NOTICES OF LORD MAHON'S HISTORY. Mr. Macaulay's Opinion. "Lord Mahon has undoubtedly some of the most valuable qualities of a historian-great diligence in examining authorities, great judgment in weighing testimony, and great impartiality in estimating characters." Quarterly Review. "Lord Mahon has shown throughout, excellent skill in combining, as well as contrasting, the various elements of interest which his materials afforded; he has continued to draw his historical portraits with the same firm and easy hand; and no one can lay down the book without feeling that he has been under the guidance of a singularly clear, high-principled, and humane mind; one uniting a very searching shrewdness with a pure and unaffected charity. He has shown equal courage, judgment, and taste. in availing himself of minute details, so as to give his narrative the picturesqueness of a memoir, without sacrificing one jot of the real dignity of history...... His History is weil calculated to temper the political judgment. It is one great lesson of modesty, forbearance, and charity." Edinburgh Review. "It was with no small satisfaction that we saw a history of this period announced from the pen of Lord Mahon, nor have we been disappointed in our expectations. His narrative is minute and circumstantial, without being tedious. His History of the Rebellion in particular is clear, distinct, and entertaining. In his judgment of persons he is on the whole fair, candid, and discriminating." English Review. "Lord Mahon's work will supply a desideratum which has long been felt-a really good history of the last 150 years. It is written with an ease of style, a command of the subject, and a comprehensiveness of view, which evince the possession of high qualifications for the great task which the noble author has proposed to himself. Lord Mahon avails himself extensively of the correspondence and private diaries of the times, which gives unusual interest and life to the narrative. . . . . . The authorities quoted for Spanish or French details are always the original; and we can hardly remember a reference of his Lordship's on any subject which is not to the best testimony known or accessible." Sismondi-Histoire des Français. "Sur le Prince Charles Edouard, en 1745-nous renvoyons uniquement à l'admirable récit de cette expédition dans l'Histoire de Lord Mahon. Toutes les relations y sont comparées et jugées avec une saine critique, et le récit presente le vif intérêt d'un roman." Professor Smyth-University of Cambridge. "I may recommend to others, what I have just had so much pleasure in reading myself, the History lately published by Lord Mahon. All that need now be known of the era from the Peace of Utrecht to that of Aix-la-Chapelle, will be there found." Published by D. Appleton & Company. BY DR. ARNOLD. THE HISTORY OF ROME, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD. HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN COMMONWEALTH. Two volumes of the English edition complete in one vol. 8vo. Price $2 50. LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY, With an Introduction and Notes, by HENRY REED, LL. D. Price $1 25. BY M. MICHELET. HISTORY OF FRANCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD. One vol. 12mo. HISTORY OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. THE LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER, BY M. GUIZOT. THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION, From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION OF 1640, LITT. DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE IN 1849. HISTORY OF GERMANY, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, by FREDERICK KOHLRAUSCH, A MANUAL OF ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY. By W. COOKE TAYLOR, LL. D. tory, by C. S. HENRY, D.D., the City of New-York. Ancient portion in a separate |
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