“A great fund of useful and practical information.”--_The Field._ “The Fourth Edition of this book, and better than ever.... No cyclist’s library is complete without it.”--_Bicycling News._ With Plumer in Matabeleland By FRANK W. SYKES _With numerous Illustrations in the text, and 35 Full-page Plates and Two Maps. Demy 8vo, 15s. net._ “Operations of the Force during the Rebellion of 1896 are described in great detail, and in a very interesting fashion.”--_Financial Times._ “Mr. Sykes served as a trooper in the M.R.F., and depicts with much point and piquancy the life of the rank and file of that corps as it presented itself to him throughout the campaign. Still more delightful is the racy vein in which the humours of the situation are recounted. Mr. Sykes’ narrative of ‘Massacres and Escapes’ is a noble record. Many incidents not hitherto mentioned of pluck and heroism are alluded to. _His book is one of the best of its class we have yet had the pleasure of reviewing._”--_South Africa._ “The chapter on the Religion of the Matabele is well worth reading, so from first page to last is Mr. Sykes’ book.”--_Daily News._ “The best illustrated and most generally interesting volume.... Frank, catholic, fearless, and generous. I congratulate him, and also his assistants on a notable volume.”--_African Critic._ Imperial Defence By Sir CHARLES DILKE and SPENSER WILKINSON New and Revised Edition. _2s. 6d._ “To urge our countrymen to prepare, whilst there is yet time, for a defence that is required alike by interest, honour, and duty, and by the best traditions of the nation’s history.”--_Daily Mail._ ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO 2 WHITEHALL GARDENS WESTMINSTER * * * * * The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 EDITED BY JAMES GAIRDNER OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE _3 Vols. Fcap. 8vo. With 3 Photogravure Frontispieces, cloth gilt extra, or paper label uncut, 16s. net._ These letters are the genuine correspondence of a family in Norfolk during the Wars of the Roses. As such, they are altogether unique in character; yet the language is not so antiquated as to present any serious difficulty to the modern reader. The topics of the letters relate partly to the private affairs of the family, and partly to the stirring events of the time: and the correspondence includes State papers, love letters, bailiff’s accounts, sentimental poems, jocular epistles, etc. “This edition, which was first published some twenty years ago, is the standard edition of these remarkable historical documents, and contains upward of four hundred letters in addition to those published by Frere in 1823. The reprint is in three small and compact volumes, and should be welcome to students of history as giving an important work in a convenient form.”--_Scotsman._