SIR FRANCIS BACON THE FIRST MODERN MIND

by Byron Steel

The author of "O Rare Ben Johnson" writes the amazing record of Elizabeth's Lord Chancellor, the brilliant philosopher, statesman, sycophant, whose downfall was the climax of one of the most astonishing careers in history.

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LINCOLN

by Emil Ludwig

A full length life of Lincoln from his obscure beginnings to his tragic end--told in the same penetrating manner as this eminent German biographer's lives of Napoleon and Bismarck.

$5.00 NET

THE TESTAMENT OF BEAUTY

by Robert Bridges

Poet Laureate

"The most veracious and thrilling, as well as the most learned poem about man, time and eternity, since Wordsworth "Prelude" J. C. Savire.--"The Work of a Great Scholar"--Review of Literature.

$3.50 NET

THE RISE OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION

New Edition, Two Volumes in One

by Charles A. and Mary R. Beard

"Here is a Masterpiece, Charles and Mary Beard paint for us a panorama of America from its misty beginnings in Europe down to our own day . . . and what an overwhelming panorama it is!"--Henry K. Norton.

$3.00 NET