THE AGE OF BLAKE

Witli 1.: niu-tnitions. Price Is. 4d.

THE AGE OF DRAKE. (1577-1596.) With 1.') Illustrations. Price Is. 4d.

THE AGE OF HAWKE. (1709-1782.) With 9 Illustrations. Price Is. 4d.

'l'his Séries of Sca-Dog Readers consists of extracts from contemporary documents and from contemporary and modem verse. The spelling of extracts is in every case modemi/.cd.

The object of the whole séries is, perliaps, sufficicntly summed up in the motto from Mr. Kipling's " Recessional" —

"Lest we forget"; but the stories tliemsclves form a fascinating "centre of action " roiuid which to group the history of the ijeriod, and the slightly auti-

HISTORY (Continued).

quated language illustrâtes the origin of many idioms, the use of which is now no longer obvious.

By H. DE B. GiBBiNS, M. A., Litt.D.