“Mr. Stockton is the quaintest of living humorists.”—Academy.
History.
The Vikings in Western Christendom, A.D. 789-888. By C. F. Keary, Author of “Outlines of Primitive Belief,” “The Dawn of History,” &c. With Map and Tables. Demy 8vo., cloth, 16s.
National Life and Thought; Or, Lectures on Various Nations of the World. Delivered at South Place Institute by Professor Thorold Rogers, J. S. Cotton Minchin, W. R. Morfill, F. H. Groome, J. Theodore Bent, Professor A. Pülsky, Eirike Magnusson, and other Specialists. Demy 8vo., cloth, 10s. 6d.
These Lectures attracted much attention in the Session of 1889-90, and are now reprinted to meet the desire of a very large public. In each case the authors have striven to put their audience in thorough sympathy with the National Life and Thought of the Nations treated of.
Battles and Leaders of the American Civil War. An Authoritative History, written by Distinguished Participants on both sides. Edited by Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, of the Editorial Staff of “The Century Magazine.” Four Volumes, Royal 8vo., elegantly bound, £5 5s.
Lord Wolseley, in writing a series of articles in the North American Review on this work, says: “The Century Company has, in my judgment, done a great service to the soldiers of all armies by the publication of these records of the great War.”
Diary of the Parnell Commission. Revised with Additions, from The Daily News. By John Macdonald, M.A. Large crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.