No full Life of the great Parliamentary Commander has appeared; and it is here sought to produce one—based upon careful research in contemporary records and upon family and other documents.
“Highly useful to the careful student of the History of the Civil War. . . . Probably as a military chronicle Mr. Markham’s book is one of the most full and accurate that we possess about the Civil War.”—Fortnightly Review.
Forbes.—LIFE OF PROFESSOR EDWARD FORBES, F.R.S. By George Wilson, M.D., F.R.S.E., and Archibald Geikie, F.R.S. 8vo. with Portrait, 14s.
“From the first page to the last the book claims careful reading, as being a full but not overcrowded rehearsal of a most instructive life, and the true picture of a mind that was rare in strength and beauty.”—Examiner.
Freeman.—HISTORY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, from the Foundation of the Achaian League to the Disruption of the United States. By Edward A. Freeman, M.A. Vol. I. General Introduction. History of the Greek Federations. 8vo. 21s.
“The task Mr. Freeman has undertaken is one of great magnitude and importance. It is also a task of an almost entirely novel character. No other work professing to give the history of a political principle occurs to us, except the slight contributions to the history of representative government that is contained in a course of M. Guizot’s lectures. . . . The history of the development of a principle is at least as important as the history of a dynasty, or of a race.”—Saturday Review.
OLD ENGLISH HISTORY. By Edward A. Freeman, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. With Five Coloured Maps. Second Edition extra. Fcap. 8vo., half-bound. 6s.
“Its object is to show that clear, accurate, and scientific views of history, or indeed of any subject, may be easily given to children from the very first . . . I have, I hope, shown that it is perfectly easy to teach children, from the very first, to distinguish true history alike from legend and from wilful invention, and also to understand the nature of historical authorities, and to weigh one statement against another. . . . I have throughout striven to connect the history of England with the general history of civilized Europe, and I have especially tried to make the book serve as an incentive to a more accurate study of historical geography.”—Preface.
HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WELLS, as illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old Foundation. By Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.