FROUDE'S "ENGLAND." 



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By JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, M. A., late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. 

 From the fourth London edition. In crown 8vo vols. Price, $3.00 each. 

 (Six volumes now ready, the other two shortly.) 



Vols. I. to IV. Reign of Henry VIII. Vols. V. and VI. .Reigns of Edward 

 VI. and Mary. Vols. VII. and VIII. Reign of Elizabeth. 



Mr. Fronde has shown in his admirable history what new results may he de- 

 rived, even in the most heaten track, from" a thorough investigation of the 

 original authorities. His researches have thrown a flood of light over the per- 

 sonal character of Henry the Eighth and his relation to the great event of 

 modern history, the Reformation of Religion in Europe and the British Isles, 

 that it would be in vain to seek elsewhere. His views often run counter to 

 received opinions, but they are always supported by a weight of evidence and 

 a classic polish of style that place him high in the rank of modern historians. 



The work has received the most favorable notices from the leading English 

 journals, and has already passed through four editions in England. The vast 

 amount of fresh and authentic materials which the author has brought to bear 

 on the periods of which he writes, give his work an interest and value beyond 

 any previous history of the same events. 



" We read these volumes with the pleasure derived from interesting materials 

 worked up in an attractive form." Edinburgh Review. 



" The style is excellent ; sound, honest, forcible, singularly perspicuous Eng- 

 lish ; at times with a sort of picturesque simplicity, pictures dashed off with 

 only a few touches, but perfectly alive. . . . We have never to read a pas- 

 sage twice. . . . We see the course of events day by day, not only the 

 more serious and important communications, but the gossip of the hour. . . 



". . . If truth and vivid reality be the perfection of history, much is to be 

 said in favor of this mode of composition." London Quarterly. 



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With an analysis of the Divina Commedia, its Plot and Episodes. By Pro- 

 fessor BOTTA. 1 vol., crown 8vo. $2.50. 



The New York Evening Post says : " We have seen a portion of this work, 

 and regard it as decidedly the best account of the poet that has appeared in the 

 English language. It is careful, learned, discriminating and eloquent, written 

 in terse and eloquent English that is remarkable in the pen of an author not 

 native to our soil. The analysis of the poem is full and philosophical, alive with 

 Italian enthusiasm, yet calm and truly catholic in its humanity and trust. It 

 will do more than anything within reach to answer the question that so many 

 are now asking : " Who is this Dante, whose name is now so much on the lips 

 of scholars, but who is as much in the dark to most of us as the dark ages in 

 which he lived ? " 



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