CHAPTER IX
Notable Histories
Grote's History of Greece, 12 vols. (E. L.); Green's Short History of the English People (American Book Co.). History of the English People, 4 vols. (Burt); Macaulay's History of England, 3 vols. (E. L.); Hume's History of England, 6 vols. (Harper); Machiavelli's History of Florence (W. G. C.); Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 7 vols. (W. C.); Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic, 3 vols. (E. L., W. C.); Sismondi's Italian Republics (E. L.); Hallam's Middle Ages (W. G. C.); Prescott's Works, 14 vols. (Lippincott); Parkman's Works, 12 vols. (Library edition); J. A. Symond's Renaissance in Italy, 7 vols. (Holt); Carlyle's French Revolution, 2 vols. (E. L.).
Annals
Tacitus's Annals (E. L.); Annals of English History, by Roger de Hoveden, 2 vols. (Bohn). Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, with an English translation by Richard Price: in the "Monuments Historica Britannica" (1848). Voltaire's Annales de l'Empire was first published in 1753-4. It has been translated into English.
Chronicles and True Relations
Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda, de rebus gestis Samsonis Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi (Camden Society, London, 1840). The second book of Carlyle's Past and Present is based on this old chronicle. Froissart's Chronicles (E. L.); William of Malmesbury's Chronicles of the Kings of England (Bohn); Old English Chronicles, including Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Britons, Gildas's Chronicle, Nennius's Chronicle, and the spurious Chronicle of Richard of Cirencester, (Bohn); Chronicles of the Crusades, by Lord John de Joinville (Bohn).
Ticknor discusses in detail the origin, subjects, and character of the Spanish chronicles, in his History of Spanish Literature, Vol. I. pp. 166-228 (fourth American edition, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). For account of early French chronicles see Saintsbury's Short History of French Literature, Book I, chapter XI (Oxford, 1907).
Blair and Robertson's The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, in 55 vols. (A. H. Clark Co., 1905) contains many early Spanish relations translated into English. Among the notable ones are Loarca's Relacion (vol. 5), Chirino's Relacion (vols. 12-13), Morga's Sucesos (vols. 15-16), Medina's Historia de la Orden de S. Agustin (vols. 23-24).