THE EMPIRE AND THE PAPACY, 918-1273 By T. F. TOUT, M.A., Professor of Mediæval and Modern History at the Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester. Forming Volume II. of PERIODS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. ‘This admirable and impartial work.... A more trustworthy historical treatise on the period and subject has not hitherto appeared.’—_Morning Post._ ‘One of the best of the many good historical textbooks which have come out of our universities in recent years.’—_Times._ ‘Altogether Professor Tout has given us a most trustworthy adjunct to the study of mediæval times, which all who may be called upon to interpret those times to others may safely recommend and themselves profit by.’—_English Historical Review._ THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES, 1273-1494 By R. LODGE, M.A., Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. Forming Volume III. of PERIODS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. ‘The book is admirably written, it contains maps and genealogical tables, an exhaustive index, and a bibliography which students will value as an aid to the interpretation of the whole period as well as a clue to any part of it.’—_Standard._ ‘We are exceedingly thankful for the Series, and as we have already said, to Prof. Lodge. There is no longer any excuse for English-speaking teachers to be wholly ignorant of the history of Europe. The obligation lies on them to purchase these volumes, and then read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, so that they can supplement their teaching with intelligible comment.’—_School World._ ‘The book must be regarded as quite indispensable to all English students of the late Middle Ages.’—_University Correspondent._ ‘Professor Lodge’s book has the supreme merit of clearness, not less than that of conciseness.’—_Pall Mall Gazette._ ‘A work of great value on one of the most difficult and at the same time one of the most important periods of European history. The book is a monument of skill and labour.’—_Aberdeen Journal._ EUROPE IN THE 16th CENTURY, 1494-1598 By A. H. JOHNSON, M.A., Historical Lecturer at Merton, Trinity, and University Colleges, Oxford. Forming Volume IV. of PERIODS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. ‘A singularly clear, thorough, and consistent account of the great movements and great events of the time, and the volume may be accepted as one of the best extant handbooks to a period as complex as it is important.’—_Times._ ‘In the present volume Mr. A. H. Johnson has made a useful and unpretentious contribution to a Series of which it can be said more truly than of most series that it supplies a real want. Mr. Johnson is well known as one of the most experienced and successful teachers of history at Oxford, and the book has all the merits which the fact of being written by a good teacher can give it. It is clear, sensible, and accurate, and commendably free from fads or bias.’—_Manchester Guardian._