“If there are any other diarists who managed to preserve as much fairness and coolness as Princess BlÜcher displays in this book they need not be ashamed to publish their records. If she had a just mind she had a stalwart one.”—Spectator.

“This is a book apart. Nothing yet published gives so clear and honest a picture of German mentality. The soul of Germany is laid bare and the exposure achieved without the slightest pretension. The character of the Berlin aristocracy is written in every page of this honest and absorbing document.”—Daily Telegraph.

“Perhaps the most absorbingly interesting war book that has been written.... Altogether the book is a most remarkable one. The kind that causes one to forget one’s meals and other pleasures until the last page is read. Princess BlÜcher has earned the undying gratitude of her countrymen for her indefatigable work on behalf of prisoners of war.”—Globe.

“A book of great and vivid interest.”—Westminster Gazette.

“The book, fully commensurate with the fame of its subject, will take its place with the standard Lives of Statesmen.”—Daily Telegraph.

“Mr. George Trevelyan has had the honour of writing what must henceforth be the accepted Life.... Finely written. We only wish we had space to quote in full.”—Spectator.

“His reflections upon the Civil Service are full of interest.... There is much entertaining matter in the book, which touches in turn on almost every topic of present-day administration.”—Morning Post.

“Sir George Kekewich and Anthony Trollope are, so far as we know, the only permanent officials who have written a book about their own departments.... Sir George was genuinely interested in his duties and did well the work which he found to his hand.”—Saturday Review.

“The whole wonderful story of this life Miss Holt tells with a proper warmth of enthusiasm.... Carefully and intimately, so that the reader is able to love the man as well as admire the hero.”—Observer.

“A valuable memorial of a noble character and a truly extraordinary man.”—Times.

“A tale worth the telling, and set forth with a lucidity, a sympathy, and a comprehension remarkable in one whose acquaintance with South Africa can only be slight.... A book which is not only a valuable historical document but absorbingly interesting in every page.”—Westminster Gazette.

“A fascinating edition of a fascinating book.”—Morning Post.

“Mr. Whibley’s introduction contains an appreciation of Lord Beaconsfield concisely just to his great gifts, to the general consistency of his life, and to his qualities as a statesman.”—Outlook.

“A real benefit to the cause of recent history.... Mr. Thayer has done his work notably well. It is accurate, thorough, well-balanced, essentially lucid. Well-written, solid yet inspiring, admirably produced.... Such a work is a credit to the book industry from every point of view.”—Bookman.

In this volume the author has traced the life of one of the most remarkable men of to-day. Book I.—Crete before and during the rise of Venizelos—deals with the early life of this great patriot; his early struggles as leader of the Cretan revolution; his final triumphal election to the Greek National Assembly. Book II.—Venizelos as Maker of Modern Greece—is a history of the gradual aggrandisement of Greece. From 1910 to 1920 the life of Venizelos is synonymous with that of his country.

“An invaluable source for the historian of the downfall of the Turkish Empire, and adds materially to our knowledge of the intrigues of the great continental powers in Egypt and the Near East.”—Manchester Guardian.

“Of profound interest and reveals some inner secrets of Near Eastern policy.”—Sunday Times.

“He was in spirit a true sportsman, and his autobiography, fresh, crisp, and entirely unaffected, will do something to put him in his right niche.”—Observer.

“The two stages of his extraordinary career as he describes them in great detail, with honest self-satisfaction and a good deal of quiet humour, make a story—almost a romance—which is not only entertaining but instructive.”—Westminster Gazette.

Letters of Charles Francis Adams, American Minister to England during the Civil War, and his two sons—Henry Adams, who acted as secretary, and Charles Francis Adams, Jr., then serving in the Northern Armies.

These two volumes of family letters form an unique series. They contain detailed description of social conditions, discussion of public questions, and wise and informed comments on the events in Great Britain and America during the war between North and South. Social, military, and diplomatic, the importance of so long a series of letters between members of a distinguished family cannot be over-estimated.

“Mr. Thayer’s very interesting biography.”—Lord Cromer in The Spectator.

“Mr. Thayer is to be congratulated on this biography.... He has made a most skilful and attractive book, full of good reading, dealing with great events and little, and adding to our knowledge of men and things at moments of real importance to history.”—Westminster Gazette.

“One of the most comprehensive and masterly biographies I have ever read.”—Claudius Clear in The British Weekly.

“A vivacious narrative, decidedly more attractive for the English reader than Roosevelt’s record of his career.”—Manchester Guardian.

“A thorough and penetrating review of the circumstances which united the States of America under a common and supreme government. On literary grounds it is a book of singular merit, while as a contribution to the political and constitutional history it deserves the closest study.”—Liverpool Post.