Bibliography.
The text-book will probably be found to furnish all the material needed for the presentation of this period, with the possible exception of details of a biographical character. “The Heroes of the Nations” series contains good biographies of Gustavus Adolphus, by C. R. L. Fletcher; of Henry IV, by P. F. Willert, and of Cromwell, by Charles Firth. These may be supplemented by the volumes in the “Foreign Statesmen Series,” on Richelieu, by R. Lodge; on William the Silent, by Frederic Harrison, and on Philip II, by Martin Hume. The volumes in the “Epochs of Modern History Series,” which cover this period, The Thirty Years’ War and the Puritan Revolution, by S. R. Gardiner, furnish considerable supplementary information in a convenient and compact form. The best atlases are probably Putzger, and Gardiner (“Atlas of English History”).