ANNOUNCEMENTS 



Important Historical Books. 



RUSSIA. 



The First Romanovs (1613^1725). A History of 

 Moscovite Civilization and the Rise of Mod- 

 ern Russia under Peter the Great and his Fore- 

 runners, by R. NiSBET Bain, Author of The 

 Pupils of Peter the Great, Peter III., Emperor 

 of Russia, etc. With 8 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 

 I2S. 6d. net. 



Extracts from the Author's Preface. — " It will be my endeavour, 

 in the folio-wing pages, to describe the social, ecclesiastical, and 

 political conditions of Eastern Europe from 1613 to 1725, and trace 

 the gradual transformation, during the seventeenth century, of the 

 semi-monastic, semi-barbarous Tsardom of Moscovy into the modern 

 Russian State. . . . The subject possesses the rare and crowning 

 merit of almost absolute novelty. We have some half a dozen 

 manuals of Russian history ; we know something, by this time, of 

 Peter the Great ; we are even learning to know something about 

 Ivan the Terrible. But seventeenth century Moscovy is still, 

 to most of us, a terra incognita." 



FRANCE, 



Catherine De Medici and the French Reformation, 

 by Edith Sichel, Author of Women and 

 Men of the French Renaissance, The House- 

 hold of the Lafayettes, etc. Demy Svo. With 

 12 Illustrations. 15s. net. 



Miss Sichel's Women and Men of the French Renaissance 

 was very well received. The present book treats of the 

 French court at a slightly later date — the days of the 

 last of the Valois. For English readers a special interest 

 attaches to Catherine's court from the fact that it was 

 there that Mary, Queen of Scots, was brought up, and her 

 complex character for the most part moulded. Students 

 of literature will be glad of the full treatment accorded to 

 Ronsard and the Pleiade. 



'* Miss Edith Sichel has done a fine and distinguished piece of work. 

 She has written a brilliant and scholarly book ; a book it is both difficult 

 and tempting to overpraise." — The Times. 



