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Messrs. Methuen's Catalogue 



J. K. Trotter. THE NIGER 

 SOURCES. By Colonel J. K. 

 Trotter, R.A. With a Map and 

 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 55. 



W. Crooke. THE NORTH- 

 WESTERN PROVINCES OF 

 INDIA : Their Ethnology and 

 Administration. By W. Crooke. 

 With Maps and Illustrations. Demy 

 8vo. los. 6d. 



A. Boisragon. THE BENIN MAS- 

 SACRE. By Captain Boisragon. 

 Second Edition. Cr. Zvo. 35. bd. 

 ' If the story had been written four hundred 

 years ago it would be read to-day as an 

 English classic' — Scotsman, 



H. S. Cowper. THE HILL OF THE 

 GRACES : OR, the Great Stone 

 Temples of Tripoli. By H. S. 

 CowPER, F.S. A. With Maps, Plans, 



and 75 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 

 los. 6d. 



W. B. Worsfold. SOUTH AFRICA. 



By W. B. Worsfold, M.A. With 



a Map. Second Editio7i. Cr. 8vo. 65. 



' A monumental work compressed into a 



very moderate compass.' — IVorld. 



Katberine and Gilbert Macquoid. IN 



PARIS. By Katherine and Gil- 

 bert Macquoid. Illustrated by 

 Thomas R. Macquoid, R.I. With 

 2 maps. Crown 8vo. is. 

 ' A useful little guide, judiciously supplied 

 with information.' — Athenautn. 



A. H. Keane. THE BOER STATES : 

 A History and Description of the 

 Transvaal and the Orange Free State. 

 By A. H. Keane, M.A. With 

 Map. Croivn 8vo. 6s, 



Naval and Military 



F. H. E. Cunliffe. THE HISTORY 

 OF THE BOER WAR. By F. H. 

 E Cunliffe, Fellow of All Souls' 

 College, Oxford. With many Illus- 

 trations, Plans, and Portraits. In 2 

 vols. Vol. I., \y. 



This book contains the narrative of the war 

 from its beginning to the relief of Lady- 

 smith, and is magnificently illustrated. 

 It has been recognised on all hands as 

 the most serious and reasoned contribu- 

 tion to the history of the war, and will 

 remain for many years the standard 

 authority. 



' The excellence of the work is double ; for 

 the narrative is vivid and temperate, and 

 the illustrations form a picture gallery 

 of the war which is not likely to be 

 rivalled. . . . An ideal gift book.' — 

 A cadeiny. 



G. S. Robertson. CHITRAL: The 

 Story of a Minor Siege. By Sir 

 G. S. Robertson, K. C.S.I. With 

 numerousIllustrations,Mapand Plans. 

 Second Edition. Demy 8vo. los, 6d. 



'A book which the Elizabethans would have 

 thought wonderful. More thrilling, more 

 piquant, and more human than any 

 novel.' — Newcastle Chronicle. 



'As fascinating as Sir Walter Scott's best 

 fiction.' — Daily Tele^raf>h. 



,. S. S. Baden-Powell. THE DOWN- 

 FALL OF PREMPEH. A Diary of 

 Life in Ashanti, 1895. By Maj.-Gen. 

 Baden-Powell. With 21 Illustra- 

 tions and a Map. Third Edition. 

 Large Crown 8vo. ds. 



,. S. S. Baden-PoweU. THE MATA- 

 BELE CAMPAIGN, 1896. By Maj.- 

 Gen. Baden-Powell. With nearly 

 100 Illustrations. Cheaper Edition, 

 Large Crown 8vo. bs. 



. B. Atkins. THE RELIEF OF 

 LADYSMITH. By John Black 

 Atkins. With 16 Plans and Illus- 

 trations. Third Edition, Crown 

 8vo. 6s. 

 ' Mr. Atkins has a genius for the painting 

 of war which entitles him already to be 

 ranked with Forbes and .Steevens, and 

 encourages us to hope that he may one 

 day rise to the level of Napier and 

 Kinglake.'— Pa// Mall Gazette, 



[. W. Nevinson. LADYSMITH : The 

 Diary of a Siege. By H. W. Nevin- 

 son. With 16 Illustrations and a 

 Plan. Second Edition, Crown 8vo. 6s. 



' There is no exaggeration here, no strain- 

 ing after effect. But there is the truest 



