’Admirers of St. Francis will gladly welcome this little book.  The story of his life is told clearly and in beautiful language.’—­Ave Maria.

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SEVEN ROMAN STATESMEN.

By C.W.  Oman,
Deputy Chichele professor of history in the University of Oxford.  Author
of ‘the art of war,’ ‘A history of England,’ etc.

Crown 8vo., with Portraits, 6s.

This work contains a detailed study of some of the great Romans whose fame is eternal.  Caesar, Pompey, Sulla and the Gracchi were the men who made Roman History, and their characters and actions are of living interest to-day.  Professor Oman’s volume is based upon a series of lectures given in Oxford, thoroughly revised for publication, and he has selected the portraits with great care.

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IMPERIUM ET LIBERTAS.

By Bernard Holland.

One volume, octavo, 12s. 6d. net.

’The book is one which it will be the desire, we may perhaps say the necessity, of every student of the higher politics of the Empire to read carefully.  The development of the Empire ... and the character and ideals of the collective organization as a whole, as these stand before the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, are discussed by Mr. Holland in a vein of modest conviction, and withal of illuminating criticism, supported by apt quotation and example, which is very instructive.’—­Spectator.

’Mr. Bernard Holland has written a good book upon a great subject.  He writes with sobriety and force, backed by wide reading and considerable knowledge of affairs.  His book ought to be widely read and seriously considered.’—­Times.

’A very remarkable book; eminently instructive.  The newest political thought is addressed to the beginnings and the desirability of a complete transformation of the British Empire.  They are not all dreamers and faddists who commend the change and would hasten it.  Of such is Mr. Bernard Holland, a man whose studies, whose sagacity, whose freedom from the limitations of partizanship and the heats of controversy, entitle him to a respectful hearing whenever he speaks.’—­Pall Mall Gazette.

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RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

By E.T.  COOK,
Recently Editor of the Daily News.

THIRD IMPRESSION.  One volume, demy 8vo., 12s. 6d. net.

’We must congratulate Mr. Cook most warmly on his achievement.  Whatever else may be read about the diplomacy that preceded the war, his book must certainly be read.  It will immensely increase a reputation that already stood very high.  No recent book on any political question has been so good, and we are inclined to think it marks out Mr. Cook as the ablest political journalist of the day.  The writing is of a masterly lucidity.’—­Literature.