Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading

by George Park Fisher

For works on Mohammedanism and the Arabic kingdom, see p. 232.

The works here mentioned respecting the several countries either relate to their entire history, or to their history prior to the close of the Middle Ages.

I. ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.—GREEN'S History of the English
People (4 vols.), and Short History of England (1 vol.);
the "STUDENTS' HUME"; the histories of BRIGHT, Knight, LINGARD,
Hume, GUIZOT, Traill, Social England (6 vols., two editions);
GAIRDNER, Outline, etc.; Turner's History of the
Anglo-Saxons; Palgrave's Rise and Progress of the English
Commonwealth; Palgrave's History of Normandy and of
England; FREEMAN'S History of the Norman Conquest (6
vols.), and History of William Rufus; Green, The Making of
England, and The Conquest of England; Ramsay,
Foundations of England, Angevin Empire, Lancaster and York;
STUBBS, The Early Plantagenets; LONGMAN'S History of
Edward III.; Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and
Commerce; Cheyney, Industrial and Social History of
England; Seebohm, English Village Community; Life of
Wickliffe, by LECHLER, by LOSERTH, by WILSON, by Trevelyan.

Kemble's The Saxons in England; STUBBS'S Constitutional
History of England in its Origin and Development (3 vols.);
STUBBS'S Select Charters; CREASY'S Rise and Progress of
the English Constitution; THOMPSON'S Essay on Magna
Charta; Bisset, History of the Struggle for Parliamentary
Government in England (1877); TASWELL-LANGMEAD'S English
Constitutional History, etc.; FREEMAN'S Growth of the English
Constitution, etc.; Bagehot, The English Constitution;
Macy, The English Constitution.

SCOTLAND.—P. H. Brown, History of Scotland (2 vols.); Miss
Macarthur, History of Scotland (1 vol.); E. M. Robertson,
Scotland under her Early Kings (2 vols.).

IRELAND.—C. G. Walpole, The Kingdom of Ireland; Morris,
Ireland.

II. FRANCE.—General histories by Crowe (5 vols.); DURUY (2 vols.); GUIZOT (to 1789, 5 vols.; 1789-1848, 3 vols.); and Outlines of the History of France (1 vol.); Bonnechose (to 1848); JERVIS (Hassall edition); MARTIN (17 vols.); KITCHIN, LACOMBE, MICHELET (17 vols.); Lavisse, Histoire de France; Adams, Growth of the French Nation; Grant, The French Monarchy; Wallon's St. Louis et son Temps (2 vols.); Sismondi, The French under the Carlovingians (1 vol.), France under the Feudal System (1 vol.); BARANTE'S Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne de la Maison de Valois, 1364-1477; WALLON'S Jeanne d'Arc (2 vols.); Lowell's Joan of Arc; Jameson's Life and Times of Du Guesclin.

COULANGES' Histoire des Institutions politiques de l'Ancienne France (1877); Viollet, Institutions politiques de la France (3 vols.); Luchaire, Manuel des Institutions Françaises; Esmein, Histoire du Droit Français; GUIZOT'S History of Civilization in France (3 vols.), and Essai sur l'Histoire de France; THIERRY'S The Formation and Progress of the Third Estate in France; Sir James Stephens's Lectures on the History of France.

III. GERMANY.—Henderson, A Short History of Germany (2 vols.); Histories by C. T. LEWIS (founded on D. Müller), Kohlrausch; Kaufman, Deutsche Geschichte; Lamprecht, Deutsche Geschichte (6 vols.); Schröder, Lehrbuch der d. Rechtsgeschichte; Richter, Annalen.

GEISEBRECHT'S Geschichte d. deutschen Kaiserzeit (4 vols.);
VON RAUMER'S Geschichte der Hohenstaufen und ihrer Zeit (6
vols.).