For some reasons, and these very weighty ones, we are strongly disposed to place it at the head of the series.. One thing, however, is undeniable : Mr. Oman has realized his opportunity and used it. Hitherto no monograph or biography of the Kingmaker has been attempted, and Mr. Oman has had the field all to himself. His work shows great research in the original sources of information, and is a solid contribution to English history. Mr. Carstairs' British Work in India (Blackwood) is one of those books which everybody ought to read, but which, unfortunately, very few people do-to their own loss. India is a great possession, and we are all very proud of it, but know very little about it, and still less of the influence which our rule is having there. It is of this latter that Mr. Carstairs writes, as well as of the way in which this influence is made to tell, and of what ought to be the exclusive object of our presence there and how it may be best achieved. As we need hardly say, the volume is full of information. Mr. Carstairs has many sensible and enlightened things, the result of a large experience in the country, to say, and he puts them very forcibly. He deprecates the dragging of Indian affairs into party politics, is of opinion that the peoples of India are not yet prepared for advanced reforms, and is not enamoured of the Ilbert Bill. His views may be called Conservative, but very cogent facts are adduced in support of them, and he may be said to appear in his volume as a very earnest reformer, having at heart both the success of the British rule and the welfare of the many peoples who in India are subject to it. In The Lords of Cunningham (Gardner), Mr. Robertson has managed to give a vivid account of the sanguinary feuds which raged in Ayrshire during the fifteenth and two following centuries. Most of his facts are taken from history. On these he has allowed his imagination to play with considerable freedom, and out of the brief records of history he has constructed a romance which is full of intrigue, battle, and murder, and sudden death. That his pages are stirring we need not say. They throw a lurid light on one of the stormiest and fiercest periods in Scottish history. Voltaire, œuvres choisies, (prose et verse) is a number of the same series as the above. The extracts which, as the title bears, are taken both from the prose and the poetical works of the author, are very varied in character. They embrace historical and critical, as well as lighter pieces. Correspondence is well represented. The selections are preceded by a life of Voltaire and an estimate of his character as a writer. As usual in the publications of this firm, the illustrations are numerous. The Greenleeks Papers (Dent & Co.), which the Rev. Titus Tiptaff has edited, remind us very much of a series of papers which appeared a good many years ago, and professed to be the private thoughts, or something of that kind, of a German Professor. That they are written in imitation of them we should not like to say. But this may be said there is a good deal of humour in the papers of the Reverend Editor's friend, and a good deal of sound philosophy and common sense. The book is scarcely one the reader will care to read long. It is one of those volumes which one prefers to dip into from time to time for something to think about. Its tone is a little oracular, but here and there, in fact, frequently, one meets with a good thing well put. Books received-Sociology Diagrammatically systematized, by Arthur Young (Houlston & Sons); Dritto Sociale, by Pietro Pellegrini; The Psy chology of Belief in Objective Existence, part 1, by Julius Pikler (Williams & Norgate); Kant's Principles of Politics, translated by W. Hastie, B.D. (T. & T. Clark); The Prevailing Types of Philosophy, by James M'Cosh, LL.D. (Macmillan); The Economic Basis of Protection, by S. N. Patten, Ph.D. (Lippincott Company); The Theory of Determinants in the Historical Order of its Development, Part 1-Determinants in General, by Thomas Muir, M.A., LL.D. (Macmillan); The Intra-Cranial Circulation and its Relation to the Physiology of the Brain, by James Cappie, M.D. (James Thin, Edinburgh); How Scotland Lost her Parliament, by Charles Waddie (Waddie & Co.); Scenes and Stories of the North of Scotland, new edition, by John Sinclair (Thin); Hereward the Wake, by Charles Kingsley, popular edition (Macmillan); Snatches of World Song, by A. Wellwood (Aird & Coghill); The Esoteric Basis of Christianity, by W. Kingsland (Theosophical Society); A Lady's Letters from Central Africa, by Jane F. Moir (Maclehose); The Young Naturalist, by Minnie M'Kean (Alex. Gardner); Tibby's Tryst, by Robina F. Hardy (Oliphant). PART I. NOW READY. Superior Royal 8vo. Each Part 1s. net. GREEN'S SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. This well-known book, of which over 160,000 copies have been sold since its first publication in 1874, has taken its place as one of the standard works in the language, and the Publishers have long felt that a well-illustrated edition would meet with a generl approval. They have accordingly arranged for a series of Pictures drawn from authentic sources illustrating the ARTS, INDUSTRIES, COSTUMES, COINS, DOMESTIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE of the various periods, which will be carefully engraved under the direction of Mr. J. D. COOPER. An exhaustive series of PORTRAITS OF EMINENT PERSONS is also a feature, and Mr. GEORGE SCHARF, C. B., Director of the National Portrait Gallery, has given valuable assistance in this department. There will also be a number of COLOURED MAPS by Mr. STANFORD, and COLOURED REPRODUCTIONS FROM MANUSCRIPTS, ILLUMINATED MISSALS, &c., executed in the highest style of Chromo-Lithography. The ILLUSTRATED SHORT HISTORY' is handsomely printed in Super Royal 8vo, and will be published in about Thirty Monthly Parts. Just Ready, 8vo, cloth, 12s. net. THE POSITIVE THEORY OF CAPITAL. By EUGEN V. BOHM-BAWERK, Counsellor in the Austrian Ministry of Finance, and Honorary Professor of Political Economy in the University of Vienna. Translated, with a Preface and Analysis, by WILLIAM SMART, Lecturer on Political Economy in Queen Margaret College, Glasgow. TIMES:- Mr. Smart has done his work excellently. His preface, analytical digest, and the actual translation are all admirable.' BY THE SAME AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR. CAPITAL AND INTEREST: a Critical History of Economical Theory. By EUGEN V. BOHM-BAWERK, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Innsbruck. Translated, with a Preface and Analysis, by WILLIAM SMART, M. A., Lecturer on Political Economy in Queen Margaret College, Glasgow. FIRST PART (ABATEMENT-BEDE) OF THE DICTIONARY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. Just ready, royal 8vo, sewed, 3s. 6d. net. DICTIONARY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. Containing Articles on the main NEW WORK BY PROFESSOR HENRY SIDGWICK. THE ELEMENTS OF POLITICS. BY HENRY SILGWICK, Litt. D., Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, Author of 'The Methods of Ethics,''The Principals of Economics,' &c. SATURDAY REVIEW.-'Taking his own conception of his book, we have almost unqualified admiration for it.' 8vo. cloth, 14s. net. THE HISTORY OF HUMAN MARRIAGE. By EDWARD WESTERMARCK, Ph.D., Lecturer on Sociology at the University of Helsingfors. DR. TYLOR IN THE ACADEMY.--'It at once takes an important place in the much debated problem of primitive society.' Illustrated. 8vo. cloth, 18s. net. SCHLIEMANN'S EXCAVATIONS: an Archæological and Historical Study of Dr. C. Schuchhardt, Director of the Kestner Museum in Hanover. Translated from the German by EUGENIE SELLARS, with an Appendix on the recent discoveries at Hissarlik by Dr. Schliemann and Dr. Dörpfeld, and an Introduction by WALTER LEAF, Litt. D. * A popular but strictly accurate account of the whole series of Dr. Shliemann's Excavations and their results. AN IMPORTANT NEW WORK ON THE SOUDAN. Just ready, 8vo, cloth 30s. net. * : MAHDIISM AND THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahdiism, and of subsequent events in the Sudan to the present time. By Major F. R. WINGATE, R. A., D.S.O., Assistant Adjutant-General for Intelligence, Egyptian Army. With 17 Maps and numerous Plans. ** Compiled from official sources, and likely to be regarded as the final account of the campaign which ended in the death of General Gordon. The fullest possible details are given as to the fall of Khartoum. MACMILLAN & CO., BEDFORD STREET, LONDON, W.C. MESSRS. LONGMANS & CO.'S LIST. w A SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME TO MR. FROUDE'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. THE DIVORCE OF CATHERINE OF ARAGON; The Story as told by the Imperial Ambassadors resident at the Court of Henry VIII. In Usum Laicorum. By J. A. FROUDE. 8vo, 16s. A HISTORY OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR, 1642-1649. By SAMUEL RAWSON POEMS. By WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY. Fcp. 8vo, 58. DARKNESS AND DAWN; or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale. DR. LIDDON'S TOUR IN EGYPT AND PALESTINE IN 1886. Being Letters, descriptive of the Tour, written by his Sister, Mrs. KING. Crown 8vo, 5s. SEAS AND LANDS. Reprinted, by permission of the Proprietors of the Daily Telegraph, from Letters published under the title " By Sea and Land" in that Journal. By Sir EDWIN ARNOLD, M.A., K. C.I.E., C.S.I. With numerous Illustrations from Photographs. 8vo, 21s. WITH ROPE AND AXE IN THE NEW ZEALAND ALPS. By GEORGE ABOUT CEYLON AND BORNEO. Being an Account of Two Visits to Ceylon, THE COUNTRY OF THE VOSGES. By HENRY W. WOLFF, Author of 'Rambles in the Black Forest.' With a Map. 8vo, 12s. THE LAND OF THE LAMAS: Notes of a Journey through China, Mongolia, and Tibet. BY WILLIAM WOODVILLE ROCKHILL. With Maps and Illustrations. 8vo, 15s. ANGLING SKETCHES. BY ANDREW LANG. With Illustrations by W. G. BURNMURDOCH. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. [Nearly Ready. THE BLUE POETRY BOOK. Edited by ANDREW LANG. With 12 Plates and 88 Illustrations in the text, by H. J. FORD, and LANCELOT SPEED. Crown 8vo, 6s. NEW NOVELS. THE BRETHREN OF MOUNT ATLAS: being the First Part of an African Theosophical Story. By HUGH E. M. STUTFIELD, F. R. G.S., Author of El Maghreb : 1200 Miles Ride through Morocco.' Crown 8vo. [Nearly Ready. THE MISCHIEF OF MONICA. By L. B. WALFORD, Author of 'Mr. Smith,' &c., &c. 3 vols., crown 8vo, 25s. 6d. BEGGARS ALL. By L. DOUGALL. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. 'A clever and interesting book. The plot is original; the heroine is charming, and her history is told with a power and grace that makes the book a notable novel.'-Standard. MIAWA'S REVENGE; or, The War of the Little Hand, By H. RIDER HAGGARD. New and Cheaper Edition, with 8 Full-page Illustrations by C. H. M. KERR. Crown 8vo, 1s. sewed; 1s. 6d. cloth. LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO. |