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LANGLOIS, CH. V., arid SEIGNOBOS, CH, 



INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HIS- 

 TORY, by Ch. V. Langlois and Ch. Seignobos, of the 

 Sorbonne, Paris. Authorised Translation by G. G. Berry ; 

 with a Preface by Prof. F. York Powell, Large crown 

 8vo, buckram cloth, pp. xxviii + 350. 7s. 6d. 



Literature. — "No efTort so seriously methodical to fix the nature and determine 

 the difhculties of historical studies has ever been made in France. Nor is there 

 anything of the sort in English or German at once so precise, so admirably concise, 

 and so logically complete . . . MM. Langlois and Seignobos, with that clearness 

 which seems inalienable from French thought, but with none of that superficiality, 

 that wilful defect of vision which usually in French books is the condition of French 

 clearness — does not Renan himself, in the preface to V Avenir de la Science, note 

 this ordinary disability and this incomparable privilege of the French tongue? — not 

 only have been the first to systematize concisely and clearly the scattered results of 

 reflections upon, and experience of, historical studies, but have also themselves 

 formulated the principles of historical research with a critical precision and com- 

 petence which make these remarkably compact and suggestive pages as useful an 

 essay in definition of a right historical method, as Renan's famous early book just 

 cited was, and still is, for the cultivation of what he called 'historic psychology.' . . . 

 This book of M. Seigno.bos and M. Langlois is, as it were, a solid monument of masonry 

 raised on the high plateau to which French scholars have been ascending now for thirty 

 years, and elevated there as a memorial of the victory of the critical method. . . . The 

 rigorous scientific treatment of historical studies has not been more general and syste- 

 matic, however, in England than in France, and an ' Introduction to Historical Studies' 

 that is adequate is bound to be as warmly welcomed by students in Great Britain or 

 the United States as by students in France. 



"Mr G. G. Berry has carefully and adequately translated the 'Introduction to 

 the Study of History,' which was strongly commended in its original French form in 

 Literature,^' 



Times. — " It deserves success, for it is written with care, with knowledge of the 

 practical problems presented to the historian, and by men who know their own minds. 

 Its pages are strewn with acute remarks. The most experienced investigator will 

 profit by the precepts of this clever manual." 



Pall Mall Gazette. — "Admirable treatise. One may pronounce without hesitation 

 that nothing at once so good and so concise has hitherto been available to the English 

 reader." 



Educational Times.—" The very book for the serious student of historj-." 



Academy. — " This is a book for serious students of history. The translator deserves 

 the warmest thanks of all those interested in genuine learning for the excellent way in 

 which his own share of the work has been done." 



Speaker. — "We are glad to welcome the book in an English form, and generally to 

 endorse the cordial words of introduction of Prof. York Powell. We should add that 

 the translation is thoroughly well done. It reads extremely well, and is, so far as we 

 have noted it, accurate. There is a full and careful index." 



