Part 19

* ACHIEVEMENTS IN ENGINEERING DURING THE LAST HALF-CENTURY. By Professor VERNON HARCOURT. With many Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Price 5s. , cloth.

* THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVIES DURING THE LAST HALF-CENTURY. By Captain EARDLEY WILMOT, R.N. With Illustrations and Plans. Crown 8vo. Price 5s. , cloth.

Of Volumes so * marked there are no Large Paper Editions.

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BY THE REV. A. J. CHURCH.

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THE FALL OF ATHENS. A Tale of the Peloponnesian War. By the Rev. A. J. CHURCH, Author of ‘Stories from Homer.’ With Sixteen Illustrations. Large Crown 8vo. Price 5s. , cloth.

STORIES FROM THE GREEK COMEDIANS. With Sixteen Coloured Illustrations. Price 5s. , cloth.

‘The broad humour of Aristophanes is most effectively given in this little book, and the flashes of brilliant irony not less vividly.’—Spectator.

THE STORY OF THE ILIAD. With Coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Price 5s., cloth.

THE STORY OF THE ODYSSEY. With Coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Price 5s., cloth.

‘One of the most beautiful pieces of prose in the English language, as well as one which gives a better notion of Homer than any one, probably, of our many meritorious metrical and rhymed versions.’—Spectator.

STORIES FROM HOMER. With Coloured Illustrations. Twenty-second Thousand. Price 5s., cloth.

‘A book which ought to become an English classic. It is full of the pure Homeric flavour.’—Spectator.

STORIES FROM VIRGIL. With Coloured Illustrations. Sixteenth Thousand. Price 5s., cloth.

‘Superior to his “Stories from Homer,” good as they were, and perhaps as perfect a specimen of that peculiar form of translation as could be.’—Times.

STORIES FROM THE GREEK TRAGEDIANS. With Coloured Illustrations. Tenth Thousand. Price 5s. , cloth.

‘Not only a pleasant and entertaining book for the fireside, but a storehouse of facts from history to be of real service to them when they come to read a Greek play for themselves.’—Standard.

STORIES OF THE EAST FROM HERODOTUS. With Coloured Illustrations. Ninth Thousand. Price 5s. , cloth.

‘For a school prize a more suitable book will hardly be found.’—Literary Churchman.

THE STORY OF THE PERSIAN WAR FROM HERODOTUS. With Coloured Illustrations. Fifth Thousand. Price 5s., cloth.

‘We are inclined to think this is the best volume of Professor Church’s series since the excellent “Stories from Homer.”’—Athenæum.

STORIES FROM LIVY. With Coloured Illustrations. Sixth Thousand. Price 5s., cloth.

‘The lad who gets this book for a present will have got a genuine classical treasure.’—Scotsman.

THE STORY OF THE LAST DAYS OF JERUSALEM FROM JOSEPHUS. With Coloured Illustrations. Seventh Thousand. Price 3s. 6d., cloth.

‘The execution of this work has been performed with that judiciousness of selection and felicity of language which have combined to raise Professor Church far above the fear of rivalry.’—Academy.

HEROES AND KINGS: Stories from the Greek. Sixth Thousand. Price 1s. 6d., cloth.

‘This volume is quite a little triumph of neatness and taste.’—Saturday Review.