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.
II. Popular Biography.
One of the most useful and pleasing forms under which knowledge can be presented to the general reader is that of the Biography of distinguished men, who have contributed to the progress of that knowledge in some one or other of its various departments. But it too frequently happens, that the biographical notices of great men consist rather of personal, trivial, and unimportant details, than of a clear and broad outline of the influence which they exerted upon the pursuit and upon the age in which they were distinguished. The true object of Biography is, while tracing the progress of an individual, to show not only what result his active life has produced on the well-being of his fellow-men, but also the position which he occupies as one of the “great landmarks in the map of human nature.”