Part 16
Messrs. A. & C. BLACK have for some time been making arrangements, which are now completed, for the execution of a new “Survey of London.” The last edition of Stowe and Strype’s famous work was issued in 1754; Maitland’s Survey appeared in 1756; Entick’s Survey in 1766; Lambert’s Survey in 1806: all these were based upon Stowe. Since that time, though there have been many books written on London, on parts of London, on churches of London, and on institutions of London, there has been no actual Survey of London. In this long interval London has extended very far beyond the modest limits of its walls and suburbs of 1806. At the present moment the jurisdiction of the London County Council covers an area, including the old city, which roughly may be estimated at seventeen miles long by twelve miles broad. The whole of this area is to be included in the new Survey. The Editor, Director, and the principal writer of the work is Sir WALTER BESANT, M.A., F.S.A., who has made a study of London—not only in books, but in exploration of the streets—the occupation of his leisure hours for more than twenty-five years. The new work will not be, like those of Maitland and Entick, merely a reproduction brought up to date of Stowe, but an entirely new work on a different plan. It will contain a history of London newly written and illustrated by the records and documents which have been brought to light during the last fifty years. These papers enable the historian to reconstruct and to present the city and its people as they were from age to age; not only the achievement of its liberties will be recorded, but also the development of its trade, the growth of its political power, the changes in its religious ideas, the manners and customs of the people. There will be a perambulation of the whole “County” as well as of the City proper, in the course of which every ancient building, every historical association, every Institution—Church, School, Hospital, Almshouse, Museum, Town Hall, Theatre—every great house of business will be noted and described.
It is, in short, the desire of the Publishers and the Editor to erect a monument worthy of this great and venerable city.
The work will be abundantly illustrated with Maps and Drawings of buildings past and present, and will form at least eight Royal quarto volumes, the first to be published in 1900, to be followed at short regular intervals.
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BY REAR-ADMIRAL THE HON. VICTOR A. MONTAGU
A MIDDY’S RECOLLECTIONS 1853-1860
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_Containing 2 Photogravures and 6 other full-page Illustrations._
“Full of interest as illustrating the life of a midshipman afloat in the last days of the wooden Navy, and as recording a much larger and more varied share of war experience than has fallen to the lot of most young officers in these latter days.”—_The Times._
“Few officers could have had so much active service crowded into the first few years of their career as the author of these reminiscences.”—_Morning Post._
“The life on board ship, the boisterous humour of the gun-room, and the stern discipline of those rough-and-tumble days are described with a sailor’s breezy frankness.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._
“It will interest all who are fond of exciting incident, quite apart from its personal interest.”—_Outlook._
“His descriptions are written with as much freshness and _verve_ as if the events recorded were of quite recent occurrence, and with a sailorly downrightness and infectious good-humour that help to render this extremely interesting volume a welcome exception to the great majority of works of its order with which the book market has lately been flooded.”—_The World._
“Breezy, full of cheerfulness, Admiral Montagu lived his boyhood in stirring times, and was a part of them. His record is a piece of pleasant and straightforward work.”—_Country Life._
“The book is full of good things from beginning to end.”—_Army and Navy Gazette._
“His accounts of active warfare, of pirate-hunting, and shipwreck are exhilarating, and there are many enlightening pages in the book dealing with punishments in the Navy, the leisure hours of a middy’s life on board ship, his duties and companionships.”—_Daily Mail._
“The book is delightfully frank and breezy, and is one which will be eagerly read.”—_Whitehall Review._
“It says a good deal for Admiral Montagu’s memory that he has been able to reproduce his impressions of nearly forty years ago so clearly and pleasantly.”—_Daily Chronicle._
“A most delightful volume. Many delightful records of experience in the Naval Service have recently appeared, and for genuine interest and frank and easy style I am disposed to reckon Admiral Montagu’s volume among the best.”—_Navy and Army Illustrated._
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BY SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM
THE PALADINS OF EDWIN THE GREAT
_Containing 10 full-page Illustrations by RALPH PEACOCK. Crown 8vo. Cloth. Gilt edges._
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OUTLINE OF STORY.
“The author presents to boys a valuable picture of life in Northumbria thirteen hundred years ago. The scene is laid in the neighbourhood of York. The early chapter affords a picture of the life, education, and pleasures of boys of the time. While engaged in a hunting expedition the four boy heroes, with three companions, are captured by sea robbers, taken abroad, and fall into the hands of a trader who takes them to Rome and sells them as slaves. Deacon Gregory buys three of them, two boys are purchased by Pamphronius, and two by another Roman.”—_Standard._
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A PRISONER OF FRANCE
BEING THE REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN CHARLES BOOTHBY, R.E.
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_Containing a Frontispiece Portrait of the Author, and several small Illustrations from Pen-and-ink Sketches in the Author’s journals._
“We cordially recommend this charming bit of autobiography. A page of it is worth a whole sackful of the trumpery trash which figures in the publishers’ advertisements as the historical novel.”—_Daily News._
“Exceptionally interesting on account of the details which it supplies concerning the manner in which he was treated.”—_Glasgow Herald._
“A very vivid picture of military life in the Peninsula.”—_Speaker._
“It is impossible to read his diary without liking a man who made so light of trouble, and who bore himself so gallantly in captivity.”—_Standard._
“The cheerfulness with which he writes throughout is singularly refreshing.”—_Academy._
“It will be read with eager interest.... The narrative often reads like romance, but the author had too high a sense of probity to palm off fiction for actual personal experience.”—_Scotsman._
“A very engrossing story.... It abounds in interesting anecdote and in intelligent observation.”—_The Broad Arrow._
“These Memoirs thoroughly justify their publication, and they will be perused by students of military history with considerable advantage as well as keen enjoyment.”—_St. James’s Gazette._
“‘A Prisoner of France’ should be in the hands of all young soldiers, for it is a manual of soldierly kindness and fine humanity.”—_Vanity Fair._
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A BRITISH RIFLE MAN
THE JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF MAJOR GEORGE SIMMONS, RIFLE BRIGADE, DURING THE PENINSULAR WAR AND THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO
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_Containing 3 Sketch Maps._
“Altogether this is a most attractive book, bringing back vividly to the memory one of the most brilliant periods of English military history, and giving a pleasant, because unintentional, picture of a gallant soldier and gentleman.”—_Standard._
“It will be long invaluable as a record of the heroism, the occasional, though exceptional, excesses, and the wondrous endurance of the British soldier.”—_Daily Chronicle._
“It is a far cry now to the Peninsular War, yet seldom have we read a more realistic picture of certain phases of that heroic struggle.”—_Speaker._
“Welcome as contributing contemporary records made by an observant man taking part in world-moulding struggles.”—_Observer._
“This book is certainly one that all riflemen will value, and which all who are interested in the Peninsular War will enjoy.... The book is thus fairly packed with interest, for the author belonged to a regiment that saw more fighting than any other in the Peninsula, and certainly Major Simmons was a remarkable man.”—_The Army and Navy Gazette._
“An extremely vivid account of the many historic and exciting scenes witnessed by the writer.”—_Dublin Express._
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BY JOHN KNOX
THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF RELIGION WITHIN THE REALM OF SCOTLAND
CONTAINING THE MANNER AND BY WHAT PERSONS THE LIGHT OF CHRIST’S EVANGEL HATH BEEN MANIFESTED UNTO THIS REALM AFTER THAT HORRIBLE AND UNIVERSAL DEFECTION FROM THE TRUTH, WHICH HATH COME BY MEANS OF THAT ROMAN ANTICHRIST 1527 to 1564
EDITED FOR POPULAR USE BY CHARLES JOHN GUTHRIE, Q.C.
_WITH NOTES, SUMMARY, GLOSSARY, INDEX, AND FIFTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS_
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“Nothing more graphic in incidents and portraiture, or trustworthy in narrative, than this history remains to us of the literature of the period. The book represents an immense amount of labour, and needs only to be casually examined to convince one of the editor’s intelligent care in its preparation, and of its present-day value. The footnotes are invariably fresh and informative.”—_Pray and Trust Magazine._
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THE STORY OF GLADSTONE’S LIFE
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ALFRED THE GREAT
ENGLAND’S DARLING
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