AUTHOR OF ‘CUSTOMS AND LORE OF MODERN GREECE,’ ‘FEDA, AND OTHER POEMS,’
‘THE UNKNOWN MADONNA,’ ‘BALLADS OF THE FLEET,’ ETC.
_2 Volumes. Demy 8vo. With Illustrations and Map._ =25s. net.=
In this masterly work Sir Rennell Rodd deals with a curiously
interesting and fascinating subject which has never been treated of in
English, though a few scanty notices of the period may be found. It is
gratifying to know that the British School in Athens has of late turned
its attention to the Byzantine and Frankish remains in the Morea.
Meanwhile this book will fill a great blank in the historical knowledge
of most people.
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THUCYDIDES MYTHISTORICUS.
By F. M. CORNFORD, M.A.,
FELLOW AND LECTURER AT TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
_Demy 8vo._ =10s. 6d. net.=
This is an important contribution to the study of Thucydides. Having
attributed the causes of the Peloponnesian War almost entirely to
commercial factors, Mr. Cornford shows how Thucydides, free from modern
ideas of causation, unfolds the tragedy of Athens, led by Fortune at
Pylos, by the Hybris and Infatuation of Cleon and Alcibiades, to the
Nemesis of Syracuse. The book will be found interesting by all students
of history. All passages from Greek authors are quoted in English in
the text, which can be understood without reference to the Greek in the
footnotes.
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GREEK LIVES FROM PLUTARCH.
Newly Translated by C. E. BYLES, B.A.,
FORMERLY EXHIBITIONER OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
_Crown 8vo. With Illustrations and Maps._ =1s. 6d.=
This is an entirely new translation abridged from the Greek. Although
primarily intended for the use of schools, it should be found
acceptable by the general reader.
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THE NEXT STREET BUT ONE.
By M. LOANE,
AUTHOR OF ‘THE QUEEN’S POOR.’
_Crown 8vo._ =6s.=
Like its predecessor, this book is not only a mine of interesting and
amusing sketches of life among the poor, but, in its more serious
aspect, a remarkable and most valuable corrective of many widely
prevalent and erroneous views about the habits of thought and ethics of
the poorer classes.
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A HUNTING CATECHISM.
By COLONEL R. F. MEYSEY-THOMPSON,
AUTHOR OF ‘REMINISCENCES OF THE COURSE, THE CAMP, AND THE CHASE,’ ‘A
FISHING CATECHISM,’ AND ‘A SHOOTING CATECHISM.’
_Foolscap 8vo._ =3s. 6d. net.=
This, the third of Colonel Meysey-Thompson’s invaluable handbooks,
will appeal to hunting men as strongly as the previous volumes did to
lovers of rod and gun. The information given is absolutely practical,
the result of forty years’ experience, and is largely conveyed in the
form of Question and Answer. The arrangement is especially calculated
to facilitate easy reference.
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AT THE WORKS.
A Study of a North Country Town.
By LADY BELL,
AUTHOR OF ‘THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK’S,’ ‘THE ARBITER,’ ETC., ETC.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
The Sundered Streams: The History of a Memory That Had No Full Stops — John Shaqi
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