The first group of the Series will comprise twelve 

 volumes, as follows : 

 Nelson, and the Naval Supremacy of England. By W. CLARK RUSSELL. 



author of " The Wreck of the Grosvenor," etc. 



Gustavus Adolphus, and the Struggle of Protestantism for Exist- 

 ence. By C. R. L. FLETCHER, M.A., late Fellow of All Souls College, 



Oxford. 

 Pericles, and the Golden Age of Athens. By EVELYN ABBOTT, M.A., 



Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. 

 Theodoric the Goth, the Barbarian Champion of Civilization. By 



THOMAS HODGKIN, author of " Italy and Her Invaders," etc. 

 Sir Philip Sidney, and the Chivalry of England. By H. R. Fox- 



BOURNE, author of " The Life of John Locke," etc. 

 Julius Caesar, and the Organization of the Roman Empire. By 



W. WARDE FOWLER, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. 

 Alexander the Great, and the Extension of Greek Rule and of 



Greek Ideas. By Prof. BENJAMIN I. WHEELER, Cornell University. 

 Charlemagne, the Reorganizer of Europe. By Prof. GEORGE L. BURR, 



Cornell University. 

 Cicero, and the Fall of the Roman Republic. By J. L. STRACHAN 



DAVIDSON, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. 

 Louis XIV., and the Zenith of the French Monarchy. By ARTHUR 



HASSALL, M.A., Senior Student of Christ Church College, Oxford. 

 Sir Walter Raleigh, and the Adventurers of England. By A. L. 



SMITH, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. 

 Bismarck. The New German Empire : How It Arose ; What It 



Replaced ; and What It Stands For. By JAMES SIME, author of 



"A Life of Lessing," etc. 



To be followed by : 

 Henry of Navarre, and the Huguenots in France. By P. F. WILLERT, 



M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. 

 William of Orange, the Founder of the Dutch Republic. By RUTH 



PUTNAM. 

 Hannibal, and the Struggle between Carthage and Rome. By 



E. A. FREEMAN, D.C.L., LL.D., Regius Prof, of History in the 



University of Oxford. 

 Alfred the Great, and the First Kingdom in England. By F. YORK 



POWELL, M.A., Senior Student of Christ Church College, Oxford. 

 Charles the Bold, and the Attempt to Found a Middle Kingdom. 



By R. LODGE, M.A., Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. 

 John Calvin, the Hero of the French Protestants. By OWEN M. 



EDWARDS, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. 

 Oliver Cromwell, and the Rule of the Puritans in England. By 



CHARLES FIRTH, Balliol College, Oxford. 

 Marlborough, and England as a Military Power. By C. W. C. 



OMAN, A.M., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. 



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