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Th Life of Cesare Borgia. (Third Edition.)
By RAFAEL SABATINI, Author of " The Lion's Skin," " The Justice
of the Duke," etc. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, with coloured frontis-
piece and other illustrations printed on art paper, i6s. net.
The Standard speaks of this work as " a clever and even a brilliant book. It
certainly says all that can be said in mitigation of the sweeping censure which has
passed almost unchallenged down the ages."
The Scotsman says: "This is a readable and well-studied work. It gives a
picturesque account both of the House of Borgia and of its most famous scion without
falling into romantical exaggerations either way. It cannot fail to interest English
students of Italian history."
The Daily Telegraph says:
"
Mr. Sabatini has a lively and vigorous style, which
imparts a freshness to his narrative, and the story ef Cesare Borgia's short but varied
and remarkable career as here fully and carefully set forward proves as entertaming
as it is informative."
Rodrigo Borgia. The Life and Times of Pope
Alexander VI. (Father of Cesare Borgia). By the Most Rev.
ARNOLD H. MATHEW, D.D. Fully illustrated, demy 8vo, i6s, net.
"Dr. Mathew sets on his title-page a quotation from Leo. XIII.:
' Let writers of history remember never to dare to tell a lie, nor to
fear to tell the truth.' This motto the author faithfully follows, with
the result of a terrible story of immorality, debauchery, and corruption.
The record of those times is truly amazing. The Papacy of the fifteenth
century was a bestial resort of immorality, and treachery, and venality,
and assassination. One would imagine that it would, like the Roman
Empire, have perished in its own vices. Those were the days of the
terrible Galeazzo Sforza. . . . This period of Italian history is prob-
ably unmatched in the chronicles of at least the more modern world
for its cruelty and wantonness and licentiousness. Dr. Mathew's book
is a very readable and a very accurate one. He is an impartial historian
with a great gift of glozing over nothing for partisan purposes.
He has gone to first authorities, and has amassed and arranged his
facts well." --H. B. MARRIOTT WATSON, in the Pall Mall Gazette.
In Jesuit Land: The Jesuit Missions at Paraguay.
By W. H. KOEBEL. Author of " In the Maoriland Bush," " Madeira,
Old and New,'" "Portugal, Past and Present," etc. Demy 8vo,
illustrated, 128. 6d. net.
The story of the Jesuit missions of Paraguay as told here, forms
one of the most fascinating chapters in the complex history of the
River Plate Provinces. Mr. Koebel has traced the work of the
missions from their inception in the early days of Spanish South
American colonisation and discovery, down to the final expulsion
of the Jesuits by Bucareli in the middle of the eighteenth century.
It is a story of deep interest, often of breathless excitement, and is,
at the same time, a close and intimate study of the devoted men,
who gave all, even to life itself, to their work ; through the story
runs a vein of political intrigue which heightens its fascination,