nal imaginings, make it one of the freshest, breeziest
volumes.'--_Methodist Times_.

'A survey at once graphic, acute, and quaintly written.'--_Times_.

MAIDEN. ENGLISH RECORDS. A Companion to the History of England. By
H.E. MALDEN, M.A. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._

A book which concentrates information upon dates, genealogy,
officials, constitutional documents, etc., which is usually found
scattered in different volumes.

Biography

COLLINGWOOD. THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN. By W.G. COLLINGWOOD, M.A.,
Editor of Mr. Ruskin's Poems. With numerous Portraits, and 13 Drawings
by Mr. Ruskin. _2 vols. 8vo. 32s. Second Edition_.

'No more magnificent volumes have been published for a long
time....'--_Times_.

'It is long since we have had a biography with such delights of
substance and of form. Such a book is a pleasure for the day, and a
joy for ever.'--_Daily Chronicle_.

'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. net_.

'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_.

KAUFMANN. CHARLES KINGSLEY. By M. KAUFMANN, M.A. _--Crown 8vo. Buckram.
5s._

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_.

ROBBINS. THE EARLY LIFE OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. By A.F. ROBBINS.
_With Portraits. Crown 8vo. 6s_.

'Considerable labour and much skill of presentation have not been
unworthily expended on this interesting work.'--_Times_.

'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.'-