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A CENTURY OF EMPIRE, 1801-1900. 
By the Right Hon. Sir HERBERT MAXWELL, Bart., P.C., 
Autuor oF ‘Tue Lire or WELLINGTON,’ ETC. 
Volume I., from 1801 to 1832. With Photogravure Portraits. 
XX +352 pages. Demy 8vo., cloth. 14s. net. 
NOTE.—The work will be completed in Three Volumes, which will be 
issued at intervals of about six months. 
The great task which Sir Herbert Maxwell has undertaken, and of 
which the first instalment is now offered to the public, is the history 
of the British people during the nineteenth century. It isa history 
in the broadest interpretation of that term; the back-bone of it is 
political, as was inevitable in the case of a constitutionally governed 
country, but all the principal aspects of the national life are duly 
dealt with in his closely knit narrative. Sir Herbert Maxwell writes 
with the authority conferred by a union of wide knowledge and with 
practised literary skill, and the insight gained by an active and varied 
participation in the public affairs of his own time. To these quali- 
fications he adds an intimate familiarity with that side of social and 
political history which is embedded in countless volumes of the letters 
and memoirs of the leading personages of the time. From this 
source arises what forms perhaps the most characteristic excellence 
of his narrative, the many dramatic touches which enable us to follow 
the progress of events, not only in the light of subsequent knowledge, 
but as they presented themselves to the actors at the time. 
EDMUND GARRETT. 
A demote. 
By E. T. COOK, 
AutHor oF ‘RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF THE TRANSVAAL Wak,’ JoInT Epitor oF Ruskin's 
Works, ETC. 
With Portvait. One Volume. Demy 8vo., cloth. tos. 6d net. 
Edmund Garrett was a journalist of genius, and his short but 
brilliant career was tinged with romance. Going to South Africa, 
in the first instance temporarily for reasons of health, he eventually 
settled there, and so it came about that at the time of the Jameson 
Raid, of which he wrote a singularly lucid and convincing account 
in ‘ The Story of an African Crisis,’ he was Editor of the Cape Times. 
Henceforward he was involved in the turmoil of events of world- 
wide significance, and it was no small matter that his post should 
have been occupied by one so clear-sighted and courageous. 
