Such abiding popularity as his is a thing not lightly won. It is not for long that a great nation will honour a man unworthy of its devotion. Through ten years of doubt and danger and shifting party-strife he was the idol of the people of England, and if it is asked why we should endorse the verdict of his contemporaries, the answer is plain; he wound up the English Revolution. At the high tide of profit he struck a balance and closed the account. Elsewhere, under stars less fortunate than our own, no liquidator has arisen to do the work which only a man of Monk's inflexible integrity and splendid self-control can accomplish, and there we have seen Revolution drag on a bankrupt existence with ever accumulating loss. From that Monk saved us. It was what Cromwell strove to do and failed, for the hour was not yet ripe. With an exactness which it is impossible to account for or ignore Monk marked the hour when it came, gripped it with confident decision, and the fate of the sovereign who tried to set at nought the English Revolution proves the dull soldier was right. _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_. _Vols. I.-VII., with Portraits, Now Ready, 2s. 6d. each._ =English Men of Action.= Seven volumes in the series are now ready, namely:-- =General Gordon.= By Colonel Sir WILLIAM BUTLER. The _Spectator_ says:--"This is beyond all question the best of the narratives of the career of General Gordon that have yet been published." The _Athenæum_ says:--"As a brief memorial of a career that embraced many momentous spheres of action, that included some of the principal military and colonial crises of the past fifty years, and that ended in a halo of transcendent self-immolation, Sir William Butler's volume is the best we possess." The _Nonconformist_ says:--"It is the best biography of Gordon that has yet appeared." =Henry the Fifth.= By the Rev. A. J. CHURCH. The _St. James s Gazette_ says:--"The incidents in Henry's life are clearly related, the account of the battle of Agincourt is masterly, and the style is eminently readable." The _Spectator_ says:--"Mr. Church has told well his interesting story." =Livingstone.= By Mr. THOMAS HUGHES. The _Spectator_ says:--"The volume is an excellent instance of miniature biography, for it gives us what we seek in such a book--a sketch of his deeds, but a picture of the man.... This excellent little book." =Lord Lawrence.= By Sir RICHARD TEMPLE. The _Leeds Mercury_ says:--"The book may be commended to all who are in search of a lucid, temperate, and impressive summary of Lord Lawrence's noble and blameless career." The _Saturday Review_ says:--"This excellent sketch of Lord Lawrence's heroic character and unsullied life." =Wellington.= By Mr. GEORGE HOOPER.