Charles the Bold.
HISTORY OF CHARLES THE BOLD, DUKE OF BURGUNDY.
By JOHN FOSTER KIRK.
With Portrait. 2 Vols. 8vo. 30s.
“Mr. Kirk has produced a work which is quite entitled to rank with the writings of his two predecessors (Mr. Prescott and Mr. Motley), with whom he has, both in his merits and his faults, a certain family resemblance. He has studied his subject, not only with patient industry, but with that strong sense of its pre-eminent interest and importance which seems almost disproportionate to a bystander, but which helps him to see and understand much that an equally learned but less enthusiastic student might have overlooked. His extensive and minute knowledge is the learning of a man of vigorous thought accustomed to bring his mind to consider men and things, not merely as they have been written about, but as they actually were, in the variety and complexity of their real existence.”—Saturday Review.
“The student of mediæval history has presented to him in these volumes the history of a very striking character, who flourished in an age full of interest, as being the last of those which are commonly called the Middle Ages; a character whose salient points stand out all the more prominently from the contrast which they afford to the features, hardly less strongly marked, of his royal antagonist, Louis XI. The author’s graphic and picturesque style will interest the lover of history.”—English Churchman.
“As the pupil, friend, and collaborateur of Prescott, Mr. Kirk was early initiated into those methods of patient analysis and careful collation, which, conjoined with a remarkably transparent style, give such value to the works of that historian. He does not present us with a mere compilation from works already published, he has conscientiously, and with indefatigable industry, explored the archives of the various countries in which the life story of his hero was acted out, and from these stores he has selected a mass of original matter, from which he has been enabled to reproduce the whole epoch in its minutest as well as in its broadest features. The style of Mr. Kirk is as clear as crystal and sometimes as brilliant. The subject of the work is worthy of such a writer and thinker. The age of Charles the Bold, as the culminating period of the feudal system, contains for us of the present day a profound interest. Mr. Kirk’s exemplification of the working of these antagonistic forces is full of instruction and exceeds in real interest and in startling incidents any fictitious work with which we are acquainted. A third volume, which is to appear shortly, will complete a history, which for original research, excellence of arrangement, beauty of execution, and the impartial spirit that pervades it, is worthy of a place by the side of Prescott’s ‘Ferdinand and Isabella.’”—Daily News.
THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS,
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LECTURES ON THE JEWISH CHURCH.
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THE
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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN, FROM
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By SIR CHARLES LYELL, F.R.S.
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