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."--_server._ 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._ 48. _THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR_ By F. L. PAXSON, Professor of American History, Wisconsin University. (With Maps.) "A stirring study."--_The Guardian._ 51. _WARFARE IN BRITAIN_ By HILAIRE BELLOC, M.A. "Rich in suggestion for the historical student."--_Edinburgh Evening News._ 55. _MASTER MARINERS_ By J. R. SPEARS. "A continuous story of shipping progress and adventure. . . It reads like a romance."--_Glasgow Herald._ 61. _NAPOLEON_ By HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A. (With Maps.) The story of the great Bonaparte's youth, his career, and his downfall, with some sayings of Napoleon, a genealogy of his family, and a bibliography. 66. _THE NAVY AND SEA POWER_