By MRS. EDWARD HARDING. Twenty full page color illustrations, 25 in black and white. $5.00 net.
The glory of the illustrative work and the authoritative treatment by the author mark this book as one which will stand alone amidst the literature upon this popular flower. It is a thorough and complete guide to the culture of the peony and proves a fitting companion volume to the famous "Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing."
*The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria
By MORRIS JASTROW, JR., PH.D., LL.D. 140 illustrations. In a box. $7.00 net.
This work covers the whole civilization of Babylonia and Assyria and by its treatment of the various aspects of that civilization furnishes a comprehensive and complete survey of the subject. The language, history, religion, commerce, law, art and literature are thoroughly presented in a manner of deep interest to the general reader and indispensable to the historian, clergyman, anthropologist, and sociologist.
By JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND. Profusely illustrated. $3.50 net.
The kingdoms of wonder for the golfer, the automobilist and almost every other type of pleasure-seeker are revealed in this book. Mr. Hammond is an enthusiastic traveller and a skilful photographer. He believes in the pleasures that may be found in America. He has wandered about the South from White Sulphur to Palm Beach; Aiken, Asheville, Charleston, New Orleans, and many other places of fascinating interest have been stopping points upon his journeyings.
*English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans
*By ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON. Twenty-eight illustrations. $2.00 net.
Miss Wharton so enlivens the past that she makes the distinguished characters of whom she treats live and talk with us. She has recently visited the homelands of a number of our great American leaders and we seem to see upon their native heath the English ancestors of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, the Pilgrim Fathers and Mothers, the Maryland and Virginia Cavaliers and others who have done their part in the making of the United States.
*Quaint and Historic Forts of North America
*By JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND. Photogravure frontispiece and sixty-five illustrations. In a box. $5.00 net.
Mr. Hammond, in his excellent literary style, with the aid of a splendid camera, brings us on a journey through the existing old forts of North America and there describes their appearances and confides to us their romantic and historic interest. We follow the trail of the early English, French and Spanish adventurers, and the soldiers of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the later Civil and Indian Wars.