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Essays Written for the Wellington Prize. 



Selected for Publication, by His Grace's desire, from those specially men- 

 tioned by the Arbiter. 8vo, 12s. 6d. » 

 List of Authors. 

 I. By Lieut. J. T. HiLDYARD, 71st Highland Light Infantry. 

 II. By Lieutenant Stanier Waller, Royal Engineers. 



III. By Captain J. C. RussELL, loth Royal Hussars. 



IV. By Colonel Sir Garnet J. Wolseley, C.B., K.C.M.G. 

 V. By General J. R. CraWFURD. 



VI. By Lieutenant C. COOPER King, Royal Marine Artillery. 



The Eighteen Christian Centuries. 



By the Eev. James White, Author of ' The History of France.' Seventh 



Edition, post 8vo, with Index, 6s. 

 ■■ He has seized the salient points — indeed, the governing incidents— in eack 

 century, and shown their received bearing as well on their own age as on the 

 progress of the woijldj Vigorously and briefly, often by a single touch, has he 

 marked the traits of leading men ; when needful, he touches sUghtly their bio- 

 graphical career. The state of the country and of society, of arts and leamingj ' 

 and, more than all, of the modes of living, are graphically sketched, and, upoii 

 the whole, with more fulness than any other division." — Spectator. 



History of France, 



FROM THE Earliest Times. By the Eey. James 'White, Author of 

 'The Eighteen Christian Centuries.' Fifth Edition, post 8vq, with Index, 

 6s. * 



ArchcBological Sketches in Scotland — Kintyre. 



By Captain T. P. White, B.E., &c., of the Ordnance Survey. With 138 

 Illustrations. FoUo, £,2, as. 



Through Burmah to Western China: 



Being Notes of a Journey in 1863, to Establish the Practic^tiUty of a 

 Trade-Route between the Irawaddi and the Yang-tse-KiaS^. By Clement 

 Williams, formerly Assistant-Surgeon in the 68th' Light Infantry, and First 

 Political Agent at Mandalay to the Chief-Commissioner of British Burmah. 

 Crown 8vo, with Two Maps and Numerous Engravings, 6s. 



The '^Ever-Victorious Army!' 



A History of the Chinese Campaign under Lieut. -Col. C. G. Gordon, and 

 of the Suppression of the Tai-ping Rebellion. By Andrew Wilson, 

 F.A.S.I., Author of ' England's Policy in China; ' and formerly Editor of . 

 the ' China Mail." In 8vo, with Maps, 15s. 

 ' ' In addition to a good deal of information respecting China and- its receJP 

 history, this volume contains an interesting account of a brilliant passage in the 

 mihtary career of au English officer of remarkable promise, and of the impor- 

 tant results of his skill and heroism. . . . It brings out clearly the eminent 

 qualities of Colonel Gordon, his intrepidity and resources as a military leader, 

 his rare aptitude for a difficult command, his dauntless courage, calmness, and 

 prudence, his lofty character and unsullied honour." — Times. 



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