16 MACM1LLAWS CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN 



records : thus of the Biography, a History grew : not a mere popular 

 compilation, but a work of independent search and method from first to 

 last, winch has cost more labour by Jar than the Biography. The second 

 volume is so arranged that the reader may select or omit either the History 

 or Biography. The NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, speaking of the first 

 volume of this -work said, " The Life of Milton is here written once for 

 all" The NONCONFORMIST, in noticing the second vohime, says, ''''Its 

 literary excellence entitles it to take its place in the first ranks of our 

 Uterature, while the whole style of its execiition marks it as the only book 

 that has done anything like adequate j^tstice to one of the great masters of our 

 language, and one of our truest patriots, as well as our greatest epic poet. " 



Mayor (J. E. B.)_WORKS Edited By JOHN E. B. MAYOR, 

 M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 



CAMBRIDGE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Part II. 

 Autobiography of Matthew Robinson. Fcap. 8vo. $s. 6d. 



This is the second of the Memoirs illustrative of " Cambridge in the 

 Seventeenth Century,, " that of Nicholas Farrar having preceded it. It gives 

 a lively picture of England during the Civil Wars, the most important 

 crisis of our national life; it supplies materials for the history of the 

 University and our Endowed Schools, and gives us a view of country 

 clergy at a time when they are supposed to have been, with scarce an ex- 

 ception, scurrilous sots. Mr. Mayor has added a collection of extracts and 

 documents relating to the history of several other Cambridge men of note 

 belonging to the same period, all, like Robinson, of Nonconformist leanings. 



LIFE OF BISHOP BEDELL. By his SON. Fcap. Svo. 3s. 6d. 



This is the third of the Memoirs illustrative of" Cambridge in the I *jth 

 Century " The life of the Bishop of Kit-more here printed for the first time 

 is preserved in the Tanner MSS., and is preliminary to a larger one to be 

 issued shortly. 



Mitford (A. B,) TALES OF OLD JAPAN. By A. B. 



MITFORD, Second Secretary to the British Legation in Japan. 

 With upwards of 30 Illustrations, drawn and cut on Wood by 

 Japanese Artists. Two Vols. crown 8vo. 2U. 



Under the influence of more enlightened ideas and of a liberal system of 

 pQljcy, the old Japanese civilization is fast disappearing, and -will, in a. 



