As the long line of the mountain coast unfolded before me I had an optical illusion; it may be that many have had it before. As new lengths of coast and lines of heights were unfolded, I had the fancy that the whole land was not receding but advancing, like something spreading out its arms to the world. A chance shred of sunshine rested, like a riven banner, on the hill which I believe is called in Irish the Mountain of the Golden Spears; and I could have imagined that the spears and the banner were coming on. And in that flash I remembered that the men of this island had once gone forth, not with the torches of conquerors or destroyers, but as missionaries in the very midnight of the Dark Ages; like a multitude of moving candles, that were the light of the world. GLASGOW: WM. COLLINS SONS AND CO. LTD. ‘_Books published by the firm of Collins are invariably good to look at and good to read._’ MAN OF KENT in the _British Weekly_ SOME RECENT NOVELS _from_ MESSRS COLLINS’ LIST THE YOUNG PHYSICIAN By FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG ‘One of the most vital stories ever written.’--_Illustrated London News._ ‘Being written by his supple yet precise and sensitive pen, _The Young Physician_ is naturally lifted far above the average story in expression.’--_Morning Post._ ‘Giving its author’s best, and placing him high indeed on the æsthetic plateau.’--_Daily Chronicle._ _Extra Crown 8vo. 7s. net._ (_Second Impression._) _Read also by the same Author_ MARCHING ON TANGA _A New Edition with Six Coloured Plates._ ‘It is hard to recall a book about the war at once so imaginative and so real.’--_Westminster Gazette._ _Small 4to. 10s. 6d. net._ POEMS: 1916-1918 Handsomely Printed on Fine Paper _Large Crown 8vo. 5s. net._ CAPTAIN SWING: A PLAY By FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG AND W. EDWARD STIRLING _Large Crown 8vo. 2s. net._ Cousin Philip MRS HUMPHRY WARD Author of _The War and Elizabeth_, _Missing_, etc. _Cousin Philip_ is chiefly a study of the change which the war has brought about, on the modern girl and the relations of men and women. Helena, an orphan girl of great beauty and some wealth, has consented, to please her dying mother, to spend two years, from her 19th to her 21st birthday under the care of her guardian, Lord Buntingford, rather than go at once, as she herself wishes, to a University, in preparation for an independent life. She is headstrong, wilful, and clever; as keen intellectually as she is fond of dancing and flirting. Mrs Humphry Ward shows all her well-known skill in the handling of the subsequent situation, that skill which has made her books models of the novel writer’s art. Lord Buntingford’s modern yet chivalrous character, with his poetic personality, make him a charming figure. The _dénouement_ is unexpected. _Extra Crown 8vo. 7s. net._ RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY THE SAME AUTHOR A WRITER’S RECOLLECTIONS _Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net._ (_Third Impression_) The Young Physician