Professor Rogers's object in the following sketches is to present a set of historical facts, grouped round a principal figure. The essays are in the form of lectures.
HISTORICAL GLEANINGS. A Series of Sketches. By Rev. J.E.T. Rogers. Second Series. Crown 8vo. 6s.
A companion volume to the First Series recently published. It contains papers on Wiklif, Laud, Wilkes, Horne Tooke. In these lectures the author has aimed to state the social facts of the time in which the individual whose history is handled took part in public business.
Smith (Professor Goldwin).—THREE ENGLISH STATESMEN: PYM, CROMWELL, PITT. A Course of Lectures on the Political History of England. By Goldwin Smith, M.A. Extra fcap. 8vo. New and Cheaper Edition. 5s.
"A work which neither historian nor politician can safely afford to neglect."—Saturday Review.
SYSTEMS OF LAND TENURE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. A Series of Essays published under the sanction of the Cobden Club. Demy 8vo. Second Edition. 12s.
The subjects treated are:—1. Tenure of Land in Ireland; 2. Land Laws of England; 3. Tenure of Land in India; 4. Land System of Belgium and Holland; 5. Agrarian Legislation of Prussia during the Present Century; 6. Land System of France; 7. Russian Agrarian Legislation of 1861; 8. Farm Land and Land Laws of the United States.
Tacitus.—THE HISTORY OF TACITUS, translated into English. By A.J. Church, M.A. and W.J. Brodribb, M.A. With a Map and Notes. 8vo. 10s. 6d.
The translators have endeavoured to adhere as closely to the original as was thought consistent with a proper observance of English idiom. At the same time it has been their aim to reproduce the precise expressions of the author. This work is characterised by the Spectator as "a scholarly and faithful translation."
THE AGRICOLA AND GERMANIA. Translated into English by A.J. Church, M.A. and W.J. Brodribb, M.A. With Maps and Notes. Extra fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d.