4 MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN to much which men read of in their books as isolated facts, but of which they have hitherto had no connected exposition set before them. We know of no writer who has so thoroughly grasped the real nature of the mediaæval Empire, and its relations alike to earlier and to later times."-SATURDAY REVIEW. Burke (Edmund).—See MORLEY (JOHN). Cameos from English History.-See YONGE (MISS). Chatterton.-See WILSON (DANIEL). Cooper. ATHENA CANTABRIGIENSES. By CHARLES HENRY COOPER, F.S.A., and THOMPSON COOPER, F.S.A. This elaborate work, which is dedicated by permission to Lord Macaulay, contains lives of the eminent men sent forth by Cambridge, after the fashion of Anthony à Wood, in his famous “Athena Oxonienses." Cox (G. V., M.A.) RECOLLECTIONS OF oxford. By G. V. Cox, M.A., New College, late Esquire Bedel and Coroner in the University of Oxford. Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 65. "An amusing farrago of anecdote, and will pleasantly recall in many "Those a country parsonage the memory of youthful days."-TIMES. who wish to make acquaintance with the Oxford of their grandfathers, and to keep up the intercourse with Alma Mater during their father's time, even to the latest novelties in fashion or learning of the present day, will do well to procure this pleasant, unpretending little volume."—ATLAS. "Daily News."-THE DAILY NEWS CORRESPOND ENCE of the War between Germany and France, 1870-1. Edited with Notes and Comments. New Edition. Complete in One Volume. With Maps and Plans. Crown 8vo. 6. This Correspondence has been translated into German. In a Pretace the Editor says: "Among the various pictures, recitals, and descriptions which have appeared, both of our gloriously ended national war as a whole, and of its several episodes, we think that in laying before the German public, through HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS. 5 a translation, the following War Letters which appeared first in the DAILY NEWS, and were afterwards published collectively, we are offering them a picture of the events of the war of a quite peculiar character. Their communications have the advantage of being at once entertaining and instructive, free from every romantic embellishment, and nevertheless written in a vein intelligible and not fatiguing to the general reader. The writers linger over events, and do not disdain to surround the great and heroic war-pictures with arabesques, gay and grave, taken from camp-life and the life of the inhabitants of the occupied territory. A feature which distinguishes these Letters from all other delineations of the war is that they do not proceed from a single pen, but were written from the camps of both belligerents." "These notes and comments," according to the SATURDAY REVIEW, "are in reality a very well executed and continuous history." Dilke.-GREATER BRITAIN. A Record of Travel in Englishspeaking Countries during 1866-7. (America, Australia, India. ) By Sir CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, M.P. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "Mr. Dilke," says the SATURDAY REVIEW," has written a book which is probably as well worth reading as any book of the same aims and character that ever was written. Its merits are that it is written in a lively and agreeable style, that it implies a great deal of physical pluck, that no page of it fails to show an acute and highly intelligent observer, that it stimulates the imagination as well as the judgment of the reader, and that it is on perhaps the most interesting subject that can attract an Englishman who cares about his country." Many of the subjects discussed in these pages," says the DAILY NEWS, "are of the widest interest, and such as no man who cares for the future of his race and of the worla can afford to treat with indifference." 66 Dürer (Albrecht).-S HEATON (MRS. C.) European History, Narrated in a Series of Historica Selections from the best Authorities. Edited and arranged by When young children have acquired the outlines of history from abridg ments and catechisms, and it becomes desirable to give a more enlarged view of the subject, in order to render it really useful and interesting, a 6 MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN difficulty often arises as to the choice of books. Two courses are open, either is take a general and consequently dry history of facts, such as Russell's Modern Europe, or to choose some work treating of a particular period or subject, such as the works of Macaulay and Froude. The former course usually renders history uninteresting; the latter is unsatisfactory, because it is not sufficiently comprehensive. To remedy this difficulty, selections, continuous and chronological, have in the present volume been taken from the larger works of Freeman, Milman, Palgrave, Lingard, Hume, and others, which may serve as distinct landmarks of historical reading. "We know of scarcely anything," says the GUARDIAN, of this volume, "which is so likely to raise to a higher level the average standard of English education." Fairfax (Lord).—A LIFE OF THE GREAT LORD FAIR FAX, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Parliament of 165. 66 No full Life of the great Parliamentary Commander has appeared; and it is here sought to produce one-based upon careful research in contemporary records and upon family and other documents. Highly useful to the careful student of the History of the Civil War. Probably as a military chronicle Mr. Markham's book is one of the most full and accurate that we possess about the Civil War."-FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. Field (E. W.)— See SADLER. ... Freeman.-Works by EDWARD A. FREEMAN, M.A., D.C.L. "That special power over a subject which conscientious and patient research can only achieve, a strong grasp of facts, a true mastery over detail, with a clear and manly style-all these qualities join to make the Historian of the Conquest conspicuous in the intellectual arena."ACADEMY. HISTORY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, from the Foundation of the Achaian League to the Disruption of the United States. Vol. I. General Introduction. History of the Greek Mr. Freeman's aim, in this elaborate and valuable work, is not so much to discuss the abstract nature of Federal Government, as to exhibit its actual working in ages and countries widely removed from one another. Four Federal Commonwealths stand out, in four different ages of the world, as commanding above all others the attention of students of political history, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS. Freeman (E. A.)—continued. 7 viz. the Achaian League, the Swiss Cantons, the United Provinces, the United States. The first volume, besides containing a General Introduction, treats of the first of these. In writing this volume the author has endeavoured to combine a text which may be instructive and interesting to any thoughtful reader, whether specially learned or not, with notes which may satisfy the requirements of the most exacting scholar. "The task Mr. Freeman has undertaken," the SATURDAY REVIEW says, "is one of great magnitude and importance. It is also a task of an almost entirely novel character. No other work professing to give the history of a political principle occurs to us, except the slight contributions to the history of representative government that is contained in a course of M. Guizot's lectures . . . . The history of the development of a principle is at least as important as the history of a dynasty, or of a race. OLD ENGLISH HISTORY. With Five Coloured Maps. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo., half-bound. 6s. room. "Its object," the Preface says, is to show that clear, accurate, and scientific views of history, or indeed of any subject, may be easily given to children from the very first. . . . I have throughout striven to connect the history of England with the general history of civilized Europe, and I have especially tried to make the book serve as an incentive to a more accurate study of historic geography." The rapid sale of the first edition and the universal approval with which the work has been received prove the correctness of the author's notions, and show that for such a book there was ample The work is suited not only for children, but will serve as an excellent text-book for older students, a clear and faithful summary of the history of the period for those who wish to revive their historical knowledge, and a book full of charms for the general reader. The work is preceded by a complete chronological Table, and appended is an exhaustive and useful Index. In the present edition the whole has been carefully revised, and such improvements as suggested themselves have been introduced. The book indeed is full of instruction and interest to students of all ages, and he must be a well-informed man indeed who will not rise from its perusal with clearer and more accurate ideas of a too much neglectea portion of English history."-SPECTATOR. 66 HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WELLS, as illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old Foundation. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d. 8 MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN Freeman (E. A.)—continued. 'I have here," the author says, "tried to treat the history of the Church of Wells as a contribution to the general history of the Church and Kingdom of England, and specially to the history of Cathedral Churches of the Old Foundation. . . . I wish to point out the general principles of the original founders as the model to which the Old Foun dations should be brought back, and the New Foundations reformed after their pattern." "The history assumes in Mr. Freeman's hands a significance, and, we may add, a practical value as suggestive of what a cathedral ought to be, which make it well worthy of mention."-SPEctator. HISTORICAL ESSAYS. say The principle on which these Essays have been chosen is that of selecting papers which refer to comparatively modern times, or, at least, to the existing states and nations of Europe. By a sort of accident a number of the pieces chosen have thrown themselves into something like a continuous series bearing on the historical causes of the great events of 1870-71. Notes have been added whenever they seemed to be called for ; and whenever he could gain in accuracy of statement or in force or clearness of expression, the author has freely changed, added to, or left out, what he originally wrote. To many of the Essays has been added a short note of the circumstances under which they were written. It is needless to that any product of Mr. Freeman's pen is worthy of attentive perusal ; and it is believed that the contents of this volume will throw light on several subjects of great historical importance and the widest interest. The following is a list of the subjects :- -1. The Mythical and Romantic Elements in Early English History; 2. The Continuity of English History; 3. The Relations between the Crowns of England and Scotland; 4. Saint Thomas of Canterbury and his Biographers; 5. The Reign of Edward the Third; 6. The Holy Roman Empire; 7. The Franks and the Gauls; 8. The Early Sieges of Paris; 9. Frederick the First, King of Italy; 10. The Emperor Frederick the Second; 11. Charles the Bold; 12. Presidential Government. "He never touches a question without adding to our comprehension of it, without leaving the impression of an ample knowledge, a righteous purpose, a clear and powerful understanding."-SATURDAY REVIEW. THE GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. In the presɛ. |