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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.'-
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