The Leading Facts of English History

by D. H. Montgomery

Ransome, C. Rise of Constitutional Government in England,
1 vol. Longmans, N.Y. ($2.00). (An excellent short
constitutional history.)
Taswell-Langmead, T.P. English Constitutional Histry, new and revised
edition, 1 vol. Stevens & Haynes, London ($3.12). (This is the
best complete constitutional history of England.)
Feilden, H.St.C. A Short Constitutional History of England (revised
edition), 1 vol. Ginn and Company, Boston ($1.25). (This is a
reference manual of exceptional value.)

General Works of Reference

Cannon, H.L. Reading References for English History, 1 vol. Ginn and
Company, Boston ($2.50). (This is a work practically
indispensible to both teachers and students. See further,
p. xl.)
Low and Pulling. Dictionary of English History (revised edition), 1
vol. Cassell, N.Y. ($3.50).
Gardiner, S.R. A School Atlas of English History, 1 vol. Longmans,
N.Y. ($1.50).
Lee, G.C. Source-Book of English History (giving leading documents,
etc.), 1 vol. Holt & Co., N.Y. ($2.00).
Cheyney, E.P. Readings in English History, 1 vol. Ginn and Company,
Boston ($1.80).
Kendall, E.K. Source-Book of English History, 1 vol. The Macmillan
Company, N.Y. (80 cents).
Acland and Ransome. English Political History in Outline. Longmans,
N.Y. ($1.25). (Excellent for reference.)
Powell, J. York. English History from Contemporary Writers, 16
vols. Nutt & Co., London (1s. per vol.) (A series of great
value.)
Cheyney, E.P. Industrial and Social History of England, 1 vol. The
Macmillan Company, N.Y. ($1.40).
Gibbins, H. de B. An Industrial History of England, 1 vol Scribner's,
N.Y. ($1.20).
Cunningham and MacArthur. Outlines of English Industrial History. The
Macmillan Company, N.Y. ($1.50).
Church, A.J. Early Britain. (Story of the Nations Series.) Putnams,
N.Y. ($1.50).
Story, A.T. The Building of the British Empire, 2 vols. Putnams,
N.Y. ($3.00).
McCarthy, J. The Story of the People of England in the XIXth Century,
2 vols. Putnams, N.Y. ($3.00).

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Works of Reference to be found in Libraries

Hunt, W., and Poole, R.L. Political History of England (earliest times
to the present). 12 vols.
Traill, H.D. Social England, 6 vols.
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 29 vols.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 10 vols.
Nelson's Encyclopaedia, 12 vols.
The International Encyclopaedia, 17 vols.
The New Encyclopaedia Americana, 15 vols.
The Catholic Encyclopaedia, 15 vols.
The Jewish Encyclopaedia, 12 vols.
Stephen, L. Dictionary of National [British] Biography, 66 vols.
(A work of the highest rank.)
Adams's Manual of Historical Literature.
Mullinger's Authorities on English History.
Bailey's Succession to the Crown (with full genealogical tables).
Henderson's Side Lights on English History.
Poole's Index to Reviews.

I. The Prehistoric Period

Dawkin's's Early Man in Britain.
Wright's The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon.
Elton's Origins of English History.
Rhys's Celtic Britain.
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Chronicle (legendary).
Geike's Influence of Geology on English History, in
Macmillan's Magazine, 1882.

II. The Roman Period, 55, 54 B.C.; A.D. 43-410

*Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War
(Books IV and V, chiefly 55, 54 B.C.)
*Tacitus' Agricola and Annals (chiefly from 78-84).
*Gildas' History of Britain (whole period).
*Bede's Ecclesiastical History of Britain (whole period).
Wright's The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon.
Elton's Origins of English History.
Pearson's England during the Early and Middle Ages.
Scarth's Roman Britain.[1]