The lives of Leopold I., Leopold II., and King Albert told with a wealth of intimate detail which up till now has been withheld, the true story of the Belgian Revolution, untold by any English writer ere this, and much that is new and interesting about all the leading people in Belgium, from Royalties to Anarchists. The author describes the Belgian people, their mode of living, their thrift, their industry--the country itself, the forests, the mining districts, the crowded cities--and throws fresh light on many aspects of Belgian politics. +THE BONDS OF AFRICA.+ By Owen Letcher, F.R.G.S., Author of "Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia." With 50 Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. Demy 8vo. Price 12_s._ 6_d._ net. Mr. Owen Letcher is a young Englishman who has spent the past eleven years in Africa and has wandered into well-nigh unknown portions of the Dark Continent to hunt big game and to pry into the lives of the natives inhabitant of the remotest corners of it. Quite apart from its value to the traveller, the sportsman, and the student of natural history, the book possesses a remarkable human interest. Mr. Letcher knows Africa from Cape Town to the City of the Pharaohs, and, as the work covers an enormous field of but little known land in Southern, North-Western and North-Eastern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, British East Africa, and Uganda, its merits from a geographical point of view are undoubted. +MADAME DU BARRY.+ By Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. With Photogravure and numerous other Portraits. Demy 8vo. Price 12_s_. 6_d_. net. One of the most marvellously minute and realistic specimens of biography to be found. No pains have been spared to obtain all the information available with reference to the extraordinary woman who, born out of wedlock in the little French town of Vaucouleurs, became the mistress of Louis XV., and after a career of reckless extravagance, perished on the guillotine. +STORIES OF SOCIETY.+ By Charles E. Jerningham ("Marmaduke" of _Truth_). With numerous Portraits. Demy 8vo. Price 10_s_. 6_d_. net. In his life spent amongst the clubs and the drawing-rooms of Mayfair the author (for more than twenty years "Marmaduke" of _Truth_) has become familiar with the skeletons lurking in the cupboards of Society, and there is no writer of to-day who is more fully or happily equipped to fulfil the function of a social satirist. +THE PURPOSE: Reflections and Digressions.+ By Hubert Wales. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. Price 5_s_. net. Mr. Hubert Wales' object in this book is to discuss serious subjects in a style and within a compass compatible with modern exigencies and habits. No longer the hidden operator pulling the strings that move his puppets, he draws aside the curtain, appears in his own person, and talks familiarly with his readers upon such absorbing and vital topics as Life and Death, Ethics, Sex and Beauty.