T. FISHER UNWIN, Publisher, 



BUILDERS OF GREATER 

 BRITAIN 



H. F. WILSON 



A Set of IO Volumes, each with Photogravure Frontispiece, 

 and Map, large crown Svo., cloth, S . each. 



The completion of the Sixtieth year of the Queen s reign will be the occasion of much 

 -etrospect and review, in the course of which the great men who, under the auspices of He* 

 Majesty and her j'redecessors, liave helped to make the British Empire what it is to-day. 

 *tll naturally be brought to mind. Hence the idea of the present series. These biographies, 

 concise hui full, popular but authoritative, have been designed with the view of giving IB 

 ;ach ca-c an adequate picture of the builder in relation to his work. 



Thr v-nes will be under the general editorship of Mr. H. F. Wilson, formerly Fellow 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, and now private secretary to the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain 

 t the Colonial CMice. Each volume will be placed in competent hands, and will contain 

 the best por-- v* obtainable of its subject, and a map showing his special contribution to 

 the Imp- rial edifice. The first to appear will be a Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Major 

 Hume, the 'e;imed author of " The Year after the Armada." Others in contemplation will 

 leai with ihcCabots, the quarter-centenary of whose sailing from Bristol is has recently been 

 ;elebrait-d in that city, as well as in Canada and Newfoundland ; Sir Thomas Mail land, the 



Kimj Tom " of the Mediterranean ; Rajah Brooke, Sir Stamford Raffles, Lord 

 Eduard Gibbon Wakefield. Zachary Macaulay. <fec Ac. 



The Series has taken for its motto the Miltonic prayer : 



? Sou E3o of C8g free grace dto*f fiutft up f BIB (griff annict 

 mpire to a gforioua and enStafife $eig&f$. B&f6 off $er 

 3fan& a6ouf (Jer. afag us in tgis fefictfte/* 



i SIR WALTER RALEQH. By MARTIN A. S. HUME, Author 



of "The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth," &c. 



J. SIR THOMAS MAITLAND; the Mastery of the Mediterranean. 

 By WALTER FREWEN LORD. 



3. JOHN CABOT AND HIS SONS; the Discovery of North 

 America. By C. RAYMOND BEAZLBY, M.A. 



*. EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD; the Colonisation of South 

 Australia and New Zealand. By R. GARNET?, C.B., L.L.D. 



S- LORD CLIVE; the Foundation of British Rule in India. By Sir 



A. J. ARBUTHNOT, K.C.S.I., C.I.E. 

 RAJAH BROOKE; the Englishman as Ruler of ao Eastern 



State. By Sir SPENSER ST. JOHN, G.C.M.G 



ADMIRAL PHILIP; the Founding of New South Wales. By 

 Louis BECKE and WALTER JEFFEKY. 



SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES; England in the Far East. By 

 the Editor. 



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