LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.  Narrated in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time.  By David Masson, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric at Edinburgh.  Vol.  I. with Portraits. 8vo. 18_s_.  Vol.  II. in the Press.

It is intended to exhibit Milton’s life in its connexions with all the more notable phenomena of the period of British history in which it was cast—­its state politics, its ecclesiastical variations, its literature and speculative thought.  Commencing in 1608, the Life of Milton proceeds through the last sixteen years of the reign of James I., includes the whole of the reign of Charles I. and the subsequent years of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and then, passing the Restoration, extends itself to 1674, or through fourteen years of the new state of things under Charles II.  The first volume deals with the life of Milton as extending from 1608 to 1640, which was the period of his education and of his minor poems.

Morison
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAINT BERNARD, Abbot of Clairvaux.  By James Cotter Morison, M.A.  New Edition, revised.  Crown 8vo. 7_s_. 6_d_.

“One of the best contributions in our literature towards a vivid, intelligent, and worthy knowledge of European interests and thoughts and feelings during the twelfth century.  A delightful and instructive volume, and one of the best products of the modern historic spirit.”—­Pall Mall Gazette.

Morley (John)
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EDMUND BURKE, a Historical Study.  By John Morley, B.A.  Oxon.  Crown 8vo. 7_s_. 6_d_.

“The style is terse and incisive, and brilliant with epigram and point.  It contains pithy aphoristic sentences which Burke himself would not have disowned.  But these are not its best features:  its sustained power of reasoning, its wide sweep of observation and reflection, its elevated ethical and social tone, stamp it as a work of high excellence, and as such we cordially recommend it to our readers.”—­Saturday Review.

Mullinger
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CAMBRIDGE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.  By J.B.  Mullinger, B.A.  Crown 8vo. 4_s_. 6_d_.

“It is a very entertaining and readable book.”—­Saturday Review.

“The chapters on the Cartesian Philosophy and the Cambridge Platonists are admirable.”—­Athenaeum.

Palgrave
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HISTORY OF NORMANDY AND OF ENGLAND.  By Sir Francis Palgrave, Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty’s Public Records.  Completing the History to the Death of William Rufus.  Four vols. 8vo.  L4 4_s_.

Volume I. General Relations of Mediaeval Europe—­The Carlovingian Empire—­The Danish Expeditions in the Gauls—­And the Establishment of Rollo.  Volume II.  The Three First Dukes of Normandy; Rollo, Guillaume Longue-Epee, and Richard Sans-Peur—­The Carlovingian line supplanted by the Capets.  Volume III.  Richard Sans-Peur—­Richard Le-Bon—­Richard III.—­Robert Le Diable—­William the Conqueror.  Volume IV.  William Rufus—­Accession of Henry Beauclerc.