Edited by S. H. JEYES.
LI HUNG CHANG, BY Prof. ROBT. K. DOUGLAS.
The Rt. Hon. CECIL RHODES, BY EDWARD DICEY, C.B.
THE AMEER, ABDUR RAHMAN, BY STEPHEN WHEELER.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR, WILLIAM II., BY CHARLES LOWE.
SENOR CASTELAR, BY DAVID HANNAY.
LORD CROMER, BY H. D. TRAILL.
SIGNOR CRISPI, BY W. J. STILLMAN.
M. STAMBULOFF, BY A. HULME BEAMAN.
With Portrait, and Maps where necessary.
Price 3/6
Crown 8vo, from 224 to 256 pages.
Other Volumes are in negotiation, and will shortly be announced.
The object of this Series is to furnish English readers all over the world with a biographical account and critical appreciation of the leading public men of the time, the makers of contemporary history. In the choice of subjects care has been taken to select Monarchs or Ministers whose careers have been interesting, and who have played a prominent part in stirring and important scenes. It is, however, the aim of the writers, not merely to present a number of personal portraits of important Statesmen, but also to trace and explain the political and social development of the nations to which they belong.
It is believed, therefore, that a perusal of these volumes, written by distinguished and well-qualified observers, will result in a better understanding than most persons possess of the daily news cabled from all parts of the Old and the New World, and will invest with a more lively significance the foreign telegrams published in the British, Colonial, and American press.
The Series will also be found to have a certain educational value for the more intelligent students in Schools and Colleges. It is too much the custom to fill young minds with the minute details of past epochs, and to cut modern history short just at the point where it might be rendered most attractive and specially useful.
Each volume contains one or more portraits, and maps are given where they are necessary to elucidate the text.