Biography
COLLINGWOOD. THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN. By W.G. COLLINGWOOD, M.A.,Editor of Mr. Ruskin's Poems. With numerous Portraits, and 13 Drawingsby Mr. Ruskin. _2 vols. 8vo. 32s. Second Edition_.
'No more magnificent volumes have been published for a longtime....'--_Times_.
'It is long since we have had a biography with such delights ofsubstance and of form. Such a book is a pleasure for the day, and ajoy for ever.'--_Daily Chronicle_.
'A noble monument of a noble subject. One of the most beautiful booksabout one of the noblest lives of our century.'--_Glasgow Herald_.
WALDSTEIN. JOHN RUSKIN: a Study. By CHARLES WALDSTEIN, M.A., Fellowof King's College, Cambridge. With a Photogravure Portrait afterProfessor HERKOMER. _Post 8vo. 5s._
Also 25 copies on Japanese paper. _Demy 8vo. 21s. net_.
'A thoughtful, impartial, well-written criticism of Ruskin's teaching,intended to separate what the author regards as valuable andpermanent from what is transient and erroneous in the great master'swriting.'--_Daily Chronicle_.
KAUFMANN. CHARLES KINGSLEY. By M. KAUFMANN, M.A. _--Crown 8vo. Buckram.5s._
A biography of Kingsley, especially dealing with his achievements insocial reform.
'The author has certainly gone about his work with conscientiousnessand industry.'--_Sheffield Daily Telegraph_.
ROBBINS. THE EARLY LIFE OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. By A.F. ROBBINS._With Portraits. Crown 8vo. 6s_.
'Considerable labour and much skill of presentation have not beenunworthily expended on this interesting work.'--_Times_.
'Not only one of the most meritorious, but one of the mostinteresting, biographical works that have appeared on the subject ofthe ex-Premier.... It furnishes a picture from many points originaland striking; it makes additions of value to the evidence on which weare entitled to estimate a great public character; and it givesthe reader's judgment exactly that degree of guidance which is thefunction of a calm, restrained, and judicious historian.'--_BirminghamDaily Post_.
CLARK RUSSELL. THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD. By W. CLARKRUSSELL, Author of 'The Wreck of the Grosvenor.' With Illustrations byF. BRANGWYN. _Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s._
'A really good book.'--_Saturday Review_.
'A most excellent and wholesome book, which we should like to see inthe hands of every boy in the country.'--_St. James's Gazette_.
SOUTHEY. ENGLISH SEAMEN (Howard, Clifford, Hawkins, Drake, Cavendish).By ROBERT SOUTHEY. Edited, with an Introduction, by DAVID HANNAY._Crown 8vo. 6s._
This is a reprint of some excellent biographies of Elizabethan seamen,written by Southey and never republished. They are practicallyunknown, and they deserve, and will probably obtain, a widepopularity.