HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, S^ TRAVELS. 



the very first, to distinguish true history alike from legend and from wilft 

 invention, and also to understand the nature of historical authorities, ar, 

 to weigh one statement against another. . . , . I have throughout striven 

 connect the history of England with the general history of civilized Europ 

 and I have especially tried to make the book serve as an incentive to a mo. 

 accurate study of historical geography." — Preface. 



French (George Russell). — shakspearean 



GENEALOGICA. 8vo. cloth extra, 15^. Uniform with tl 

 "Cambridge Shalcespeare." 



Part I. — Identification of the dramatis personse in the historical play 

 from King John to King Henry VIII. ; Notes on Characters in Macbe 

 and Hamlet ; Persons and Places belonging to Warwickshire alluded t 

 Part II. — The Shaksfeare and Arden families and their connexions, wi, 

 Tables of descent. The present is the first attempt to give a detailed a 

 scription, in consecutive order, of each of the dramatis personse in Sha 

 speared immortal chronicle-histories, and some of the characters have bee, 

 it is believed, herein identified for the first time. A clue is furnished whic, 

 followed up with ordinary diligence, may enable any one, with a taste J. 

 the pursuit, to trace a distinguished Shakspearean worthy to his line 

 representative in the present day. 



Galileo. — the private life of Galileo. Compile 



principally from his Correspondence and that of his elde 

 daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, Nun in the Franciscan Convent 

 S. Matthew in Arcetri. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. "Js. 6d. 



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

 plain, ungarbled statement of Jacts ; and as a means to this end, to alio 

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



Gladstone (Right. Hon. W. E., M.P.).— juvENTU 

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

 cloth extra. With Map. lar. 6d. Second Edition. 



This new work of Mr. Gladstone deals especially with the histor 

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



