MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc, 
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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH PATRIOTISM. 
By Esm6 C Wingfield Stratford, Fellow King’s College, Cam- 
bridge. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo. With a Frontispiece to each 
volume, (1,300 pages). 25s. net. 
*** This work compresses into about HALF A MILLION WORDS the 
substance of EIGHT YEARS of uninterrupted labour. 
The book has been read and enthusiastically commended by the leading 
experts in the principal subjects embraced in this encyclopaedic survey of English 
History. 
When this work was first announced under the above title, the publisher 
suggested calling it “A New History of England.” Indeed it is both. Mr. 
Wingfield Stratford endeavours to show how everything of value that nations in 
general, and the English nation in particular, have at any time achieved has been 
the direct outcome of the common feeling upon which patriotism is built. He 
sees, and makes his readers see, the manifold development of England as one 
connected whole with no more breach of continuity than a living body or a perfect 
work of art. 
The author may fairly claim to have accomplished what few previous 
historians have so much as attempted. He has woven together the threads of 
religion, politics, war, philosophy, literature, painting, architecture, law and 
commerce, into a narrative of unbroken and absorbing interest. 
The book is a world-book. Scholars will reconstruct their ideas from it, 
economics examine the gradual fruition of trade, statesmen devise fresh creative 
plans, and the general reader will feel he is no insignificant unit, but the splendid 
symbol of a splendid world. 
CHARLES CONDER : HIS LIFE AND WORK. 
By Frank Gibson. With a Catalogue of the Lithographs and 
Etchings by Campbell Dodgson, M.S., Keeper of Prints and 
Drawings, British Museum. With about 100 reproductions of 
Conder’s work, 1 2 of which are in colour. Demy 4to. 21s. net. 
%* With the exception of one or two articles in English Art Magazines, and 
one or two in French, German, and American periodicals, no book up to the 
present has appeared fully to record the life and work of Charles Condor, by 
whose death English Art has lost one of its most original personalities. Con- 
sequently it has been felt that a book dealing with Conder’s life so full of interest, 
and his work so full of charm and beauty, illustrated by characteristic examples 
of his Art both in colour and in black and white, would be welcome to the already 
great and increasing number of his admirers. 
The author of this book, Mr. Frank Gibson, who knew Conder in his early 
days in Australia and afterwards in England during the rest of the artist’s life, 
is enabled in consequence to do full justice, not only to the delightful character 
of Conder as a friend, but is also able to appreciate his remarkable talent. 
The interest and value of this work will be greatly increased by the addition 
of a complete catalogue of Conder’s lithographs and engravings, compiled by 
Mr. Campbell Dodgson, M.A., Keeper of the Print-Room of the British Museum. 
PHILIP DUKE OF WHARTON. By Lewis 
Melville. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 16s. net. 
*** A character more interesting than Philip, Duke of Wharton, does not 
often fall to the lot of a biographer, yet, by some strange chance, though nearly 
two hundred years have passed since that wayward genius passed away, the 
present work is the first that gives a comprehensive account of his life. A man 
of unusual parts and unusual charm, he at once delighted and disgusted his 
contemporaries. Unstable as water, he was like Dryden’s Zimri, “Everything 
by starts and nothing long.” He was poet and pamphleteer, wit, statesman, 
buffoon, and amorist. The son of one of the most stalwart supporters of the 
Hanoverian dynasty, he went abroad and joined the Pretender, who created him 
a duke. He then returned to England, renounced the Stuarts, and was by 
George I. also promoted to a dukedom —while he was yet a minor. He was the 
friend of Attenbury and the President of the Hell-Fire Club. At one time he was 
leading Spanish troops against his countrymen, at another seeking consolation 
in a monastery. It is said that he was the original of Richardson’s Lovelace. 
