’A most splendid and fascinating book on a subject of undying interest.  The great feature of the book is the use the author has made of the existing portraits of the Caesars, and the admirable critical subtlety he has exhibited in dealing with this line of research.  It is brilliantly written, and the illustrations are supplied on a scale of profuse magnificence.’—­Daily Chronicle.

’The volumes will in no sense disappoint the general reader.  Indeed, in their way, there is nothing in any sense so good in English....  Mr. Baring Gould has presented his narrative in such a way as not to make one dull page.’—­Athenaeum.

THE DESERTS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE.  By S. BARING GOULD.  With numerous Illustrations by F.D.  BEDFORD, S. HUTTON, etc. 2 vols.  Demy 8vo. 32s.

This book is the first serious attempt to describe the great barren tableland that extends to the south of Limousin in the Department of Aveyron, Lot, etc., a country of dolomite cliffs, and canons, and subterranean rivers.  The region is full of prehistoric and historic interest, relics of cave-dwellers, of mediaeval robbers, and of the English domination and the Hundred Years’ War.

’His two richly-illustrated volumes are full of matter of interest to the geologist, the archaeologist, and the student of history and manners.’—­Scotsman.

’It deals with its subject in a manner which rarely fails to arrest attention.’—­Times.

FICTION

SIX SHILLING NOVELS

MARIE CORELLI.  BARABBAS:  A DREAM OF THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY.  By MARIE CORELLI, Author of ‘A Romance of Two Worlds,’ ‘Vendetta,’ etc. Seventeenth Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6s.

’The tender reverence of the treatment and the imaginative beauty of the writing have reconciled us to the daring of the conception, and the conviction is forced on us that even so exalted a subject cannot be made too familiar to us, provided it be presented in the true spirit of Christian faith.  The amplifications of the Scripture narrative are often conceived with high poetic insight, and this “Dream of the World’s Tragedy” is, despite some trifling incongruities, a lofty and not inadequate paraphrase of the supreme climax of the inspired narrative.’—­Dublin Review.

ANTHONY HOPE.  THE GOD IN THE CAR.  By ANTHONY HOPE, Author of ’A Change of Air,’ etc. Sixth Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6s.

’Ruston is drawn with extraordinary skill, and Maggie Dennison with many subtle strokes.  The minor characters are clear cut.  In short the book is a brilliant one.  “The God in the Car” is one of the most remarkable works in a year that has given us the handiwork of nearly all our best living novelists.’—­Standard.

’A very remarkable book, deserving of critical analysis impossible within our limit; brilliant, but not superficial; well considered, but not elaborated; constructed with the proverbial art that conceals, but yet allows itself to be enjoyed by readers to whom fine literary method is a keen pleasure; true without cynicism, subtle without affectation, humorous without strain, witty without offence, inevitably sad, with an unmorose simplicity.’—­The World.