A NEW SERIES OF COLOUR BOOKS

EACH CONTAINING 32 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Large Square Demy 8vo. Price 7/6 net each. Bound in Cloth.

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BULGARIA. By Frank Fox.

This book will give to the reader an adequate idea of a wild and little-known corner of Europe, but to those who look upon Bulgaria as a place of endless massacres and savage inhospitality the book will bring many surprises. The Bulgarian artist shows us a land in which civilisation is evident and art not unknown. The Australian author (who was with the Bulgarian Army as correspondent for the London Morning Post during the former Balkan War) writes of a people whom he found usually courteous, gentle, and worthy. His personal experiences of the Bulgarian peasantry are vividly interesting, and hardly less interesting is the brief sketch of the early history of Bulgaria, the country where the Roman Empire met its doom.

ITALY. By Frank Fox.

Messrs. A. & C. Black have published many books on the various cities of Italy with colour illustrations. But before this they have not offered to the public a handy volume giving a general idea of the country which was the cradle of Christian civilisation. Whether to tourists who contemplate a visit to Italy or to those who cannot hope for that pleasure, Italy will be welcome. The author has left to the vivid pictures the main task of describing Italian scenery, and devoted most of his text to telling of the spirit of the people and showing how the Italy of to-day is linked up with the Italy of the Roman Republic and the Italy of the Renaissance.

SWITZERLAND. By Frank Fox.

This volume will give to the reader a good knowledge not only of the scenery of Europe's playground but of the Swiss people and their life. A little nation which has supplied Europe at various times with bands of both heroes and waiters, which is celebrated alike for generous hospitality to refugees and the most strictly commercial hospitality to tourists, has a paradoxical aspect whatever way it is regarded. The author seeks to describe rather than to explain the Swiss, but gives a closely compressed record of their early history as some key to the curiously contradictory elements of their national character.

ENGLAND. By Frank Fox.

The task of describing England was for good reason given to a visitor to the Mother Country. It will be found that Mr. Frank Fox has done his work well. A stranger to England will have his attention drawn to the features of her life which are most characteristic: residents in England will find interest in studying an impression of their country from a sympathetic Australian observer. Within a very small compass there is a bright living picture of England, her history, her institutions, her people, her green country-side, her historic monuments.

FRANCE. By Gordon Home.

Mr. Gordon Home's chapters cover many aspects of French life, and give the reader a comprehensive vision of the land from Boulogne to Mentone and Bayonne. Political life, home life in town and country, the duel, marriage arrangements, the navy, architecture, the doctor, the priest, the midinette, the constitution, the great rivers, the watering-places, hunting, vine-growing, and school life are a few of the many topics that come in orderly sequence in the book. After reading the volume and studying the pictures, even those who know France well will probably understand some aspects of it more clearly, and those who have yet to cross the English Channel will go there understanding much that might otherwise puzzle them.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. By G. E. Mitton.

It was through Austria-Hungary that the great crisis in Europe arose. Yet how few people know anything about the country, although both in the matter of national history and scenery Austria-Hungary is well worth considering. Its story of romance, its scenery is not behind any in Europe, though, except for the Tyrol and the Dolomites, it is far from well known. In the reconstruction of political frontiers which will necessarily follow the War, the races of the Dual Monarchy will have to be taken into account, and it is essential to know something of them if we would be abreast of the times.

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