44 Great Reductions in this Catalogue 



G. B. MALLESON. 

 History of the French in India. From the Founding of Pondicherry 

 in 1674, to the Capture of that place in 1761. New and Revised 

 Edition, with Maps. Demy 8vo, i6s. 



" Colonel Malleson has produced a volume alike attractive to the general reader and 

 valuable for its new matter to the special student. It is not too much to say that now, 

 for the first time, we are furnished with a faithful narrative of that portion of European 

 enterprise in India which turns upon the contest waged by the East India Company 

 against French influence, and especially against Dupleix." — Edbiburgh Review. 



" It is pleasant to contrast theworli nowbefore us with the writer's first hold plunge 

 into historical composition, which splashed every one within his reach. He swims now 

 with a steady stroke, and there is no fear of his sinking. With a keener insight into 

 human character, and a larger understanding of the sources of human action, he com- 

 bines all the power of animated recital which invested his earlier narratives with 

 popularity.*' — Fortnightly Review. 



"The author has had the advantage of consulting French Archives, and bis volume 

 forms a useful supplement to Orme," — Athenceunt. 



Final French Struggles in India and on the Indian Seas. New 



Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



"How India escaped from the government of prefects and sub-prefects to 

 fall under that of Commissioners and Deputy-Commissioners ; why the Penal 

 Code of Lord Macaulay reigns supreme instead of a Code Napoleon ; why we 

 •are not looking on helplessly from Mahe, Karikal, and Pondicherry, while the 

 French are ruling all over Madras, and spending millions of francs in attempt- 

 ing to cultivate the slopes of the Neilgherries, may be learnt from this modest 

 volume. Colonel Malleson is always painstaking, and generally accurate ; his 

 style is transparent, and he never loses sight of the purpose with which he 

 commenced to write. " — Saturday Review. 



"A book dealing with such a period of our history in the East, besides 

 being interesting, contains many lessons. It is written in a style that will be 

 popular with general readers." — Athcnceum. 



History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the 

 War of 1878. With map. Demy 8vo, i8s. 

 ' ' The name of Colonel Malleson on the title-page of any historical work in 

 relation to India or the neighbouring States, is a satisfactory guarantee both 

 for the accuracy of the facts and the brilliancy of the narrative. The author 

 may be complimented upon having written a History of Afghanistan which 

 is likely to become a work of standard authority." — Scotsman. 



The Battlefields of Germany, from the Outbreak of the Thirty Years' 

 War to the Battle of Blenheim. With Maps and I Plan. Demy 8vo, 

 1 6s. 

 "Colonel Malleson has shown a grasp of hia subject, and a power of 

 vivifying the confused passages of battle, in which it would be impossible to 

 name any living writer as his equail. In imbuing- these almost forgotten 

 battlefields with fresh interest and reality for the English reader, he is re- 

 opening one of the most important chapters of European history, which no 

 previous English writer has made so interesting and instructive as he has 

 succeeded in doing in this volume." — Academy. 



Ambushes and Surprises, being a Description of some of the most famous 

 instances of- the Leading into Ambush and the Surprises of Armies, 

 from the time of Hannibal to the period of the Indian Mutiny. With a 

 portrait of General Lord Mark Ker, K.C.B. Demy 8vo, i8s. 



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