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By Christopher Hill SAINTS IN ARMS THE GREAT CIVIL WAR: A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE FIRST CIVIL WAR, 1642‐1646. By Lt.‐Col. Alfred H. Burne and Lt.‐Col. Peter Young. In THE FRENCH RELIGIOUS WARS IN ENGLISH POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM SHELDON TO SECKER: ASPECTS OF ENGLISH CHURCH HISTORY 1660‐1768: THE FORD LECTURES 1958. By Norman Sykes In 1844 there were printed in London twelve copies of the Négotiations de M. le Comte ď Avaux en Irlande. In 1934 the Irish Manuscripts Commission published a facsimile reprint. There has now appeared in the same series a SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME edited by James Hogan with indexes by Lilian Tate. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH HISTORY, TUDOR PERIOD, 1485‐1603 LATER MODERN PROGRÉS SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE AU XVIII 6 SIÉCLE. By Roland Mousnier THE ATTORNEY IN EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY ENGLAND. By Robert Robson THE EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY COMMONWEALTHMAN. 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New Series, Vol. 49, Part 2. 1959. 107 pp. $2. ELECTIONS AND PARTY MANAGEMENT: POLITICS IN THE TIME OF DISRAELI AND GLADSTONE. By H. WALTER BAGEHOT. By Norman St. POWER, PUBLIC OPINION AND DIPLOMACY, edited by Lillian Parker Wallace and William C. Askew MATTHIAS ERZBERGER AND THE DILEMMA OF GERMAN DEMOCRACY. By Klaus Epstein. THE ECONOMIC BLOCKADE, vol. ii. By W.N. Medlicott. In his FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE UND HANNOVER IN IHREM GEGENSEITIGEN URTEIL In his main work, Le Mouvement Physiocratique en France de 1756 à 1770 NAPOLEONS GRIFF NACH DER KARLSKRONE. DAS ENDE DES ALTEN REICHS 1806. An excellent explanation of the significance of the most famous case in French history is provided by Pierre Miquel in ľ AFFAIRE DREYFUS Ľ ITALIA IN AFRICA, serie storica, volume primo, ETIOPIA– MAR ROSSO, tomo I. The merits of QUEEN MARY 1867‐1953 THE AMERICAS Dr. R.J. Shafer's THE ECONOMIC SOCIETIES OF THE SPANISH WORLD THE HISTORY OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY, 1670‐1870 ROYAL FORT FRONTENAC. Ed. R. A. 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By B. Watson CONFUCIAN CHINA AND ITS MODERN FATE. By J. R. Levenson. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul CHINESE THOUGHT AND INSTITUTIONS. Ed. J. K. Fairbank SOURCES OF THE JAPANESE TRADITION. Compiled by Ryusaku Tsunoda, Wm, Theodore de Bary and Donald Keene A HISTORY OF HONO KONG. By G. B. Endacott A HISTORY OF MODERN BURMA. By John F. Cady School of Oriental and African Studies, London THE RUSSIAN PUSH TOWARDS JAPAN: RUSSO‐JAPANESE RELATIONS 1697‐1875. By George Alexander Lensen THE OPIUM WAR THROUGH CHINESE EYES. By Arthur Waley LEBANON IN HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT. By‐Philip K. Hitti A HISTORY OF SOUTH INDIA by Professor Nilakanta Sastri has been published in a revised second edition. GENERAL THE MUQADDIMAH: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY. By Abd‐ar‐Rahman ibn Khaldun. Translated from the Arabic by Franz Rosenthal A HISTORY OF WESTERN TECHNOLOGY. By Friedrich Klemm. Translated from the German by Dorothea Waley Singer The first attempt to treat heraldic flags and banners seriously comes from the pen of Lt.‐Col. Robert Gayre in his HERALDIC STANDARDS AND OTHER ENSIGNS LECTURES. By Fritz Saxl. London: The Warburg Institute. 1958 ETHICS IN A WORLD OF POWER: THE POLITICAL IDEAS OF FRIEDRICH MEINECKE. By Richard W. Sterling A SHORT HISTORY OF FRANCE TO THE PRESENT DAY THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY: 1941‐195O. Edited by L. G. Wickham Legg and E. T. Williams THE MACLEODS: THE HISTORY OF A CLAN. By I. F. Grant A MONASTERY IN MORAY. THE STORY OF PLUSCARDEN PRIORY, 1230‐1948. By Peter F. Anson A HISTORY OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL AND THE MEN ASSOCIATED WITH IT. Edited by W. R. Matthews and W. M. Atkins The publication of the VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD continues with two volumes edited by Miss L. M. Midgley A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF OXFORD, vol. vi, PLOUGHLEY HUNDRED. Ed. Mary D. Lobel