Macmillan & Co.'s Catalogue

"It is vital with the national character.... It has something of Pope's point and Goldsmith's simplicity, touched to a more modern issue."—Athenæum.

"The work of a clever, cultivated person, wielding a practised pen. The characters are drawn with force and precision, the dialogue is easy: the whole book displays powers of pathos and humour, and a shrewd knowledge of men and things."—Spectator.

The two volumes comprehend the First and Second Series of the Poems, and the New Poems. "Thyrsis is a poem of perfect delight, exquisite in grave tenderness of reminiscence, rich in breadth of western light, breathing full the spirit of gray and ancient Oxford."—Saturday Review.

"We can highly recommend it; not only for the valuable information it gives on the special subjects to which it is dedicated, but also for the interesting episodes of travel which are interwoven with, and lighten, the weightier matters of judicious and varied criticism on art and artists in northern capitals."—Art Journal.

"An admirable tale of adventure, of marvellous incidents, wild exploits, and terrible dénouements."—Daily News. "A story of adventure by sea and land in the good old style."—Pall Mall Gazette.

IN EXITU ISRAEL. An Historical Novel. Two Vols. 8vo. 21s.

"Full of the most exciting incidents and ably portrayed characters, abounding in beautifully attractive legends, and relieved by descriptions fresh, vivid, and truth-like."—Westminster Review.

LEGENDS OF OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTERS, from the Talmud and other sources. Two vols. Crown 8vo. 16s. Vol. I. Adam to Abraham. Vol. II. Melchizedek to Zachariah.

"These volumes contain much that is very strange, and, to the ordinary English reader, very novel."—Daily News.

"Lady Barker is an unrivalled story-teller."—Guardian.

STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

"We have never read a more truthful or a pleasanter little book."—Athenæum.

SPRING COMEDIES. Stories.

Contents:—A Wedding Story—A Stupid Story—A Scotch Story—A Man's Story. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

"Lady Barker is endowed with a rare and delicate gift for narrating stories,—she has the faculty of throwing even into her printed narrative a soft and pleasant tone, which goes far to make the reader think the subject or the matter immaterial, so long as the author will go on telling stories for his benefit."—Athenæum.

STORIES ABOUT:—With Six Illustrations. Third Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

This volume contains several entertaining stories about Monkeys, Jamaica, Camp Life, Dogs, Boys, &c. "There is not a tale in the book which can fail to please children as well as their elders."—Pall Mall Gazette.

A CHRISTMAS CAKE IN FOUR QUARTERS. With Illustrations by Jellicoe. Second Edition. Ex. fcap. 8vo. cloth gilt. 4s. 6d.

"Contains just the stories that children should be told. 'Christmas Cake' is a delightful Christmas book."—Globe.

RIBBON STORIES. With Illustrations by C. O. Murray. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth gilt. 4s. 6d.

"We cannot too highly commend. It is exceedingly happy and original in the plan, and the graceful fancies of its pages, merry and pathetic turns, will be found the best reading by girls of all ages, and by boys too."—Times.

SYBIL'S BOOK. Illustrated by S. E. Waller. Second Edition. Globe 8vo. gilt. 4s. 6d.

"Another of Lady Barker's delightful stories, and one of the most thoroughly original books for girls that has been written for many years. Grown-up readers will like it quite as much as young people, and will even better understand the rarity of such simple, natural, and unaffected writing.... That no one can read the story without interest is not its highest praise, for no one ought to be able to lay it down without being the better girl or boy, or man or woman, for the reading of it. Lady Barker has never turned her fertile and fascinating pen to better account, and for the sake of all readers we wish 'Sybil's Book's a wide success."—Times.

"Full of life and genius."—Court Circular.

The present work aims to afford information and direction touching the early efforts of France in poetical literature. "In one moderately sized volume he has contrived to introduce us to the very best, if not to all of the early French poets."—Athenæum.