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' ' Its object is to show that clear, accurate, and scientific views of history, 

 or 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 nature of historical authori- 

 ties 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 studv of historical geography." PREFACE. 



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When young children have acquired the outlines of History from abridg- 

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 to take a general and consequently dry history of facts, such as RusseFs 

 Modern Eiirope, or to choose some work treating of a particular period or 

 subject, such as the works of Macaulay and Froude. The former course 

 usually renders history uninteresting ; the latter is unsatisfactory, because 

 it is not sufficiently comprehensive. To remedy this difficulty selections, 

 continuous and chronological, have, in the present volume, been taken from 

 the larger works of Freeman, Milman, Palgrave, and others, which may 

 serve as distinct landmarks of historical reading. " We know of scarcely 

 anything,' 1 '' says the Guardian, of this volume, "which is so likely to raise 

 to a higher level the average standard of English education.'''' 



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