_A Selection from the Catalogue of_ G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS ❦ Complete Catalogues sent on application The Art of Reading By Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch _8°_ Editor, novelist, poet, and critic, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch is one of the most versatile as well as distinguished living men of letters. His are fresh viewpoints, opening up ever new possibilities of appreciation for the reader at the same time that they educate his judgment. G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York London On the Art of Writing By Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch In a fresh and untrammeled manner the author deals with the craftsmanship as well as the content of letters. The scope of the volume is indicated by the appended chapter titles: “The Practice of Writing,” “On the Difference between Verse and Prose,” “Interlude,” “On Jargon,” “On the Special Difficulty of Prose,” “On the Lineage of English Literature,” “English Literature in our Universities.” G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York London Studies in Literature Second Series By Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch A new collection of essays which demonstrates the author’s peculiar ability to say something original about even the most threadbare subject. J. C. Squire in The Observer (London) says: “The man is rare who, with Sir Arthur’s combination of sense and sensibility, learning and levity, love of the exquisite and sympathy with the normal, can range over the whole field of ancient and modern literature and vitalize whatever he touches.” This volume includes essays on Byron, Shelley, Milton, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and “The Victorian Age.” G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York London Books and Folks By Edward N. Teall “Writing after having had unusual experience with books and people, and in a vein that is as creditable to the books as it must be pleasing to the people, his treatise is of great value.” _Evening Post_, July 9, 1921.