Important OXFORD
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THE LIFE OF
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
By Robert Halsband
The first fully documented biography of this fascinating woman.
Mr. Halsband reveals some startling new facets of her private
life and her public career. Among these are her political sup–
port
of Walpole, who later reviled her, and the romantic reasons
for her Continental exile. Profusely illustrated; many of the
pictures have never before been reproduced.
·$7.00
UNDERTONES OF WAR
By Edmund Blunden
A new edition of the World War I classic which is still reckoned
to be the best English book about the war. The memoirs of a
young countryman, it is the product of a rare combination of
qualities-manliness and firmness, chivalry and .humor, tender–
ness and compassion. Above all, it is a poet's book, written
in a poet's prose, with a great love of nature and a large
Shakespearian understanding of the ways of a soldier. Mr.
Blunden has contributed a new introduction to this edition in
The World's Classics
(No. 553)
$1.50
FURTHER LEnERS OF
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
Including His Correspondence with Coventry Patmore
Second Edition, edited by CLAUDE COLLEER ABBOTT
The recent discovery of a large number of family and miscel–
laneous letters from Hopkins, to him and about him, made this
second edition of the Hopkins letters necessary. This volume
contains, so far as is known, all the Hopkins letters that have
come to
li~ht,
other than those to Robert Bridges and Richard
Watson D1xon.
Illustrated.
$11.50
MEMOIRS FROM
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
By F. M. Dostoevsky
Translated by Jessie Coulson
A new translation of the remarkable novel Dostoevsky based
on his own four-year exile in Siberia. Sent there when 29 years
old for reading, copying and discussing forbidden literature, he
nevertheless avoided bitterness and kept his human understand–
ing. His pictures of prison life are memorably vivid. Mrs.
Coulson, whose translation of
Crime and Punishment
was widely
acclaimed, again shows her mastery of both languages and her
comprehension of the Russian mind.
$3.50
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