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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH PATRIOTISM. 



By EsME C WiNGHELD Stratford, Fellow King's College, Cam- 

 bridge. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo. With a Frontispiece to each 

 volume, (1,300 pages). 25s net. 



%• This work compresses into about HALF A MILLION WORDS the 

 substance of EIGHT YEARS of uninterrupted labour. 



The book has been read and enthusiastically commended by the leading 

 experts in the principal subjects embraced in this encyclopaedic survey of English 

 History. 



When this work was first announced under the above title, the publisher 

 suggested calling it "A New History of England." Indeed it is both. Mr. 

 Wingfield Stratford endeavours to show how everything of value that nations in 

 general, and the English nation in particular.have at any time achieved has been 

 the direct outcome of the common feeling upon which patriotism is built. He 

 sees, and makes his readers see, the manifold development of England as one 

 connected whole with no more branch of continuity than a living body or a perfect 

 work of art. 



The author may fairly claim to have accomplished what few previous 

 historians have so much as attempted. He has woven together the threads ot 

 religion, politics, war, philosophy, literature, painting, architecture, law and 

 commerce, into a narrative of unbroken and absorbing interest. 



The book is a world-book. Scholars will reconstruct their ideas from it, 

 economics examine the gradual fruition uf trade, statesmen devise fresh creative 

 plans, and the general reader will feel he is no insignificant unit, but the splendid 

 symbol of a splendid world. 



CHARLES CONDER : HIS LIFE AND WORK. 



By Frank Gibson. With a Catalogue of the Lithographs and 

 Etchings by Campbell Dodgson, M.S., Keeper of Prints and 

 Drawings, British Mnseum. With about 100 reproductions of 

 Conder's work, 12 of which are in colour. Demy 4to. 21s. net. 



%* With the exception of one or two articles in English Art Magazines, and 

 one or two in French, German, and American periodicals, no book up to the 

 present has appeared fully to record the life and work of Charles Condor, by 

 whose death English Art has lost one of its most original personalities. Con- 

 sequently it has been felt that a book dealing with Conder's life so full ol interest, 

 and his work so full of charm and beauty, illustrated by characteristic examples 

 of his Art both in colour and in black and white, would be welcome to the already 

 great and increasing number of his admirers. 



The author of this book. Mr. Frank Gibson, who knew Conder in his early 

 days in Australia and afterwards in England during the rest of the artist's life, 

 is enabled in consequence to do full justice, not only to the delightful character 

 of Coader as a friend, but is also able to appreciate his remarkable talent. 



The interest and value of this work will be greatly increased by the addition 

 of a complete catalogue of Conder's lithographs and engravings, compiled by 

 Mr. Campbell Dodgson, M.A., Keeper of the Print-Room ot the British Museum. 



PHILIP DUKE OF WHARTON. By Lewis 



Melville. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 21s. net. 



%* A character more interesting than Philip, Duke of Wharton, does not 

 often fall to the lot of a biographer, yet. by some strange chance, though nearly 

 two hundred years have passed since that wayward genius passed away, the 

 present work is the first that gives a comprehensive account of his life. A man 

 of unusual parts and unusual charm, he at once delighted and disgusted his 

 contemporaries. Unstable as water, he was like Dryden's Zimri, "Everything 

 by starts and nothing long." He was poet and pamphleteer, wit, statesman, 

 buffoon, and amorist. The son of one of the most stalwart supporters of the 

 Hanoverian dynasty, he went abroad and joined the Pretender, who created him 

 a duke. He then returned to England, renounced the Stuarts, and was by 

 George I. also promoted to a dukedom— while he was yet a minor. He was the 

 friend of Attenbury and the President ol the Hell-Fire Club. At one time he was 

 leading Spanish troops against his countrymen, at another seeking consolation 

 in a monastery. It is said that he was the original of Richardson's Lovelace. 



