=Pall Mall Gazette.=—“This is a wholly admirable book. It is based upon patient and careful work done in this much-neglected subject for the first time. The mass of information he has gathered and digested is simply appalling.... Though the subject sounds an astonishingly dry one, Mr. Oppenheim has managed to make it interesting.... He is impartial and exhaustive, and in his investigations sheds very considerable sidelight upon various debatable points in English history.” =Army and Navy Gazette.=—“One of the most important contributions to naval history lately issued from the press.... Hitherto naval histories have avowedly been devoted to executive operations, and never before have we had a history concerned with that organisation which renders executive operations possible.... Mr. Oppenheim’s knowledge of his special subject is unrivalled, and he is admirable in the careful and exhaustive manner in which he deals with the details of it. These are marshalled with consummate skill. We shall look with interest for the appearance of his next volume.” THE SPANISH CONQUEST IN AMERICA BY SIR ARTHUR HELPS Edited, with an Introduction, Maps, and Notes, by M. OPPENHEIM _In Four Volumes. Crown 8vo. =3s. 6d.= net each_ =Athenæum.=—“A handsome reprint.... Mr. Oppenheim has provided a sensible and suggestive introduction and additional notes of a useful type. We are glad to see he does not join in the wholesale condemnation of Spanish rule in America that is common among ill-informed writers.” =Literature.=—“A book, apart from its literary value, of great interest in the history of the dealings of conquering civilised nations with aborigines.” =Spectator.=—“A very welcome new edition. The book has a singular charm of its own. It catches that romance, that strange mixture of brightness and melancholy, which belongs to all early American history.... Sir Arthur Helps’s literary enthusiasm and his charming touch were made to deal with such a subject.... The introduction is very interesting, and the maps, a new feature of this edition, are quite invaluable to a student of early American history.” =Saturday Review.=—“The publisher is wisely bringing out a new edition of a standard work. Mr. Oppenheim has written a judicious introduction.” =Literary World.=—“The editor of the volume before us—we await with pleasure the three that are to follow—has written an illuminative introduction, but that is the least of his contributions. Many notes, additional or corrective, greatly add to the value of this edition, and, a most important concession to practical usefulness, Helps’s notes, when consisting of quotations in foreign tongues, have been translated.”