“Miss Lynch’s pages are thoroughly interesting and suggestive.  Her style, too, is not common.  It is marked by vivacity without any drawback of looseness, and resembles a stream that runs strongly and evenly between walls.  It is at once distinguished and useful....  Her five-page description (not dramatization) of the grasping Paris landlady is a capital piece of work....  Such well finished portraits are frequent in Miss Lynch’s book, which is small, inexpensive, and of a real excellence.”—­The London Academy.

“Miss Lynch’s book is particularly notable.  It is the first of a series describing the home and social life of various European peoples—­a series long needed and sure to receive a warm welcome.  Her style is frank, vivacious, entertaining, captivating, just the kind for a book which is not at all statistical, political, or controversial.  A special excellence of her book, reminding one of Mr. Whiteing’s, lies in her continual contrast of the English and the French, and she thus sums up her praises:  ‘The English are admirable:  the French are lovable.’ “—­The Outlook.

=II.—­GERMAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY=

By W. H. DAWSON, author of “Germany and the Germans,” etc.

“The book is as full of correct, impartial, well-digested, and well-presented information as an egg is of meat.  One can only recommend it heartily and without reserve to all who wish to gain an insight into German life.  It worthily presents a great nation, now the greatest and strongest in Europe.”—­Commercial Advertiser.

=III.—­RUSSIAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY=

By FRANCIS H. E. PALMER, sometime Secretary to H. H. Prince Droutskop-Loubetsky (Equerry to H. M. the Emperor of Russia).

“We would recommend this above all other works of its character to those seeking a clear general understanding of Russian life, character, and conditions, but who have not the leisure or inclination to read more voluminous tomes....  It cannot be too highly recommended, for it conveys practically all that well-informed people should know of ’Our European Neighbours.’”—­Mail and Express.

=IV.—­DUTCH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY=

By P. M. HOUGH, B.A.

“There is no other book which gives one so clear a picture of actual life in the Netherlands at the present date.  For its accurate presentation of the Dutch situation in art, letters, learning, and politics as well as in the round of common life in town and city, this book deserves the heartiest praise.”—­Evening Post.

“Holland is always interesting, in any line of study.  In this work its charm is carefully preserved.  The sturdy toil of the people, their quaint characteristics, their conservative retention of old dress and customs, their quiet abstention from taking part in the great affairs of the world are clearly reflected in this faithful mirror.  The illustrations are of a high grade of photographic reproductions.”—­Washington Post.