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A CENTURY OF EMPIRE, 1801-1900. 



By the Right Hon. Sir HERBERT MAXWELL, Bart., P.C., 



AUTHOR OF ' THE LIFE OF WELLINGTON,' ETC. 



Volume I., from 1801 to 1832. With Photogravure Portraits. About 

 400 pages. Demy 8vo., cloth. 145. net. 



NOTE. The work will be completed in Three Volumes, which will be 

 issued at intervals of about six months. 



The great task which Sir Herbert Maxwell has undertaken, and of 

 which the first instalment is now offered to the public, is the history 

 of the British people during the nineteenth century. It is a history 

 in the broadest interpretation of that term ; the back-bone of it is 

 political, as was inevitable in the case of a constitutionally governed 

 country, but all the principal aspects of the national life are duly 

 dealt with in his closely knit narrative. Sir Herbert Maxwell writes 

 with the authority conferred by a union of wide knowledge and with 

 practised literary skill, and the insight gained by an active and varied 

 participation in the public affairs of his own time. To these quali- 

 fications he adds an intimate familiarity with that side of social and 

 political history which is embedded in countless volumes of the letters 

 and memoirs of the leading personages of the time. From this 

 source arises what forms perhaps the most characteristic excellence 

 of his narrative, the many dramatic touches which enable us to follow 

 the progress of events, not only in the light of subsequent knowledge, 

 but as they presented themselves to the actors at the time. 



EDMUND GARRETT. 



a Memoir. 

 By E. T. COOK, 



AUTHOR OF ' RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF THE TRANSVAAL WAR,' JOINT EDITOR or RUSKIN'S 

 WORKS, ETC. 



With Portrait. One Volume. Demy 8vo., cloth. IDS. 6d net. 



Edmund Garrett was a journalist of genius, and his short but 

 brilliant career was tinged with romance. Going to South Africa, 

 in the first instance temporarily for reasons of health, he eventually 

 settled there, and so it came about that at the time of the Jameson 

 Raid, of which he wrote a singularly lucid and convincing account 

 in ' The Story of an African Crisis,' he was Editor of the Cape Times. 

 Henceforward he was involved in the turmoil of events of world- 

 wide significance, and it was no small matter that his post should 

 have been occupied by one so clear-sighted and courageous. 



