CHAPTER XX.

PLYMOUTH

Plymouth Sound--The river Plym--Its real name--Sutton--Plympton--A cradle of naval adventure--The Hawkins family--Sir John Hawkins--Sir Francis Drake--"Singeing the King of Spain's beard"--The invincible Armada--Song of--Statue of Drake--The Eddystone--Its lighthouses--The neighbourhood of Plymouth--Hamoaze--The Lynher--S. Germans--Cawsand Bay--Smuggling--Lady's Rock--Millbrook--Landrake--S. Indract--Sir Joshua Reynolds--Dewerstone--Peacock Bridge--Childe the Hunter.

When a sailor heard the song sung, to which this is the refrain:--

"O dear Plymouth town! and O blue Plymouth Sound, O where is your equal on earth to be found?"

he said, "Them's my opinions, to the turn of a hair."

About Plymouth town I am not so confident, but as to the Sound it is not easily surpassed. The Bay of Naples has Vesuvius, and above an Italian sky, but lacks the wealth of verdure of Mount Edgcumbe, and has none of those wondrous inlets that make of Plymouth Sound a figure of a watery hand displayed, and of the Three Towns a problem in topography which it requires long experience to solve.

The name of the place is a misnomer.

Plym is not the name of the river which has its mouth where the town squats. Plym is the contraction for Pen-lynn, the head of the lake, and was given originally to Plympton, where are the remains of a castle, and where are still to be seen the iron rings to which vessels were moored. But just as the Taw-ford (_ridd_) has contributed a name to the river Torridge, above the ford, so has Pen-lynn sent its name down the stream and given it to Plymouth. Pelynt in Cornwall is likewise a Pen-lynn.

What the original name of the river was is doubtful. Higher up, where it comes rioting down from the moor, above the Dewerstone is Cadover Bridge, not the bridge _over_ the Cad, but Cadworthy Bridge. Perhaps the river was the Cad, so called from _caed_, contracted, shut within banks, very suitable to a river emerging from a ravine. A witty friend referring to "the brawling Cad," the epithet applied to it by the poet Carrington, said that it was not till the institution of chars-a-bancs and early-closing days in Plymouth that _he_ ever saw "the brawling cad" upon Dartmoor; since then he has seen a great deal too much of the article.

Plymouth as a town is comparatively modern. When Domesday was compiled nothing was known of it, but there was a Sutton--South Town--near the pool, which eventually became the port of old Plymouth.

It first acquired some consequence when the Valletorts had a house near where is now the church of S. Andrew.

There was, however, a _lis_ or enclosed residence of a chief, if we may accept the Domesday manor of Lisistone[39] as thence derived. And there have been early relics turned up occasionally. But no real consequence accrued to the place till the Valletorts set up house there in the reign of Henry I.

[39] Now Lipson.

The old couplet, applied with variations to so many places in the kingdom, and locally running:

"Plympton was a borough town When Plymouth was a vuzzy down,"

was true enough. Plympton at the time of the Conquest was head of the district, and there were then canons there in the monastery, which dates back at least to the reign of Edgar, probably to a much earlier period. The priors of Plympton got a grant of land in Sutton, which they held as lords of the manor till 1439. It was not till the end of the thirteenth century that the name of Plymouth came to knowledge and the place began to acquire consequence. But it was not till the days of good Queen Bess that the place became one of prime importance.

"In the latter half of the sixteenth century," says Mr. Worth, "Devonshire was the foremost county in England, and Plymouth its foremost town. Elizabeth called the men of Devonshire her right hand, and so far carried her liking for matters Devonian, that one of the earliest passports of Raleigh to her favour was the fact that he talked the broadest dialect of the shire, and never abandoned it for the affected speech current at court."[40]

[40] WORTH (R. N.), _History of Plymouth_, 1890, p. 39. I shall quote much from this admirable work, not only full of information, but written in a charming style.

The importance of Plymouth as a starting-point for discovery, and as the cradle of our maritime power, must never be forgotten.

Old Carew says:--

"Here have the troops of adventurers made their _rendezvous_ for attempting new discoveries or inhabitances, as Thomas Stukeleigh for Florida, Sir Humfrey Gilbert for Newfoundland, Sir Richard Grenville for Virginia, Sir Martin Frobisher and Master Davies for the North-West Passage, Sir Walter Raleigh for Guiana."

It is indeed no exaggeration to say that in the reign of Elizabeth Plymouth had become the foremost port in England.

"If any person desired to see her English worthies, Plymouth was the likeliest place to seek them. All were in some fashion associated with the old town. These were days when men were indifferent whether they fought upon land or water, when the fact that a man was a good general was considered the best of all reasons why he should be a good admiral likewise. '_Per mare per terram_' was the motto of Elizabeth's true-born Englishmen, and familiar and dear to them was Plymouth, with its narrow streets, its dwarfish quays, its broad waters, and its glorious Hoe."

The roll of Plymouth's naval heroes begins with the Hawkins family, and one looks in vain in modern Plymouth for some statue to commemorate the most illustrious of her sons.

These Hawkinses were a remarkable race. "Gentlemen," as Prince says, "of worshipful extraction for several descents," they were made more worshipful by their deeds.

"For three generations in succession they were the master-spirits of Plymouth in its most illustrious days; its leading merchants, its bravest sailors, serving oft and well in the civic chair and the Commons House of Parliament. For three generations they were in the van of English seamanship, founders of England's commerce in South, West, and East, stout in fight, of quenchless spirit in adventure--a family of merchant statesmen and heroes to whom our country affords no parallel."[41]

[41] WORTH.

The early voyages of Sir John Hawkins were to the Canary Isles. In 1562 he made his first expedition in search of negroes to sell in Hispaniola, so that he was not squeamish in the matter of the trade in human flesh. But in 1567 he made an expedition ever memorable, for his were the first English keels to furrow that hitherto unknown sea, the Bay of Mexico. He had with him a fleet of six ships, two of which were royal vessels, the rest were his own, and one of these, the _Judith_, was commanded by his kinsman, Francis Drake. Whilst in the port of S. Juan de Ulloa Hawkins was treacherously assailed, and lost all the vessels, with the exception of two, of which one was the _Judith_. When his brother William heard of the disaster he begged Elizabeth to allow him to make reprisals on his own account; and on the return of John "it may fairly be said that Plymouth declared war against Spain. Hawkins and Drake thereafter never missed a chance of making good their losses. The treachery of San Juan de Ulloa was the moving cause of the series of harassments which culminated in the destruction of the Armada. For every English life then lost, for every pound of English treasure then taken, Spain paid a hundred and a thousand fold."

In the following year, at Rio de la Flacho, whilst getting in supplies, he was attacked by Michael de Castiliano with a thousand men. Hawkins had but two hundred under his command; however, he drove the Spaniards back, entered the town, and carried off the ensign, for which, on his return, he was granted an addition to his arms--on a canton, gold, an escalop between two palmers' staves, sable.

In 1573 Hawkins was chosen by the queen "as the fittest person in her dominions to manage her naval affairs," and for twenty-one years served as Controller of the Navy. It was through his wise provision, by his resolution, in spite of the niggardliness wherewith Elizabeth doled out money, that "when the moment of trial came," says Froude, "he sent her ships to sea in such condition--hull, rigging, spars, and running rope--that they had no match in the world."

About the Armada presently.

In 1595 Hawkins and Drake were together sent to the West Indies in command of an expedition. But they could not agree. Hawkins wanted at once to sail for America, Drake to hover about the Canaries to intercept Spanish galleons. The disagreement greatly irritated old Sir John, unaccustomed to have his will opposed. Then he learned that one of his vessels, named the _Francis_, had been taken by the Spaniards. Grief at this, and annoyance caused by the double command, brought on a fever, and he died at sea, November 15th, 1595.

Old Prince says, in drawing a parallel between him and Drake, "In their deaths they were not divided, either in respect of the cause thereof, for they died both heart-broken; the one, for that being in joint commission with the other, his advice and counsel was neglected; the other, for the ill success with which his last voyage was attended. Alike they were also in their deaths; as to the place, for they both died on the sea; as to the time, they both expired in the same voyage, the one a little before the other, about the interspace of a few months; and lastly, as to their funerals, for they were both buried in the ocean, over which they had both so often rid in triumph."

The elder brother of Sir John, William, the patriarch of the port, was Mayor of Plymouth in the Armada year. William's son, Sir Richard Hawkins, sailed in 1593 from Plymouth with five vessels to the South Seas, and was taken by the Spaniards. From various causes the fleet was reduced to the single vessel the _Dainty_, which he himself commanded. Manned by seventy-five men only, she was assailed by eight Spanish vessels with crews of 1300. Nevertheless, like Sir Richard Grenville, of the _Revenge_, he showed lusty fight, which was kept up for three days, and he did not surrender till he had himself been wounded six times, and then only when he had secured honourable terms, which the false scoundrels broke, by sending their prisoners to Spain, instead of allowing them, as was undertaken, to return to England.

He is one of those to whom the ballad is supposed to relate:--

"Would you hear of a Spanish lady, How she wooed an English man?"

But it is also told of a member of the Popham family, by whom the lady's picture, and her chain and bracelets, mentioned in the ballad, were preserved.

Next to the Hawkins heroes we have Drake, a Plymothian by adoption, the son of a yeoman near Tavistock. Camden calls him, "without dispute the greatest captain of the age."

Many strange stories are told of him, as that he brought water to Plymouth by pronouncing an incantation over a spring on Dartmoor, and then riding direct to the seaport, whereupon the water followed him, docile as a dog. When he was building Buckland Abbey, every night the devils carried away the stones. Drake got up into a tree and watched. When he saw the devils at work he crowed like a cock. "Dawn coming?" exclaimed a devil. "And there comes the sun!" cried out another, for Drake had lit his pipe; and away they scampered.

Another story is, that he left his wife at Lynton, and was away for so long that she believed him dead, and was about to be married again, when Sir Francis, who was in the Bristol Channel, fired a cannon-ball, that flew in at the church window and fell between her and her intended "second." "None could have done that but Sir Francis," said the lady with a sigh, and so the ceremony was abruptly broken off.

Drake was brought up at sea under Hawkins, and accompanied him on the voyage of 1567, which ended so disastrously. His first independent expedition was in 1572, when he made his memorable expedition to Nombre de Dios.

Four years later Drake started on his voyage of circumnavigation, with five vessels. Disaster and disaffection broke up the little fleet, but he persevered, and on September 26th, 1580, brought the _Pelican_ safely back to Plymouth again; the first English captain who had sailed round the world. Plymouth turned out to welcome him, headed by the Mayor, and S. Andrew's bells rang a merry peal.

The _Pelican_ was crammed with treasure. Drake went to the Thames in her, and was received graciously by the queen. "His ship," says Camden, "she caused to be drawn up in a little creek near Deptford, as a monument of his so lucky sailing round the world. And having, as it were, consecrated it as a memorial with great ceremony, she was banqueted in it, and conferred on Drake the honour of knighthood."

Singularly enough the Spanish Ambassador complained, on the part of his Government, of Drake having ventured into the Pacific; but the queen spiritedly replied that she did not acknowledge grants of strange lands, much less of foreign seas made by the Pope, and that, sail where they might, her good mariners should enjoy her countenance.

In 1585 Drake, with a fleet of twenty-five sail, made another expedition to the West Indies; and his next exploit, performed in 1587, was what he called "singeing the King of Spain's beard." With his fleet he ravaged the coast of Spain, and delayed the sailing of the Armada for a year. The Invincible Armada, as the Spaniards designated it in their pride, set sail from the Tagus on May 29th. It consisted of 130 vessels of all sizes, mounting 2431 guns, and carrying, in addition to the mariners, nearly 20,000 land troops, among whom were 2000 volunteers of the noblest families in Spain. But the fleet was overtaken by a storm off Coruña, and four large ships foundered at sea; on hearing which, that stingy old cat, Elizabeth, at once ordered the admiral, Lord Howard of Effingham, to lay up four of his largest vessels, and discharge their crews. The admiral had the spirit to disobey, saying that rather than do that he would maintain the crews at his own cost. On July 19th, one named Fleming, a Scottish privateer, sailed into Plymouth, with intelligence that he had seen the Spanish fleet off the Lizard. At the moment most of the captains and officers were on shore playing bowls on the Hoe. There was instant bustle, and a call to man the boats. "There is time enough," said Drake, "to play the game out first, and thrash the Spaniards afterwards."

Unfortunately the wind was from the south, but the captains contrived to warp out their ships. On the following day, being Saturday, the 20th of July, they got a full sight of the Armada standing majestically on, the vessels drawn up in the form of a crescent, which, from horn to horn, measured some seven miles.

Their great height and bulk, though imposing to the unskilled, gave confidence to the English seamen, who reckoned at once upon having the advantage in tacking and manœuvring their lighter craft. The miserable parsimony of Elizabeth, who did not allow a sufficiency of ammunition to the fleet, interfered sadly with the proceedings of the defenders of the English shores. But the story of the Armada belongs to general English history, and need not be detailed here. It is a story, read it often as we may, that makes the blood dance in one's veins.

It has served as the topic of many lines. I will give some not usually quoted, by John O'Keefe, which were set to music by Dr. Arnold:--

"In May fifteen hundred and eighty-eight, Cries Philip, 'The English I'll humble; I've taken it into my Majesty's pate, And the lion, Oh! down he shall tumble. The lords of the sea!' Then his sceptre he shook; 'I'll prove it all arrant bravado, By Neptune! I'll sweep 'em all into a nook, With th' Invincible Spanish Armado.'

"This fleet started out, and the winds they did blow; Their guns made a terrible clatter. Our noble Queen Bess, 'cos her wanted to know, Quill'd her ruff, and cried, 'Pray what's the matter?' 'They say, my good Queen,' replies Howard so stout, 'The Spaniard has drawn his toledo. Odds bobbins! he'll thump us, and kick us about, With th' Invincible Spanish Armado.'

"The Lord Mayor of London, a very wise man, What to do in the case vastly wondered. Says the Queen, 'Send in fifty good ships, if you can,' Says the Lord Mayor, 'I'll send you a hundred!' Our fire ships soon struck every cannon all dumb, For the Dons ran to _Ave_ and _Credo_; Don Medina roars out, 'Sure the foul fiend is come, For th' Invincible Spanish Armado.'

"On Effingham's squadron, tho' all in abreast, Like open-mouth'd curs they came bowling; His sugar-plums finding they could not digest, Away they ran yelping and howling. When Britain's foe shall, all with envy agog, In our Channel make such a tornado, Huzza! my brave boys! we're still lusty to flog An Invincible ... Armado."

And here the dotted line will allow of Gallic, Russian, or German to be inserted. Of Spanish there need be no fear. Spain is played out.

A fine bronze statue of Sir Francis by Boehm is on the Hoe, the traditional site of the bowling match, but it is only a _replica_ of that at Tavistock, and lacks the fine bas-reliefs representing incidents in the life of Drake; among others, the game of bowls, and his burial at sea. On the Hoe is also a ridiculous tercentenary monument commemorative of the Armada, and the upper portion of Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse.

This dangerous reef had occasioned so many wrecks and such loss of life, that Mr. Henry Winstanley, a gentleman of property in Essex, a self-taught mechanician, resolved to devote his attention and his money to the erection of a lighthouse upon the reef, called Eddystone probably because of the swirl of water about it. He commenced the erection in 1696, and completed it in four years. The structure was eminently picturesque, so much so that a local artist at Launceston thought he could not do better than make a painting of it to decorate a house there then in construction (Dockacre), and set it up as a portion of the chimney-piece. The edifice certainly was not calculated to withstand such seas as roll in the Channel, but Winstanley knew only that second-hand wash which flows over miles of mud on the Essex coast, which it submerges, but above which it cannot heap itself into billows.

Winstanley had implicit confidence in his work, and frequently expressed the wish that he might be in his lighthouse when tested by a severe storm from the west. He had his desire. One morning in November, 1703, he left the Barbican to superintend repairs. An old seaman standing there warned him that dirty weather was coming on. Nevertheless, strong in his confidence, he went. That night, whilst he remained at the lighthouse, a hurricane sprang up, and when morning broke no lighthouse was visible; the erection and its occupants had been swept away. Three years elapsed before another attempt was made to rear a beacon. At length a silk mercer of London, named Rudyard, undertook the work. He determined to imitate as closely as might be the trunk of a Scotch pine, and to give to wind and wave as little surface as possible on which to take effect. Winstanley's edifice had been polygonal; Rudyard's was to be circular. Commenced in 1706 and completed in 1709, entirely of timber, the shaft weathered the storms of nearly fifty years in safety, and might have defied them longer but that it was built of combustible materials. It caught fire on the 2nd December, 1755. The three keepers in it did their utmost to extinguish the flames, but their efforts were ineffectual. The lead wherewith it was roofed ran off in molten streams, and the men had to take refuge in a hole of the rock. When they were rescued one of the men went raving mad, broke away, and was never seen again. Another solemnly averred that some of the molten lead, as he stood looking up agape at the fire, had run down his throat as it spouted from the roof. He died within twelve days, and actually lodged within his stomach was found a mass of lead weighing nearly eight ounces. How he had lived so long was a marvel.

Twelve months were not suffered to pass before a third lighthouse was commenced--that of Smeaton. This was of stone, dovetailed together. It was commenced in June, 1757, and completed by October, 1759. This lighthouse might have lasted to the present, had it not been that the rocky foundation began to yield under the incessant beat of the waves.

This necessitated a fourth, from the designs of Mr. (now Sir J.) Douglass, which was begun in 1879 and completed in 1882. The total height is 148 feet.

The Breakwater was begun in 1812, but was not completed till 1841.

The neighbourhood of Plymouth abounds in objects of interest and scenes of great beauty. The Hamoaze, the estuary of the Tamar and Tavy combined, is a noble sheet of water. The name (_am-uisge_), Round about the water, describes it as an almost landlocked tract of glittering tide and effluent rivers, with woods and hills sloping down to the surface. Mount Edgcumbe, with its sub-tropical shrubs and trees, shows how warm the air is even in winter, in spots where not exposed to the sea breeze.

Up the creek of the Lynher (_Lyn-hir_, the long creek) boats pass to S. Germans, where is a noble church, on the site of a pre-Saxon monastery founded by S. Germanus of Auxerre. The little disfranchised borough contains many objects to engage the artist's pencil, notably the eminently picturesque alms-houses.

The noble church has been very badly "restored." The Norman work is fine.

Cawsand, with its bay, makes a pleasant excursion. This was at one time a great nest for smugglers. An old woman named Borlase had a cottage with a window looking towards Plymouth, and she kept her eye on the water. When a preventive boat was visible she went down the street giving information. There was another old woman, only lately deceased, who went by the name of Granny Grylls. When a young woman she was wont to walk to the beach and back carrying a baby that was never heard to wail.

One day a customs officer said to her, "Well, Mrs. Grylls, that baby of yours is very quiet."

"Quiet her may be," answered she, "but I reckon her's got a deal o' sperit in her."

And so she had, for the baby was no other than a jar of brandy. She was wont by this means to remove "run" liquor from its _cache_ in the sand. A man named Trist had been a notorious smuggler. At last he was caught and given over to the press-gang to be sent on board a man-of-war. Trist bore his capture quietly enough, but as the vessel lay off Cawsand he suddenly slipped overboard and made for a boat that was at anchor, shipped that, and hoisted sail. His Majesty's vessel at once lowered a boat and made in pursuit. After a hard row the sailing smack was come up with and found to be empty. Trist had gone overboard again and swum to a Cawsand fishing-smack, where he lay hid for some days. As there was quite a fleet of these boats on the water, the men in His Majesty's service did not know which to search. So Trist got off and was never secured again.

Near Cawsand is a rock with a white sparry formation on it, like the figure of a woman. This is called Lady's Rock, and the fishermen on returning always cast an offering of a few mackerels or herrings to the ledge before the figure.

A curious custom on May Day exists at Millbrook, once a rotten borough, of the boatmen carrying a dressed ship about the streets with music.

An excursion up the Tamar may be made by steamer to the Weir Head. The river scenery is very fine, especially at the Morwell Rocks. On the way Cothele is passed, the ancient and unaltered mansion of the Edgcumbes, rich in carved wood, tapestry, and ancient furniture. It is the most perfect and characteristic mansion of the fifteenth century in Cornwall. Lower down the river is S. Dominic.

Early in the eighth century Indract, with his sister Dominica, Irish pilgrims, and attendants arrived there, and settled on the Tamar. A little headland, Halton, marks a spot where Indract had a chapel and a holy well. The latter is in good condition; the former is represented by an ivy-covered wall. However, the church of Landrake (Llan-Indract) was his main settlement, and his sister Dominica founded that now bearing her name. In the river Indract made a salmon weir and trapped fish for his party. But one of these was a thief and greedy, and carried off fish for his own consumption, regardless of his comrades. There were "ructions," and Indract packed his portmanteau and started for Rome. Whether Dominica accompanied him is not stated, but it is probable that she would not care to be left alone in a strange land, though I am certain she would have met with nothing but kindly courtesy from Cornishmen. The party--all but the thief and those who were in the intrigue with him--reached Rome, and returning through Britain came as far as Skapwith, near Glastonbury, where a Saxon hanger-on upon King Ina's court, hearing that a party of travellers was at hand, basely went to their lodgings and murdered them at night in the hopes of getting loot. Ina, his master, who was then at Glastonbury, came to hear of what had been done, and he had the bodies moved to the abbey. Whether he scolded the man who murdered them, or even proceeded to punish him, we are not told.

Bere Ferrers has a fine church, with some old glass in it and a very singular font, that looks almost as if it had been constructed out of a still earlier capital. Bere Alston was once a borough, returning two members.

On the east side of Plymouth is the interesting Plympton S. Mary, with a noble church; Plympton S. Maurice, with a fine modern screen, and the remains of a castle. Here is the old grammar school where Sir Joshua Reynolds received his instruction, and here also is the house in which he was born. He gave his own portrait to the town hall of the little place--for it also was a borough, and, to the lasting disgrace of Plympton be it recorded, the municipality sold it. The old house of Boringdon has a fine hall. The house has twice been altered, and the last alterations are incongruous. One half of the house has been pulled down. Above it is a well-preserved camp. Ermington Church deserves a visit; it has been well restored. It has a bold post-Reformation screen. Holbeton has also been restored in excellent taste. On Revelstoke a vast amount of money has been lavished unsatisfactorily. Near Cornwood station is Fardell, an old mansion of Sir Walter Raleigh, with a chapel.

The same station serves for the Awns and Dendles cascade, and for a visit to the Stall Moor with its long stone row, also the more than two-mile-long row, leading from the Staldon circle, and the old blowing-houses on the Yealm at Yealm Steps. There the old moulds for the tin lie among the ruins of two of these houses, one above the steps, the other below. A further excursion may be made into the Erme valley, with its numerous prehistoric remains, and to the blowing-house at the junction of the Hook Lake. This is comparatively late, as there is a wheel-pit.

North of Plymouth interesting excursions may be made to the Dewerstone, perhaps the finest bit of rock scenery on Dartmoor, or rather at its edge, where the so-called Plym bursts forth from its moorland cradle. The summit of the Dewerstone has been fortified by a double line of walls. A walk thence up the river will take a visitor into some wild country. He will pass Legis Tor with its hut circles in very fair preservation, Ditsworthy Warren, and at Drizzlecombe, coming in from the north, he will see avenues of stones and menhirs and the Giant's Grave, a large cairn, and a well-preserved kistvaen. By the stream bed below is a blowing-house with its tin moulds. Shavercombe stream comes down on the right, and there may be found traces of the slate that overlay the granite, much altered by heat. From Trowlesworthy Warren a wall, fallen, extends, in connection with numerous hut circles, as far as the Yealm. For what purpose it was erected, unless it were a tribal boundary, it is impossible to discover.

A visitor to the Dewerstone should not fail to descend through the wood to the Meavy river, and follow it down to Shaugh Bridge.

An interesting house is Old Newnham, the ancient seat of the Strode family.

Hard by is Peacock Bridge. Here a fight took place, according to tradition, between a Parker and a Strode, with their retainers, relative to a peacock, and Strode had his thumb cut off in the fray.

Buckland Monachorum also is within reach, the church converted into a mansion.

Meavy Church contains early and rude carving. Sheepstor stands above an artificial lake, the reservoir that supplies Plymouth with water. This occupies the site of an ancient lake, that had been filled with rubble brought down by the torrents from the moor.

A delightful walk may be taken by branching from the Princetown road to Nosworthy Bridge, passing under Leather Tor and following Deancombe, then ascending Combshead Tor to an interesting group of prehistoric remains, a cairn surrounded by a circle of stones, and a stone row leading to a chambered cairn. By continuing the line north-east Nun's or Siward's Cross will be reached in the midst of utter desolation. Far away east is Childe's Tomb, a kistvaen.

The story is that Childe, a hunter, lost himself on the moor. Snow came on, and he cut open his horse, and crept within the carcass to keep himself warm. But even this did not avail.

So with his finger dipp'd in blood, He scrabbled on the stones: "This is my will, God it fulfil, And buried be my bones. Whoe'er he be that findeth me, And brings me to a grave, The lands that now to me belong In Plymstock he shall have."

The story goes on to say that while the men of Plymstock were preparing to transport the body thither, the monks of Tavistock whipped it off, threw a bridge of planks, since called Guile Bridge, over the Tavy, and interred the hunter in their cemetery, thereby obtaining possession of his lands.

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THREE YEARS IN SAVAGE AFRICA. By LIONEL DECLE. With 100 Illustrations and 5 Maps. Second and cheaper Edition. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net._

THE CAROLINE ISLANDS By F. W. CHRISTIAN. With many Illustrations and Maps. _Large crown 8vo. 10s. 6d._

This book contains a history and complete description of these islands--their physical features, fauna, flora; the habits, and religious beliefs of the inhabitants. It is the result of many years' residence among the natives, and is the only worthy work on the subject.

History and Biography

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, President of the Royal Academy. By his Son, J. G. MILLAIS. With nearly 300 Illustrations, of which 10 are in photogravure. _Two volumes. Royal 8vo. 32s. net._

A limited edition will also be printed. This will contain 22 of Millais' great paintings reproduced in photogravure, with a case containing an extra set of these Photogravures pulled on India paper. The price of this edition will be £4, 4_s. net._

In these two magnificent volumes is contained the authoritative biography of the most distinguished and popular painter of the last half of the century. They contain the story of his extraordinary boyhood, of his early struggles and triumphs, of the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, now first given to the world in authentic detail, of the painting of most of his famous pictures, of his friendships with many of the most distinguished men of the day in art, letters, and politics, of his home life, and of his sporting tastes. There are a large number of letters to his wife describing the circumstances under which his pictures were painted, letters from Her Majesty the Queen, Lord Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Watts, Sir William Harcourt, Lord Rosebery, Lord Leighton, etc., etc. Among them are several illustrated letters from Landseer, Leech, Du Maurier, and Mike Halliday. The last letter that Lord Beaconsfield wrote before his death is reproduced in fac-simile. Sir William Harcourt contributes his reminiscences of Millais, and Mr. Val Prinsep has written a long and most interesting chapter to the same purpose.

Not the least attractive and remarkable feature of this book will be the magnificence of its illustrations. No more complete representation of the art any painter has ever been produced on the same scale. The owners of Sir John Millais' most famous pictures and their copyrights have generously given their consent to their reproduction in his biography, and, in addition to those pictures with which the public is familiar, over two hundred pictures and sketches which have never been reproduced before, and which, in all probability, will never be seen again by the general public, will appear in these pages. The early chapters contain sketches made by Millais at the age of seven. There follow some exquisite drawings made by him during his Pre-Raphaelite period, a large number of sketches and studies made for his great pictures, water colour sketches, pen-and-ink sketches, and drawings, humorous and serious. There are ten portraits of Millais himself, including two by Mr. Watts and Sir Edward Burne Jones. There is a portrait of Dickens, taken after death, and a sketch of D. G. Rossetti. Thus the book will be not only a biography of high interest and an important contribution to the history of English art, but in the best sense of the word, a beautiful picture book.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By EDWARD GIBBON. A New Edition, edited with Notes, Appendices, and Maps by J. B. BURY, LL.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. _In Seven Volumes. Demy 8vo, gilt top. 8s. 6d. each. Crown 8vo. 6s. each. Vol. VII._

The concluding Volume of this Edition.

EVAGRIUS. Edited by Professor LÉON PARMENTIER of Liége and M. BIDEZ of Gand. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

[_Byzantine Texts._

THE HISTORY OF PSELLUS. By C. SATHAS. _Demy 8vo._

[_Byzantine Texts._

A CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF ROME. By T. M. TAYLOR, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Senior Chancellor's Medallist for Classics, Porson University Scholar, etc., etc. _Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d._

An account of the origin and growth of the Roman Institutions, and a discussion of the various political movements in Rome from the earliest times to the death of Augustus.

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Vol. IV. THE EGYPT OF THE PTOLEMIES. J. P. MAHAFFY. Vol. V. ROMAN EGYPT. J. G. MILNE.

ANNALS OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. By G. W. FISHER, M.A., Assistant Master. With Numerous Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

THE HISTORY OF THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. By CLEMENT STRETTON. With many Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

Uniform with Mr. Grinling's 'History of the Great Northern Railway.'

A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF CYPRUS. By JOHN HACKETT, M.A. _Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d._

Theology

ST. PAUL, THE MASTER-BUILDER. By WALTER LOCK, D. D., Warden of Keble College. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

An attempt to popularise the recent additions to our knowledge of St. Paul as a missionary, a statesman and an ethical teacher.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. By W. H. BENNETT, M.A., and W. F. ADENEY, M.A. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

Oxford Commentaries.

General Editor, WALTER LOCK, D.D., Warden of Keble College Dean Ireland's Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford.

Messrs. METHUEN propose to issue a series of Commentaries upon such Books of the Bible as still seem to need further explanation.

The object of each Commentary is primarily exegetical, to interpret the author's meaning to the present generation. The editors will not deal, except very subordinately, with questions of textual criticism or philology; but taking the English text in the Revised Version as their basis, they will try to combine a hearty acceptance of critical principles with loyalty to the Catholic Faith. It is hoped that in this way the series may be of use both to theological students and to the clergy, and also to the growing number of educated laymen and laywomen who wish to read the Bible intelligently and reverently.

THE BOOK OF JOB. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by E. C. S. GIBSON, D.D., Vicar of Leeds. _Demy 8vo. 6s._

The Churchman's Bible.

General Editor, J. H. BURN, B.D., Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Aberdeen.

Messrs. METHUEN propose to issue a series of expositions upon most of the books of the Bible. The volumes will be practical and devotional rather than critical in their purpose, and the text of the authorised version will be explained in sections or paragraphs, which will correspond as far as possible with the divisions of the Church Lectionary.

The volumes will be produced in a very handy and tasteful form, and may be obtained in cloth or leather bindings.

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THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE GALATIANS. Explained by A. W. ROBINSON, B.D., Vicar of All Hallows, Barking. _Fcap. 8vo. 2s._ Leather, _3s. net._

Handbooks of Theology.

General Editor, A. ROBERTSON, D.D., Principal of King's College, London.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE CREEDS. By A. E. BURN, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

The Library of Devotion.

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_NEW VOLUMES._

A SERIOUS CALL TO A DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE. By WILLIAM LAW. Edited, with an Introduction by C. BIGG, D.D., late Student of Christ Church.

This is a reprint, word for word and line for line, of the _Editio Princeps_.

LYRA INNOCENTIUM. By JOHN KEBLE. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by WALTER LOCK, D.D., Warden of Keble College, Oxford.

This is edited on the same scale as 'The Christian Year.' Dr. Lock has corrected the printed text by collating it with the MS. in the Keble College Library, and has added an Introduction, and an analysis and explanatory notes to each of the more difficult poems.

General Literature

The Arden Shakespeare.

General Editor, EDWARD DOWDEN, Litt. D.

MESSRS. METHUEN have in preparation an Edition of Shakespeare in single Plays. Each play will be edited with a full Introduction, Notes on the text, and a Commentary at the foot of the page.

The first volume will be:

HAMLET. Edited by EDWARD DOWDEN. _Demy 8vo. 2s. 6d._

The Novels of Charles Dickens.

_Crown 8vo. Each Volume, cloth 3s., leather 4s. net._

Messrs. METHUEN have in preparation an edition of those novels of Charles Dickens which have now passed out of copyright. Mr. George Gissing, whose critical study of Dickens is both sympathetic and acute, has written an Introduction to each of the books, and a very attractive feature of this edition will be the illustrations of the old houses, inns, and buildings, which Dickens described, and which have now in many instances disappeared under the touch of modern civilisation. Another valuable feature will be a series of topographical notes to each book by Mr. F. G. Kitton. The books will be produced with the greatest care as to printing, paper and binding.

The first volumes will be:

THE PICKWICK PAPERS. With Illustrations by E. H. NEW. _Two Volumes._

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. With Illustrations by R. J. WILLIAMS. _Two Volumes._

BLEAK HOUSE. With Illustrations by BEATRICE ALCOCK. _Two Volumes._

OLIVER TWIST. With Illustrations by E. H. NEW. _Two Volumes._

The Little Library.

_Pott 8vo. Each Volume, cloth 2s.; leather 2s. 6d. net._

Messrs. METHUEN intend to produce a series of small books under the above title, containing some of the famous books in English and other literatures, in the domains of fiction, poetry, and belles lettres. The series will also contain several volumes of selections in prose and verse.

The books will be edited with the most sympathetic and scholarly care. Each one will contain an Introduction which will give (1) a short biography of the author, (2) a critical estimate of the book, (3) short bibliographical details. Where they are necessary, short notes will be added at the foot of the page.

The Little Library will ultimately contain complete sets of the novels of W. M. Thackeray, Jane Austen, the sisters Bronté, Mrs. Gaskell and others. It will also contain the best work of many other novelists whose names are household words.

Each book will have a portrait or frontispiece in photogravure, and the volumes will be produced with great care in a style uniform with that of 'The Library of Devotion.'

The first volumes will be:

A LITTLE BOOK OF ENGLISH LYRICS.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. By JANE AUSTEN. With an Introduction by E. V. LUCAS. _Two Volumes._

VANITY FAIR. By W. M. THACKERAY. With an Introduction by S. GWYNN. _Three Volumes._

EOTHEN. By A. W. KINGLAKE. With an Introduction.

CRANFORD. By Mrs. GASKELL. With an Introduction by E. V. LUCAS.

JANE EYRE. By CHARLOTTE BRONTÉ. With an Introduction by R. BAYNE. _Two Volumes._

The Little Guides.

_Pott 8vo, cloth 3s.; leather 3s. 6d. net._

_NEW VOLUME._

SHAKESPEARE'S COUNTRY. By B. C. WINDLE, M.A. Illustrated by E. H. NEW.

Uniform with Mr. Wells' 'Oxford' and Mr. Thomson's 'Cambridge.'

Fiction

_A NEW DEPARTURE IN PUBLISHING._

Messrs. METHUEN contemplate a very interesting experiment in publishing. They are about to issue at Sixpence, under the general title of 'Methuen's Library of Fiction,' stories by some of the best known writers of the day. A few books will be reprints, but most will be new works hitherto unpublished in book form.

A considerable number of Sixpenny Editions of old books have already been issued by various publishers, but in no case has the work of an author of high repute been published in the first instance at that price. This Messrs. Methuen will attempt, and the first book thus published will be by E. W. Hornung. Mr. Robert Barr and Mr. Cutliffe Hyne will follow, and later will be published books by Mr. Baring Gould and others. In some cases the same book will be published simultaneously both at Sixpence and at a higher price. Messrs. Methuen recognise the inevitable tendencies of an age of cheap literature. The theatre has its stalls and its pit, the railway its first and its third classes: so the novelist may well have a double audience, and while the wealthy will still pay Six Shillings for their novels, those of limited means will be able to purchase the same book in a decent but less luxurious form.

A NEW NOVEL. By E. W. HORNUNG. _Demy 8vo. 6d._

JENNY BAXTER. By ROBERT BARR. _Demy 8vo. 6d._

THE COUNTESS TEKLA. By ROBERT BARR, Author of 'The Mutable Many.' _Crown 8vo. 6s._

A romance of adventure.

THE CAPSINA. By E. F. BENSON, Author of 'Dodo.' With Illustrations by G. P. JACOMB-HOOD. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

THE HUMAN BOY. By EDEN PHILPOTTS, Author of 'Children of the Mist.' _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

A series of studies of the English schoolboy, the result of keen observation, and of a most engaging wit.

ANNE MAULEVERER. By Mrs. CAFFYN (Iota). Author of 'The Yellow Aster.' _Crown 8vo. 6s._

RACHEL. By JANE HELEN FINDLATER, Author of 'The Green Graves of Balgowrie.' _Crown 8vo. 6s._

BETTY MUSGRAVE. By MARY FINDLATER, Author of 'Over the Hills.' _Crown 8vo. 6s._

THE PATH OF A STAR. By SARA JEANETTE DUNCAN, Author of 'A Voyage of Consolation.' _Crown 8vo. 6s._

THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN. By E. W. HORNUNG, Author of 'Young Blood.' _Crown 8vo. 6s._

THE PATHS OF THE PRUDENT. By J. S. FLETCHER, Author of 'When Charles I. was King.' _Crown 8vo. 6s._

GILES INGILBY. By W. E. NORRIS. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

ROSE A CHARLITTE. By MARSHALL SAUNDERS. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

A romantic story of Acadie.

ADRIAN ROME. By E. DOWSON and A. MOORE, Authors of 'A Comedy of Masks.' _Crown 8vo. 6s._

THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED. By DOROTHEA GERARD, Author of 'Lady Baby,' 'Orthodox,' etc. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

LONE PINE. By R. B. TOWNSHEND. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

A romance of Mexican life.

TALES OF NORTHUMBRIA. By HOWARD PEASE. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

A CATALOGUE OF

MESSRS. METHUEN'S

PUBLICATIONS

Poetry

=Rudyard Kipling.= BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. By RUDYARD KIPLING. _47th Thousand. Crown 8vo. 6s._

'Mr. Kipling's verse is strong, vivid, full of character.... Unmistakeable genius rings in every line.'--_Times._

'The ballads teem with imagination, they palpitate with emotion. We read them with laughter and tears; the metres throb in our pulses, the cunningly ordered words tingle with life; and if this be not poetry, what is?'--_Pall Mall Gazette._

=Rudyard Kipling.= THE SEVEN SEAS. By RUDYARD KIPLING. _41st Thousand. Cr. 8vo. Buckram, gilt top. 6s._

'The new poems of Mr. Rudyard Kipling have all the spirit and swing of their predecessors. Patriotism is the solid concrete foundation on which Mr. Kipling has built the whole of his work.'--_Times._

'The Empire has found a singer; it is no depreciation of the songs to say that statesmen may have, one way or other, to take account of them.'--_Manchester Guardian._

'Animated through and through with indubitable genius.'--_Daily Telegraph._

"=Q.=" POEMS AND BALLADS. By "Q." _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'This work has just the faint, ineffable touch and glow that make poetry.'--_Speaker._

"=Q.=" GREEN BAYS: Verses and Parodies. By "Q." _Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

=E. Mackay.= A SONG OF THE SEA. By ERIC MACKAY. _Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s._

'Everywhere Mr. Mackay displays himself the master of a style marked by all the characteristics of the best rhetoric.'--_Globe._

=H. Ibsen.= BRAND. A Drama by HENRIK IBSEN. Translated by WILLIAM WILSON. _Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'The greatest world-poem of the nineteenth century next to "Faust." It is in the same set with "Agamemnon," with "Lear," with the literature that we now instinctively regard as high and holy.'--_Daily Chronicle._

"=A. G.=" VERSES TO ORDER. By "A. G." _Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net._

'A capital specimen of light academic poetry.'--_St. James's Gazette._

=James Williams.= VENTURES IN VERSE. By JAMES WILLIAMS, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'In matter and manner the book is admirable.'--_Glasgow Herald._

=J. G. Cordery.= THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER. A Translation by J. G. CORDERY. _Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d._

'A spirited, accurate, and scholarly piece of work.'--_Glasgow Herald._

Belles Lettres, Anthologies, etc.

=R. L. Stevenson.= VAILIMA LETTERS. By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. With an Etched Portrait by WILLIAM STRANG. _Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Buckram. 6s._

'A fascinating book.'--_Standard._ 'Full of charm and brightness.'--_Spectator._ 'A gift almost priceless.'--_Speaker._ 'Unique in Literature.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=G. Wyndham.= THE POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by GEORGE WYNDHAM, M.P. _Demy 8vo. Buckram, gilt top. 10s. 6d._

This edition contains the 'Venus,' 'Lucrece,' and Sonnets, and is prefaced with an elaborate introduction of over 140 pp.

'One of the most serious contributions to Shakespearian criticism that have been published for some time.'--_Times._

'A scholarly and interesting contribution to literature.'--_Literature._

'We have no hesitation in describing Mr. George Wyndham's introduction as a masterly piece of criticism, and all who love our Elizabethan literature will find a very garden of delight in it.'--_Spectator._

'Mr. Wyndham's notes are admirable, even indispensable.'--_Westminster Gazette._

=W. E. Henley.= ENGLISH LYRICS. Selected and Edited by W. E. HENLEY. _Crown 8vo. Buckram, gilt top. 6s._

'It is a body of choice and lovely poetry.--_Birmingham Gazette._

=Henley and Whibley.= A BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE. Collected by W. E. HENLEY and CHARLES WHIBLEY. _Crown 8vo. Buckram, gilt top. 6s._

'Quite delightful. A greater treat for those not well acquainted with pre-Restoration prose could not be imagined.--_Athenæum._

=H. C. Beeching.= LYRA SACRA: An Anthology of Sacred Verse. Edited by H. C. BEECHING, M.A. _Crown 8vo. Buckram. 6s._

'A charming selection, which maintains a lofty standard of excellence.'--_Times._

"=Q.=" THE GOLDEN POMP. A Procession of English Lyrics. Arranged by A. T. QUILLER COUCH. _Crown 8vo. Buckram. 6s._

'A delightful volume: a really golden "Pomp."'--_Spectator._

=W. B. Yeats.= AN ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH VERSE. Edited by W. B. YEATS. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'An attractive and catholic selection.'--_Times._

=G. W. Steevens.= MONOLOGUES OF THE DEAD. By G. W. STEEVENS. _Foolscap 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'The effect is sometimes splendid, sometimes bizarre, but always amazingly clever.'--_Pall Mall Gazette._

=W. M. Dixon.= A PRIMER OF TENNYSON. By W. M. DIXON, M.A. _Cr. 8vo. 2s. 6d._

'Much sound and well-expressed criticism. The bibliography is a boon.'--_Speaker._

=W. A. Craigie.= A PRIMER OF BURNS. By W. A. CRAIGIE. _Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d._

'A valuable addition to the literature of the poet.'--_Times._

=L. Magnus.= A PRIMER OF WORDSWORTH. By LAURIE MAGNUS. _Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d._

'A valuable contribution to Wordsworthian literature.'--_Literature._

=Sterne.= THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY. By LAWRENCE STERNE. With an Introduction by CHARLES WHIBLEY, and a Portrait. _2 vols. 7s._

'Very dainty volumes are these: the paper, type, and light-green binding are all very agreeable to the eye.'--_Globe._

=Congreve.= THE COMEDIES OF WILLIAM CONGREVE. With an Introduction by G. S. STREET, and a Portrait. _2 vols. 7s._

=Morier.= THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN. By JAMES MORIER. With an Introduction by E. G. BROWNE, M.A., and a Portrait. _2 vols. 7s._

=Walton.= THE LIVES OF DONNE, WOTTON, HOOKER, HERBERT AND SANDERSON. By IZAAK WALTON. With an Introduction by VERNON BLACKBURN, and a Portrait. _3s. 6d._

=Johnson.= THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS. By SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. With an Introduction by J. H. MILLAR, and a Portrait. _3 vols. 10s. 6d._

=Burns.= THE POEMS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited by ANDREW LANG and W. A. CRAIGIE. With Portrait. _Second Edition. Demy 8vo, gilt top. 6s._

This edition contains a carefully collated Text, numerous Notes, critical and textual, a critical and biographical Introduction, and a Glossary.

'Among editions in one volume, this will take the place of authority.'--_Times._

=F. Langbridge.= BALLADS OF THE BRAVE; Poems of Chivalry, Enterprise, Courage, and Constancy. Edited by Rev. F. LANGBRIDGE. _Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d. School Edition. 2s. 6d._

'A very happy conception happily carried out. These "Ballads of the Brave" are intended to suit the real tastes of boys, and will suit the taste of the great majority.'--_Spectator._

'The book is full of splendid things.'--_World._

Illustrated Books

=John Bunyan.= THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. By JOHN BUNYAN. Edited, with an Introduction, by C. H. FIRTH, M.A. With 39 Illustrations by R. ANNING BELL. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

This book contains a long Introduction by Mr. Firth, whose knowledge of the period is unrivalled; and it is lavishly illustrated.

'The best "Pilgrim's Progress."'--_Educational Times._

'A choice edition.'--_Westminster Gazette._

=F. D. Bedford.= NURSERY RHYMES. With many Coloured Pictures by F. D. BEDFORD. _Super Royal 8vo. 5s._

'An excellent selection of the best known rhymes, with beautifully coloured pictures exquisitely printed.'--_Pall Mall Gazette._

=S. Baring Gould.= A BOOK OF FAIRY TALES retold by S. BARING GOULD. With numerous Illustrations and Initial Letters by ARTHUR J. GASKIN. _Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. Buckram. 6s._

'Mr. Baring Gould is deserving of gratitude, in re-writing in simple style the old stories that delighted our fathers and grandfathers.'--_Saturday Review._

=S. Baring Gould.= OLD ENGLISH FAIRY TALES. Collected and edited by S. BARING GOULD. With Numerous Illustrations by F. D. BEDFORD. _Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. Buckram. 6s._

'A charming volume.'--_Guardian._

=S. Baring Gould.= A BOOK OF NURSERY SONGS AND RHYMES. Edited by S. BARING GOULD, and Illustrated by the Birmingham Art School. _Buckram, gilt top. Crown 8vo. 6s._

=H. C. Beeching.= A BOOK OF CHRISTMAS VERSE. Edited by H. C. BEECHING, M.A., and Illustrated by WALTER CRANE. _Cr. 8vo, gilt top. 3s. 6d._

'An anthology which, from its unity of aim and high poetic excellence, has a better right to exist than most of its fellows.'--_Guardian._

History

=Gibbon.= THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By EDWARD GIBBON. A New Edition, Edited with Notes, Appendices, and Maps, by J. B. BURY, LL.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. _In Seven Volumes. Demy 8vo. Gilt top. 8s. 6d. each. Also Cr. 8vo. 6s. each. Vols. I., II., III., IV., V., and VI._

'The time has certainly arrived for a new edition of Gibbon's great work.... Professor Bury is the right man to undertake this task. His learning is amazing, both in extent and accuracy. The book is issued in a handy form, and at a moderate price, and it is admirably printed.'--_Times._

'This edition is a marvel of erudition and critical skill, and it is the very minimum of praise to predict that the seven volumes of it will supersede Dean Milman's as the standard edition of our great historical classic.'--_Glasgow Herald._

'At last there is an adequate modern edition of Gibbon.... The best edition the nineteenth century could produce.'--_Manchester Guardian._

=Flinders Petrie.= A HISTORY OF EGYPT, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY. Edited by W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE, D.C.L., LL.D., Professor of Egyptology at University College. _Fully Illustrated. In Six Volumes. Cr. 8vo. 6s. each._

VOL. I. PREHISTORIC TIMES TO XVITH DYNASTY. W. M. F. Petrie. _Third Edition._

VOL. II. THE XVIITH AND XVIIITH DYNASTIES. W. M. F. Petrie. _Second Edition._

'A history written in the spirit of scientific precision so worthily represented by Dr. Petrie and his school cannot but promote sound and accurate study, and supply a vacant place in the English literature of Egyptology.'--_Times._

=Flinders Petrie.= RELIGION AND CONSCIENCE IN ANCIENT EGYPT. By W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE, D.C.L., LL.D. Fully Illustrated. _Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d._

'The lectures will afford a fund of valuable information for students of ancient ethics.'--_Manchester Guardian._

=Flinders Petrie.= SYRIA AND EGYPT, FROM THE TELL EL AMARNA TABLETS. By W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE, D.C.L., LL.D. _Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d._

'A marvellous record. The addition made to our knowledge is nothing short of amazing.'--_Times._

=Flinders Petrie.= EGYPTIAN TALES. Edited by W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE. Illustrated by TRISTRAM ELLIS. _In Two Volumes. Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d. each._

'Invaluable as a picture of life in Palestine and Egypt.'--_Daily News._

=Flinders Petrie.= EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART. By W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE. With 120 Illustrations. _Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'In these lectures he displays rare skill in elucidating the development of decorative art in Egypt.'--_Times._

=C. W. Oman.= A HISTORY OF THE ART OF WAR. Vol. 11.: The Middle Ages, from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century. By C. W. OMAN, M.A., Fellow of All Souls', Oxford. Illustrated. _Demy 8vo. 21s._

'The book is based throughout upon a thorough study of the original sources, and will be an indispensable aid to all students of mediæval history.'--_Athenæum._

'The whole art of war in its historic evolution has never been treated on such an ample and comprehensive scale, and we question if any recent contribution to the exact history of the world has possessed more enduring value.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=S. Baring Gould.= THE TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS. With numerous Illustrations from Busts, Gems, Cameos, etc. By S. BARING GOULD. _Fourth Edition, Royal 8vo. 15s._

'A most splendid and fascinating book on a subject of undying interest. The great feature of the book is the use the author has made of the existing portraits of the Caesars and the admirable critical subtlety he has exhibited in dealing with this line of research. It is brilliantly written, and the illustrations are supplied on a scale of profuse magnificence.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=F. W. Maitland.= CANON LAW IN ENGLAND. By F. W. MAITLAND, LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge. _Royal 8vo. 7s. 6d._

'Professor Maitland has put students of English law under a fresh debt. These essays are landmarks in the study of the history of Canon Law.'--_Times._

=H. de B. Gibbins.= INDUSTRY IN ENGLAND: HISTORICAL OUTLINES. By H. DE B. GIBBINS, M.A., D. Litt. With 5 Maps. _Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

=H. E. Egerton.= A HISTORY OF BRITISH COLONIAL POLICY. By H. E. EGERTON, M.A. _Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d._

'It is a good book, distinguished by accuracy in detail, clear arrangement of facts, and a broad grasp of principles.'--_Manchester Guardian._

'Able, impartial, clear.... A most valuable volume.'--_Athenæum._

=Albert Sorel.= THE EASTERN QUESTION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By ALBERT SOREL, of the French Academy. Translated by F. C. BRAMWELL, M.A., with an Introduction by C. R. L. FLETCHER, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. With a Map. _Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'The author's insight into the character and motives of the leading actors in the drama gives the work an interest uncommon in books based on similar material.'--_Scotsman._

=C. H. Grinling.= A HISTORY OF THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, 1845-95. By CHARLES H. GRINLING. With Maps and Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

'Admirably written, and crammed with interesting facts.'--_Daily Mail._

'The only adequate history of a great English railway company.'--_Times._

'Mr. Grinling has done for a Railway what Macaulay did for English History.'--_The Engineer._

=W. Sterry.= ANNALS OF ETON COLLEGE. By W. STERRY, M.A. With numerous Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d._

'A treasury of quaint and interesting reading. Mr. Sterry has by his skill and vivacity given these records new life.'--_Academy._

'A most attractive and admirably illustrated account.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=J. Sargeaunt.= ANNALS OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. By J. SARGEAUNT, M.A., Assistant Master. With numerous Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d._

=A. Clark.= THE COLLEGES OF OXFORD: Their History and their Traditions. By Members of the University. Edited by A. CLARK, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College. _8vo. 12s. 6d._

'A work which will be appealed to for many years as the standard book.'--_Athenæum._

=Perrens.= THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE FROM 1434 TO 1492. By F. T. PERRENS. _8vo. 12s. 6d._

A history of the domination of Cosimo, Piero, and Lorenzo de Medicis.

=J. Wells.= A SHORT HISTORY OF ROME. By J. WELLS, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Wadham Coll., Oxford. _Second and Revised Edition._ With 3 Maps. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

This book is intended for the Middle and Upper Forms of Public Schools and for Pass Students at the Universities. It contains copious Tables, etc.

'An original work written on an original plan, and with uncommon freshness and vigour.'--_Speaker._

=O. Browning.= A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDIÆVAL ITALY, A.D. 1250-1530. By OSCAR BROWNING, Fellow and Tutor of King's College, Cambridge. _In Two Volumes. Cr. 8vo. 5s. each._

VOL. I. 1250-1409.--Guelphs and Ghibellines.

VOL. II. 1409-1530.--The Age of the Condottieri.

'Mr. Browning is to be congratulated on the production of a work of immense labour and learning.'--_Westminster Gazette._

=O'Grady.= THE STORY OF IRELAND. By STANDISH O'GRADY, Author of 'Finn and his Companions.' _Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d._

Biography

=S. Baring Gould.= THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. By S. BARING GOULD. With over 450 Illustrations in the Text and 12 Photogravure Plates. _Large quarto. Gilt top. 36s._

'The best biography of Napoleon in our tongue, nor have the French as good a biographer of their hero. A book very nearly as good as Southey's "Life of Nelson."'--_Manchester Guardian._

'The main feature of this gorgeous volume is its great wealth of beautiful photogravures and finely-executed wood engravings, constituting a complete pictorial chronicle of Napoleon I.'s personal history from the days of his early childhood at Ajaccio to the date of his second interment.'--_Daily Telegraph._

'Nearly all the illustrations are real contributions to history.'--_Westminster Gazette._

=P. H. Colomb.= MEMOIRS OF ADMIRAL SIR A. COOPER KEY. By Admiral P. H. COLOMB. With a Portrait. _Demy 8vo. 16s._

'An interesting and adequate biography of one who for a quarter of a century had a prominent part in the administration of the Navy. The whole book, in fact, is one of the greatest interest--peculiarly so, it may be, to the naval officer, but also to the average taxpayer and the reading public.'--_Times._

=Morris Fuller.= THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JOHN DAVENANT, D.D. (1571-1641), Bishop of Salisbury. By MORRIS FULLER, B.D. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

=J. M. Rigg.= ST. ANSELM OF CANTERBURY: A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGION. By J. M. RIGG. _Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d._

'Mr. Rigg has told the story of the life with scholarly ability, and has contributed an interesting chapter to the history of the Norman period.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=F. W. Joyce.= THE LIFE OF SIR FREDERICK GORE OUSELEY. By F. W. JOYCE, M.A. _7s. 6d._

'This book has been undertaken in quite the right spirit, and written with sympathy, insight, and considerable literary skill.'--_Times._

=W. G. Collingwood.= THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN. By W. G. COLLINGWOOD, M.A. With Portraits, and 13 Drawings by Mr. Ruskin. _Second Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. 32s._

'No more magnificent volumes have been published for a long time.'--_Times._

'It is long since we had a biography with such delights of substance and of form. Such a book is a pleasure for the day, and a joy for ever.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=C. Waldstein.= JOHN RUSKIN, By CHARLES WALDSTEIN, M.A. With a Photogravure Portrait, _Post 8vo. 5s._

'A thoughtful and well-written criticism of Ruskin's teaching.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=A. M. F. Darmesteter.= THE LIFE OF ERNEST RENAN. By MADAME DARMESTETER. With Portrait. _Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. 6s._

'A polished gem of biography, superior in its kind to any attempt that has been made of recent years in England. Madame Darmesteter has indeed written for English readers "_The_ Life of Ernest Renan."'--_Athenæum._

'It is interpenetrated with the dignity and charm, the mild, bright, classical grace of form and treatment that Renan himself so loved; and it fulfils to the uttermost the delicate and difficult achievement it sets out to accomplish.'--_Academy._

=W. H. Hutton.= THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS MORE. By W. H. HUTTON, M.A. With Portraits. _Cr. 8vo. 5s._

'The book lays good claim to high rank among our biographies. It is excellently even lovingly, written.'--_Scotsman._

'An excellent monograph.'--_Times._

Travel, Adventure and Topography

=Sven Hedin.= THROUGH ASIA. By SVEN HEDIN, Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society. With 300 Illustrations from Sketches and Photographs by the Author, and Maps. _2 vols. Royal 8vo. 36s. net._

'One of the greatest books of the kind issued during the century. It is impossible to give an adequate idea of the richness of the contents of this book, nor of its abounding attractions as a story of travel unsurpassed in geographical and human interest. Much of it is a revelation. Altogether the work is one which in solidity, novelty, and interest must take a first rank among publications of its class.'--_Times._

'In these magnificent volumes we have the most important contribution to Central Asian geography made for many years. Intensely interesting as a tale of travel.'--_Spectator._

'The whole story of the desert adventure is worthy to be added to the classics of its kind.'--_World._

'These volumes are of absorbing and fascinating interest, their matter is wonderful, and Dr. Hedin's style is surcharged with strong and alluring personality. No romance exceeds in its intense and enthralling interest this story.'--_Birmingham Post._

'One of the most remarkable books of travel of the century.'--_Daily Chronicle._

'Profoundly interesting.'--_Academy._

'A memorable book, gigantic of design, magnificent in execution, and without doubt one of the outstanding travel-volumes of the century.'--_Black and White._

'Let any one who is desirous to learn about the wonderful continent of Asia as no one else can teach him, buy and read this work.'--_Vanity Fair._

=R. E. Peary.= NORTHWARD OVER THE GREAT ICE. By R. E. PEARY, Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society. With over 800 Illustrations. _2 vols. Royal 8vo. 32s. net._

'The book is full of interesting matter--a tale of brave deeds simply told; abundantly illustrated with prints and maps.'--_Standard._

'His book will take its place among the permanent literature of Arctic exploration.'--_Times._

It yields neither in interest nor in ability to Nansen's "Farthest North," while its results are no less valuable.'--_Glasgow Herald._

'Crowded with adventures and intensely interesting.'--_World._

'An exciting and thoroughly well-arranged book.'--_St. James's Gazette._

=G. S. Robertson.= CHITRAL: The Story of a Minor Siege. By Sir G. S. ROBERTSON, K.C.S.I. With numerous Illustrations and a Map. _Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

'It is difficult to imagine the kind of person who could read this brilliant book without emotion. The story remains immortal--a testimony imperishable. We are face to face with a great book.'--_Illustrated London News._

'A book which the Elizabethans would have thought wonderful. More thrilling, more piquant, and more human than any novel.'--_Newcastle Chronicle._

'One of the most stirring military narratives written in our time.'--_Times._

'A masterpiece of narrative.'--_Daily Chronicle._

'As fascinating as Sir Walter Scott's best fiction.'--_Daily Telegraph._

'Full of dashing feats of courage as any romance.'--_Pall Mall Gazette._

'Not since the appearance of Lord Roberts's "Forty-one Years" have we had a record of Indian warfare which can be compared with this glowing and moving story.'--_Daily Mail._

'The enthusiastic admiration of the reader cannot fail to be aroused.'--_Morning Post._

'A classic of frontier literature.'--_Scotsman._

'Any one proud of his name as Englishman may read in these stirring chapters abundant justification for his pride.'--_Globe._

'A very fascinating, a singularly delightful book.'--_Glasgow Herald._

'A noble story, nobly told.'--_Punch._

'Every page is quick with heroism.'--_Outlook._

=H. H. Johnston.= BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. By Sir H. H. JOHNSTON, K.C.B. With nearly Two Hundred Illustrations, and Six Maps. _Second Edition. Crown 4to. 18s. net._

'A fascinating book, written with equal skill and charm--the work at once of a literary artist and of a man of action who is singularly wise, brave, and experienced. It abounds in admirable sketches from pencil.'--_Westminster Gazette._

'A delightful book ... collecting within the covers of a single volume all that is known of this part of our African domains. The voluminous appendices are of extreme value.'--_Manchester Guardian._

=L. Decle.= THREE YEARS IN SAVAGE AFRICA. By LIONEL DECLE. With 100 Illustrations and 5 Maps. _Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net._

'A fine, full book.'--_Pall Mall Gazette._

'Abounding in thrilling adventures.--_Daily Telegraph._

'Its bright pages give a better general survey of Africa from the Cape to the Equator than any single volume that has yet been published.'--_Times._

'A delightful book.'--_Academy._

'Unquestionably one of the most interesting books of travel which have recently appeared.'--_Standard._

=A. Hulme Beaman.= TWENTY YEARS IN THE NEAR EAST. By A. HULME BEAMAN. _Demy 8vo._ With Portrait. _10s. 6d._

'One of the most entertaining books that we have had in our hands for a long time. It is unconventional in a high degree; it is written with sagacious humour; it is full of adventures and anecdotes.'--_Daily Chronicle._

'Packed with incident and eminently readable.'--_Critic._

=Henri of Orleans.= FROM TONKIN TO INDIA. By PRINCE HENRI OF ORLEANS. Translated by HAMLEY BENT, M.A. With 100 Illustrations and a Map. _Cr. 4to, gilt top. 25s._

=R. S. S. Baden-Powell.= THE DOWNFALL OF PREMPEH. A Diary of Life in Ashanti, 1895. By Colonel BADEN-POWELL. With 21 Illustrations and a Map. _Cheaper Edition. Large Crown 8vo. 6s._

'A compact, faithful, most readable record of the campaign.'--_Daily News._

=R. S. S. Baden-Powell.= THE MATABELE CAMPAIGN, 1896. By Col. BADEN-POWELL. With nearly 100 Illustrations. _Cheaper Edition. Large Crown 8vo. 6s._

'A straightforward account of a great deal of plucky work.'--_Times._

=S. L. Hinde.= THE FALL OF THE CONGO ARABS. By S. L. HINDE. With Plans, etc. _Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d._

=A. St. H. Gibbons.= EXPLORATION AND HUNTING IN CENTRAL AFRICA. By Major A. ST. H. GIBBONS. With full-page Illustrations by C. WHYMPER, and Maps. _Demy 8vo. 15s._

'His book is a grand record of quiet, unassuming, tactful resolution. His adventures were as various as his sporting exploits were exciting.'--_Times._

=E. H. Alderson.= WITH THE MASHONALAND FIELD FORCE, 1896. By Lieut.-Colonel ALDERSON. With numerous Illustrations and Plans. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

'A clear, vigorous, and soldier-like narrative.'--_Scotsman._

=Seymour Vandeleur.= CAMPAIGNING ON THE UPPER NILE AND NIGER. By Lieut. SEYMOUR VANDELEUR. With an Introduction by Sir G. GOLDIE, K.C.M.G. With 4 Maps, Illustrations, and Plans. _Large Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d._

'Upon the African question there is no book procurable which contains so much of value as this one.'--_Guardian._

=Lord Fincastle.= A FRONTIER CAMPAIGN. By Viscount FINCASTLE, V.C., and Lieut. P. C. ELLIOTT-LOCKHART. With a Map and 16 Illustrations. _Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s._

'An admirable book, and a really valuable treatise on frontier war.'--_Athenæum._

=E. N. Bennett.= THE DOWNFALL OF THE DERVISHES: A Sketch of the Sudan Campaign of 1898. By E. N. BENNETT, Fellow of Hertford College. With Four Maps and a Photogravure Portrait of the Sirdar. _Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

=J. K. Trotter.= THE NIGER SOURCES. By Colonel J. K. TROTTER, R.A. With a Map and Illustrations. _Crown 8vo. 5s._

'A most interesting as well as a lucidly and modestly written book.'--_Spectator._

=Michael Davitt.= LIFE AND PROGRESS IN AUSTRALASIA. By MICHAEL DAVITT, M.P. With 2 Maps. _Crown 8vo. 6s._ 500 pp.

'One of the most valuable contributions to our store of Imperial literature that has been published for a very long time.'--_Pall Mall Gazette._

=W. Crooke.= THE NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES OF INDIA: THEIR ETHNOLOGY AND ADMINISTRATION. By W. CROOKE. With Maps and Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

'A carefully and well-written account of one of the most important provinces of the Empire. Mr. Crooke deals with the land in its physical aspect, the province under Hindoo and Mussulman rule, under British rule, its ethnology and sociology, its religious and social life, the land and its settlement, and the native peasant. The illustrations are good, and the map is excellent.'--_Manchester Guardian._

=A. Boisragon.= THE BENIN MASSACRE. By CAPTAIN BOISRAGON. _Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. 3s._ 6_d_.

'If the story had been written four hundred years ago it would be read to-day as an English classic.'--_Scotsman._

'If anything could enhance the horror and the pathos of this remarkable book it is the simple style of the author, who writes as he would talk, unconscious of his own heroism, with an artlessness which is the highest art.'--_Pall Mall Gazette._

=H. S. Cowper.= THE HILL OF THE GRACES: OR, THE GREAT STONE TEMPLES OF TRIPOLI. By H. S. COWPER, F.S.A. With Maps, Plans, and 75 Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

'Forms a valuable chapter of what has now become quite a large and important branch of antiquarian research.'--_Times._

=W. Kinnaird Rose.= WITH THE GREEKS IN THESSALY. By W. KINNAIRD ROSE, Reuter's Correspondent. With Plans and 23 Illustrations. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

=W. B. Worsfold.= SOUTH AFRICA. By W. B. WORSFOLD, M.A. _With a Map. Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. 6s._

'A monumental work compressed into a very moderate compass.'--_World._

Naval and Military

=G. W. Steevens.= NAVAL POLICY: By G. W. STEEVENS. _Demy 8vo. 6s._

This book is a description of the British and other more important navies of the world, with a sketch of the lines on which our naval policy might possibly be developed.

'An extremely able and interesting work.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=D. Hannay.= A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY, FROM EARLY TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY. By DAVID HANNAY. Illustrated. _2 Vols. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. each._ Vol. I., 1200-1688.

'We read it from cover to cover at a sitting, and those who go to it for a lively and brisk picture of the past, with all its faults and its grandeur, will not be disappointed. The historian is endowed with literary skill and style.'--_Standard._

'We can warmly recommend Mr. Hannay's volume to any intelligent student of naval history. Great as is the merit of Mr. Hannay's historical narrative, the merit of his strategic exposition is even greater.'--_Times._

=C. Cooper King.= THE STORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY. By Colonel COOPER KING. Illustrated. _Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d._

'An authoritative and accurate story of England's military progress.'--_Daily Mail._

=R. Southey.= ENGLISH SEAMEN (Howard, Clifford, Hawkins, Drake, Cavendish). By ROBERT SOUTHEY. Edited, with an Introduction, by DAVID HANNAY. _Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s._

'Admirable and well-told stories of our naval history.'--_Army and Navy Gazette._

'A brave, inspiriting book.'--_Black and White._

=W. Clark Russell.= THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD. By W. CLARK RUSSELL. With Illustrations by F. BRANGWYN. _Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s._

'A book which we should like to see in the hands of every boy in the country.'--_St. James's Gazette._

'A really good book.'--_Saturday Review._

=E. L. S. Horsburgh.= THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO. By E. L. S. HORSBURGH, B.A. With Plans. _Crown 8vo. 5s._

'A brilliant essay--simple, sound, and thorough.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=H. B. George.= BATTLES OF ENGLISH HISTORY. By H. B. GEORGE, M.A., Fellow of New College, Oxford. With numerous Plans. _Third Edition. Cr. 8vo. 6s._

'Mr. George has undertaken a very useful task--that of making military affairs intelligible and instructive to non-military readers--and has executed it with a large measure of success.'--_Times._

General Literature

=S. Baring Gould.= OLD COUNTRY LIFE. By S. BARING GOULD. With Sixty-seven Illustrations. _Large Cr. 8vo. Fifth Edition. 6s._

'"Old Country Life," as healthy wholesome reading, full of breezy life and movement, full of quaint stories vigorously told, will not be excelled by any book to be published throughout the year. Sound, hearty, and English to the core.'--_World._

=S. Baring Gould.= AN OLD ENGLISH HOME. By S. BARING GOULD. With numerous Plans and Illustrations. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

'The chapters are delightfully fresh, very informing, and lightened by many a good story. A delightful fireside companion.'--_St. James's Gazette._

=S. Baring Gould.= HISTORIC ODDITIES AND STRANGE EVENTS. By S. BARING GOULD. _Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s._

'A collection of exciting and entertaining chapters. Delightful reading.'--_Times._

=S. Baring Gould.= FREAKS OF FANATICISM. By S. BARING GOULD. _Third Edition. Cr. 8vo. 6s._

=S. Baring Gould.= A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG: English Folk Songs with their Traditional Melodies. Collected and arranged by S. BARING GOULD and H. F. SHEPPARD. _Demy 4to. 6s._

=S. Baring Gould.= SONGS OF THE WEST: Traditional Ballads and Songs of the West of England, with their Melodies. Collected by S. BARING GOULD, M.A., and H. F. SHEPPARD, M.A. In 4 Parts. _Parts I., II., III., 3s. each. Part IV., 5s. In one Vol., French morocco, 15s._

'A rich collection of humour, pathos, grace, and poetic fancy.'--_Saturday Review._

=S. Baring Gould.= YORKSHIRE ODDITIES AND STRANGE EVENTS. By S. BARING GOULD. _Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s._

=S. Baring Gould.= STRANGE SURVIVALS AND SUPERSTITIONS. By S. BARING GOULD. _Cr. 8vo. Second Edition. 6s._

=S. Baring Gould.= THE DESERTS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. By S. BARING GOULD. _2 vols. Demy 8vo. 32s._

=Cotton Minchin.= OLD HARROW DAYS. By J. G. COTTON MINCHIN. _Cr. 8vo. Second Edition. 5s._

'This book is an admirable record.'--_Daily Chronicle._

=W. E. Gladstone.= THE SPEECHES OF THE RT. HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. Edited by A. W. HUTTON, M.A., and H. J. COHEN, M.A. With Portraits, _Demy 8vo. Vols. IX. and X. 12s. 6d. each._

=E. V. Zenker.= ANARCHISM. By E. V. ZENKER. _Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d._

'Herr Zenker has succeeded in producing a careful and critical history of the growth of Anarchist theory. He is to be congratulated upon a really interesting work.'--_Literature._

=H. G. Hutchinson.= THE GOLFING PILGRIM. By HORACE G. HUTCHINSON. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

'Full of useful information with plenty of good stories.'--_Truth._

'Without this book the golfer's library will be incomplete.'--_Pall Mall Gazette._

'It will charm all golfers.'--_Times._

=J. Wells.= OXFORD AND OXFORD LIFE. By Members of the University. Edited by J. WELLS, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College. _Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'We congratulate Mr. Wells on the production of a readable and intelligent account of Oxford as it is at the present time, written by persons who are possessed of a close acquaintance with the system and life of the University.'--_Athenæum._

=J. Wells.= OXFORD AND ITS COLLEGES. By J. WELLS, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College. Illustrated by E. H. NEW. _Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. Leather. 3s 6d. net._

'An admirable and accurate little treatise, attractively illustrated.'--_World._

'A luminous and tasteful little volume.'--_Daily Chronicle._

'Exactly what the intelligent visitor wants.'--_Glasgow Herald._

=A. H. Thompson.= CAMBRIDGE AND ITS COLLEGES. By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON. With Illustrations by E. H. NEW. _Pott 8vo. 3s. Leather. 3s. 6d. net._

This book is uniform with Mr. Wells' very successful book, 'Oxford and its Colleges.'

'It is brightly written and learned, and is just such a book as a cultured visitor needs.'--_Scotsman._

'A very neat and tasteful little volume, intelligently condensing all available information.'--_Literature._

=C. G. Robertson.= VOCES ACADEMICÆ. By C. GRANT ROBERTSON, M.A., Fellow of All Souls', Oxford. _With a Frontispiece. Pott 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'Decidedly clever and amusing.'--_Athenæum._

'A clever and entertaining little book.'--_Pall Mall Gazette._

=Rosemary Cotes.= DANTE'S GARDEN. By ROSEMARY COTES. With a Frontispiece. _Fcp. 8vo. 2s. 6d._

'A charming collection of legends of the flowers mentioned by Dante.'--_Academy._

=Clifford Harrison.= READING AND READERS. By CLIFFORD HARRISON. _Fcp. 8vo. 2s. 6d._

'We recommend schoolmasters to examine its merits, for it is at school that readers are made.'--_Academy._

'An extremely sensible little book.'--_Manchester Guardian._

=L. Whibley.= GREEK OLIGARCHIES: THEIR ORGANISATION AND CHARACTER. By L. WHIBLEY, M.A., Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

'An exceedingly useful handbook: a careful and well-arranged study.'--_Times._

=L. L. Price.= ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. By L. L. PRICE, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

=J. S. Shedlock.= THE PIANOFORTE SONATA: Its Origin and Development. By J. S. SHEDLOCK. _Crown 8vo. 5s._

'This work should be in the possession of every musician and amateur. A concise and lucid history and a very valuable work for reference.'--_Athenæum._

=E. M. Bowden.= THE EXAMPLE OF BUDDHA: Being Quotations from Buddhist Literature for each Day in the Year. Compiled by E. M. BOWDEN. _Third Edition. 16mo. 2s. 6d._

Science and Technology

=Freudenreich.= DAIRY BACTERIOLOGY. A Short Manual for the Use of Students. By Dr. ED. VON FREUDENREICH, Translated by J. R. AINSWORTH DAVIS, M.A. _Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d._

=Chalmers Mitchell.= OUTLINES OF BIOLOGY. By P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, M.A. _Illustrated. Cr. 8vo. 6s._

A text-book designed to cover the new Schedule issued by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.

=G. Massee.= A MONOGRAPH OF THE MYXOGASTRES. BY GEORGE MASSEE. With 12 Coloured Plates. _Royal 8vo. 18s. net._

'A work much in advance of any book in the language treating of this group of organisms. Indispensable to every student of the Myxogastres.'--_Nature._

=Stephenson and Suddards.= ORNAMENTAL DESIGN FOR WOVEN FABRICS. By C. STEPHENSON, of The Technical College, Bradford, and F. SUDDARDS, of The Yorkshire College, Leeds. With 65 full-page plates. _Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d._

'The book is very ably done, displaying an intimate knowledge of principles, good taste, and the faculty of clear exposition.'--_Yorkshire Post._

TEXTBOOKS OF TECHNOLOGY.

Edited by PROFESSORS GARNETT and WERTHEIMER.

HOW TO MAKE A DRESS. By J. A. E. WOOD. _Illustrated. Cr. 8vo. 1s. 6d._

A text-book for students preparing for the City and Guilds examination, based on the syllabus. The diagrams are numerous.

'Though primarily intended for students, Miss Wood's dainty little manual may be consulted with advantage by any girls who want to make their own frocks. The directions are simple and clear, and the diagrams very helpful.'--_Literature._

CARPENTRY AND JOINERY. By F. C. WEBBER. With many Illustrations. _Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'An admirable elementary text-book on the subject.'--_Builder._

PRACTICAL MECHANICS. By SIDNEY H. WELLS. With 75 Illustrations and Diagrams. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

Philosophy

=L. T. Hobhouse.= THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE. By L. T. HOBHOUSE, Fellow of C.C.C., Oxford. _Demy 8vo. 21s._

'The most important contribution to English philosophy since the publication of Mr. Bradley's "Appearance and Reality."'--_Glasgow Herald._

'A brilliantly written volume.'--_Times._

=W. H. Fairbrother.= THE PHILOSOPHY OF T. H. GREEN. By W. H. FAIRBROTHER, M.A. _Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d._

'In every way an admirable book.'--_Glasgow Herald._

=F. W. Bussell.= THE SCHOOL OF PLATO. By F. W. BUSSELL, D.D., Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

'A clever and stimulating book.'--_Manchester Guardian._

=F. S. Granger.= THE WORSHIP OF THE ROMANS. By F. S. GRANGER, M.A., Litt.D. _Crown 8vo. 6s._

A scholarly analysis of the religious ceremonies, beliefs, and superstitions of ancient Rome, conducted in the new light of comparative anthropology.'--_Times._

Theology

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THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY. Illustrated. _Ninth Edition._

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