I. Popular History.
Under the comprehensive title of History, we purpose giving an extensive series of interesting and instructive works. Among these will be carefully-considered narratives of some of those moral tempests which have so often agitated the world, when men have continued a long course of disobedience to the laws of God and the recognised laws of man. We shall make it our business to record the change of a dynasty, the rise and career of a monarch, a usurper, or a ruler, whose actions have thrown a new aspect on the political institutions of a country; we shall trace the rise and progress of great commercial or manufacturing enterprises, whereby the wealth and prosperity of a nation have been obviously increased; we shall notice the train of events whereby the prevalent or established religion of a country has been changed. These and other subjects of a like character will enable us to bring up many stores from a mine peculiarly rich in instructive and entertaining matter.
It is of course impossible, in such a notice as this, to include all the features of so important a division of our Collections in Popular Literature as History; but some idea may be formed of it from the following list of works which are nearly ready for publication:
A History of the Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte; its Causes and Consequences. 2s. 6d.
The Lord and his Vassal: a Familiar Exposition of the Feudal System in the Middle Ages; with its Causes and Consequences.
A History of the French Revolution; its Causes and Consequences. Newly written for this Collection.
The Ruins of Rome and their Historical Associations; including an Account of the Modern City and its Inhabitants.
The Private Life, Manners, and Customs of the Ancient Romans. From the French of D’Arnay; carefully edited, and forming a valuable work for study or amusement.
Constantinople and its Historical Associations; with some Account of its Institutions and the Manners and Customs of the People.
History of the Rise and Progress of the Trading Communities of the Middle Ages.
Trading Communities of Modern Times; a Popular View of the Origin, Structure, and General Tendency of the Joint-Stock Trading and Commercial Bodies of Modern Times.
The Ruins of Athens and their Historical Associations; with Notices of the Modern City and its Inhabitants.
A History of London, Ancient and Modern.
A History of the Endowed Schools of Great Britain.
The Incas of Peru, with some Account of the Ruins of their Greatness.
A popular History of the British Army.
A popular History of the British Navy.