PHILLIPS, SAMPSOH & COMPANY S 



PUBLICATIONS OF 



HUME AND fflACAULAY S 

 HISTORY OF ENGLAND. 



BOSTON LIBRARY EDITION. 



PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & COMPANY 



Are now publishing HUME S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the 

 Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James II., 1688, and continued 

 from that time by 



T. BABINGTON MACAULAY, 



with notes and references ; being an accurate reprint from the Standard 

 English Editions. The above works are published in large crown 12mo. 

 form, bound uniform in muslin and sheep binding, printed from good clear 

 type, forming altogether the cheapest and most perfect Library Edition of the 

 two authors, ever issued from the American press. 



Each volume contains over ficc hundred large duodecimo pages, and are 

 sold separately or together at 02 cents per volume. 



Extract from the North American Review for October, 1849. 



&quot; The best advice that can be given even now to the diligent student of 

 English history, is to read Hume first, and Henry, Lingard, Hallam, Brodie, 

 Guizot, Aikin, and a host of others, afterwards. Any one of these later can 

 didates for public favor may be omitted without material loss ; Hume alone is 

 indispensable. 



But the greatest compliment that Hume s work ever received, is that 

 which has just been paid to it perforce by the most brilliant and captivating 

 of English writers of our own day. The all-accomplished Mr. Macaulay. 

 who seems to have been born for the sole purpose of making English history 

 as fascinating as one of Scott s romances, durst not enter into competition with 

 his great predecessor, but modestly begins his history almost at the point where 

 Mr. Hume s terminates. Mr. Macaulay evidently prefers to be a continuator 

 of Hume, rather than to wrestle with him on his own ground. 



