THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH By JAMES BRYCE Author of "The Holy Roman Empire," M.P. for Aberdeen In two volumes. Third edition, completely revised throughout, Vol. I. THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT- The State GoverNMENT. Pp. xix + 724. Vol. II. THE PARTY SYSTEM SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Pp. 904. Price, $1.75, net ILLUSTRATIONS AND REFLECTIONS Price, $2.25, net PUBLIC OPINION The two volumes in a box, $4.00, net It has done, and will "It is not too much to call 'The American Commonwealth' one of the most distinguished additions to political and social science which this generation has seen. continue to do, a great work in informing the world concerning the principles of this government."— Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. "No enlightened American can desire a better thing for his country than the widest diffusion and the most thorough reading of Mr. Bryce's impartial and penetrating work." - Literary World. THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON I. INCLUDING NEW MATERIALS FROM THE BRITISH OFFICIAL RECORDS By J. H. ROSE, M.A. Author of "The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, 1789—1815,” etc. Illustrated. In two volumes. Cloth. 8vo. $4.00, net "Mr. Rose seems to have read everything bearing on his subject, and to discriminate wisely as to the value of the authorities. In particular he has for the first time thoroughly explored the English Foreign Office Records. The information which he derives from them serves in general to confirm the views held by the majority, at least of competent judges. English policy during the great struggle which arose out of the French Revolution was, as it has usually been, honest and sound in purpose, but too often ill managed and weak in its methods. . . . Mr. Rose excels in the difficult art of stating complicated matters briefly and yet clearly.... Best of all, perhaps, is his chapter on the schemes for colonial expansion which Napoleon set on foot as soon as France was at peace; it is admirably clear, and contains much that will be new to most readers. Mr. Rose is equally successful in his military narrative, a subject which is especially difficult to treat both briefly and lucidly. He always sees the essential points and never includes needless details, though here and there an additional fact would have made the whole more easy of comprehension. We do not know where else to find a series of great military operations described so well and also so concisely. . . . Nothing could be better than the pages in which he describes and comments on the death of Pitt."- The London Times. ... "The author is John Holland Rose, the well-known English historian, and his biography of Napoleon Bonaparte will have little difficulty in taking rank as the best in the language. Napoleon is, to Mr. Rose, neither a demi-god nor an ogre, but a wonderfully brilliant man, whose complete, but on the whole, attractive personality is made the subject of a penetrating and luminous psychological study."— The Philadelphia Press. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 Fifth Avenue, New York |