The Neutral Ground

" The most complete, comprehensive, and interesting account of the Civil War which has ever been published. . . . We unhesitatingly recommend it as containing a we.Tlth of information that no one can afford to be deprived ol."--New Haven Eve. Lender.

" The work is thoroughly impartial, and moreover is free from individual caprice. . . . The manner is much that of a skilled attorney stating his case, only in this instance the writer states the case for both sides." -- Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

Part II. -- Ready shortly.

DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE W^ATERLOO.

A Continuation of Creasy's " Decisive Battles of the World." By Tho.mas W. Knox. With 59 plans and ilhistr.itions. 8",

pp. viii. + 490 $2.50

" Must go wherever Creasy's invaluable preceding book of 1852 has gone, and perhaps where it has not found its way. . . . The author has done his work well and attractively." -- H art/or d Post.

THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812 ;

or. The History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain. By Theodork Roosevelt. 3d edition, 8°, pp. xxxviii. + 531 ...... $2. 50

" Shows in so young an author the best promise for a good historian -- fearlessness of statement, caution, endeavor to be impartial, and a brisk and interesting way of telling events." -iV. Y. Times.

" The reader of Mr. Roosevelt's book unconsciously makes up his mind that he is reading history and not romance, and yet no romance could surpass it in interest." --Philadclfihia Tunes.