"These beautiful books owe their charm to the wonderful collection of photographs of gardens and garden architecture which such a paper as COUNTRY LIFE has had a unique opportunity of making. The principle conveyed in the letterpress is that held by all great gardeners and architects--that house and garden are, or should be, intimately associated, and that the character of the possessors should be reflected in both. The accounts of lovely garden after lovely garden are most agreeable reading. There is no country in the world where man-created sylvan beauty can be found comparable to this in England, and as albums of charming pictures for the garden lovers and a mine of elegant suggestion to the garden-maker, these volumes are the best thing of their kind we have ever seen."--_Daily Chronicle._ TWENTY-FIVE GREAT HOUSES OF FRANCE By SIR THEODORE ANDREA COOK, M.A., F.S.A. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OUTLINING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRENCH DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE By W.H. WARD, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A. Illustrations by FREDERICK H. EVANS. _Large folio, containing over 400 superb illustrations, plans and diagrams, with a map of France showing the position of each Chateau. Half bound in buckram, £2 12s. 6d. net; in half morocco, £3 2s. 6d. net; postage 1s. extra._ In this important work Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, author of "Old Touraine," "Old Provence," "Rouen," etc., perhaps the most sympathetic and skilful English writer on French history and the romantic associations which linger around the Chateaux of France, presents a pageant of the great figures who surrounded the throne of such kings as François Premier and Louis Quatorze. Louis of Orleans at Perrefonds, the Duke of Guise at Blois, Fouquet at Vaux le Vicomte, and Condé at Chantilly--these are typical of the story that the author unfolds, with a grasp so sure that the men and women live again, while their great houses are depicted with a wealth of illustration never before achieved or attempted. SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES: THEIR REPAIR AND ENLARGEMENT Forty Examples Chosen from Five Centuries By LAWRENCE WEAVER. _Large quarto, cloth, gilt, 18s. 9d. net. By post (inland) 19s. 6d. Foreign and Colonial post, 21s. 6d. Nearly 250 pages, and 300 illustrations._ The growing tendency to rescue old buildings from neglect and the important problems which are raised by such work prompted the issue of this book. Detailed descriptions reveal how houses of bygone days have been re-equipped as modern needs demand, without destroying the witness they bear to the old traditions of building. Incidentally, the author has shown in how many cases the records of modest little houses have been preserved, and how intimately their local story is woven into the larger fabric of national history. The book is an invaluable guide to all who are desirous of repairing an old house, and who wish to achieve it in the right spirit.