Product Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...hue; becoming yellowish by rubbing in a mortar...read more

Product Description: Alexander Milne was the pre-eminent naval administrator of the Victorian Royal Navy, spending eighteen years at the Admiralty between 1847 and 1876, over six of them as First Naval Lord. His administrative career coincided exactly with the greatest technological upheaval in warfare at sea since sails supplanted oars, and he played an important role in almost every step of the Navy's transformation from sail to steam, wood to iron, and in the equally critical processes of devising a modern system of recruiting and training enlisted personnel, and evolving a coherent strategy suitable for a steam-powered fleet...read more

Jeremy Bentham was a major figure in the history of ideas, law, politics, and social policy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These volumes represent the definitive collection of his works and correspondence which is being prepared under the auspices of the Bentham Committee. Among his correspondents are the law reformer Samuel Romilly, the former prime minister Lord Lansdowne, and the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.