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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. England under the Stuarts. [*]$3. Putnam.
This fifth volume of a series of six, covering the history of England from earliest times down to 1875, is the first to be issued. It is written by the grand-nephew of Lord Macaulay, whose influence is noticeable thruout the work. The first two chapters give an account of England at the time of the accession of James I. “He develops at the outset the thesis on which his entire monograph rests—that the significance of the Stuart epoch lies in the fact that whereas the continental people of Europe attained nationality only through military despotism, the English people under the Stuarts solved the same problem unconsciously through a free constitution, manifesting and vindicating itself in the face of monarchial despotism.... His personal portraits are marked by fairness and breadth of view, this being notably the case with the pictures of the first James, the second Charles, Cecil, Laud, Strafford, and Pym. The first Charles and Cromwell are limned less distinctly, being thrust, as it were, into the background of the tremendous upheavals of their day.” (Outlook). “The general purpose of the book is to bring the social and religious aspects into connection with the political.” (Bookm.)
“He has given us not so much a history, in the ordinary sense of the word, as a sustained, and luminous commentary upon history, high-toned and impartial; and the general excellence of its purely literary qualities is, so to speak, picked out by not infrequent passages of real and picturesque eloquence. It is a fine example of selection and condensation.”
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| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 330. Mr. 18. 2580w. |
“Mr. Trevelyan’s volume is a piece of special pleading throughout.” Edward Puller.
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“By blending fact and analysis, creates a picture impressive in its outline and suggestive in its language and ideas.” E. D. Adams.
| + + + | Dial. 39: 38. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1860w. |
“His style is decidedly rhetorical, quick with sincerity and atmosphere and of a noteworthy picturesqueness. His scholarship is undoubted, wide and careful reading being coupled with a discriminative use of authorities.”