MESSRS. METHUEN'S LIST 13 Clark. THE COLLEGES OF OXFORD: Their History and their Traditions. By Members of the University. Edited by A. CLARK, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College. 8vo. 12s. 6d. "Whether the reader approaches the book as a patriotic member of a college, as an antiquary, or as a student of the organic growth of college foundation, it will amply reward his attention.'-Times. A delightful book, learned and lively.'-Academy. 'A work which will certainly be appealed to for many years as the standard book on the Colleges of Oxford.'-Athenæum. Perrens. THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE FROM THE TIME OF THE MEDICIS TO THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC. By F. T. PERRENS. Translated by HANNAH LYNCH. In Three Volumes. Vol. I. 8vo. 12s. 6d. This is a translation from the French of the best history of Florence in existence. This volume covers a period of profound interest-political and literary-and is written with great vivacity. 'This is a standard book by an honest and intelligent historian, who has deserved well of his countrymen, and of all who are interested in Italian history.'-Manchester Guardian. Browning. GUELPHS AND GHIBELLINES: A Short History of Medieval Italy, A.D. 1250-1409. By OSCAR BROWNING, Fellow and Tutor of King's College, Cambridge. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 55. 'A very able book.'-Westminster Gazette. 'A vivid picture of medieval Italy.'—Standard. O'Grady. THE STORY OF IRELAND. By STANDISH O'GRADY, Author of 'Finn and his Companions.' Cr. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 'Novel and very fascinating history. Wonderfully alluring.'-Cork Examiner. 'Most delightful, most stimulating. Its racy humour, its original imaginings, its perfectly unique history, make it one of the freshest, breeziest volumes.'Methodist Times. 'A survey at once graphic, acute, and quaintly written.'-Times. Malden. ENGLISH RECORDS. A Companion to the History of England. By H. E. MALDEN, M.A. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. A book which aims at concentrating information upon dates, genealogy, officials, constitutional documents, etc., which is usually found scattered in different volumes. Biography Collingwood. JOHN RUSKIN: His Life and Work. By W. G. COLLINGWOOD, M.A., Editor of Mr. Ruskin's Poems. 2 vols. 8vo. 325. Second Edition. This important work is written by Mr. Collingwood, who has been for some years Mr. Ruskin's private secretary, and who has had unique advantages in obtaining materials for this book from Mr. Ruskin himself and from his friends. It contains a large amount of new matter, and of letters which have never been published, and is, in fact, a full and authoritative biography of Mr. Ruskin. The book contains numerous portraits of Mr. Ruskin, including a coloured one from a water-colour portrait by himself, and also 13 sketches, never before published, by Mr. Ruskin and Mr. Arthur Severn. A bibliography is added. 'No more magnificent volumes have been published for a long time. . . .'—Times. 'This most lovingly written and most profoundly interesting book.'-Daily News. 'It is long since we have had a biography with such varied delights of substance and of form. Such a book is a pleasure for the day, and a joy for ever.'-Daily Chronicle. Mr. Ruskin could not well have been more fortunate in his biographer.'-Globe. 'A noble monument of a noble subject. One of the most beautiful books about one of the noblest lives of our century.'-Glasgow Herald. Waldstein. JOHN RUSKIN : a Study. By CHARLES WALDSTEIN, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. With a Photogravure Portrait after Professor HERKOMER. Post 8vo. 5s. Also 25 copies on Japanese paper. Demy 8vo. 21s. 'Ruskinites will no doubt arise and join battle with Mr. Waldstein, who, all the same has produced a remarkably fine piece of criticism, which is well worth reading for its own sake.'-Glasgow Herald. 'A thoughtful, impartial, well-written criticism of Ruskin's teaching, intended to separate what the author regards as valuable and permanent from what is transient and erroneous in the great master's writing.'-Daily Chronicle. Robbins. THE EARLY LIFE OF WILLIAM EWART By A. F. ROBBINS. With Portraits. GLADSTONE. 8vo. 65. Crown 'The earlier years of Mr. Gladstone's political life stand out all the more finely, and leave a more enduring impression, because of the absolute truthfulness and conscientiousness with which the record has been penned.'-Glasgow Herald. 'Considerable labour and much skill of presentation have not been unworthily expended on this interesting work.'-Times. 'By immense labour, guided by a competent knowledge of affairs, he has given us a book which will be of permanent value to the student of political history. It is exhaustively indexed, and accompanied by three portraits."—Yorkshire Post. 'Not only one of the most meritorious, but one of the most interesting, biographical works that have appeared on the subject of the ex-Premier. It furnishes a picture from many points original and striking; it makes additions of value to the evidence on which we are entitled to estimate a great public character; and it gives the reader's judgment exactly that degree of guidance which is the function of a calm, restrained, and judicious historian.'-—Birmingham Daily Post. 'A carefully-planned narrative, into which is woven a great deal of information. . . . It is pretty safe to predict that this volume will not only be read but retained on library bookshelves as a useful book of reference.'-Daily News. Clark Russell. THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD. By W. CLARK RUSSELL, Author of The Wreck of the Grosvenor. With Illustrations by F. BRANGWYN. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. 'A really good book.'-Saturday Review. A most excellent and wholesome book, which we should like to see in the hands of every boy in the country.'-St. James's Gazette. MESSRS. METHUEN'S LIST General Literature 15 Gladstone. THE SPEECHES AND PUBLIC ADDRESSES OF THE RT. HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. With Notes and Introductions. Edited by A. W. HUTTON, M.A. (Librarian of the Gladstone Library), and H. J. COHEN, M.A. With Portraits. 8vo. Vols. IX. and X. 12s. 6d. each. Henley and Whibley. A BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE. Collected by W. E. HENLEY and CHARLES WHIBLEY. Cr. 8vo. 6s. Also 40 copies on Dutch paper. Also 15 copies on Japanese paper. 21s. net. 425. net. 'A unique volume of extracts-an art gallery of early prose.-Birmingham Post. 'The book is delightfully got up, being printed by Messrs. Constable, who have evidently bestowed most loving care upon it.'-Publishers' Circular. 'The anthology is one every lover of good writing and quaint English will enjoy.'Literary World. 'An admirable companion to Mr. Henley's "Lyra Heroica."-Saturday Review. 'Quite delightful. The choice made has been excellent, and the volume has been most admirably printed by Messrs. Constable. A greater treat for those not well acquainted with pre-Restoration prose could not be imagined.'-Athenæum. Wells. OXFORD AND OXFORD LIFE. By Members of the University. Edited by J. WELLS, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. This work contains an account of life at Oxford-intellectual, social, and religiousa careful estimate of necessary expenses, a review of recent changes, a statement of the present position of the University, and chapters on Women's Education, aids to study, and University Extension. 'We congratulate Mr. Wells on the production of a readable and intelligent account of Oxford as it is at the present time, written by persons who are, with hardly an exception, possessed of a close acquaintance with the system and life of the University.-Athenæum. Chalmers Mitchell. OUTLINES OF BIOLOGY. CHALMERS MITCHELL, M. A., F.Z.S. Fully Illustrated. By P. A text-book designed to cover the new Schedule issued by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dixon. ENGLISH POETRY FROM BLAKE TO BROWNING. By W. M. DIXON, M.A. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d. A Popular Account of the poetry of the Century. Scholarly in conception, and full of sound and suggestive criticism.'-Times. 'The book is remarkable for freshness of thought expressed in graceful language.'Manchester Examiner. Bowden. THE EXAMPLE OF BUDDHA: Being Quotations from Buddhist Literature for each Day in the Year. Compiled by E. M. Bowden. With Preface by Sir EDWIN ARNOLD. Third Edition. 160. 2s. 6d. Massee. A MONOGRAPH OF THE MYXOGASTRES. By GEORGE MASSEE. With 12 Coloured Plates. Royal 8vo. 18s. net. 'A work much in advance of any book in the language treating of this group of organisms. It is indispensable to every student of the Myxogastres. The coloured plates deserve high praise for their accuracy and execution.'-Nature. Bushill. PROFIT SHARING AND THE LABOUR QUES- Jenks. ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT. By E JENks, M.A., Professor of Law at University College, Liverpool. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. 'The work is admirably done. Everything the average man will wish to know respecting the history and bearing of the subject he is likely to learn from Professor Jenks. He is told something of the origin of every form of the government under which he lives and is rated, and may learn sufficient of the duties and powers of local bodies to enable him to take an intelligent interest in their work.'-Western Morning News. 'Timely and admirable.'-Scotsman. 'Mr. Jenks undertakes to give in a brief compass an accurate description of the public bodies and authorities by which we are surrounded, while just glancing here and there at their origin and historical continuity through the ages. A subject of much complexity is here judiciously summarised.'— Daily News. 'We can cordially recommend the book as giving an excellent outline in general terms of English local government.'-School Guardian. Malden. THE ENGLISH CITIZEN: HIS RIGHTS AND Is. 6d. DUTIES. By H. E. MALDEN, M. A. Crown 8vo. John Beever. PRACTICAL FLY-FISHING, Founded on A little book on Fly-Fishing by an old friend of Mr. Ruskin. It has been out of print for some time, and being still much in request, is now issued with a Memoir of the Author by W. G. Collingwood. Hutton. THE VACCINATION QUESTION. A Letter to the Right Hon. H. H. ASQUITH, M.P. By A. W. HUTTON, M.A. Crown 8vo. Is. 6d. MESSRS. METHUEN'S LIST Theology 17 Driver. SERMONS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT. By S. R. DRIVER, D.D., Canon of Christ Church, Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford. Crown 8vo. 6s. 'A welcome companion to the author's famous 'Introduction.' No man can read these discourses without feeling that Dr. Driver is fully alive to the deeper teaching of the Old Testament.'-Guardian. Cheyne. FOUNDERS OF OLD TESTAMENT CRITICISM: Biographical, Descriptive, and Critical Studies. By T. K. CHeyne, D.D., Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford. Large crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. This important book is a historical sketch of O.T. Criticism in the form of biographi cal studies from the days of Eichhorn to those of Driver and Robertson Smith. It is the only book of its kind in English. The volume is one of great interest and value. It displays all the author's wellknown ability and learning, and its opportune publication has laid all students of theology, and specially of Bible criticism, under weighty obligation.'-Scotsman. 'A very learned and instructive work.'-Times. Prior. CAMBRIDGE SERMONS. Edited by C. H. PRIOR, 'A representative collection. Bishop Westcott's is a noble sermon.'-Guardian. 'Full of thoughtfulness and dignity.'-Record. Beeching. SERMONS TO SCHOOLBOYS. By H. C. Seven sermons preached before the boys of Bradfield College. James. CURIOSITIES OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY PRIOR TO THE REFORMATION. By CROAKE JAMES, Author of 'Curiosities of Law and Lawyers.' Crown 8vo. 75. 6d. 'This volume contains a great deal of quaint and curious matter, affording some particulars of the interesting persons, episodes, and events from the Christian's point of view during the first fourteen centuries.' Wherever we dip into his pages we find something worth dipping into.'-John Bull. Kaufmann. CHARLES KINGSLEY. By M. KAUFMANN, A biography of Kingsley, especially dealing with his achievements in social reform. "The author has certainly gone about his work with conscientiousness and industry.'Sheffield Daily Telegraph. |