HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS, 9 



Galileo. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GALILEO. Compiled 



principally from his Correspondence and that of his eldest 

 daughter; Sister Maria Celeste, Nun in the Franciscan Convent of 

 S. Matthew in Arcetri. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. "js. bd. 



It has been the endeavour of the compiler to place before the reader a, 

 plain, ungarbled statement of facts ; and, as a means to this end, to allow 

 Galileo, his friends, and his judges to speak for themselves as far as possible. 

 All the best authorities have been inade use of, and all the materials which 

 exist f of a biography have been in this volume put into a symmetrical form. 

 The result is a most touching picture skilfully arranged of the great heroic 

 man of science and his devoted daughter, whose letters are full of the deepest 

 reverential love and trust, amply repaid by the noble soul. The SATUR- 

 DAY REVIEW says of the book, "It is not so much the philosopher as the 

 man who is seen in this simple and life-like sketch^ and the hand which, 

 portrays the features and actions is mainly thai of one who had studied the 

 subject the closest and the mast intimately. This little valume has done 

 much within its slender compass to prove the depth and tenderness of 

 Galileo's heart." 



Gladstone (Right Hon. W. E., M.P.) JUVENTUS 



MUNDI. The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age. Crown 8vo. 

 cloth. With Map. io.r. 6d. Second Edition. 



This work of Mr. Gladstone deals especially with the historic element 

 in Homer, expounding that element and furnishing by its aid a full 

 account of the Homeric men and the Homeric religion. It starts, after 

 the introductory chapter, ^vith a discussion of the sevei'al races then existing 

 in Hellas, including the influence of the Phoenicians and Egyptians. It 

 contains chapters on the Olympian system, with its several deities ; on the 

 Ethics and the Polity of the Heroic age ; on the Geography of Homer ; on 

 the characters of the Poems ; presenting, in fine, a view of primitive life 

 and primitive society as found in the poems of Homer. To this New 

 Edition various additions have been made. "Seldom," says the ATHK- 

 N^EUM, "out of the great poems themselves, have these Divinities looked 

 s& majestic and respectable. To read these brilliant details is like standing 

 on the Olympian threshold and gazing at the ineffable brightness within." 

 " There is," according to ^WESTMINSTER REVIEW, ''''probably no other 

 writer no?u living who could haz i e done the work of this book. . . It would 

 e difficult to point out a book that contains so much fulness of knowledge 

 long with so much freshness of perception and clean ; t '~s of presentation?* 



