This book is intended for the Middle and Upper Forms of Public Schools and for Pass Students at the Universities. It contains copious Tables, etc.

'An original work written on an original plan, and with uncommon freshness and vigour.'—Speaker.

'A brilliant essay simple, sound, and thorough.'—Daily Chronicle.

'A study, the most concise, the most lucid, the most critical that has been produced.'—Birmingham Mercury.

'Mr. George has undertaken a very useful task that of making military affairs intelligible and instructive to non-military readers and has executed it with laudable intelligence and industry, and with a large measure of success.'—Times.

'This book is almost a revelation; and we heartily congratulate the author on his work.'—Daily Chronicle.

'A vivid picture of mediæval Italy.'—Standard.

'Mr. Browning is to be congratulated on the production of a work of immense labour and learning.'—Westminster Gazette.

'Most delightful, most stimulating. Its racy humour, its original imaginings, make it one of the freshest, breeziest volumes.'—Methodist Times.

'A brilliant and attractive volume. It impresses first by reason of its bulk, and next by reason of its substantial and striking binding. Within, it is remarkable, to begin with, for the considerable number and unusual excellence of its illustrations. Never before, it is safe to say, have so many pictures relating to Napoleon been brought together within the limits of an English book. The portraits alone are multitudinous; Bonaparte is presented to us at all ages, in all sorts of costume, and amid very varied circumstances. Then there are reproductions of statuettes, busts, and medals, caricatures, portraits of his connections by birth and marriage, representations of events in which he took