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2858453Decisive Battles Since Waterloo — end matterThomas W. Knox

MILITARY HISTORY.


THE ART OF WAR.

The Middle Ages, From the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century. By Charles Oman, M.A., F.S.A., Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford. 8°, pp. 667. With 24 plates of maps, plans and illustrations $4.50

The above volume forms the second of a series of four in which the author intends to present a general sketch of the history of the art of war from the Greek and Roman times down to the beginning of the 19th century. The first volume in chronological order, which will cover the classical division of the subject, will be issued shortly. The third volume will be devoted to the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, while the fourth volume will treat of the military history of the 18th century, and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars' down to Waterloo.

THE STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.

A Concise Account of the War in the United States of America between 1861 and 1865. By John Codman Ropes, LL.D.

To be complete in four parts, printed in four octavo volumes, with comprehensive maps and battle plans. Each part will be complete in itself and will be sold separately.

Part. I.—Narrative of Events to the Opening of the Campaigns of 1862. With 5 maps, 8°, pp. xiv. + 274 $1.50
"The most complete, comprehensive, and interesting account of the Civil War which has ever been published.... We unhesitatingly recommend it as containing a wealth of information that no one can afford to be deprived of."—New Haven Eve. Leader.

"The work is thoroughly impartial, and moreover is free from individual caprice.... The manner is much that of a skilled attorney stating his case,

only in this instance the writer states the case for both sides."—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

Part II.—The Campaigns of 1862. With 13 Maps. 8°, pp. xii + 475 $2.50

DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO.

A Continuation of Creasy's "Decisive Battles of the World." By Thomas W. Knox. With 59 plans and illustrations. 8°, pp. viii. + 490 $2.50

"Must go wherever Creasy's invaluable preceding book of 1852 has gone and perhaps where it has not found its way.... The author has done his work well and attractively."—Hartford Post.

THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812;

or, The History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain. By Theodore Roosevelt. 7th edition, 8°, pp. xxxviii. + 531 $2.50

"Shows in so young an author the best promise for a good historian—fearlessness of statement, caution, endeavor to be impartial, and a brisk and interesting way of telling events."—N. Y. Times. "The reader of Mr. Roosevelt's book unconsciously makes up his mind that he is reading history and not romance, and yet no romance could surpass it in interest."—Philadelphia Times.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York and London.



WORKS BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.


THE WINNING OF THE WEST.

Vol. I.—From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi. 1769-1776.

Vol. II.—From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi. 1777-1783.

Vol. III.—The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths.1784-1790.

Vol. IV.—Louisiania and the Northwest. 1791-1807.

Each volume is complete in itself and is sold separately.

Octavo, cloth, with maps. Each $2 50

"An excellent work, such as we think no one else could have written."—London Saturday Review.

"A story full of stirring incidents, which never grows dull from the first page to the last; Written after much research, and with impartial soberness; an admirable contribution to the history of America."—London Spectator.

"Few writers of American history have covered a wider or better field of research, or are more in sympathy with the best modern method of studying history from original sources."—Atlantic Monthly.

HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN.

Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. With 27 full-page wood engravings and 8 smaller engravings, from designs by A. B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J. C. Beard, Fannie E. Gifford, and Henry Sandham. Bevelled boards, 8° $2 50

"One of those distinctively American books which ought to be always welcomed as contributing distinctly to raise the literary prestige of the country all over the world.—New York Tribune. "This book may claim an honorable place on the same shelf with Isaac Walton's Complete Angler and Waterton's Wanderings; it is certain to achieve a wide and permanent popularity.—London Spectator.

THE WILDERNESS HUNTER.

With an account of the Big Game of the United States, and its Chase with Horse, Hound, and Rifle. With illustrations by Remington, Frost, Sandham, Eaton, Beard, and others. 8° $2 50

"No American is better qualified than Mr. Roosevelt to write on such a subject as this; for he has himself hunted and killed every kind of game native to the United States, has lived

on our so-called frontier and known the peculiar life and thought of its people, and above all possesses a true appreciation of nature, animate and inanimate, and the literary ability to relate what he has seen."—New York Nation.

"Written by a mighty hunter, also a naturalist as well as a sportsman, a close observer as well as a sure shot; not John Burroughs himself could write more interestingly of the sights and sounds of the wilderness."—Philadelphia Telegraph.

THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812.

Or, The History of the United States Navy during the last war with Great Britain. To which is appended an account of the Battle of New Orleans. 8th edition, 8°, cloth $2 50


"The volume is an excellent one in every respect, and shows in so young an author the best promise for a good historian—fearlessness of statement, caution, endeavor to be impartial, and a brisk and interesting way of telling events."—N. Y. Times. "The most accurate, as it certainly is the most cool and impartial, and in some respects the most intrepid, account that has yet appeared of the naval actions of the war of 1812."—Harper's Monthly.

AMERICAN IDEALS,

And Other Essays. Social and Political. 12°, gilt top $1 50

New Library Edition, reset, uniform with "The Winning of the West." 8°, 2 50

"These papers are of sterling merit, and well worthy of perusal.... Mr. Roosevelt writes in a direct and forcible manner, and shows a broad and intelligent comprehension of the attitude of the citizen towards the problem of municipal government."—Detroit Free Press.

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