The Series has taken for its motto the Miltonic prayer:—
“Thou Who of Thy free grace didst build up this Brittannick
Empire to a glorious and enviable height. With all her
Daughter Islands about her, stay us in this felicitie.”
1. SIR WALTER RALEGH. By Martin A. S. Hume, Author of “The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth,” &c.
2. SIR THOMAS MAITLAND; the Mastery of the Mediterranean. By Walter Frewen Lord.
3. JOHN CABOT AND HIS SONS; the Discovery of North America. By C. Raymond Beazley, M.A.
4. LORD CLIVE; the Foundation of British Rule in India. By Sir A. J. Arbuthnot, K.C.S.I., C.I.E.
5. EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD; the Colonisation of South Australia and New Zealand. By R. Garnett, C.B., LL.D.