Larned, Josephus Nelson. Seventy centuries of the life of mankind. 2v. $4.50. C. A. Nichols Co., Springfield, Mass.
“These volumes are evidently intended for the general reader who wishes an intelligent grasp of the broad outlines of general history.... The biographical prefaces to each period are unique and useful, the index is good, the illustrations are chosen with discrimination.”—Ind.
“The arrangement of the work is not striking and the impressions conveyed are not clear cut. He has made remarkably discriminating use of excellent and recent materials available in English.”
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[*] “Makes the serious error of a chronological arrangement regardless of the logical sequence of events, and he divides time into periods measured by the lives of great men—a method destructive of real historical unity.”
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“Unlike most abridgments, it is extremely readable, and is well calculated to stimulate the beginner to further inquiry. When all is said, however, the excellencies of the work outweigh its defects.”
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Larson, Laurence Marcellus. King’s household in England before the Norman conquest. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
A monograph submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. First comes a discussion of the relations of the king and his nobles, the eorls, gesiths, and thegns; then the various officers of the royal household, the king’s reeve, seneschal, butler, chamberlain, staller, and house-carls are considered and the development of their offices is traced.