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20 The Hansa Towns. By Helen Zimmern. Third
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21 Early Britain. By Professor Alfred J. Church, M.A.
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22 The Barbary Corsairs. By Stanley Lane-Poole.
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23 Russia. By W. R. Morfill, M.A. Fourth
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24 The Jews under Roman Rule. By W. D. Morrison.
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25 Scotland : From the Earliest Times to the Present
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26 Switzerland. By Lina Hug and R. Stead. Third
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27 Mexico. By Susan Hale. Third
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28 Portugal. By H. Morse Stephens, M.A New
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29 The Normans. Told chiefly in Relation to their
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Impression. With 35 Illustrations and Maps.

30 The Byzantine Empire. By C. W. C. Oman, M.A.

Third Edition. With 44 Illustrations and Maps.

31 Sicily : Phoenician. Greek, and Roman. By Professor
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32 The Tuscan Republics (Florence, Siena, Pisa, Lucca)
with Genoa. By Bella
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33 Poland. By W. R. Morfill. Third Impres-
sion. With 50 Illustrations and Maps.

84 Parthia. By Professor George Rawlinson. Third
Impression. With 48 Illustrations and Maps.



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85 The Australian Commonwealth. (New South Wales,
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Queensland, New Zealand.) By Greville Tregarthen.
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36 Spain. Being a Summary of Spanish History from
the Moorish Conquest to the Fall of Granada (a.d,
711-1492). By Henry Edward Watts. Third
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date. Eleventh Impression. With 39 Illustrations and Maps.

89 Venice. By Alethea Wiel. Fifth

Impression. With 61 Illustrations and a Map.

40 The Crusades : The Story of the Latin Kingdom of
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41 Vedic India: As embodied principally in the Rig-
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42 The West Indies and the Spanish Main. By

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43 Bohemia : From the Earliest Times to the Fall of
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44 The Balkans (Rumania, Bulgaria, Servia and Monte-
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46 British India. By R. W. Frazer, LL.D. Eighth
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47 Modern France, ITSS'ISSS. By Andre Lebon.
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48 The Franks. From their Origin as a Confederacy to
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49 Austria. By Sidney Whitman. With the Colla-
boration of J. R. McIlraith. Third
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50 Modem England before the Reform Bill. By

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51 China. By Professor R.K.Douglas. Fourth Edition.
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52 Modem England under Queen Victoria : From the
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53 Modem Spain, 1878-1898. By Martin A. S. Hume.
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54 Modem Italy, 1748-1898. By Professor Pietro
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55 Norway : From the Earliest Times. By Professor
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Keary. With 77 Illustrations and Maps.

56 Wales. By Owen Edwards. With 47 Illustrations
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67 Mediaeval Rome : From Hildebrand to Clement VIII,
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68 The Papal Monarchy: From Gregory the Great to
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Impression. With 61 Illustrations and Maps.

69 Mediaeval India under Mohammedan Rule. By

Stanley Lane-Poole. With 59 Illus-

trations. Twelfth Impression.

60 Parliamentary England : The Evolution of the
Cabinet System, 1660-1832. By Edward
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61 Buddhist India. By T. W. Rhys Davids. Fourth
Impression. With 57 Illustrations and Maps.

62 Mediaeval England, 1066-1350. By Mary
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63 The Coming of Parliament. (England, 1350-1660.)
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64 The Story of Greece : From the Earliest Times
to A.D. 14. By E. S. Shuck-
burgh. With 2 Maps and about 70 Illustrations.

65 The Story of the Roman Empire. (29 b.c. to a.d.
476.) By H. Stuart Jones. Third
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66 Sweden and Denmark. With Chapters on Finland
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