FROM SKETCH-BOOK AND DIARY
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
LETTERS FROM THE HOLY LAND
CONTAINING 16 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOURFROM PAINTINGS BY THE AUTHOR
“Charmingly natural and spontaneous travel impressions with sixteenharmonious illustrations. The glow, spaciousness and atmosphere of theseEastern scenes are preserved in a way that eloquently attests thepossibilities of the best colour process work.”—Outlook.
“The letters in themselves afford their own justification; the sketchesare by Lady Butler, and when we have said that we have said all.Combined, they make a book that is at once a delight to the eye and apleasure to handle. The coloured illustrations, marvellously wellreproduced, provide in a panoramic display faithful representations ofthe Holy Land as it is seen to-day. They make a singularly attractivecollection, worthy of the distinguished artist who painted them.”—St.James’s Gazette.
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THE HOUR OF PRAYER, A SOUVENIR OF WADY HALFA
FROM SKETCH-BOOK
AND DIARY
BY
ELIZABETH BUTLER
WITH TWENTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
AND TWENTY-ONE SMALL SKETCHES IN THE TEXT
BY THE AUTHOR
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, W.
BURNS AND OATES, 28 ORCHARD STREET, W.
1909
Dedication
TO MY SISTER, ALICE MEYNELL
I HAVE an idea of writing to you, most sympathetic Reader, of certaindays and nights of my travels that have impressed themselves withpeculiar force upon my memory, and that have mostly rolled by since youand I set out, at the Parting of the Ways, from the paternal roof-tree,within three months of each other.
First, I want to take you to the Wild West Land of Ireland, to a glen inKerry, whe