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"Clever and brilliant. ... Worth reading by everybody who either admires or hates his subject.—Guardian.

"A slashing and vastly interesting book."—Pall Mall Gazette.

"M. Gaston Boissier is one of the few living archæologists who can make the dead ones of the past live again. While his researches show the accuracy and thoroughness which we associate with German scholarship, he has a gift of exposition which is wholly French. We can imagine therefore, no better handbook for traveller or archæologist than this one.—Daily Mail.

"A valuable contribution to the political, social, intellectual, and even revolutionary history of our time."—Times.

"The book is full of interest; it produces a vivid, personal impression, it contains contemporary notes on men and women of the century, it has shrewd and vigorous sentences, and illustrates our own progress in civilising thought."—Spectator.

“An admirable book which ought to be read by every one who takes any interest in things that ought to interest all-the building of the Empire and the men who built it. There is not a dull page in it, and with his skilful telling of it, the story of Raleigh's life and of his times reads like a romance."—Pall Mall Gazette.