«Abraham Lincoln, and the Downfall of American Slavery.» By NOAH BROOKS.
«Prince Henry (of Portugal) the Navigator, and the Age of Discovery.» By C. R. BEAZLEY, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
«Julian the Philosopher, and the Last Struggle of Paganism against Christianity.» By ALICE GARDNER.
«Louis XIV., and the Zenith of the French Monarchy.» By ARTHUR HASSALL, M.A., Senior Student of Christ Church College, Oxford.
«Charles XII., and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719.» By R. NISBET BAIN.
«Lorenzo de' Medici, and Florence in the 15th Century.» By EDWARD ARMSTRONG, M.A., Fellow of Queens's College, Oxford.
«Jeanne d'Arc. Her Life and Death.» By MRS. OLIPHANT.
«Christopher Columbus. His Life and Voyages.» By WASHINGTON IRVING.
«Robert the Bruce, and the Struggle for Scottish Independence.» By SIR HERBERT MAXWELL, M.P.
«Hannibal, Soldier, Statesman. Patriot; and the Crisis of the Struggle between Carthage and Rome.» By W. O'CONNOR MORRIS, Sometime Scholar of Oriel College, Oxford.
«Ulysses S. Grant, and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction, 1822-1885.» By LIEUT.-COL. WILLIAM CONANT CHURCH.
«Robert E. Lee, and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870.» By PROF. HENRY ALEXANDER WHITE, of the Washington and Lee University.
«The Cid Campeador, and the Waning of the Crescent in the West.» By H. BUTLER CLARKE, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford.
«Moltke, and the Military Supremacy of Germany.» By SPENCER WILKINSON, London University.
«Bismarck. The New German Empire, How it Arose and What it Displaced.» By W. J. HEADLAM, M.A., Fellow of King's Collage.
«Judas Maccabæus, the Conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism.» By ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, author of the "Jews of the Middle Ages."
«Henry V., the English Hero King.» By CHARLES L. KINGSFORD, joint-author of the "Story of the Crusades."
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