14 Messrs. Methuen's List
0. Browning. A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ITALY, A.D. 1250-1530. By Oscar Browning, Fellow and Tutor of King's College, Cambridge. Second Edition. In Two Volumes. Crown ?)V0. ^s. each.
Vol. I. 1250-1409. — Guelphs and Ghibellines.
Vol. II. 1409- 1 530. — The Age of the Condottieri.
'A vivid picture of medijeval Italy.' — Standard.
' Mr. Browning is to be congratulated on the production of a work of immense labour and learning.' — Westminster Gazette.
O'Grady. THE STORY OF IRELAND. By Standish O'Grady, Author of ' Finn and his Companions.' Cr. Svo. 2s. 6d. ' Most delightful, most stimulating. Its racy humour, its original imaginings,
make it one of the freshest, breeziest volumes.' — Methodist Times. 'A survey at once graphic, acute, and quaintly written.' — Times.
Biography
R. L. Stevenson. VAILIMA LETTERS. By Robert Louis
Stevenson. With an Etched Portrait by William Strang, and
other Illustrations. Second Edition. Crown Svo. Buckram. fs.Sd.
' The Vailima Letters are rich in all the varieties of that charm which have secured
for Stevenson the affection of many others besides "journalists, fellow-novelists,
and boys.'" — The Times. ' Few publications have in our time been more eagerly awaited than these " Vaillm*
Letters," giving the first fruits of the correspondence of Robert Louis Stevenson.
But, high as the tide of expectation has run, no reader can possibly be disappointed
in tlie result.' — Si. James's Gazette. ' For the student of English literature (hese letters indeed are a treasure. They
are more like " Scott's Journal " in kirj than any other literary autobiography.'
— National Observer.
F. W. Joyce. THE LIFE OF SIR FREDERICK GORE OUSELEY. By F. W. Joyce, M.A. With Portraits and Illustra- tions. Crown Svo. "js. 6d. ' All the materials have been well digested, and the book gives us a complete picture of the life of one who will ever be held in loving remembrance by his personal friends, and who in the history of music in this_ country will always occupy a prominent position on account of the many services he rendered to the art.' — Musical News. ' This book has been undertaken in quite the right spirit, and written with sympathy, insight, and considerable literary skill.' — Times.
W. G. CoUingwood. THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKiN. By W. G. COLLINGWOOD, M.A., Editor of Mr. Ruskin's Poems. With numerous Portraits, and 13 Drawings by Mr. Ruskin. Second Edition. 2 vols. Svo. 32J-.
' No more magnificent volumes have been published for a long time.' — Times.
' It is long since we had a biography with such delights of substance and of form. Such a book is a pleasure for the d.-iy, and a jov for ^ver.'— Daily Chronicle.
'A noble monument of a noble subject. One of the most beautiful books about one of the noblest lives of our century.'— C/fW^cw Herald.
