MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS OLD AND NEW: Two hundred subjects chosen from seven centuries. By LAWRENCE WEAVER, F.S.A. With Collotype Reproductions of 180 Photographs and 80 other illustrations. _Quarter bound, 15s. 8d. net; by post, 16s. 6d._ In this book the whole art of memorial design is for the first time examined in all its aspects--historical, critical and practical. Most of the monuments of recent years, and notably those which followed the South African War, reveal a lamentable poverty of design, and the chief aim of the book is to establish a better standard. To this end the development of memorial design in England since the Middle Ages is clearly set out, and all possible treatments of modern memorials are discussed, with an exceeding wealth of illustration. To all who contemplate setting up a memorial, whether it be a small tablet to an individual or a monument to a great body of men, this book offers essential guidance. _Morning Post._--"This beautifully printed and well-illustrated volume is at once a history and a plea--a history of memorials and monuments drawn from seven centuries, and a plea for better workmanship and finer taste than are generally shown in the stone and brasses set up in our churches and other public places. Its arrival is opportune. It will not be the author's fault if the lapidary sequel of the great War is not better than that of the South African Campaign. If architects and sculptors will work together there is hope of better things, and here to hand in this volume is description and illustration of 200 subjects, chosen from examples of the last 700 years, which they may study to the end of learning the rules in proportion, in the use of materials, the spacing of lettering, and the like.... We agree with Mr. Weaver that our English ideas of what is correct in memorials should be revised." _The Times._--"To guide and help those who need guidance in these matters." _The Athenæum._--"Many will be grateful for these timely and suggestive pages ... thoroughly well informed on the historical side of the question ... most catholic and soundly artistic in appreciation of certain exceptionally good work of the twentieth century." OUR COMMON SEA-BIRDS CORMORANTS, TERNS, GULLS, SKUAS, PETRELS, AND AUKS By PERCY R. LOWE, B.A., M.B., B.C. With Chapters by BENTLEY BEETHAM, FRANCIS HEATHERLEY, W.R. OGILVIE-GRANT, OLIVER G. PIKE, W.P. PYCRAFT, A.J. ROBERTS, etc. _Large quarto, cloth, gilt, with over 300 pages and nearly 250 illustrations. 18s. 9d. net. Post free (inland), 19s. 6d._ Unlike the majority of books dealing with birds, this volume is of interest to the general reader and to the student of ornithology alike. It is a book that enables the reader to identify our Sea-birds by name, to understand their movements, their habits, their nests and their eggs.