8 GENERAL CATALOGUE. 



other work projessing to give the history of a political principle occurs io 

 us, ex.cept the slight contributions to the history of representative govern- 

 ment that is contained in a course of M. Gtiizot'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. Svo., half-bound. 6s. 



" Its object is to shovv that clear, accurate, and scientific views of history, 

 cr 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 nai:ire 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 Svo. 3-r. 6d. 



" I have here tried to treat the history of the CJnirch of Wells as a con- 

 tribution to the general historv of the Church and Kingdom of England, 

 and specially to the history of Cathedral. Churches of the Old Foundation. 

 . . . I wish to point out the general principles of the original founders as 

 the model to which the Old Foundations should be brought back, and the 

 New Foundations reformed after their pattern." PREFACE. 



French (George Russell). SHAKSPEAREANA 



GENEALOGICA. Svo. cloth extra, 15*. Uniform with the 

 "Cambridge Shakespeare." 



Part I. Identification of the dramatis persons in the historical plays, 

 from King John to King Henry VIII. ; Notes on Characters in Macbeth 

 and Hamlet ; Persons and Places belonging to Warwickshire alluaed to. 

 Part II. The Shakspeare and Arden families and their connexions, with 

 Tables of descent. The present is the first attempt to give a detailed de- 

 scription, in consecutive order, of each of the dramatis persona in Shak- 

 speare's immortal chronicle-histories, and some of the characters have been. 



