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TORS: PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A. HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A. PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A. PROF. WM. T. BREWSTER, M.A. * * * * * The Home University Library "Is without the slightest doubt the pioneer in supplying serious literature for a large section of the public who are interested in the liberal education of the State."--_The Daily Mail._ "The fact is," says the _Pall Mall Gazette_, "that this remarkable library helps to realise one of those functions of a true University which English Universities have culpably neglected. ... This Library makes a most effective and useful beginning in the popularisation of knowledge.... The scope of the series is as wisely outlined as its methods are effective and praiseworthy." "The Home University Library places within the reach of every man, woman, or child with a shilling to spend fruitfully, the products of the best brains of to-day in all departments of modern knowledge."--_Morning Leader._ "Each volume represents a three-hours' traffic with the talking-power of a good brain, operating with the ease and interesting freedom of a specialist dealing with his own subject.... A series which promises to perform a real social service."--_The Times._ "We can think of no series now being issued which better deserves support."--_The Observer._ "Certainly no publishing enterprise of our time is more remarkable or better deserving of success."--_Manchester Guardian._ "Here is the world's learning in little, and none too poor to give it house-room!"--_Daily Telegraph._ 1/- net 256 Pages 2/6 net in cloth in leather _History and Geography_ 3. _THE FRENCH REVOLUTION_ By HILAIRE BELLOC, M.A. (With Maps.) "It is coloured with all the militancy of the author's temperament."--_Daily News._ 4. _HISTORY OF WAR AND PEACE_ By G. H. PERRIS. The Rt. Hon. JAMES BRYCE writes: "I have read it with much interest and pleasure, admiring the skill with which you have managed to compress so many facts and views into so small a volume." 8. _POLAR EXPLORATION_ By Dr W. S. BRUCE, F.R.S.E., Leader of the "Scotia" Expedition. (With Maps.) "A very freshly written and interesting narrative."--_The Times._ "A fascinating book."--_Portsmouth Times._ 12. _THE OPENING-UP OF AFRICA_ By Sir H. H. JOHNSTON, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.Sc, F.Z.S. (With Maps.) "The Home Universit
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