A Selection From — 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.
Bain (F. W.)—
A Digit of the Moon: a Hindoo Love Story. The Descent of the Sun: A Cycle of Birth. 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. 12s. 6d. net.
Balfour (Graham). THE LIFE OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Fifteenth Edition. In one Volume. Cr. 8vo. Buckram, 7s. 6d. net.
Belloc (H.)—
Paris, 8s. 6d. net. Hills and the Sea, 6s. net. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects, 6s. net. On Everything, 6s. net. On Something, 6s. net. First and Last, 6s. net. This and That and the Other, 6s. net. Marie Antoinette, 18s. net. The Pyrenees, 10s. 6d. net.
Bloemfontein (Bishop of). ARA CŒLI: An Essay in Mystical Theology. Seventh Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
FAITH AND EXPERIENCE. Third Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
THE CULT OF THE PASSING MOMENT. Fourth Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND REUNION. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
SCALA MUNDI. Cr. 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.
Chesterton (G. K.)—
The Ballad of the White Horse. All Things Considered. Tremendous Trifles. Alarms and Discursions. A Miscellany of Men. All Fcap. 8vo. 6s. net. Wine, Water, and Song. Fcap. 8vo. 1s. 6d. net. The Uses of Diversity. 6s. net.
Clutton-Brock (A.). WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN? Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.
ESSAYS ON ART. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.
ESSAYS ON BOOKS. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. net.
MORE ESSAYS ON BOOKS. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. net.
Cole (G. D. H.). SOCIAL THEORY. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
Conrad (Joseph). THE MIRROR OF THE SEA: Memories and Impressions. Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. net.
Einstein (A.). RELATIVITY: THE SPECIAL AND THE GENERAL THEORY. Translated by Robert W. Lawson. Third Edition Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
Eliot (T. S.). THE SACRED WOOD: Essays on Poetry. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. net.
Fyleman (Rose.). FAIRIES AND CHIMNEYS. Fcap. 8vo. Eighth Edition. 3s. 6d. net.
THE FAIRY GREEN. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
Gibbins (H. de B.). INDUSTRY IN ENGLAND: HISTORICAL OUTLINES. With Maps and Plans. Tenth Edition. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. With 5 Maps and a Plan. Twenty-seventh Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s.
Gibbon (Edward). THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Edited, with Notes, Appendices, and Maps, by J. B. Bury. Illustrated. Seven Volumes. Demy 8vo. Illustrated. Each 12s. 6d. net. Also in Seven Volumes. Cr. 8vo. Each 7s. 6d. net.
Glover (T. R.). THE CONFLICT OF RELIGIONS IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE. Ninth Edition. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
POETS AND PURITANS. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
FROM PERICLES TO PHILIP. Third Edition. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
VIRGIL. Fourth Edition. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION AND ITS VERIFICATION. (The Angus Lecture for 1912.) Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. 6s. net.
Grahame (Kenneth). THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Eleventh Edition. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
Hall (H. R.). THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE NEAR EAST FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS. Illustrated. Fifth Edition. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.
Hawthorne (Nathaniel). THE SCARLET LETTER. With 31 Illustrations in Colour by Hugh Thomson. Wide Royal 8vo. 31s. 6d. net.
Holdsworth (W. S.). A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW. Vols. I., II., III. Each Second Edition. Demy 8vo. Each 15s. net.
Inge (W. R.). CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM. (The Bampton Lectures of 1899.) Fourth Edition. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
Jenks (E.). AN OUTLINE OF ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Fourth Edition. Revised by R. C. K. Ensor. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1911. Second Edition, revised. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
Julian (Lady) of Norwich. REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE. Edited by Grace Warrack. Seventh Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
Keats (John). POEMS. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by E. de Sélincourt. With a Frontispiece in Photogravure. Fourth Edition. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
Kidd (Benjamin). THE SCIENCE OF POWER. Ninth Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
SOCIAL EVOLUTION. Demy 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.
Kipling (Rudyard). BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. 208th Thousand. Cr. 8vo. Buckram, 7s. 6d. net. Also Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 6s. net; leather, 7s. 6d. net.
Also a Service Edition. Two Volumes. Square fcap. 8vo. Each 3s. net.
THE SEVEN SEAS. 157th Thousand. Cr. 8vo. Buckram, 7s. 6d. net. Also Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 6s. net; leather, 7s. 6d. net.
Also a Service Edition. Two Volumes. Square fcap. 8vo. Each 3s. net.
THE FIVE NATIONS. 126th Thousand. Cr. 8vo. Buckram, 7s. 6d. net. Also Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 6s. net; leather, 7s. 6d. net.
Also a Service Edition. Two Volumes. Square fcap. 8vo. Each 3s. net.
DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. 94th Thousand. Cr. 8vo. Buckram, 7s. 6d. net. Also Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 6s. net; leather, 7s. 6d. net.
Also a Service Edition. Two Volumes. Square fcap. 8vo. Each 3s. net.
THE YEARS BETWEEN. Cr. 8vo. Buckram, 7s. 6d. net. Also on thin paper. Fcap. 8vo. Blue cloth, 6s. net; Limp lambskin, 7s. 6d. net.
Also a Service Edition. Two Volumes. Square fcap. 8vo. Each 3s. net.
HYMN BEFORE ACTION. Illuminated. Fcap. 4to. 1s. 6d. net.
RECESSIONAL. Illuminated. Fcap. 4to. 1s. 6d. net.
TWENTY POEMS FROM RUDYARD KIPLING. 360th Thousand. Fcap. 8vo. 1s. net.
Lamb (Charles and Mary). THE COMPLETE WORKS. Edited by E. V. Lucas. A New and Revised Edition in Six Volumes. With Frontispieces. Fcap. 8vo. Each 6s. net.
The volumes are:—
I. Miscellaneous Prose. II. Elia and the Last Essay of Elia. III. Books for Children. IV. Plays and Poems V. and VI. Letters.
THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. With an Introduction by E. V. Lucas, and 28 Illustrations by A. Garth Jones. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.
Lankester (Sir Ray). SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR. Illustrated. Thirteenth Edition. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
MORE SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR. Illustrated. Third Edition. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST. Illustrated. Third Edition. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
SECRETS OF EARTH AND SEA. Cr. 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.
Lodge (Sir Oliver). MAN AND THE UNIVERSE: A Study of the Influence of the Advance in Scientific Knowledge upon our Understanding of Christianity. Ninth Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
THE SURVIVAL OF MAN: A Study in Unrecognised Human Faculty. Seventh Edition. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
MODERN PROBLEMS. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
RAYMOND; or Life and Death. Illustrated. Twelfth Edition. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.
Lucas (E. V.).—
The Life of Charles Lamb, 2 vols., 21s. net. A Wanderer in Holland, 10s. 6d. net. A Wanderer in London, 10s. 6d. net. London Revisited, 10s. 6d. net. A Wanderer in Paris, 10s. 6d. net and 6s. net. A Wanderer in Florence, 10s. 6d. net. A Wanderer in Venice, 10s. 6d. net. The Open Road: A Little Book for Wayfarers, 6s. 6d. net and 7s. 6d. net. The Friendly Town: A Little Book for the Urbane, 6s. net. Fireside and Sunshine, 6s. net. Character and Comedy, 6s. net. The Gentlest Art: A Choice of Letters by Entertaining Hands, 6s. 6d. net. The Second Post, 6s. net. Her Infinite Variety: A Feminine Portrait Gallery, 6s. net. Good Company: A Rally of Men, 6s. net. One Day and Another, 6s. net. Old Lamps for New, 6s. net. Loiterer’s Harvest, 6s. net. Cloud and Silver, 6s. net. A Boswell of Baghdad, and other Essays, 6s. net. ’Twixt Eagle and Dove, 6s. net. The Phantom Journal, and other Essays and Diversions, 6s. net. Specially Selected: A Choice of Essays, 7s. 6d. net. The British School: An Anecdotal Guide to the British Painters and Paintings in the National Gallery, 6s. net. Travel Notes.
McDougall (William). AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. Sixteenth Edition. Cr. 8vo. 8s. net.
BODY AND MIND: A History and a Defence of Animism. Fifth Edition. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
Maeterlinck (Maurice)—
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts, 6s. net. Mary Magdalene; A Play in Three Acts, 5s. 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: A Play in One Act, 3s. 6d. net. The Burgomaster of Stilemonde: A Play in Three Acts, 5s. net. The Betrothal; or, The Blue Bird Chooses, 6s. net. Mountain Paths, 6s. net. The Story of Tyltyl, 21s. net.
Milne (A. A.). The Day’s Play. The Holiday Round. Once a Week. All Cr. 8vo. 7s. net. Not that it Matters. Fcap 8vo. 6s. net. If I May. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. net.
Oxenham (John)—
Bees in Amber; A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse. All’s Well: A Collection of War Poems. The King’s High Way. The Vision Splendid. The Fiery Cross. High Altars: The Record of a Visit to the Battlefields of France and Flanders. Hearts Courageous. All Clear! Winds of the Dawn. All Small Pott 8vo. Paper, 1s. 3d. net; cloth boards, 2s. net. Gentlemen—The King, 2s. net.
Petrie (W. M. Flinders). A HISTORY OF EGYPT. Illustrated. Six Volumes. Cr. 8vo. Each 9s. net.
Vol. I. From the Ist to the XVIth Dynasty. Ninth Edition. (10s. 6d. net.)
Vol. II. The XVIIth and XVIIIth Dynasties. Sixth Edition.
Vol. III. XIXth to XXXth Dynasties. Second Edition.
Vol. IV. Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty. J. P. Mahaffy. Second Edition.
Vol. V. Egypt under Roman Rule. J. G. Milne. Second Edition.
Vol. VI. Egypt in the Middle Ages. Stanley Lane Poole. Second Edition.
SYRIA AND EGYPT, FROM THE TELL EL AMARNA LETTERS. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
EGYPTIAN TALES. Translated from the Papyri. First Series, IVth to XIIth Dynasty. Illustrated. Third Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
EGYPTIAN TALES. Translated from the Papyri. Second Series, XVIIITH to XIXTH Dynasty. Illustrated. Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
Pollard (A. F.). A SHORT HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR. With 19 Maps. Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
Price (L. L.). A SHORT HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN ENGLAND FROM ADAM SMITH TO ARNOLD TOYNBEE. Tenth Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
Reid (G. Archdall). THE LAWS OF HEREDITY. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. £1. 1s. net.
Robertson (C. Grant). SELECT STATUTES, CASES, AND DOCUMENTS, 1660-1832. Third Edition. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.
Selons (Edmund). TOMMY SMITH’S ANIMALS. Illustrated. Nineteenth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
TOMMY SMITH’S OTHER ANIMALS. Illustrated. Eleventh Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
TOMMY SMITH AT THE ZOO. Illustrated. Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 9d.
TOMMY SMITH AGAIN AT THE ZOO. Illustrated. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 9d.
JACK’S INSECTS. Popular Edition. Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
JACK’S OTHER INSECTS. Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
Shelley (Percy Bysshe). POEMS. With an Introduction by A. Clutton-Brock and Notes by C. D. Locock. Two Volumes. Demy 8vo. £1 1s. net.
Smith (Adam). THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. Edited by Edwin Cannan. Two Volumes. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. £1 10s. net.
Stevenson (R. L.). THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Edited by Sir Sidney Colvin. A New Rearranged Edition in four volumes. Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Each 6s. net.
Surtees (R. S.). HANDLEY CROSS. Illustrated. Ninth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
MR. SPONGE’S SPORTING TOUR. Illustrated. Fifth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
ASK MAMMA: or, THE RICHEST COMMONER IN ENGLAND. Illustrated. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
JORROCKS’S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES. Illustrated. Seventh Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. net.
MR. FACEY ROMFORD’S HOUNDS. Illustrated. Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
HAWBUCK GRANGE; or, THE SPORTING ADVENTURES OF THOMAS SCOTT, Esq. Illustrated. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. net.
PLAIN OR RINGLETS? Illustrated. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
HILLINGDON HALL. With 12 Coloured Plates by Wildrake, Heath, and Jellicoe. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
Tilden (W. T.). THE ART OF LAWN TENNIS. Illustrated. Cr. 8vo. 6s. net.
Tileston (Mary W.). DAILY STRENGTH FOR DAILY NEEDS. Twenty-seventh Edition. Medium 16mo. 3s. 6d. net.
Underhill (Evelyn). MYSTICISM. A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness. Eighth Edition. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.
Vardon (Harry). HOW TO PLAY GOLF. Illustrated. Thirteenth Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.
Waterhouse (Elizabeth). A LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH. Twentieth Edition. Small Pott 8vo. Cloth, 2s. 6d. net.
Wells (J.). A SHORT HISTORY OF ROME. Seventeenth Edition. With 3 Maps. Cr. 8vo. 6s.
Wilde (Oscar). THE WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE. Fcap. 8vo. Each 6s. 6d. net.
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. Salomé, A Florentine Tragedy, and La Sainte Courtisane. XIII. A Critic in Pall Mall. XIV. Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde. XV. Art and Decoration.
A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES. Illustrated. Cr. 4to. 21s. net.
Yeats (W. B.). A BOOK OF IRISH VERSE. Fourth Edition. Cr. 8vo. 7s. net.