LIST OF BOOKS 



PUBLISHED BY 



WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 



EDINBURGH AND LONDON. 



THE 



HISTORY OF EUROPE, 



FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN 1789 TO THE 

 BATTLE OF WATERLOO. 



By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. 



A New Library Edition (being the tenth). In 14 Vols. Demy Octavo, with Portraits, 

 and a copious Index, 10, 10s. 



In this Edition, which has been revised and corrected with the utmost diligence, 

 care has been taken to interweave with the original text the new facts which have 

 been brought to light since the last edition was published. It is believed that the 

 Work will be found in all respects brought up to the latest authentic information 

 that has appeared, on the epoch of which it treats. 



Crown Octavo Edition, 20 vols., 6. People's Edition, 12 vols., closely printed in 

 double columns, 2, 8s., and Index Volume, 3s. 



EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS OF THIS WORK. 



Times, Sept. 7, 1850. 



" An extraordinary work, which has earned for itself a lasting place in the literature of tha 

 country, and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There 

 is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration of which Mr Alison's 

 labours have been devoted. It exhibits great knowledge, patient research, indefatigable in- 

 dustry, and vast power. " 



Edinburgh Review. 



" There is much in Mr Alison's history of the French Revolution against which we intend to 

 record our decided protest ; and there are some parts of it which we shall feel compelled to 

 notice with strong disapprobation. We, therefore, hasten to preface our less favourable 

 remarks by freely acknowledging that the present work is', upon the whole, a valuable addition 

 to European literature, that it is evidently compiled with the utmost care, and that its narra- 

 tion, so far as we can judge, is not perverted by the slightest partiality." 



Prom Preface of the German Translation by D. Ludwig Meyer. 



" Alison's History of Europe, and the states connected with it, is one of the most important 

 works which literature has produced. Tears have elapsed since any historical work has created 

 such an epoch as that of Alison : his sources of information and authorities are of the richest 

 and most comprehensive description. Though his opinions are on the Conservative side, he 

 allows every party to speak for itself, and unfolds with a master's hand how far institutions 

 make nations great, and mighty, and prosperous." 



