EDITED BY
H. F. WILSON
_A Set of 10 Volumes, each with Photogravure Frontispiece, and Map,
large crown 8vo., cloth_, =5s.= _each_.
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The completion of the Sixtieth year of the Queen’s reign will be the
occasion of much retrospect and review, in the course of which the
great men who, under the auspices of Her Majesty and her predecessors,
have helped to make the British Empire what it is to-day, will
naturally be brought to mind. Hence the idea of the present series.
These biographies, concise but full, popular but authoritative, have
been designed with the view of giving in each case an adequate picture
of the builder in relation to his work.
The series will be under the general editorship of Mr H. F. Wilson,
formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and now private
secretary to the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain at the Colonial Office.
Each volume will be placed in competent hands, and will contain the
best portrait obtainable of its subject, and a map showing his special
contribution to the Imperial edifice. The first to appear will be
a Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, by Major Hume, the learned author of
“The Year after the Armada.” Others in contemplation will deal with
the Cabots, the quarter-centenary of whose sailing from Bristol Is
has recently been celebrated in that city, as well as in Canada and
Newfoundland; Sir Thomas Maitland, the “King Tom” of the Mediterranean;
Rajah Brooke, Sir Stamford Raffles, Lord Clive, Edward Gibbon
Wakefield, Zachary Macaulay, &c., &c.