William Shakespeare - Part 20
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Part 20

_History and Geography_

3. _THE FRENCH REVOLUTION_

By HILAIRE BELLOC, M.A. (With Maps.) "It is coloured with all the militancy of the author's temperament."--_Daily News._

4. _HISTORY OF WAR AND PEACE_

By G. H. PERRIS. The Rt. Hon. JAMES BRYCE writes: "I have read it with much interest and pleasure, admiring the skill with which you have managed to compress so many facts and views into so small a volume."

8. _POLAR EXPLORATION_

By Dr W. S. BRUCE, F.R.S.E., Leader of the "Scotia" Expedition. (With Maps.) "A very freshly written and interesting narrative."--_The Times._ "A fascinating book."--_Portsmouth Times._

12. _THE OPENING-UP OF AFRICA_

By Sir H. H. JOHNSTON, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.Sc, F.Z.S. (With Maps.) "The Home University Library is much enriched by this excellent work."--_Daily Mail._

13. _MEDIaeVAL EUROPE_

By H. W. C. DAVIS, M.A. (With Maps.) "A good specimen of the work of the modern historian,"--_Christian World._ "One more ill.u.s.tration of the fact that it takes a complete master of the subject to write briefly upon it."--_Manchester Guardian._

14. _THE PAPACY & MODERN TIMES_ (1303-1870)

By WILLIAM BARRY, D.D. "Dr Barry has a wide range of knowledge and an artist's power of selection."--_Manchester Guardian._

23. _HISTORY OF OUR TIME_, 1885-1911

By G. P. GOOCH, M.A. "Mr Gooch contrives to breathe vitality into his story, and to give us the flesh as well as the bones of recent happenings."--_Observer._

25. _THE CIVILISATION OF CHINA_

By H. A. GILES, LL.D., Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge. "In all the ma.s.s of facts, Professor Giles never becomes dull. He is always ready with a ghost story or a street adventure for the reader's recreation."--_Spectator._

29. _THE DAWN OF HISTORY_

By J. L. MYRES, M.A., F.S.A., Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, Oxford. "There is not a page in it that is not suggestive."--_Manchester Guardian._

33. _THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND_:

_A Study in Political Evolution._

By Prof. A. F. POLLARD, M.A. With a Chronological Table. "A vivid study of tendencies, not a solid ma.s.s of facts.... It is a most stimulating, energetic, and suggestive piece of work."--_Daily News._ "It takes its place at once among the authoritative works on English history."--_Observer._ "It is marked by the wealth of detail, the sanity of outlook, the severe impartiality which we always find in Prof.

Pollard's writings."--_London Teacher._

34. _CANADA_

By A. G. BRADLEY. "Who knows Canada better than Mr A. G.

Bradley?"--_Daily Chronicle._ "The volume makes an immediate appeal to the man who wants to know something vivid and true about Canada."--_Canadian Gazette._ "As interesting and as absorbing as a good novel."--_Canadian Mail._

37. _PEOPLES & PROBLEMS OF INDIA_

By Sir T. W. HOLDERNESS, K.C.S.I., Secretary of the Revenue, Statistics, and Commerce Department of the India Office. "Just the book which newspaper readers require to-day, and a marvel of comprehensiveness in bringing all the factors of a great subject into view within a limited s.p.a.ce."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

42. _ROME_

By W. WARDE FOWLER, M.A. "A masterly sketch of Roman character and of what it did for the world."--_The Spectator._ "It has all the lucidity and charm of presentation we expect from this writer."--_Manchester Guardian._

48. _THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR_

By F. L. PAXSON, Professor of American History, Wisconsin University.

(With Maps.)

IN PREPARATION

_ANCIENT GREECE._ By Prof. GILBERT MURRAY, D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A.

_ANCIENT EGYPT._ By Dr F. L. GRIFFITH, M.A., F.R.S.

_A SHORT HISTORY OF EUROPE._ By HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A.

_THE REFORMATION._ By Princ.i.p.al LINDSAY, LL.D.

_A SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA._ By Prof. MILYOUKOV.

_MODERN TURKEY._ By D. G. HOGARTH, M.A.

_FRANCE OF TO-DAY._ By ALBERT THOMAS.

_HISTORY OF SCOTLAND._ By R. S. RAIT, M.A.

_SOUTH AMERICA._ By Prof. W. R. SHEPHERD.

_MASTER MARINERS._ By J. R. SPEARS.

_NAPOLEON._ By HERBERT FISHER, M.A.

_Literature and Art_

2. _SHAKESPEARE_