D. Appleton & Company's Publications. 



REVOLUTION'S 



IN 



ENGLISH HISTORY. 



EX- 

 ROBERT VAUGHAN, D.D. 



VOL. I. 



REVOLUTIONS OF RACE. 



In this work, Dr. Vaughan, the Editor of the British Quarterly Review, intend* 

 Xk £ioup together the leading facts of English History, so as to reveal at a glance the 

 p>ogi«(!6 of the nation. It is a step towards the simplification of English History. 

 By th« term Revolutions, the author intends to denote the great phases of change, 

 through which both the government and people of England have passed, during the 

 historical period of their existence. 



"A work of this kind," says Blackwood's Magazine, "cannot be superfluous, if it 

 is worthily executed ; and the honorable position which Dr. Vaughan has earned 

 for himself in both theology and literature, gives us a guarantee that this will be the 

 case. The specimen before us we have read with interest and improvement. We 

 should particularize the ecclesiastical portion of the history as being executed with 

 special care, and as remarkable for the spirit of justice and liberality he displays. T& 

 these pages we may honestly recommend the reader, as the fruit of steady and con- 

 scientious labor, directed by a liberal and enlightened spirit" 



"This treatise," 6ays the London Athenaium, "or rather narrative, is deeply and 

 variously interesting. Written plainly, but with all the characteristics of independent 

 thought and accomplished scholarship, it may be pronounced a masterly survey of 

 English civilization from the remotest epoch to the commencement of the fifteenth 

 century. We have found this volume in every way excellent. It is at once a narra- 

 tive and a disquisition, learned, genial, critical, and also picturesque. The spirit of 

 English history animates it throughout. Dr. Vaughan, by completing such a work 

 will have done good service to literature." 



The Westminster Review, the very highest critical authority upon English liter- 

 ature, said of this work, upon its original publication in England — " Wp cap sincerely 

 recommend Dr. Vaughan's Revolutions in English History as a thoughtful interest- 

 ing, scholarly presentment of the principal sociological vicissitudes of more than two 

 thousand years of our British existence. Dr. Vaughan's composition is extremely 

 lucid and nervous ; not without a certain sedate ornamentation, but quit* free treat 

 tk* misleading exaggerations of a seductive rhetoric- ' 



