VOLUME I. OF THE HISTORIC SKETCHES.

DESIGNED FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND AMUSEMENT OF OLD AND YOUNG.

By G. L. STRAUSS, Ph.D.

In magnis voluisse sat est.

LONDON:
JOHN WEALE, 59, HIGH HOLBORN.
1854.

LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

PREFACE.