Telegrams : 
‘Scholarly, Lendsae 41 and 43 Maddox Street, 
Bond Street, London, W. 
Telephone : / 
No. 1883 Mayfair. November, 1910. 
Mr Edward Arnold’s 
LIST OF NEW BOOKS, 
IgIo. 
THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON. 
CECIL JOHN RHODES, 
1853—1902. 
By the Hon. Sr LEWIS MICHELL, 
Member OF THE Executive CounciL, Care Conony. 
Two Volumes. With Illustvations. Demy 8vo., 30s. net. 
This important work will take rank as the standard biography 
of one of the greatest of modern Englishmen. Sir Lewis Michell, 
who has been engaged on the work for five years, is an executor of 
Mr. Rhodes’s will and a Trustee of the Rhodes Estate. He was 
an intimate personal friend of Mr. Rhodes for many years, and has 
had access to all the papers at Groote Schuur. Hitherto, although 
many partial appreciations of the great man have been published in 
the Press or in small volumes, no complete and well-informed life of 
him has appeared. The gap has now been filled by Sir Lewis 
Michell so thoroughly that we have in these two volumes what will 
undoubtedly be the final estimate of Mr. Rhodes’s career for many 
years to come. The author, although naturally in sympathy with 
his subject, writes with independence and discernment on the many 
critical questions of the time; his narrative is very lucid and very 
interesting, and the reader is made to feel the dominating personality 
of Mr. Rhodes in every phase of South African history and develop- 
ment. It is no small tribute to the book to say that, after reading 
it, even those who never met Mr. Rhodes can well understand the 
magic influence he seemed to exert upon all who came in contact 
with him in his life-time. 
LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD, 41 & 43 MADDOX STREET, W. 
