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ROBINSON, A. MARY F. (Madame Darmesteter). The end of the middle ages. London: T. F. Unwin. 1889.

"Essays and questions in History," as follows: the Beguines and the Weaving Brothers; the Convent of Helfta; the attraction of the Abyss (Mysticism); the Schism; Valentine Visconti; the French claim to Milan; the Malatestas of Rimini; the Ladies of Milan; the Flight of Piero de' Medici; the French at Pisa.

ROSE, J. H. A century of continental history, 1780-1880. London: Edward Stanford. 1889.

Aims only at "giving an outline of the main events which have brought the Continent of Europe to its present political condition," and does so acceptably.

SCHLOSSER, F. C. History of the eighteenth century, etc.; translated by D. Davison. London: Chapman & Hall. 1843-52; 8 volumes.

SHEPPARD, JOHN G. The fall of Rome and the rise of the new nationalities. London and New York: Routledge. 1861.

"One of the best manuals for the use of a student or the Middle Ages. Perhaps its most striking characteristic is in its large dependence on original authorities, and in the stress winch it lays on the use of such authorities in the study of the period under examination." _C. K. Adams, Manual of Historical Literature. 3d edition, page 168._

SMITH, I. GREGORY: Christian Monasticism, from the 4th to the 9th centuries. London: A. D. Innes & Co. 1892.

SMYTH, WM. Lectures on modern history. London: H. G. Bohn. 2 volumes.

SOREL, ALBERT. L'Europe et la Revolution française. Paris: Plon. 1885.

STEPHENS, W. R. W. Hildebrand and his Times. London: Longmans. 1888.

In the series entitled "Epochs of Church History."

STILLÉ, CHARLES J. Studies in mediæval history. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1882.

On the following topics: General characteristics of the mediæval era; the Barbarians and their invasions; the Frankish conquests and Charlemagne; Mohammed and his System; mediæval France; Germany, feudal and imperial; Saxon and Danish England; England after the Norman conquest; the Papacy to the reign of Charlemagne; the Papacy and the Empire; the struggle for Italian nationality; Monasticism, Chivalry and the Crusades: Scholastic philosophy—the Schoolmen—Universities; the laboring classes in the Middle Ages; mediæval Commerce; the era of Secularization.

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STUBBS, WILLIAM. Seventeen lectures on the study of mediæval and modern history and kindred subjects. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1886. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1887.

Inaugural Lecture; on the Present State and Prospects of Historical Study; the Purposes and Methods of Historical Study; Learning and Literature at the court of Henry II.; the Mediæval Kingdoms of Cyprus and Armenia; on the Characteristic Differences between Mediæval and Modern History; the Reign of Henry VIII.; Parliament under Henry VIII.; history of the Canon Law in England; the Reign of Henry VII.; last statutory public lecture.

SYBEL, HEINRICH VON. History and literature of the Crusades; translated from the German. London: Chapman & Hall. 1861.

SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON. The Catholic reaction. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1886. 2 volumes.

These are the concluding volumes of Symonds' "Renaissance in Italy."

TRENCH, RICHARD C. Lectures on mediæval Church history. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1878.

VAN PRAET, JULES. Essays on the political history of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries [translated from the French]. London: Richard Bentley. 1868.

VILLEMAIN, A. F. Life of Gregory VII. [Hildebrand]; preceded by a sketch of the Papacy to the 11th century; translated from the French. London: R. Bentley & Son. 1874. 2 volumes.

VOLTAIRE, F. M. AROUET DE. Annals of the empire, from the time of Charlemagne. (Works, translated by Smollett and others, 1761, volumes 20-22).

WARD, A., W. The Counter-Reformation. London: Longmans. 1889.

In the series entitled "Epochs of Church History."

WOODHOUSE, F. C. The military religious orders of the Middle Ages. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1879.

GREAT BRITAIN: GENERAL.

BRIGHT, J. F. History of England. London: Rivingtons. 1880-1888. 4 volumes.

A very carefully written history, brought down to 1880; quite full in detail, and necessarily, therefore, condensed in the narrative.

BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS. History of civilization in England. London: Longmans. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 2 volumes.

A work which has lost the great influence that it exerted when it first appeared, but which is full of suggestion, nevertheless, to one who reads it thoughtfully.

BUCKLEY, ARABELLA B. History of England for beginners. London: Macmillan & Co. 1887.

BURROWS, MONTAGU. Commentaries on the history of England from the earliest times to 1865. Edinburg: W. Blackwood & Sons. 1893.

A successful "attempt to interpret the History of England in accordance wit the latest researches"; "a digest and a commentary rather than an abstract or an epitome.

BURTON, JOHN HILL. History of Scotland from Agricola's invasion to the last Jacobite insurrection; new and enlarged edition. Edinburg: W. Blackwood & Sons. 8 volumes.

CALLCOTT, Lady M. Little Arthur's history of England. London: J. Murray.

Very high in the esteem of those who judge books for children most carefully.

DICEY, ALBERT V. The Privy Council: the Arnold prize essay. London: Macmillan & Co. 1887.

DUFFY, Sir CHARLES GAVAN. Bird's-eye view of Irish history. Dublin: J. Duffy & Son. 1882.

ENGLISH WORTHIES; edited by Andrew Lang. London: Longmans. 1885.

Raleigh; by Edmund Gosse. Blake; by David Hannay. Claverhouse; by Mowbray Morris Marlborough; by George Saintsbury. Shaftesbury; by H. D. Traill. Canning; by F. H. Hill. Darwin; by Grant Allen.

FORSYTH, WILLIAM; History of Trial by Jury. London: J. W. Parker. 1852.

FREEMAN, EDWARD A. The growth of the English constitution. London: Macmillan & Co. 1872.

GAIRDNER, JAMES, and JAMES SPEDDING. Studies in English history. Edinburgh. 1881.

A volume of collected essays, on the Lollards, the Historical element in Shakespeare's Falstaff, Katharine of Aragon's first and second marriages, history of the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings, Sundays, ancient and modern, and other topics.

GARDINER, SAMUEL RAWSON. Historical biographies. London: Longmans. 1884.

Contains brief but excellent biographies of Simon de Montfort, Edward the Black Prince, Sir Thomas More, Sir Francis Drake, Cromwell, and William III.

A student's history of England, from the earliest times to 1885. London: Longmans. 1890—1. 3 volumes.

Professor Gardiner, being a specialist distinctly, in the one period of English history to which he has devoted himself—the period of the Stuarts—would not claim authority, of course, as an original investigator of other times; and some parts of this general text-book have been found open to criticism. But, on the whole, it can claim the first rank among text-books of its class.

GNEIST, RUDOLPH. History of the English Constitution; translated from the German. London: W. Clowes & Son. 1886. 2 volumes.

The English Parliament in its transformations through a thousand years. London: Grevel & Co. 1886.

"The work of Gneist on the English Constitution is scarcely less indispensable to the English student than the works of Stubbs and Hallam, while, as a distinguished jurist and politician in Germany, he surveys his subject from a different standpoint." _S. R. Gardiner and J. B. Mullinger, Introduction to the study of English' History, page 410._

GREEN, JOHN RICHARD. Short history of the English people. Illustrated edition, edited by Mrs. J. R. Green and Miss Kate Norgate. London: Macmillan & Co. New York: Harper & Bros. 4 volumes.

"The success of the 'Short History' was rapid and overwhelming. Everybody read it. It was philosophical enough for scholars, and popular enough for school boys. No historical book since Macaulay's has made its way so fast. … The characteristic note of his [Green's] genius was also that of Gibbon's, the combination of a perfect mastery of multitudinous details with a large and luminous view of those far-reaching forces and relations which govern the fortunes of peoples and guide the course of empire." _J. Bryce, John Richard Green (Macmillan's Magazine, May, 1883)._

History of the English people. London: Macmillan & Co. New York: Harper & Bros. 1878. 4 volumes.

An enlargement of the "Short History."

JOYCE, P. W. Short history of Ireland, from the earliest times to 1608. London: Longmans. 1893.

KNIGHT, CHARLES. Popular history of England; London: Bradbury & Evans. 8 volumes.

A work of great merit as a popular history, making no pretensions to original research; liberal in spirit and admirable in tone. It was one of the first works of the kind to be pictorially illustrated in a really historical way.

LANGMEAD, THOMAS P. TASWELL. English constitutional history, from the Teutonic conquest to the present time. 2d edition revised, with additions. London: Stevens & H. 1880.

LINGARD, JOHN. History of England from the first invasion by the Romans. London: Burns & Oates; 10 volumes.

English history written with general fairness from the Roman Catholic standpoint.

LOFTIE, W. J. History of London. London: E. Stanford. 1883-1884. 2 volumes with supplement.

MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, Baron. History of England from the accession of James II. London: Longmans.

A brief survey of previous events introduces the history proper which begins with the accession of James II., in 1685. As the death of the author brought his work to an abrupt end before he had finished his account of the reign of William III. (1689-1702), the history covers a period of less than eighteen years. Its extraordinary brilliancy, on the one and, and its defects of partisan prejudice and misjudgment on the other, are well known. "I can see Macaulay's great and obvious faults as well as any man; I know as well as any man the cautions with which his brilliant pictures must be studied; but I cannot feel that I have any right to speak lightly of one to whom I owe so much in the matter of actual knowledge, and to whom I owe more than to any man as the master of historical narrative." _E. A. Freeman, Methods of Historical Study, page 105._

POWELL, F. YORK. History of England, to the death of Henry VII. London: F. Rivingtons.

An excellent school text-book of the early centuries of English history, presenting really one of the best succinct studies that can be found of the four centuries from the first Norman to the first Tudor. It belongs to a series of three volumes, only one other of which (the third, by Professor Tout) has appeared.

RANNIE, DAVID W. Historical outline of the English Constitution, for beginners. London: Longmans. 1882.

SKOTTOWE, B. C. A short history of Parliament. London: Sonnenschein & Co. 1892.

SMITH, G. BARNETT. History of the English Parliament; with an account of the Parliaments of Scotland and Ireland. London: Ward, Lock, B., & Co. 1892. 2 volumes.

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SOUTHEY, ROBERT. Lives of the British admirals; completed by Robert Bell: London: Longmans. 1833. 5 volumes.

TRAILL, HENRY D., editor Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature, and manners, from the earliest times to the present day, by, various writers., London: Cassell & Co. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1894-5.

A work somewhat unequally executed by the different writers engaged; but generally admirable, and exceedingly interesting. Three volumes have thus far been issued.

TWELVE ENGLISH STATESMEN. London: Macmillan & Co; 1888-.

William the Conqueror; by Edward, A. Freeman. Henry the Second; by Mrs. J. R. Green. Edward the First; by Prof. T. F. Tout. Henry the Seventh; by James Gairdner. Cardinal Wolsey; by Bishop Creighton. Elizabeth; by E. S. Beesly. Oliver Cromwell; by Frederic Harrison. William the Third; by H. D. Traill. Walpole; by John Morley. Chatham [in preparation]; by John Morley. Pitt; by Lord Rosebery. Peel; by J. R. Thursfield.

YONGE, CHARLOTTE M. Cameos from English history. London: Macmillan. 1871-1890. Philadelphia.: Lippincott & Co.

Seven series of clear-cut historical narratives, each quite distinct in subject, but following one another in close relations of time. Many of the subjects are from Continental events which have some close connection with English history. The periods covered by the several series are defined and entitled as follows: 1. Rollo to Edward II. 2. The wars in France. 3. The wars of the Roses. 4. Reformation times. 5. England and Spain. 6. Forty years of Stewart rule. 7. Rebellion and Restoration.

GREAT BRITAIN: EARLY AND MEDIÆVAL.

BROWNE: MATTHEW. Chaucer's England. London: Hurst & Blackett. 1869. 2 volumes.

CHURCH, R. W. Saint Anselm. London: Macmillan & Co. 1870.

CREIGHTON, MANDELL. Life of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. London: Rivingtons. 1876.

ELTON, CHARLES. Origins of English history. London: B. Quaritch. 1882.

"An attempt to rearrange in a convenient form what is known of the history of this country from those obscure ages which preceded the Roman invasions to the time when the English accepted the Christian religion."— _Author's opening chapter._

ENGLISH HISTORY FROM CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: The misrule of Henry III. Edward III. and his wars. Strongbow's conquest of Ireland. Simon de Montfort and his cause. The Wars of York and Lancaster. London: D. Nutt. 5 volumes.

FREEMAN, EDWARD A. History of the Norman Conquest of England; its causes and its results. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1870. 5 volumes and index.

Old English history for children. London: Macmillan & Co. 1869.

An attempt by the late Professor Freeman to make "Old English history" interesting to children, and one in which he did not fail.

The reign of William Rufus and the accession of Henry I. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1882. 2 volumes.

"Taken as a whole, the seven volumes ['Norman Conquest' and 'William Rufus'] give us such a masterly philosophic analysis and such a picturesque and vivid narrative of the history of England in the eleventh century that it must be pronounced the monumental work upon which Mr. Freeman's reputation will chiefly rest." _John Fiske, Edward Augustus Freeman (Atlantic Monthly, January 1893)._

GAIRDNER, JAMES. History of the life and reign of Richard III. London: Longmans. 1878.

"I have, in working out this subject, always adhered to the plan of placing my chief reliance on contemporary information; and so far as I am aware, I have neglected nothing important that is either directly stated by original authorities and contemporary records, or that can be reasonably inferred from what they say." _Author's preface._

The Houses of Lancaster and York, with the conquest and loss of France. London: Longmans. New York: C. Scribner's Sons.

Belonging in the excellent series of the "Epochs of Modern History"—small, but satisfactory.

GREEN, J. R. The making of England. London: Macmillan & Co. 1881.

The conquest of England. London: Macmillan & Co. 1883.

In the first of these books, Mr. Green has told the story of the Saxons and Angles in England down to the union of the land under, Ecgberht; the period of their settlement, "in which their political and social life took the form which it still retains." In the second work he continues the narrative to the Norman conquest.

GREEN, Mrs. J. R. Town life in the fifteenth century. London and New York: Macmillan & Co. 1894. 2 volumes.

"Every page gives proof of careful research, skilful arrangement of facts, and felicitous treatment." _C. J. Robinson, Review (Academy, June 16, 1894)._

GROSS, CHARLES. The Gild Merchant; a contribution to British municipal history. Oxford. 1890.

Concededly the best work on the subject.

KEMBLE, JOHN M. The Saxons in England. New edition, edited and revised by W. De Gray Birch. London: B. Quaritch. 1876. 2 volumes.

"An account of the principles upon which the public and political, life of our Anglosaxon forefathers was based; and of the institutions in which those principles were most clearly manifested." _Author's Preface._

"Kemble has no narrative work to compare with that of Palgrave; but the 'Saxons in England' may fairly be compared with the 'History of the English Commonwealth.' They are two great works, works of two great scholars, who assuredly are not yet superseded. They will give you two sides of the same general story." _E. A. Freeman, Methods of Historical Study, page 281._

LECHLER, G. John Wiclif and his English precursors; translated from the German. London: C. K. Paul & Co. 1878. 2 volumes.

LONGMAN, WILLIAM. History of the life and times of Edward III. London: Longmans. 1869.

MAURICE, C. EDMUND. Lives of English popular leaders in the Middle Ages. London: H. S. King, 1872-5. 2 volumes.

Stephen Langton, Wat Tyler, John Ball and Sir John Oldcastle are the subjects.

NORGATE, KATE. England under the Angevin kings. London: Macmillan & Co. 1887. 2 volumes.

"In point of historical scholarship it is rarely indeed that Miss Norgate gives anything to complain of. What strikes us before all things is her firm grasp of facts and authorities. … It is a sterling book, one which places its writer very high indeed in the ranks of real scholars." _E. A. Freeman, Review (English History Review, October., 1887)._

OMAN, CHARLES W. Warwick, the Kingmaker. London: Macmillan & Co. 1891.

An excellent small book on the Wars of the Roses, written for a series entitled, "English Men of Action."

PALGRAVE, Sir FRANCIS. History of Normandy and England. London: Macmillan & Co. 1851 and 1878. 4 volumes.

A work which can almost be described as the history of Western Europe from the eighth to the end of the eleventh century, viewed especially in its connection with the movements and settlements of the Northmen.

History of the Anglo Saxons. London: W. Tegg.

Written from studies made more than sixty years ago, and subject now to considerable modification; but it is still valuable, and no later work has quite replaced it.

The rise and progress of the English Commonwealth: Anglo-Saxon period. London: Murray. 1831. 2 volumes.

See note to Kemble's "Saxons in England," above.

PASTON LETTERS, THE; 1422-1509; a new edition, edited by James Gairdner. London: [E. Arber.] 1872. 3 volumes.

"A collection of family letters written during the Wars of the Roses, which are now commonly known as the 'Paston Letters,' because most of them were written by or to particular persons of the family of Paston in Norfolk. … Mr. Gardner's Introduction of 130 closely printed pages to the first volume, 50 to the second, and 60 to the third, is a book in itself, giving a clear record of the public and private life of England from 1422 to 1509, so far as they are illustrated by, or illustrate, the 'Paston letters.'" _H. Morley, English Writers, volume 6, pages 253 and 261._

PAULI, R. Life of Alfred the Great; translated from the German by B. Thorpe. London: Bohn. 1853.

PEARSON, CHARLES H. History of England during the Early and Middle Ages. London: Bell & Daldy. 1867. 2 volumes.

A work of ability which presents views of early English history considerably antagonistic to those of Stubbs, Freeman and Green, especially concerning the destructiveness of the Saxon conquest and the completeness of the break in institutional history which that event produced; also touching the results of the Norman conquest.

PROTHERO, GEORGE W. Life of Simon De Montfort. London: Longmans. 1877.

RAMSAY, Sir JAMES H. Lancaster and York: a century of English history (A. D.1399-1485). Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1892. 2 volumes.

"'Lancaster and York' is essentially a book of reference, to be at the elbow of every careful student who would know the honest fact, or would be saved indefinite quest through a score of records. … We must admit that it is not a readable book." _G. Gregory Smith. Review (Academy, October 29, 1892)._

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RHYS, J. Celtic Britain. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1882.

A small book, but probably the best that can be found on the subject.

ROUND, J. H. Geoffrey de Mandeville; a study of the Anarchy. London: Longmans. 1892.

Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, played a dishonorable but important part in the strife for the English crown between the Empress Matilda and Stephen of Blois. He is used by Mr. Round as merely a central figure in the most thorough study that has been made of that distressing time of anarchy.

ROWLEY, JAMES. The rise of the People and the growth of Parliament, 1215-1485. London: Longmans.

An interesting outline of the period in which the popular institutions of England were rooted. It is one of the little volumes in the series of the "Epochs of English History."

SCARTH, H. M. Roman Britain. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

SKENE, W. F. Celtic Scotland. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas. 1876. 3 volumes.

STUBBS, WILLIAM. Constitutional history of England in its origin and development. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1874-7. 3 volumes.

"In along and careful study of the Bishop of Chester's writings I will not say that I have always agreed with every inference that he has drawn from his evidence; but I can say that I have never found a flaw in the statement of his evidence. … After five-and-thirty years' knowledge of him and his works, I can say without fear that he is the one man among living scholars to whom one may most freely go as to an oracle, that we may feel more sure with him than with any other that in his answer we carry away words of truth which he must be rash indeed who calls in question." _E. A. Freeman, Methods of historical study, page 10._

The Early Plantagenets. London: Longmans. 1877.

A little volume in the series of "Epochs of Modern History," contributed by one of the master-historians.

WARBURTON, W. Edward the Third. London: Longmans.

In the series of the "Epochs of Modern History."