ANNOUNCEMENTS 



FORTHCOMING BOOKS 



Volume XI of The Cambridge History of English Literature will be 

 ready shortly. It will deal with the writers of the closing years of the 

 eighteenth century, and the early years of the nineteenth, notably the 

 poets and politicians who were influenced by the French Revolution — 

 Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burke. It will also contain sections devoted to 

 Burns, Cowper, Crabbe, Blake, Bentham, Southey. 



The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton has been compiled 

 b}- Professor Karl Pearson, Director of the Galton Laboratory, and the 

 former friend and colleague of the great scientist. The work will be 

 complete in 2 volumes, of which the first will be ready shortly. 



Clio Enthroned, by Mr VV. R. M. Lamb, deals with Thucydides — 

 his style and the literary influences under which his work was composed. 

 The writer emphasises the view that the aim of Thucydides was not 

 merely to produce a truthful document, but to set the Muse of history 

 upon her rightful throne. 



The Philosophy of Biology, by Dr James Johnstone, is described by 

 the author as "an attempt to understand the descriptions of the Science 

 in the light ot its later investigations"; the point of view and the methods 

 of treatment adopted by him are those suggested by Driesch and Bergson. 



Professor E. J. Rapson's work on Ancient India is written in a 

 manner intelligible to all who take an interest in Modern India, and 

 contains an outline of the history of the national, religious, and social 

 systems of India which flourished between 1200 B.C. and the first century 

 A.D. Two maps are included, together with several photographs of ancient 

 monuments and inscriptions. 



In Professor E. G. Browne's new book on The Press and Poetry of 

 Modern Persia, the first part will contain a complete list of Persian news- 

 papers, with particulars concerning each, whilst the second part will consist 

 of specimens ot the political and patriotic poetry of Modern Persia. 



The six hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn will be 

 celebrated in June of this year, and the Press will shortly publish a work 

 by Dr J. E. Morris in which the story of the battle is re-told in the light 

 of recent investigations into the site of the struggle, the number of men 

 engaged, and so on. The book will be illustrated by plans and photo- 

 graphs. The same author has written a Modern History of Europe from 

 J558 for school use, which will also be ready shortly. 



Dr J. R. Clark Hall, author of a prose translation of Beoivulf, has 

 now made a metrical translation of the same poem into modern English, 

 in which he attempts to get as close as possible to the rhythm of the 



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