The Betrothal. 6s. net. Mountain Paths. 6s. net. The Story of Tyltyl. £1 1s. net. The Great Secret. 7s. 6d. net. The Cloud that Lifted and The Power of the Dead. 7s. 6d. net. Mary Magdalene. 2s. net.
Masefield (John)
Methuen (Sir A.)
An Anthology of Modern Verse. 137th Thousand.
Milne (A. A.)
Not that it Matters. If I May. The Sunny Side. The Red House Mystery. Once a Week. The Holiday Round. The Day’s Play. Each 3s. 6d. net. When We were Very Young. Sixteenth Edition. 169th Thousand. Winnie-the-Pooh. Sixth Edition. 91st Thousand. Now We are Six. Fourth Edition. 109th Thousand. Each illustrated by E. H. Shepard. 7s. 6d. net. Leather, 10s. 6d. net. For the Luncheon Interval. 1s. 6d. net.
Milne (A. A.) and Fraser-Simson (H.)
Montague (C. E.)
Morton (H. V.)
Oman (Sir Charles)
Oxenham (John)
Perry (W. J.)
Petrie (Sir Flinders)
A History of Egypt. In 6 Volumes.
Ponsonby (Arthur), M.P.
Raleigh (Sir Walter)
Smith (C. Fox)
Stevenson (R. L.)
Surtees (R. S.)
Taylor (A. E.)
Tilden (William T.)
Tileston (Mary W.)
Trapp (Oswald Graf)
Underhill (Evelyn)
Urwick (E. J.)
Vardon (Harry)
Waterhouse (Elizabeth)
Wilde (Oscar)
I. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and the Portrait of Mr. W. H. II. The Duchess of Padua. III. Poems. IV. Lady Windermere’s Fan. V. A Woman of No Importance. VI. An Ideal Husband. VII. The Importance of Being Earnest. VIII. A House of Pomegranates. IX. Intentions. X. De Profundis and Prison Letters. XI. Essays. XII. Salome, A Florentine Tragedy, and La Sainte Courtisane. XIII. A Critic in Pall Mall. XIV. Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde. XV. Art and Decoration. XVI. For Love of the King. (5s. net.) XVII. Vera, or the Nihilists.
Williamson (G. C.)