A Selection from Mr. Edward A mold's List. 



FRIENDS OF THE OLDEN TIME. By Alice Gardner, 



Lecturer in History at Newnham College, Cambridge. Illustrated. Square 



8vo., 23. 6d. 



"A capital little book for children, whose interest in history it is desired to stimulate by 

 lively and picturesque narratives of the lives of heroes, and the nobler aspects of heroic times. 

 Leonidas and Pericles, Solon and Socrates, Camillus and Hannibal, the Gracchi and Alex- 

 ander, form the subject of Miss Gardner's animated recitals, which possess all the charm of 

 simplicity and clearness that should belong to stories told to children." — Satiirdav RcTtiw. 



WORKS FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Wi MISSION TO ABYSSINIA. By Sir Gerald H. Portal, 



K.C.M.G., C. R., Her Majesty's Consul-General for British East Africa. With 



photogravure portrait, map, and numerous illustrations. Demy 8vo., 15s. 



" The dangers to which the mission was constantly exposed, and the calmness and courage 

 with which they were faced are simply and modestly recorded, whilst we obtain also much 

 light as to the habits and characteristics ot the Abyssinians as a nation." — United Serrice 

 Institution Joii7-nal. 



DARK DAYS IN CHILE: An Account of the Revolution 



of 1891. By Maurice H. Hervey, Special Correspondent of the Times. 



With 15 full-page illustrations. Demy Svc, i6s. 



" We have derived from Mr. Hervey's book a more intimate and vivid notion of things 

 and people in Chile, of the forces and the men that were the chief factors in the war, than we 

 have derived from any previous source." — Freeman s Journal. 



POLITICAL SCIENCE AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITU- 

 TIONAL LAW. By John W. Burgess. Ph.D., LL.D., Dean of the Uni- 

 versity Faculty of Political Science in Columbia College, U.S.A. In two 

 volumes. Demy 8vo., cloth, 25s. 



"The work is full of keen analysis and suggestive comment, and may be confidently 

 recommended to all serious students of comparative politics and jurisprudence." — Times. 



ANIMAL LIFE AND INTELLIGENCE. By C. Lloyd Morgan, 



F.G.S., Principal of University College, Bristol, Author of "Animal Sketches," 



"The Springs of Conduct," etc. With 40 illustrations and a photo-etched 



frontispiece. Second Edition. 512 pp., demy 8vo. , cloth, i6s. 



" The work will prove a boon to all who desire to gain a general knowledge of the more 

 interesting problems of modern biology and psychology by the perusal of a single compact, 

 luminous, and very readable volume."— Dr. A. R. Wallace, in Nature. 



A GENERAL ASTRONOMY. By Charles A. Young, Professor 



of Astronomy in the College of New Jersey, Associate of the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society, Author of "The Sun," etc. In one volume, 550 pages. 

 With 250 illustrations, and supplemented with the necessary tables. Royal 8vo., 

 half-morocco, 12s. 6d. 



"A grand book by a grand man. The work should become a text-book wherever the 

 English language is spoken, for no abler, no more trustworthy compilation of the kind has 

 ever appeared for the advantage of students in every line of higher education." — Fro/. Fiazzi 

 Smyth. 



THE LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEARE. 



By Henry N. Hudson, LL.D., Editor of " The Harvard Sliakespeare," etc. 



Two vols. Large crown Svc, cloth, 21s. 



" They deserve to find a place in every library devoted to Shakespeare, to editions of his 

 works, to his biography, or to the works of commentators." — Athentrum. 



