THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 17 



HISTOEY. 



THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH INDUSTRY 

 AND COMMERCE, 



by W. CUNNINGHAM, M.A., late Deputy to the Knightbridge Pro- 

 fessor in the University of Cambridge. With Maps and Charts. 

 Crown 8vo. Cloth. 12s. 



"He is, however, undoubtedly sound in search in afield in which the labourers have 

 the main, and his work deserves recognition hitherto been comparatively few." Scots- 

 as the result of immense industry and re- man, April 14, 1882. 



LIFE AND TIMES OF STEIN, OR GERMANY 



AND PRUSSIA IN THE NAPOLEONIC AGE, 

 by J. R. SEELEY, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History in 

 the University of Cambridge, with Portraits and Maps. 3 Vols. 

 Demy 8vo. 48^. 



" If we could conceive anything similar doing for German as well as English readers 



to a protective system in the intellectual de- what many German scholars have done for 



partment, we might perhaps look forward to us." Times. 



a time when our historians would raise the " In a notice of this kind scant justice can 



cry of protection for native industry. Of be done to a work like the one before us; no 



the unquestionably greatest German men of short resume can give even the most meagre 



modern history I speak of Frederick the notion of the contents of these volumes, which 



Great, Goethe and Stein the first two found contain no page that is superfluous, and 



long since in Carlyle and Lewes biographers . none that is uninteresting ..... To under- 



who have undoubtedly driven their German stand the Germany of to-day one must study 



competitors out of the field. And now in the the Germany of many yesterdays, and now 



year just past Professor Seeley of Cambridge that study has been made easy by this work, 

 has presented us with a biography of Stein to which no one can hesitate to assign a very 

 which, though it modestly declines competi- high place among those recent histories which 



tion with German works and disowns the have aimed at original research." Athe- 



presumption of teaching us Germans our own tueum. 



history, yet casts into the shade by its bril- "The book before us fills an important 



liant superiority all that we have ourselves gap in English nay, European historical 



hitherto written about Stein.... In five long literature, and bridges over the history of 



chapters Seeley expounds the legislative and Prussia from the time of Frederick the Great 



administrative reforms, the emancipation of to the days of Kaiser Wilhelm. It thus gives 



the person and the soil, the beginnings of the reader standing ground whence he may 



free administration and free trade, in short regard contemporary events in Germany in 



the foundation of modern Prussia, with more their proper historic light ..... We con- 



exhaustive thoroughness, with more pene- gratulate Cambridge and her Professor of 



trating insight, than any one had done be- History on the appearance of such a note- 



fore." Deutsche Rundschau. worthy production. And we may add that it 



" Dr Busch's volume has made people is something upon which we may congratulate 



think and talk even more than usual of Prince England that on the especial field of the Ger- 



Bismarck, and Professor Seeley's very learned mans, history, on the history of their own 



work on Stein will turn attention to an earlier country, by the use of their own literary 



and an almost equally eminent German states- weapons, an Englishman has produced a his- 



man ....... It is soothing to the national tory of Germany in the Napoleonic age far 



self-respect to find a few Englishmen, such superior to any that exists in German." 



as the late Mr Lewes and Professor Seeley, Examiner. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FROM 

 THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ROYAL 

 INJUNCTIONS OF 1535, 

 by JAMES BASS MULLINGER, M.A. Demy 8vo. cloth (734 pp.), i2j. 



"We trust Mr Mullinger will yet continue the University during the troublous times of 



his history and bring it down to our own the Reformation and the Civil War." Athe- 



day." Academy. nceum. 



" He has brought together a mass of in- "Mr Mullinger's work is one of great 



structive details respecting the rise and pro- learning and research, which can hardly fail 



gress, not only of his own University, but of to become a standard book of reference on 



all the principal Universities of the Middle the subject. . . . We can most strongly recom- 



Ages ...... We hope some day that he may mend this book to our readers." Spectator. 



continue his labours, and give us a history of 



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