THE EASTERN QUESTION— ANCIENT WESSEX 



The Ottoman Empire, t80t—t9t3. By William Miller, M.A. [Oxon), 

 Hon. LL.D. in the National University of Greece, Corresponding Member 

 of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, author of The Latins 

 in the Levant. 



Crown 8vo. pp. xvi + 548. With 4 maps. Price yj. 61/. net 



The latest volume in The Cambridge Historical Series "could not," 

 says The Westminster Gazette, "have been published at a more opportune 

 moment." It has been based wherever possible upon original docu- 

 ments, and traces the history of the Near East from the beginning of the 

 Nineteenth Century to the outbreak of the Balkan War and the Balkan 

 Conference at London in March 1913 ; its scope may be seen from the 

 following; list of contents : 



Tile Ottoman Empire at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century. 

 Napoleon in the Near East (1801-15). The Servian Risings (1804-1 7). 

 The Preface of Greek Independence (1815-21). The War of Greek 

 Independence (1821-9). The Creation of the Greek Kingdom (1829-33). 

 The Balkan and Syrian Difficulties of Turkey (1822-45). Greece under 

 the Bavarian Autocracy (1833-43). The Greek and Ionian Constitutions 

 (1843-53). The Crimean War (1853-6). The Union of the Danubian 

 Principalities (1856-62). The Cession of the Ionian Islands (1862-4). 

 Reforms and their Results: The Lebanon and Crete (1856-69). The 

 Roumanian and Servian Questions (1862-75). The Bulgarian Exarchate 

 (1870-5). The Balkan Crisis of 1875-8. The Union of the Two 

 Bulgarias (1878-87). Armenia, Crete, and Macedonia (1887-1908). 

 The Turkish Revolution (1908-12). The Balkan League (October 

 1912-March 19 1 3). Table of Rulers. Bibliography. Index. 



Lord Cromer, writing in The Spectator, declares that " Mr Miller has 

 performed a most useful service in affording a guide by the aid of which 

 the historical student can find his way through the labyrinthine maze of 

 Balkan politics." 



Earty} Wars of Wessex, Being Studies from EnglancVs School of Arms in 

 the West. By Albany F. Major, Author of Sagas and Songs of the 

 Norsemen, etc. Edited by the late Chas.JV. Whistler, M.R.C.S., 

 Author of A Thane of Wessex, King Alfred's Viking, etc. 



Demy 8vo. pp. xvi + 238. With 21 maps and plans. Price loi. 6</. net 



A series of studies in the history of the pre-Norman period from the 

 foundation of the kingdom of Wessex in 495 to the campaign of 876-8. 

 Their distinguishing feature is that, while dealing only with the warfare 

 that took place in a comparatively limited area between Saxon and Briton 

 and Saxon and Dane, they show, nevertheless, that these " battles of the 

 kites and crows," as Milton contemptuously called them, had a far-reaching 

 influence on the future of England. 



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