The Home University Library catalogue 1914/15   By: Home University Library of Modern Knowledge

This catalogue originally appeared in "An Outline of Russian Literature," by Maurice Baring: Williams and Norgate, London; first printed 1914/15.

The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge

A Comprehensive Series of New and Specially Written Books

EDITORS:

Prof. GILBERT MURRAY, D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A. HERBERT FISHER, LL.D., F.B.A. Prof. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., LL.D. Prof. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A.

1/ net 256 Pages 2/6 net in cloth in leather

History and Geography

3. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

By HILAIRE BELLOC, M.A. (With Maps.) "It is coloured with all the militancy of the author's temperament." Daily News.

4. A SHORT HISTORY OF WAR AND PEACE

By G. H. PERRIS. The Rt. Hon. JAMES BRYCE writes: "I have read it with much interest and pleasure, admiring the skill with which you have managed to compress so many facts and views into so small a volume."

8. POLAR EXPLORATION

By Dr W. S. BRUCE, F.R.S.E., Leader of the "Scotia" Expedition. (With Maps.) "A very freshly written and interesting narrative." The Times.

12. THE OPENING UP OF AFRICA

By Sir H. H. JOHNSTON, G.C.M.G., F.Z.S. (With Maps.) "The Home University Library is much enriched by this excellent work." Daily Mail.

13. MEDIÆVAL EUROPE

By H. W. C. DAVIS, M.A. (With Maps.) "One more illustration of the fact that it takes a complete master of the subject to write briefly upon it." Manchester Guardian.

14. THE PAPACY & MODERN TIMES (1303 1870)

By WILLIAM BARRY, D.D. "Dr Barry has a wide range of knowledge and an artist's power of selection." Manchester Guardian.

23. HISTORY OF OUR TIME (1885 1911)

By G. P. GOOCH, M.A. "Mr Gooch contrives to breathe vitality into his story, and to give us the flesh as well as the bones of recent happenings." Observer.

25. THE CIVILISATION OF CHINA

By H. A. GILES, LL.D., Professor of Chinese at Cambridge. "In all the mass of facts, Professor Giles never becomes dull. He is always ready with a ghost story or a street adventure for the reader's recreation." Spectator.

29. THE DAWN OF HISTORY

By J. L. MYRES, M.A., F.S.A., Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, Oxford. "There is not a page in it that is not suggestive." Manchester Guardian.

33. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND

A Study in Political Evolution

By Prof. A. F. POLLARD, M.A. With a Chronological Table. "It takes its place at once among the authoritative works on English history." Observer.

34. CANADA

By A. G. BRADLEY. "The volume makes an immediate appeal to the man who wants to know something vivid and true about Canada." Canadian Gazette.

37. PEOPLES & PROBLEMS OF INDIA

By Sir T. W. HOLDERNESS, K.C.S.I., Permanent Under Secretary of State of the India Office. "Just the book which newspaper readers require to day, and a marvel of comprehensiveness." Pall Mall Gazette.

42. ROME

By W. WARDE FOWLER, M.A. "A masterly sketch of Roman character and of what it did for the world." The Spectator.

48. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

By F. L. PAXSON, Professor of American History, Wisconsin University (With Maps.) "A stirring study." The Guardian.

51. WARFARE IN BRITAIN

By HILAIRE BELLOC, M.A. "Rich in suggestion for the historical student." Edinburgh Evening News.

55. MASTER MARINERS

By J. R. SPEARS. "A continuous story of shipping progress and adventure.... It reads like a romance." Glasgow Herald.

61. NAPOLEON

By HERBERT FISHER, LL.D., F.B.A., Vice Chancellor of Sheffield University. (With Maps.) The story of the great Bonaparte's youth, his career, and his downfall, with some sayings of Napoleon, a genealogy, and a bibliography.

66. THE NAVY AND SEA POWER