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he Vikings in Western Christendom, A.D. 789—888. By Author:Charles Francis Keary, Author of "Outlines of Primitive Belief," "The Dawn of History," &c. With Map and Tables, Demy 8vo., cloth, 16s.

These Lectures attracted much attention in the Session of 1889-90, and are now reprinted to meet the desire of a very large public. In each case the authors have striven to put their audience in thorough sympathy with the National Life and Thought of the Nations treated of.

, in writing a series of articles in the North American Review on this work, says: "The Century Company has, in my judgment, done a great service to the soldiers of all armies by the publication of these records of the great War."

"Mr. Macdonald has done his work well."—Speaker.

"We travel from convent to palace, find ourselves among all the goodness, the wisdom, the wildness, the wickedness, the worst and the best of that wonderful time. We meet with devoted saints and desperate sinners We seem to have made many new acquaintances whom before we only knew by name among the names of history We can heartily recommend this book to every one who cares for the study of history, especially in its most curious and fascinating period, the later middle age."—Spectator.