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- 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.
12. THE OPENING-UP OF AFRICA
- By Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., F.Z.S. (With Maps.) "The Home University Library is much enriched by this excellent work."—Daily Mail.
13. MEDIÆVAL EUROPE
- By H. W. C. Davis, M.A. (With Maps.) "One more illustration of the fact that it takes a complete master of the subject to write briefly upon it."—Manchester Guardian.
14. THE PAPACY & MODERN TIMES (1303–1870)
- By William Barry, D.D. "Dr Barry has a wide range of knowledge and an artist's power of selection."—Manchester Guardian.
23. HISTORY OF OUR TIME (1885–1911)
- By G. P. Gooch, M.A. "Mr Gooch contrives to breathe vitality into his story, and to give us the flesh as well as the bones of recent happenings."—Observer.
25. THE CIVILISATION OF CHINA
- By H. A. Giles, LL.D., Professor of Chinese at Cambridge. "In all the mass of facts, Professor Giles never becomes dull. He is always ready with a ghost story or a street adventure for the reader's recreation."—Spectator.
29. THE DAWN OF HISTORY
- By J. L. Myres, M.A., F.S.A, Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, Oxford. "There is not a page in it that is not suggestive."—Manchester Guardian.
33. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND
- A Study in Political Evolution
- By Prof.A. F. Pollard, M.A. With a Chronological Table. "It takes its place at once among the authoritative works on English history."—Observer.
34. CANADA
- By A. G. Bradley. "The volume makes an immediate appeal to the man who wants to know something vivid and true about Canada."—Canadian Gazette.
37. PEOPLES & PROBLEMS OF INDIA
- By Sir T. W. Holderness, K.C.S.I., Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the India Office. "Just the book which newspaper readers require to-day, and a marvel of comprehensiveness."—Pall Mall Gazette.
42. ROME
- By W. Warde Fowler, M.A. "A masterly sketch of Roman character and of what it did for the world."—The Spectator.
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