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British Orations

A selection of the more important and representative political addresses of the past two centuries, with biographical notes, critical comment, political, oratorical, and literary estimate.

Edited by Charles K. Adams, President of the University of Wisconsin. With an additional volume edited by John Alden.

Four volumes, each complete in itself and sold separately. Each, 12°, gilt top, $1.25.

The orators included are: Sir John Eliot, John Pym, Lord Chatham, Edmund Burke, Charles J. Fox, Sir James Mackintosh, Lord Erskine, George Canning, Lord Macaulay, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Lord Beaconsfield, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Mansfield, Daniel O’Connell, Lord Palmerston, Robert Lowe, Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Rosebery.

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