2 Mr. Edward Arnold's List of New Books 



JERUSALEM UNDER THE HIGH 

 PRIESTS. 



ifive ^Lectures on tbe period between mebemiab ant) tbe 1Rew 



{Testament. 



By EDWYN BEVAN, 



AUTHOR OF ' THE HOUSE OF SELEUCUS.' 



Demy Svo. 75. 6d. 



Readers of Mr. Bevan's brilliant work on the Seleucid dynasty 

 will welcome this new and, in its way, not less important volume of 

 history from his pen. Originally written in the form of lectures for 

 popular audiences, the book aims rather at giving a clear and con- 

 nected sketch of what is certainly known about a crucial period in 

 the history of our religion a period of which it must be confessed 

 most people are extremely ignorant than at investigating the 

 obscure problems which beset the specialist. The subjects of the 

 lectures are: (i) The End of the Persian Period and the Mace- 

 donian Conquest ; (2) Hellenism and Hebrew Wisdom ; (3) Judas 

 Maccabaeus and his Brethren ; (4) The Hasmonaean Ascendancy ; 

 and (5) The Fall of the Hasmonaeans and the Days of Herod a list 

 of subjects sufficient to show the value of the book to everyone who 

 finds any interest in the Bible. 



FINAL RECOLLECTIONS OF A 

 DIPLOMATIST 



By the RIGHT HON. SIR HORACE RUMBOLD, BART., 



G.C.B., G.C.M.G., 

 Demy Svo. 155. net. 



Sir Horace Rumbold begins the third and concluding series of his 

 4 Recollections' in the year 1885 at tne point to which he brought his 

 readers in the volumes already published. He describes his life as 

 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece from 

 1885-1888, and to the Netherlands from 1888-1896. In the latter 

 year he was appointed Ambassador to the Emperor of Austria an 

 exalted position which he retained until his retirement from the 

 Diplomatic Service in 1900. 



The conclusion of these ' Recollections ' presents a set of Diplo- 

 matic memoirs as comprehensive as they are interesting. Sir 

 Horace Rumbold has known nearly all the famous personages of 

 his time, and the personal touches and pleasant anecdotes with which 

 he illuminates their characters render the volumes excellent reading. 



