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History and Biography

MORRIS FULLER

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JOHN DAVENANT, D. D. (1571–1641), President of Queen's College, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, Lord Bishop of Salisbury. By the Rev. Morris Fuller, B. D., Vicar of St. Mark's, Marylebone. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Dr. Davenant, Bishop of Salisbury, the maternal uncle of Dr. Fuller, lived at a very critical time in our history (1571–1641). He was one of the British representatives of the first great Synod of the reformed churches held at Dort, was one of Archbishop Laud's Suffragans, and assisted him in carrying out his reforms.

Précis is given of some of the Bishop's writings, and a very celebrated sermon, never before published and supposed to have been lost, is printed in extenso.

EDWARD GIBBON

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By Edward Gibbon. A New Edition, edited with Notes, Appendices, and Maps by J. B. Bury, M. A., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. In Seven Volumes. Demy 8vo., gilt top. 8s. 6d. each. Crown 8vo. 6s. each. Vol. III.

J. WELLS

THE CITY AND UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. By J. Wells, M. A., Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College. Illustrated by E. H. New. Fcp. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

This is a Guide—chiefly historical—to the Colleges of Oxford. It contains numerous full-page illustrations.

C. H. GRINLING

A HISTORY OF THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, 1845–95. By C. H. Grinling. With Maps and Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s.

A record of Railway enterprise and development in Northern England, containing much matter hitherto unpublished. It appeals both to the general reader and to those specially interested in railway construction and management.

Naval and Military

DAVID HANNAY

SHORT HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY, From Early Times to the Present Day. By David Hannay. Illustrated. 2 Vols. Demy 8vo. 15s.

This book aims at giving an account not only of the fighting we nave done at sea, but of the growth of the service, of the part the Navy has played in the development of the Empire, and of its inner life. The author has endeavoured to avoid the mistake of sacrificing the earlier periods of naval history—the very interesting wars with Holland in the seventeenth century, for instance, or the American War of 1779–1783—to the later struggle with Revolutionary and Imperial France.