The Book-lover: A Guide to the Best Reading

CHAPTER VII.

Courses of Reading in History.

History, at least in its state of ideal perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.—Macaulay.
Let us search more and more into the Past; let all men explore it as the true fountain of knowledge, by whose light alone, consciously or unconsciously employed, can the Present and the Future be interpreted or guessed at.—Carlyle.
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall; but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.... Justice and truth alone endure and live. Injustice and falsehood may be long-lived, but doomsday comes at last to them in French revolutions and other terrible ways. That is one lesson of history. Another is, that we should draw no horoscopes; that we should expect little, for what we expect will not come to pass.—Froude.
The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves. I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.... The instinct of the mind, the purpose of nature, betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history.—Emerson.

I venture to propose the following courses of reading in history. Properly modified with reference to individual needs and capabilities, these lists will prove to be safe helps and guides to younger as well as older readers, to classes in high schools and colleges as well as private students and specialists. To read all the works here mentioned, as carefully and critically as the nature of their contents demands, would require no inconsiderable portion of one’s reading lifetime. Such a thing is not expected. The wise teacher or the judicious scholar will select from the list that which is most proper for him, and which best meets his wants, or aids him most in the pursuit of his native aim.

The titles, so far as possible, are given in chronological order. Those printed in italics are of books indispensable for purposes of reference; those printed in small capitals are of works especially adapted to younger readers.

I. GREEK HISTORY.

Dictionaries.

No reader can well do without a good classical dictionary. The following are recommended as the best—

Anthon: Classical Dictionary.
Smith: Student’s Classical Dictionary.
—— Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
Ginn & Heath’s Classical Atlas.
Kiepert’s Schulatlas.

General Histories.

Cox: General History of Greece.
Smith: Smaller History of Greece.
Felton: Ancient and Modern Greece.
Yonge: Young Folks’ History of Greece.
Grote: History of Greece (12 vols.).
Curtius: History of Greece (5 vols.); translated from the German, by A. W. Ward.
J. A. St. John: Ancient Greece.

Mythology.

Dwight: Grecian and Roman Mythology.
Murray: Manual of Mythology.
Keightley: Classical Mythology.
Gladstone: Juventus Mundi.
Ruskin: The Queen of the Air.
Cox: Tales of Ancient Greece.
Kingsley: The Greek Heroes.
Hawthorne: The Wonder Book.
—— Tanglewood Tales.

Miscellaneous.

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Chapman’s translation is the best. Of the later versions, that of Lord Derby is preferable.
Church: Stories from Homer.
Butcher and Lang’s prose translation of the Odyssey.
Collins: The Iliad and the Odyssey (two volumes of “Ancient Classics for English Readers”).
Gladstone: Homer.
De Quincey: Homer and the HomeridÆ (essay in “Literary Criticism”).
FÉnelon: Telemachus (translated by Hawkesworth).
Benjamin: Troy.
Goethe: Iphigenia in Tauris (drama, Swanwick’s translation).

The student of this period is referred also to Dr. Schliemann’s works: Ilios, Troja, and Mykenai.

Church: Stories from Herodotus.
Swayne: Herodotus (Ancient Classics).
Brugsch Bey: History of Egypt.
Freeman: Historical Essays (2d series).
Ebers: Uarda (romance, descriptive of Egyptian life and manners fourteen centuries before Christ).
—— The Daughter of an Egyptian King (five centuries before Christ).
Smith: Student’s History of the East.
Cox: The Greeks and the Persians.
Abbott: The History of Darius the Great.
—— The History of Xerxes the Great.
Sankey: The Spartan Supremacy.
Bulwer: Pausanias the Spartan (romance, 475 B.C.).
Glover: Leonidas (epic poem).
Croly: The Death of Leonidas (poem).
Robert Browning: Pheidippides (poem in “Dramatic Idyls”).
Lloyd: The Age of Pericles (fifth century before Christ).
Cox: The Athenian Empire.
Landor: Pericles and Aspasia (in “Imaginary Conversations”).
Mrs. L. M. Child: Philothea (romance of the time of Pericles).
Curteis: The Macedonian Empire.
Abbott: The History of Alexander the Great.
Butcher: Demosthenes (Classical Writers).
Greenough: Apelles and his Contemporaries (a romance of the time of Alexander).
Dryden: Alexander’s Feast (poem).
Bickersteth: Caubul (poem).

Literature.

Mahaffy: History of Greek Literature.
Schlegel: History of Dramatic Literature (first fourteen chapters).
Church: Stories from the Greek Tragedians.
Copleston: Æschylus (Ancient Classics).
Mrs. Browning: Prometheus Bound (an English version of the great tragedy).
Bishop Milman: Agamemnon.
Collins: Sophocles (Ancient Classics).
De Quincey: The Antigone of Sophocles (essay in “Literary Criticism”).
Donne: Euripides (Ancient Classics).
Froude: Sea Studies (essay in “Short Studies on Great Subjects”). Collins: Aristophanes (Ancient Classics).
Mitchell: The Clouds of Aristophanes.
De Quincey: Theory of Greek Tragedy (essay in “Literary Criticism”).
Brodribb: Demosthenes (Ancient Classics).
Collins: Plato (Ancient Classics).
Jowett: The Dialogues of Plato (4 vols.).
The PhÆdo of Plato (Wisdom Series).
Plato: The Apology of Socrates.
A Day in Athens with Socrates.
Plutarch: On the DÆmon of Socrates (essay in the “Morals”).
Grant: Xenophon (Ancient Classics).
Collins: Thucydides (Ancient Classics).

Life and Manners.

For a study of social life and manners in Greece, read or refer to the following—

Becker: Charicles (romance, with copious notes and excursuses).
Mahaffy: Social Life in Greece.
—— Old Greek Life.
Guhl and Koner: Life of the Greeks and Romans.

Special Reference.

Draper: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (vol. i.).
Clough: Plutarch’s Lives.
Kaufman: The Young Folks’ Plutarch.
White: Plutarch for Boys and Girls.
It is good exercise, good medicine, the reading of Plutarch’s books,—good for to-day as it was in times preceding ours, salutary for all times.—A. Bronson Alcott.

II. ROMAN HISTORY.

For purposes of reference the following books, already mentioned in the course of Greek History, are indispensable—

Anthon: Classical Dictionary.
Smith: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
Ginn & Heath: Classical Atlas.
Murray: Manual of Mythology.

General Histories.

Smith: Smaller History of Rome.
Merivale: Students’ History of Rome.
Yonge: Young Folks’ History of Rome.
Creighton: History of Rome.

For the period preceding the Empire—

Mommsen: History of Rome (4 vols.).
Abbott: The History of Romulus.
Church: Stories from Virgil.
—— Stories from Livy.
Macaulay: Horatius (poem in “Lays of Ancient Rome”).
Arnold: History of Rome.
Ihne: Early Rome.
Shakspeare: The Tragedy of Coriolanus (490 B.C.).
Macaulay: Virginia (poem in “Lays of Ancient Rome,” 459 B.C.).
Abbott: The History of Hannibal.
Smith: Rome and Carthage.
Dale: Regulus before the Senate (poem, 256 B.C.).
Beesly: The Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla.
Mrs. Mitchell: Spartacus to the Gladiators (poem, 73 B.C.).

For the period of the CÆsars and the early Empire—

Merivale: History of the Romans (4 vols.).
—— The Roman Triumvirates.
Abbott: The History of Julius CÆsar.
Addison: The Tragedy of Cato (drama).
Froude: CÆsar; a Sketch.
Trollope: Life of Cicero.
Ben Jonson: Catiline (drama).
Beaumont and Fletcher: The False One (drama).
Abbott: The History of Cleopatra.
Shakspeare: The Tragedy of Julius CÆsar.
—— Antony and Cleopatra.
Capes: The Early Empire.
De Quincey: The CÆsars.
Ben Jonson: The Poetaster (drama, time of Augustus).
Wallace: Ben Hur (romance, time of Tiberius).
Longfellow: The Divine Tragedy (poem).
Ben Jonson: Sejanus, his Fall (drama, time of Tiberius).
Becker: Gallus (romance, with notes, time of Tiberius).
Schele De Vere: The Great Empress (romance, time of Nero).
Abbott: The History of Nero.
W. W. Story: Nero (drama).
Hoffman: The Greek Maid at the Court of Nero (romance).
Farrar: Seekers after God (Seneca, Epictetus).
Wiseman: The Church of the Catacombs (romance, time of the Persecutions).
Mrs. Charles: The Victory of the Vanquished (romance).
Church and Brodribb: Pliny’s Letters (Ancient Classics).
Bulwer: The Last Days of Pompeii (romance, time of Vespasian).
Massinger: The Roman Actor (drama, time of Domitian).
—— The Virgin Martyr (drama).
Dickinson: The Seed of the Church.
De Mille: Helena’s Household.
Lockhart: Valerius.

The last three works are romances, depicting life and manners in the time of Trajan.

For the period of the later Empire and the decline of the Roman power—

Curteis: History of the Roman Empire (395-800).
Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Ebers: The Emperor (romance, time of Hadrian).
Capes: The Age of the Antonines.
Watson: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
Hodgkin: Italy and her Invaders.
William Ware: Zenobia (romance, A.D. 266).
—— Aurelian (romance, A.D. 275).
Ebers: Homo Sum (romance, A.D. 330).
Kouns: Arius the Libyan (romance, A.D. 336).
Aubrey De Vere: Julian the Apostate (drama, A.D. 363).
Beaumont and Fletcher: Valentinian (drama, A.D. 375).
Edward Everett: Alaric the Visigoth; and Mrs. Hemans: Alaric in Italy (poems, A.D. 410).
Kingsley: Hypatia (romance, A.D. 415).
Mrs. Charles: Conquering and to Conquer (romance, A.D. 418).
Mrs. Charles: Maid and Cleon (romance of Alexandria, A.D. 425).
Kingsley: Roman and Teuton.
Church: The Beginning of the Middle Ages.

Literature.

Simcox: History of Roman Literature.
Schlegel: History of Dramatic Literature.
Collins: Livy (Ancient Classics).
Mallock: Lucretius (Ancient Classics).
Trollope: CÆsar (Ancient Classics).
Collins: Cicero (Ancient Classics).
Morris: The Æneid of Virgil.
Collins: Virgil, Ovid, Lucian (three volumes of Ancient Classics).
Epictetus: Selections from Epictetus.
Jackson: Apostolic Fathers (Early Christian Literature Primers).

Special Reference.

Clough: Plutarch’s Lives.
White: Plutarch for Boys and Girls.
Kaufman: The Young Folks’ Plutarch.
Coulange: The Ancient City.
Draper: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.
Lecky: History of European Morals.
Milman: History of Christianity.
Stanley: History of the Eastern Church.
Fisher: Beginnings of Christianity.
DÖllinger: The First Age of Christianity.
Montalembert: The Monks of the West.
Reber: History of Ancient Art.
Hadley: Lectures on Roman Law.
Maine: Ancient Law.

III. MEDIÆVAL AND MODERN HISTORY.

This course has been prepared with special reference to English history. The right-hand column, headed Collateral Reading, will assist students desiring to extend their reading so as to embrace the history of Continental Europe. The figures affixed to some of the titles indicate, as nearly as is thought necessary, the time covered or treated of by the work mentioned. Historical romances and other prose works of fiction are designated thus (*); dramas thus (†; other poems thus (‡).

ENGLISH HISTORY.

COLLATERAL READING.

General Histories.

Knight: History of England (9 vols.).

Yonge: Young Folks’ History of England.

Dickens: Child’s History of England.

Strickland: Lives of the Queens of England (7 vols.).

Pearson: Historical Atlas of England.

White: History of France.

Lewis: Students’ History of Germany.

Hunt: History of Italy.

Yonge: Young Folks’ History of France.

Kirkland: Short History of France.

Hallam: View of the State of the Middle Ages.

The Anglo-Saxon Period.

Green: History of the English People, book i.

Mrs. Armitage: The Childhood of the English Nation.

Green: The Making of England.

Palgrave: History of the Anglo-Saxons.

—— ‡Paulinus and Edwin.

Turner: History of the Anglo-Saxons.

Grant Allen: Anglo-Saxon Britain.

Abbott: Alfred the Great.

Hughes: Life of Alfred the Great.

Thierry: The Conquest of England by the Normans.

Abbott: William the Conqueror.

Green: The Conquest of England.

Freeman: History of the Norman Conquest of England.

Guizot: History of France, Vol. i.

James: History of Charlemagne.

Bryce: The Holy Roman Empire.

Cutts: Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages.

Johnson: The Normans in Europe.

Carlyle: The Early Kings of Norway.

Anderson: Norse Mythology.

Lettsom: ‡The Nibelungenlied.

Dasent: The Burnt Njal.

Baldwin: *The Story of Siegfried.

Mallet: Northern Antiquities.

Mrs. Charles: *Early Dawn (romance of the Roman occupation of Britain).

Cowper: ‡Boadicea.

Lanier: *The Boy’s King Arthur.

Lowell: ‡The Vision of Sir Launfal.

Tennyson: ‡The Idylls of the King.

Scott: ‡Sir Tristram.

Taylor: †Edwin the Fair.

Bulwer: *Harold, the Last of the Saxons (1066).

Tennyson: †Harold; a Drama.

Leighton: †The Sons of Godwin.

Kingsley: *Hereward, the Last of the Saxons.

James: History of Chivalry.

Bulfinch: *The Age of Chivalry.

Lanier: *Knightly Legends of Wales.

Ludlow: Popular Epics of the Middle Ages.

Bulfinch: Legends of Charlemagne.

Baldwin: *The Story of Roland.

Ariosto: ‡Orlando Furioso.

Lockhart: ‡Spanish Ballads.

Yonge: Christians and Moors in Spain.

Southey: Chronicles of the Cid.

Tennyson: ‡Godiva (1040).

The Age of Feudalism.

Johnson: The Norman Kings and the Feudal System.

Green: History of the English People, books ii. and iii.

Palgrave: ‡Death in the Forest (1100).

Abbott: Richard I.

Hume: History of England.

Froude: Life and Times of Thomas Becket.

Aubrey de Vere: †St. Thomas of Canterbury.

James: Life of Richard Coeur de Lion.

Froude: A Bishop of the Twelfth Century (1190).

Stubbs: The Early Plantagenets.

Pyle: The Story of Robin Hood.

Scott: *The Talisman (1193).

—— *Ivanhoe (1194).

James: Forest Days (1214).

Shakspeare: †King John (1215).

Drayton: †The Barons’ Wars.

Guizot: History of France, vol. ii.

Cox: The Crusades.

Michaud: History of the Crusades.

Gray: The Children’s Crusade.

Gairdner: Early Chroniclers of Europe.

Oliphant: Francis of Assisi.

Adams: *Page, Squire, And Knight (1180).

Henty: *The Boy Knight (1188).

Scott: *The Betrothed.

Yonge: *Richard the Fearless.

James: *Philip Augustus.

Scott: *Count Robert of Paris.

Hale: *In his Name.

Pauli: Life of Simon de Montfort (1215).

Pearson: English History in the Fourteenth Century.

Yonge: *The Prince and the Page (1280).

Gray: ‡The Bard (1282).

Cunningham: *Sir Michael Scott (1300).

Porter: *The Scottish Chiefs.

Aguilar: *The Days of†‡ Bruce.

Campbell: ‡The Battle of Bannockburn.

Scott: ‡The Lord of the Isles (1307).

Marlowe: †Edward II. (1327).

Warburton: Edward III. (1327-77).

Abbott: Richard II.

Lanier: The Boy’s Froissart.

Southey: †Wat Tyler (1381)

Campbell: ‡Wat Tyler’s Address to the King.

Shakspeare: †Richard II. (1399)

Besant and Rice: Life of Whittington.

Percy: ‡The Ballad of Chevy Chase.

Gairdner: The Houses of Lancaster and York.

Edgar: The Wars of the Roses.

Green: History of the English People, book iv.

Shakspeare: †King Henry IV.

Kingsley: †The Saint’s Tragedy (1220).

Browning: ‡Sordello (1230).

Kington-Oliphant: Frederick II. (1250).

Guizot: History of France, vol. iii.

Hemans: †The Vespers of Palermo (1282).

Boker: †Francesca di Rimini (1300).

Schiller: †Wilhelm Tell.

Bulwer: Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes (1347).

Byron: †Marino Faliero (1355).

Jamison: Life of Bertrand du Guesclin.

Lord Houghton: ‡Bertrand du Guesclin (1380).

Hutton: James and Philip Van Artevelde.

Taylor: †Philip Van Artevelde (1382).

Mrs. Bray: Joan of Arc and the Times of Charles VII. of France.

Southey: ‡Joan of Arc.

Calvert: ‡The Maid of Orleans.

Yonge: *The Caged Lion (1406).

Towle: History of Henry V.

Browning: †Luria (1405).

Ewald: The Youth of Henry V. (in “Stories from the State Papers”).

Gairdner: The Lollards.

Drayton: ‡The Battle of Agincourt (1415).

Shakspeare: †King Henry VI.

Bulwer: *The Last of the Barons (1460).

Gairdner: History of Richard III.

—— The Paston Letters.

Shakspeare: †King Richard III.

Abbott: History of Richard III.

James: *Agincourt.

Kirk: History of Charles the Bold.

Scott: *Quentin Durward (1450).

Byron: †The two Foscari (1457).

Herz: ‡King RÉnÉ’s Daughter.

Scott: *Anne of Geierstein.

Victor Hugo: *The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Browning: †The Return of the Druses.

Macaulay: Essay on Machiavelli.

Modern England.

Birchall: England under the Tudors.

Green: History of the English People, books v. and vi.

Manning: The Household of Sir Thomas More.

Scott: †Marmion (1513).

James: *Darnley (1520).

Froude: History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth.

MÜhlbach: *Henry VIII. and Catherine Parr.

Shakspeare: †King Henry VIII.

Geikie: History of the English Reformation.

Milman: †Anne Boleyn (1536).

Ainsworth: *Tower Hill (1538).

Ewald: Stories from the State Papers.

Mark Twain: *The Prince and the Pauper (1548).

Aubrey de Vere: †Mary Tudor.

Tennyson: †Queen Mary.

Scott: ‡Lay of the Last Minstrel.

Manning: *Colloquies of Edward Osborne (1554).

Rowe: †Lady Jane Grey (1554).

Ainsworth: *The Tower of London (1554).

Abbott: History of Queen Elizabeth.

Creighton: The Age of Elizabeth.

Scott: *Kenilworth (1560).

Macaulay: Essays on Lord Burleigh and Bacon.

Towle: Drake, the Sea King of Devon.

Abbott: History of Mary Queen of Scots.

Scott: *The Monastery and The Abbot.

Yonge: *Unknown to History (1587).

Swinburne: †Chastelard.

—— †Bothwell.

—— †Mary Stuart (1587).

Schiller: †Marie Stuart (1587).

Meline: Life of Mary Queen of Scots (Catholic).

Prescott: The History of Ferdinand and Isabella.

Anita George: Isabel the Catholic.

Irving: The Conquest of Granada.

—— The Alhambra.

Aguilar: *The Edict (1492).

Robertson: History of Charles V.

Seebohm: Era of the Protestant Revolution.

Fisher: History of the Reformation.

Yonge: *The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest (1519).

Mrs. Charles: *Chronicles of the SchÖnberg-Cotta Family.

George Eliot: *Romola.

Reade: *The Cloister and the Hearth.

Mrs. Stowe: *Agnes of Sorrento.

Mrs. Manning: *Good Old Times (1549).

Prescott: History of Philip II.

Motley: The Rise of the Dutch Republic.

—— History of the United Netherlands.

Yonge: *The Chaplet of Pearls (France, 1555).

Barrett: William the Silent (1533-1584).

Baird: Rise of the Huguenots.

Smiles: The Huguenots in France.

Abbott: History of Henry IV. of France.

Guizot: History of France, vol. iv.

Goethe: †Egmont (1568).

James: *The Man-at-Arms (1572).

Southey: ‡St. Bartholomew’s Day (1572).

Kingsley: *Westward Ho!

Wordsworth: ‡The White Doe of Rylstone.

Macaulay: ‡The Armada.

Tennyson: ‡The Revenge.

Towle: Sir Walter Ralegh.

Landor: Elizabeth and Burleigh (in “Imaginary Conversations”).

Macaulay: ‡Ivry (1590).

Goethe: †Torquato Tasso (1590).

Trollope: *Paul the Pope and Paul the Friar.

Green: History of the English People, book vii.

Cordery and Phillpott: King and Commonwealth.

Gardiner: The Puritan Revolution.

Ainsworth: *Guy Fawkes (1605).

Scott: *The Fortunes of Nigel.

Ainsworth: *The Spanish Match (1620).

Abbott: History of Charles I.

Letitia E. Landon: ‡The Covenanters (1638).

Marryat: *The Children of the New Forest.

Scott: ‡Rokeby (1644).

—— *Legend of Montrose (1646).

Praed: *Marston Moor (1644).

Carlyle: History of Oliver Cromwell.

Robson:Life of Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642).

James: *Richelieu.

Bulwer: *Richelieu.

Manzoni: *The Betrothed (1628).

Goethe: ‡The Destruction of Magdeburg.

Schiller: †Wallenstein (1634).

Topelius: *Times of Gustaf Adolf.

Gardiner: History of the Thirty Years’ War.

Schiller: History of the Thirty Years’ War.

Motley: Life of John of Barneveld.

Pardoe: *Louis XIV. and the Court of France.

James: Louis XIV.

Guizot: History of the English Revolution.

Goldwin Smith: Three English Statesmen.

Macaulay: ‡The Cavalier’s March to London (1651).

Masson: Life and Times of John Milton.

Yonge: *The Pigeon Pie; a Tale of Roundhead Times.

Shorthouse: *John Inglesant.

James: *The Cavalier (1651).

Butler: ‡Hudibras.

Scott: *Woodstock.

Marvell: ‡Blake’s Victory (1657).

Abbott: History of Charles II.

Dryden: ‡Annus Mirabilis (1666).

Birchall: England under the Stuarts.

Fox: Life of James II.

Ainsworth: *James II.

Guizot: History of France, vol. v.

Abbott: History of Louis XIV.

Manning: *Idyl of the Alps.

Bungener: Bourdaloue And Louis XIV.

Topelius: *Times of Battle and Rest.

James: *Russell.

Macaulay: History of England (1685-1702).

—— Essay on Sir William Temple.

Aytoun: ‡The Widow of Glencoe (1692).

Hale: The Fall of the Stuarts.

Morris: The Age of Anne.

Coxe: Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough.

Scott: *Old Mortality.

—— *The Bride of Lammermoor.

Defoe: *Memoirs of a Cavalier.

—— *History of the Great Plague in London.

Addison: The Spectator.

Thackeray: *Henry Esmond.

Blackmore: *Lorna Doone.

Addison: *The Battle of Blenheim (1704).

Pepys: Diary (1659-1703).

Green: History of the English People, book viii.

Macaulay: ‡Song of the Huguenots (1685).

Browning: HervÉ Riel (1692).

Abbott: History of Peter the Great.

Schuyler: History of Peter the Great.

Mahon: War of the Spanish Succession.

MÜhlbach: *Prince Eugene and his Times.

Topelius: *Times of Charles XII.

Voltaire: History of Charles XII.

Martineau: *Messrs. Vandeput and Snoek (1695).

Lady Jackson: The Old RÉgime (Louis XIV. and XV.).

Macaulay: Essay on the War of the Succession in Spain.

Lecky: History of England in the Eighteenth Century.

Green: History of the English People, book ix.

Scott: *Rob Roy (1715).

—— *The Heart of Mid-Lothian.

Thackeray: Lectures on the Four Georges.

Stephen: History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century.

Macaulay: Essays on Lord Clive and Lord Chatham.

Froude: The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century.

Campbell: ‡Lochiel’s Warning.

Scott: *Waverley (1745).

Moir: ‡The Battle of Prestonpans (1745).

Smollett: ‡The Tears of Scotland.

Goldsmith: *The Vicar of Wakefield.

Southey: Life and Times of John Wesley.

Mrs. Charles: *Diary of Kitty Trevylyan.

Mitford: *Our Village.

Edgeworth: *Castle Rackrent.

Thackeray: *The Virginians (1775).

Scott: *Guy Mannering.

Dickens: *Barnaby Rudge (1780).

Macaulay: Essays on Warren Hastings, William Pitt, and BarÈre.

Goldwin Smith: Three English Statesmen.

Trevelyan: Early History of Charles James Fox.

Wade: Letters of Junius.

Morley: Edmund Burke, a Historical Sketch.

Blackmore: *The Maid of Sker.

George Eliot: *Adam Bede.

Cooper: *Wing and Wing.

Lever: *Charles O’Malley.

Mrs. Charles: *Against the Stream.

Thackeray: *Vanity Fair.

Topelius: *Times of Frederick I. (1721).

Bungener: Louis XV. and his Times.

Helps: Ivan de Biron (1740).

Macaulay: Essay on Frederick the Great.

Abbott: History of Marie Antoinette.

Davis: *Fontenoy (1745).

Longman: Frederick the Great and the Seven Years’ War.

Carlyle: Life of Frederick the Great.

Yonge: Life of Marie Antoinette.

MÜhlbach: *Frederick the Great and his Family.

Topelius: *Times of LinnÆus.

Guizot: History of France, vol. vi.

Topelius: *Times of Alchemy.

Taine: The Ancient RÉgime.

Abbott: The French Revolution of 1789.

—— History of the Empress Josephine.

—— History of Madame Roland.

—— History of Queen Hortense.

Alison: History of Europe (1789-1815), abridged by Gould.

Taine: Origins of Contemporary France.

Van Laun: The French Revolutionary Epoch.

Adams: Democracy and Monarchy in France.

Victor Hugo: *Ninety-Three.

Coleridge: ‡Destruction of the Bastile.

Renaud: ‡The Last Banquet.

Erckmann-Chatrian: *Year One of the Republic.

Dickens: *A Tale of Two Cities.

Blackmore: *Alice Lorraine.

Trollope: *La VendÉe.

Saintine: *Picciola.

Maginn: *Whitehall.

Palgrave: ‡Trafalgar (1805).

Robert Buchanan: †The Shadow of the Sword.

Kingsley: *Alton Locke.

Disraeli: *Sybil.

Southey: ‡The Battle of Algiers (1815).

McCarthy: History of our own Times.

Martineau: History of the Thirty Years’ Peace.

Carlyle: Latter-Day Pamphlets.

Disraeli: *Lothair.

Kinglake: The Invasion of the Crimea.

Fritz Reuter: *In the Year Thirteen.

Erckmann-Chatrian: *The Conscript; The Invasion of France in 1814; and Waterloo.

Byron: ‡The Battle of Waterloo.

Moore: *The Fudge Family in Paris.

Martineau: *French Wine and Politics.

Victor Hugo: *Les MisÉrables.

Guizot: France under Louis Philippe.

Victor Hugo: The History of a Crime.

Bulwer: *The Parisians.

Murray: *The Member for Paris.

Forbes: The Franco-German War.

IV. AMERICAN HISTORY.

General Histories.

Bancroft: History of the United States (12 vols., from the discovery of America to the adoption of the Constitution).
Hildreth: History of the United States (6 vols., from the discovery of America to 1820).
Bryant and Gay: History of the United States (from the discovery to 1880).
Ridpath: History of the United States.
Higginson: Young People’s History of the United States.

Aboriginal America.

Baldwin: Ancient America.
Donnelly: Atlantis.
Foster: Prehistoric Races of the United States.
Short: North Americans of Antiquity.
Ellis: The Red Man and the White Man.
H. H. Bancroft: Native Races of the Pacific States.
Bourke: The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona.

The Period of the Discovery.

Irving: Columbus and his Companions.
Abbott: Christopher Columbus.
—— Discovery of America.
Towle: Vasco da Gama.
Helps: The Spanish Conquest of America (4 vols.).
Prescott: The Conquest of Mexico (3 vols.).
Abbott: Hernando Cortez.
Helps: Hernando Cortez.
Eggleston: Montezuma.
Wallace: *The Fair God, or the Last of the ’Tzins.
Prescott: The Conquest of Peru (2 vols.).
Towle: Pizarro.
—— Magellan.
Irving: The Conquest of Florida by De Soto.
Abbott: De Soto.
Simms: *Vasconselos (1538).
Towle: Drake, the Sea-King of Devon.
—— Sir Walter Ralegh.
Hale: Stories of Discovery.
Simms: *The Lily and the Totem (the story of the Huguenots at St. Augustine).

The Colonial Period.

Coffin: Old Times in the Colonies.
Simms: Life of John Smith.
Kingston: *The Settlers (1607).
Eggleston: Pocahontas.
Abbott: The Northern Colonies.
—— Miles Standish.
Longfellow: ‡The Courtship of Miles Standish.
Mrs. Child: *The First Settlers of New England.
——- *Hobomok.
Cheney: *A Peep at the Pilgrims.
Clay: Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware.
Banvard: Pioneers of the New World.
J. G. Holland: *The Bay Path (1638).
Paulding: *Koningsmarke (a tale of the Swedes on the Delaware).
Arthur: Cabinet History of New York.
Abbott: Peter Stuyvesant.
Irving: *Knickerbocker’s History of New York.
Abbott: King Philip.
Markham: King Philip’s War.
Cooper: *The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1675).
Palfrey: History of New England (4 vols.).
Hawthorne: *The Scarlet Letter.
Spofford: New England Legends.
Longfellow: ‡New England Tragedies.
Whittier: ‡Ballads of New England.
Hale: Stories of Adventure.
Abbott: Captain Kidd.
Banvard: Southern Explorers.
Abbott: The Southern Colonies.
Arthur: Cabinet History of Virginia.
Simms: *The Cassique of Kiawah (a story of the early settlement of South Carolina, 1684).
De Vere: Romance of American History.
Abbott: Chevalier de la Salle.
Parkman: Discovery of the Great West.
—— The Jesuits in North America.
Sparks: Life of Father Marquette.
Shea: Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi.
Parkman: Frontenac, and New France under Louis XIV.
Simms: *The Yemassee (1715).
Longfellow: ‡Evangeline.
Ladd: The Old French War.
Parkman: Wolfe and Montcalm.
—— The Conspiracy of Pontiac.
Paulding: *The Dutchman’s Fireside.
Cooper: *The Pathfinder.
—— *The Last of the Mohicans.
Kennedy: *Swallow Barn.
Mrs. Stowe: *The Minister’s Wooing.
Thackeray: *The Virginians.

The Period of the Revolution.

Abbott: The War of the Revolution.
—— George Washington.
Irving: Life of George Washington (5 vols.).
Headley: Washington and his Generals.
Longfellow: ‡Paul Revere’s Ride.
Lowell: ‡Grandmother’s Story of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Coffin: The Boys of ’76.
Cooper: *The Spy.
—— *The Pilot.
Neal: *Seventy-Six.
Greene: Life of Nathanael Greene.
Abbott: Life of Benjamin Franklin.
Parton: Life of Benjamin Franklin.
Sparks: The Works of Benjamin Franklin.
—— Treason of Benedict Arnold.
Arnold: Life of Benedict Arnold.
Campbell: ‡Gertrude of Wyoming.
Mrs. Child: *The Rebels.
Paulding: *The Old Continentals.
—— *The Bulls and the Jonathans.
Simms: *Eutaw.
Kennedy: *Horse-Shoe Robinson.
Grace Greenwood: *The Forest Tragedy.
Lossing: Field Book of the Revolution.
Carrington: Battles of the Revolution.
Wirt: The Life of Patrick Henry.
Dwight: Lives of the Signers.
Magoon: Orators of the American Revolution.
Greene: Historical View of the American Revolution.

From the Close of the Revolution.

McMaster: History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War.
Frothingham: Rise of the Republic in the United States.
Curtis: History of the Constitution.
Von Holst: Constitutional History of the United States.
Nordhoff: Politics for Young Americans.
Coffin: Building of the Nation.
Lodge: Life of Alexander Hamilton.
Parton: Life of John Adams.
—— Life of Jefferson.
Abbott: Life of Daniel Boone.
John Esten Cooke: *Leatherstocking and Silk (1800).
Cable: *The Grandissimes.
Cooper: *The Prairie.
Simms: *Beauchampe, or the Kentucky Tragedy.
Parton: Life of Aaron Burr.
Hale: *Philip Nolan’s Friends.
—— *The Man without a Country.
Pioneer Life in the West.
Lewis and Clarke’s Journey across the Rocky Mountains.
Irving: Astoria.
—— Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
Eggleston: Brant and Red Jacket.
Johnson: The War of 1812.
Lossing: Field Book of the War of 1812.
Iron: *The Double Hero.
Gleig: *The Subaltern.
Cooper: History of the American Navy.
Rives: Life of James Madison.
Gilman: Life of James Monroe.
Morse: Life of J. Q. Adams.
Parton: Life of Andrew Jackson.
Curtis: Life of Daniel Webster.
Whipple: Webster’s Best Speeches.
Schmucker: Life and Times of Henry Clay.
Ripley: The War with Mexico.
Kendall: The Santa FÉ Expedition.
Wilson: History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America.
King: The Great South.
Olmsted: The Sea-Board Slave States.
Mrs. Stowe: *Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Hildreth: *The White Slave.
Whittier: ‡Voices of Freedom.
Greeley: The American Conflict.
Lossing: The Civil War in the United States.
Draper: History of the American Civil War.
Stephens: Constitutional History of the War between the States (Southern view).
Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion.
Young Folks’ History of the Rebellion.
Coffin: The Boys of ’61.
—— *Winning His Way.
Hale: Stories of War.
Richardson: Field, Dungeon, and Escape.
Swinton: Twelve Decisive Battles of the War.
Cooke: Life of General Lee.
Whittier: ‡In War Time.
Lester: Our First Hundred Years.
Lossing: The American Centenary.
Tourgee: *A Fool’s Errand.
—— *Bricks without Straw.
Headley: Heroes of the Rebellion (6 vols.).

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