THE HOUSE OF SELEUCUS. 



By EDWYN ROBERT BEVAN. 



AUTHOR OF THE RECENTLY PUBLISHED TRANSLATION OF 'PROMETHEUS VINCTUS. 



Two Volumes. Demy 8v0. With Portraits and Maps. $os. nett. 



This book treats of a phase of Greek civilization of immense impor- 

 tance, and yet singularly neglected the Greco-Macedonian rule in the 

 East after Alexander the Great. It deals with the dynasty which played 

 the principal part in the Greek East that founded by the Macedonian 

 Seleucus. There is no modem book, even in German, which makes a 

 special study of the history of the Seleucid kingdom. 



The period is of vital consequence in many ways : (i) A great deal in 

 the Roman imperial system was taken over from the Greek monarchies, 

 and in them many of the elements of the great European tradition took 

 shape. (2) The episode of Antiochus Epiphanes and the Jews, which 

 marks an epoch in the history of our religion, belongs to Seleucid 

 history also. (3) The Greek civilization, which these rulers repre- 

 sented, was identical in germ with our own, and the English who to-day 

 are the chief representatives of that civilization in its contact with the 

 East may look upon the Seleucid kings as their forerunners. 



This book, in fact, reveals an earlier chapter of that process which 

 we are watching in the European conquest of the East to-day. 



It contains, besides two full-page portraits of Antiochus III., repro- 

 ductions of the very complete series of coins issued under the Seleucid 

 dynasty. 



THE ENEMIES OF ENGLAND. 



By the Hon. GEORGE PEEL. 

 Demy %vo. I2S. 6d. nett. 



This is an inquiry into the causes of the hatred now and for many 

 centuries felt for England by the peoples of Europe. The author 

 examines in turn the current explanations, and finds that neither race, 

 religion, manners, trade, envy, nor malice satisfactorily accounts for it. 

 The true cause he finds in the fact that during the last eight centuries 

 each Power that has risen in turn towards the domination of Europe 

 has encountered the strenuous opposition of England. In course of 

 time animosities, bred from the broken ambitions of each, have slowly 

 accumulated against us. Meanwhile, we have planted an Empire over- 

 seas, the future of which all Powers alike regard with apprehension. 



