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IMPERIUM ET LIBERTAS.

By BERNARD HOLLAND.

One volume, octavo, 12s. 6d. net.


'The book is one which it will be the desire, we may perhaps say the
necessity, of every student of the higher politics of the Empire to read
carefully. The development of the Empire ... and the character and
ideals of the collective organization as a whole, as these stand before
the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, are discussed by
Mr. Holland in a vein of modest conviction, and withal of illuminating
criticism, supported by apt quotation and example, which is very
instructive.'--_Spectator_.

'Mr. Bernard Holland has written a good book upon a great subject. He
writes with sobriety and force, backed by wide reading and considerable
knowledge of affairs. His book ought to be widely read and seriously
considered.'--_Times_.

'A very remarkable book; eminently instructive. The newest political
thought is addressed to the beginnings and the desirability of a
complete transformation of the British Empire. They are not all dreamers
and faddists who commend the change and would hasten it. Of such is Mr.
Bernard Holland, a man whose studies, whose sagacity, whose freedom from