Herbert Maxwell: 7 books

Hailed by the New York Times as “entertaining as well as valuable,” this two-volume biography examines the life of “the hero of Waterloo.” This engaging portrait perfectly captures the life story of this legendary officer. In volume one, Maxwell begins the exhaustive chronicling of Wellington’s...

AN attempt has been made in the following pages to give a general view of the principal events in the reign of Queen Victoria and the changes resulting from the development of the means of travel and communication, the accumulation of wealth, the acquirement of political power by the people, and the...

“In the whole British chronicle, then, no span of one hundred years seems more clearly marked out as a definite political and social era than the Nineteenth Century . . . ” So writes the author in this sweeping story of 100 years in Great Britain’s history, a portrait of the events, people, politics, and wars during a momentous century.

This early work on Scottish history is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the history of Dumfries and Galloway from A.D. 79 onward. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in Scottish regional history. Many of the earliest books, particularly...

First published in 1923, "Flowers" is a fantastic handbook on the various flowers commonly found in an English garden, with chapters on equipment, growing, maintaining, and much more. This timeless volume is highly recommended for all green-fingered gardeners, and it would make for a worthy...

Hailed by the New York Times as “entertaining as well as valuable,” this two-volume biography examines the life of “the hero of Waterloo.” This engaging portrait perfectly captures the life story of this legendary officer. This second volume continues the narrative of Wellington’s life during...

To the Reader The following chapters, which have their origin in papers originally contributed to the Scotsman, are designed to meet, and possibly to stimulate, that interest in British woodland resources which has so greatly increased within recent years. The author's aim has not been to present...