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. 12. THE OPENING-UP OF AFRICA By Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., F.Z.S. (With Maps.) "The Home University Library is much enriched by this excellent work."—Daily Mail. 13. MEDIÆVAL EUROPE By H. W. C. Davis, M.A. (With Maps.) "One more illustration 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 at Cambridge. "In all the mass 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. "It takes its place at once among the authoritative works on English history."—Observer. 34. CANADA By A. G. Bradley. "The volume makes an immediate appeal to the man who wants to know something vivid and true about Canada."—Canadian Gazette. 37. PEOPLES & PROBLEMS OF INDIA By Sir T. W. Holderness, K.C.S.I., Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the India Office. "Just the book which newspaper readers require to-day, and a marvel of comprehensiveness."—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. 48. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR By F. L. Paxson, Professor of American History, Wisconsin University. (With Maps.) "A stirring study."—The Guardian. 51. WARFARE IN BRITAIN By Hilaire Belloc, M.A. "Rich in suggestion for the historical student."—Edinburgh Evening News. 55. MASTER MARINERS By J. R. Spears. "A continuous story of shipping progress and adventure.... It reads like a romance."—Glasgow Herald. 61. NAPOLEON By Herbert Fisher, LL.D., F.B.A., Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University. (With Maps.) The story of the great Bonaparte's youth, his career, and his downfall, with some sayings of Napoleon, a genealogy, and a bibliography. 66. THE NAVY AND SEA POWER By David Hannay. The author traces the growth of naval power from early times, and discusses its principles and effects upon the history of the Western world. 71. GERMANY OF TO-DAY By Charles Tower. "It would be difficult to name any better summary."—Daily News. 82. PREHISTORIC BRITAIN By Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E. (Illustrated.)
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