Robert Orange
likely to be soon forgotten."--_British Weekly._
"A clever book ... The situations and ensuing complications
are dramatic, and are handled with originality and daring
throughout."--_Daily News._
"Mr. Benjamin Swift has written a vastly entertaining book."--_Academy._
MR. MAGNUS by F. REGINALD STATHAM
_Second Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.
Some Press Opinions on the First Edition.
"One of the most powerful and vividly written novels of the
day."--_Nottingham Guardian._
"A grim, terrible, and convincing picture."--_New Age._
"Very impressive."--_Saturday Review._
"Distinctly readable."--_Speaker._
"A remarkable book."--_Standard._
"Full of incident."--_Liverpool Mercury._
"One of the most important and timely books ever written." _Newcastle
Daily Mercury._
"A vivid and stirring narrative."--_Globe._
"An exceedingly clever and remarkable production."--_World._
"A book to be read."--_Newsagent._
"A terrible picture."--_Sheffield Independent._
"One of the best stories lately published."--_Echo._
"Worth reading."--_Guardian._
"A sprightly book."--_Punch._
"The story is very much brought up to date."--_Times._
"Vivid and convincing."--_Daily Chronicle._
"The story is good and well told."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
"Ought to be immensely popular."--_Reynolds' Weekly Newspaper._
"A most readable story."--_Glasgow Herald._
"A brilliant piece of work."--_Daily Telegraph._
"The story should make its mark."--_Bookseller._
"Admirably written."--_Sheffield Daily Telegraph._
"The more widely it is read the better."--_Manchester Guardian._
"Will find many appreciative readers."--_Aberdeen Free Press._
"Exciting reading."--_Daily Mail._
"Can be heartily recommended."--_Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper._
"A well-written and capable story."--_People._
"Well written."--_Literary World._
MRS. KEITH'S CRIME by MRS. W. K. CLIFFORD
With a Portrait of Mrs. Keith by the Hon. John Collier.
_Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.
"Is certainly the strongest book that Mrs. W. K. Clifford has given to
the public. It is probably too the most popular."--_World._
"It is charmingly told."--_Literary World._
"A novel of extraordinary dramatic force, and it will doubtless be
widely read in its present very cheap and attractive form."--_Star._
"Mrs. Clifford's remarkable tale."--_Athenaeum._
"Will prove a healthy tonic to readers who have recently been taking a
course of shilling shocker mental medicine.... There are many beautiful
womanly touches throughout the pages of this interesting volume, and it
can be safely recommended to readers old and young."--_Aberdeen Free
Press._
MASTERS OF MEDICINE edited by ERNEST HART, D.C.L., Editor of "The
British Medical Journal"
_Large crown 8vo., cloth_, 3s. 6d. _each_.
Medical discoveries more directly concern the well-being and
happiness of the human race than any victories of science. They
appeal to one of the primary instincts of human nature, that of
self-preservation. The importance of health as the most valuable of
our national assets is coming to be more and more recognised, and
the place of the doctor in Society and in the State is becoming one
of steadily increasing prominence; indeed, Mr. Gladstone said not
many years ago that the time would surely come when the medical
profession would take precedence of all the others in authority as
well as in dignity. The development of medicine from an empiric art
to an exact science is one of the most important and also one of
the most interesting chapters in the history of civilisation. The
histories of medicine which exist are for the most part only fitted
for the intellectual digestion of Dryasdust and his congeners. Of
the men who made the discoveries which have saved incalculable
numbers of human lives, and which have lengthened the span of human
existence, there is often no record at all accessible to the
general reader. Yet the story of these men's lives, of their
struggles and of their triumphs, is not only interesting, but in
the highest degree stimulating and educative. Many of them could
have said with literal truth what Sir Thomas Browne said
figuratively, that their lives were a romance. Hitherto there have
been no accounts of the lives of medical discoverers in a form at
once convenient and uniform, and sold at a popular price. The
"Masters of Medicine" is a series of biographies written by
"eminent hands" intended to supply this want. It is intended that
the man shall be depicted as he moved and lived and had his being,
and that the scope and gist of his work, as well as the steps by
which he reached his results, shall be set forth in a clear,
readable style.
The following is a condensed list of some of the earlier volumes.--
AUTHOR. TITLE.
STEPHEN PAGET _John Hunter_
D'ARCY POWER _William Harvey_
H. LAING GORDON _Sir James Simpson_
JOHN G. MCKENDRICK _Hermann von Helmholtz_
SIR WILLIAM STOKES _William Stokes_
MICHAEL FOSTER _Claude Bernard_
TIMOTHY HOLMES _Sir Benjamin Brodie_
J. F. PAYNE _Thomas Sydenham_
C. L. TAYLOR _Vesalius_
WORKS BY MARTIN A. S. HUME F.R.H.S., Editor of the "Calendar of Spanish
State Papers of Elizabeth" (Public Record Office).
THE COURTSHIPS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
With Portraits
_Fourth Edition. Large crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.
"It is undeniably an important addition to the history of the
Elizabethan period, and it will rank as the foremost authority on the
most interesting aspect of the character of the Tudor Queen."--_Pall
Mall Gazette._
"A clear and very interesting account. An excellent book."--_Times._
"A connected and consistent, though assuredly a most extraordinary,
story.... A fascinating picture."--_Standard._
"A delightful book."--_Daily Telegraph._
THE YEAR AFTER THE ARMADA AND OTHER HISTORICAL STUDIES
_Second Edition. Illustrated. Demy 8vo., cloth gilt_, 12s.
"A most valuable and conscientiously written historical
work."--_Spectator._
"The whole book is extremely interesting, and at once instructive and
amusing."--_Speaker._
"Deserves a wide circulation, and we trust that a proper reward will
follow close upon its merits."--_Literary World._
"Major Hume has thrown the most curious and valuable light on the Armada
period. Full of delightful sketches of men and things."--W. L. COURTNEY
in _The Daily Telegraph_.
"A work which adds many a fresh page to English, and one may say to
European history.... From first to last the volume is excellent reading,
while the entertaining style in which the matter is presented and the
undeniable authority of the writer ... render the book of special
interest and permanent value."--_The Morning Post._
"Quite as good as a novel--and a good deal better, too. The book is so
bright and vivid that readers with the common dislike of history may
venture on its pages unafraid."--ANDREW LANG in _Cosmopolis_.
SIR WALTER RALEGH
Being Vol. I. of the series entitled "Builders of Greater Britain," each
vol. with photogravure frontispiece and map.
_Large crown 8vo., cloth_, 5s. _each_.
"There is not a dull page in it, and, with his skilful telling of it,
the story of Raleigh's life and of his times reads like a
romance."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
SOME WORKS BY REV. E. J. HARDY
_"The Murray of Matrimony, the Baedeker of Bliss."_
HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED
_Popular Edition, gilt edges, cloth, bevelled boards_, 3s. 6d.
_Presentation Edition, white vellum, cloth, bevelled boards, gilt edges,
in box_, 7s. 6d.
"An entertaining volume ... The new guide to matrimonial
felicity."--_Standard._
"This charming volume ... Wit and wisdom abound in its pages; as for the
good stories, they are almost too plentiful."--_Spectator._
_Uniform in style and prices with the foregoing._
THE FIVE TALENTS OF WOMAN
A Book for Girls and Young Women
THE BUSINESS OF LIFE
A Book for Everyone
_Square imperial 16mo., cloth_, 3s. 6d.--_Presentation Edition, bevelled
boards, gilt edges, in box_, 7s. 6d.
"Calculated to teach the art of happiness and contentment as well as
mere exhortation can teach it."--_Times._
"Pleasant as well as profitable reading."--_Literary World._
"A host of social subjects are treated in a way at once wise and witty,
and in a manner as delightful to read as they are pleasantly
'improving.'"--_Daily Telegraph._
THE SUNNY DAYS OF YOUTH
A Book for Boys and Young Men
_Square Imperial 16mo., cloth_, 3s. 6d.--_Presentation Edition,
elegantly bound, bevelled boards, gilt edges_, 7s. 6d.
"It is an excellent book for a serious-minded boy."--_Scotsman._
"The pleasantest reading possible ... this useful little
book."--_Educational Review._
"As well written as it is unquestionably well-intentioned."--_Leeds
Mercury._
FAINT YET PURSUING
_Square Imperial 16mo. Popular Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth_, 3s. 6d.
"Will meet with an extensive recognition."--_Morning Post._
"Short and sensible ... they form fresh and breezy reading."--_Glasgow
Herald._
"MANNERS MAKYTH MAN"
_Presentation Edition, imperial 16mo., cloth, bevelled boards, in box_,
7s. 6d.; _cloth_, 6s.--_Popular Edition, small square 8vo., cloth_, 3s.
6d.
"Good-natured, wholesome, and straightforward."--_Saturday Review._
"A really delightful volume, well adapted for family
reading."--_Christian World._
THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF SOME FAMOUS MEN
_Imperial 16mo., cloth_, 3s. 6d.
WORKS BY PROF. PASQUALE VILLARI
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA
Translated by LINDA VILLARI
_New and Cheaper Edition in one volume. Fully Illustrated. Cloth, large
crown_, 7s. 6d.
"No more interesting book has been issued during the present
season."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
"The most interesting religious biography that we know of in modern
times."--_Spectator._
"A book which is not likely to be forgotten."--_Athenaeum._
"By far the best book on Savonarola available for English
readers."--_Standard._
"Is perhaps _the_ book of the publishing season."--_Star._
"Sincere, complete, and, upon the whole, well-balanced and
candid."--_Yorkshire Post._
"A work of very great value."--_Scotsman._
"No more graphic view of the ecclesiastical and social life of ancient
Italy has been opened up for us than this of Linda Villari."--_Morning
Leader._
"As complete and trustworthy as care, judgment, and the fullest
investigation can make it."--_Dundee Advertiser._
"A credit to the publisher."--_Independent._
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
_New and Cheaper Edition. Fully Illustrated. Large crown 8vo., cloth_,
7s. 6d.
"Indispensable to the serious student of Machiavelli, his teaching and
his times."--_Times._
"The fullest and most authoritative history of Machiavelli and his times
ever given to the British public."--_Glasgow Herald._
"May be regarded as an authority on the times of which it treats.... The
book is enriched with rare and interesting illustrations, and with some
valuable historical documents."--_Daily Telegraph._
BY FRANK HORRIDGE
LIVES OF GREAT ITALIANS
_Illustrated. Large crown 8vo., cloth_, 7s. 6d.
Opinions of the Press.
"A poetical, romantic, and charmingly written book, which will be
popular with all who love their Italy."--DOUGLAS SLADEN in _Literary
World_.
"Able, eloquent, and interesting."--_Queen._
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