The Spanish Story of the Armada, and Other Essays. (12mo, $1.50.)
Contents: The Spanish Story of the Armada—Antonio Perez: An Unsolved Historical Riddle—Saint Teresa—The Templars—The Norway Fjords—Norway Once More.
Short Studies on Great Subjects. (Half leather, 12mo, 4 vols., each $1.50.)
CONTENTS:
Vol. I. The Science of History—Times of Erasmus and Luther—The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character—The Philosophy of Catholicism—A Plea for the Free Discussion of Theological Difficulties—Criticism and the Gospel History—The Book of Job—Spinoza—The Dissolution of Monasteries—England’s Forgotten Worthies—Homer—The Lives of the Saints—Representative Man—Reynard the Fox—The Cat’s Pilgrimage—Fables—Parable of the Bread-fruit Tree—Compensation.
Vol. II. Calvinism—A Bishop of the Twelfth Century—Father Newman on “The Grammar of Assent”—Conditions and Prospects of Protestantism—England and Her Colonies—A Fortnight in Kerry—Reciprocal Duties in State and Subject—The Merchant and His Wife—On Progress—The Colonies Once More—Education—England’s War—The Eastern Question—Scientific Method Applied to History.
Vol. III. Annals of an English Abbey—Revival of Romanism—Sea Studies—Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic—Lucian—Divus Caesar—On the Uses of a Landed Gentry—Party Politics—Leaves from a South African Journal.
Vol. IV. The Oxford Counter—Reformation—Life and Times of Thomas Becket—Origen and Celsus—A Cagliostro of the Second Century—Cheneys and the House of Russell—A Siding at a Railway Station.
“All the papers here collected are marked by the qualities which have made Mr. Froude the most popular of living English historians—by skill in argumentative and rhetorical exposition, by felicities of diction, by contagious earnestness, and by the rare power of fusing the results of research in the imagination so as to produce a picture of the past at once exact and vivid.”—N. Y. Sun.
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE.