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HISTORY. 



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. Now 

 reduced to 3(Xr. (originally published at 48-$-.) 



" DR BUSCH'S volume has made people think are apt to shiink." Times. 



and talk even more than usual of Prince Bis- " In a notice of this kind scant justice can 



marck, and Professor Seeley's very learned work be done to a work like the one before us; no 



on Stein will turn attention to an earlier and an short resume" can give even the most meagre 



almost equally eminent German statesman. It notion of the contents of these volumes, which 



has been the good fortune of Prince Bismarck contain no page that is superfluous, and none 



to help to raise Prussia to a position which she that is uninteresting .... To understand the 



had never before attained, and to complete the Germany of to-day one must study the Ger- 



work of German unification. The frustrated many of many yesterdays, and now that study 



labours of Stein in the same field were also has been made easy by this work, to which no 



very great, and well worthy to be taken into one can hesitate to assign a very high place 



account. He was one, perhaps the chief, of among those recent histories which have aimed 



the illustrious group of strangers ^ho came to at original research." Athenaum. 

 the rescue of Prussia in her darkest hour, about " We congratulate Cambridge and her Pro- 



the time of the inglorious Peace of Tilsit, and fessor of History on the appearance of such a 



who laboured to put life and order into her noteworthy production. And we may add that 



dispirited army, her impoverished finances, and it is something upon which we may congra- 



her inefficient Civil Service. Stein strove, too, tulate England that on the especial field of the 



no man more, for the cause of unification Germans, history, on the history of their own 



when it seemed almost folly to hope for sue- country, by the use of their own literary 



cess. Englishmen will feel very pardonable weapons, an Englishman has produced a his- 



pride at seeing one of their countrymen under- tory of Germany in the Napoleonic age far 



take to write the history of a period from the superior to any that exists in German." Ex- 



investigation of which even laborious Germans aminer. 



THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH INDUSTRY AND 



COMMERCE. By W. CUNNINGHAM, M.A., late Deputy to the 

 Knightbridge Professor in the University of Cambridge. With 

 Maps and Charts. Crown 8vo. I2s. 



"He is, however, undoubtedly sound in the dimensions to which English industry and corn- 

 main, and his work deserves recognition as the merce have grown. It is with the process of 

 result of immense industry and research in a growth that he is concerned ; and this process 

 field in which the labourers have hitherto been he traces with the philosophical insight which 

 comparatively few." Scotsman. distinguishes between what is important and 



'Mr Cunningham is not likely to disap- what is trivial. He thus follows with care, 



point any readers except such as begin by mis- skill, and deliberation a single thread through 



taking the character of his book. He does not the maze of general English history." Guar- 



promise, and does not give, an account of the dian. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FROM THE 

 EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ROYAL INJUNCTIONS OF 

 1535, by J. B. MULLINGER, M.A. Part I. Demy 8vo. (734 pp.), I2s. 



Part II. From the Royal Injunctions of 1535 to the Accession of 



Charles the First. Demy 8vo. i8s. 



"That Mr Mullinger's work should admit sity at this time is extremely interesting. . . 



of being regarded as a continuous narrative, This is an admirable volume." Spectator. 



in which character it has no predecessors " Mr Mullinger has brought to his present 



worth mentioning, is one of the many advan- task art intimate and extensive acquaintance 



tages it possesses over annalistic compilations, with the literature of the period, the true 



even so valuable as Cooper's, as well as over student habit of minute and patient investiga- 



Athenae." Prof. A. W. Ward in the Academy. tion of details and the real judicial instinct of 



"The entire work is a model of accurate sifting materials. Weighing evidence, and 



and industrious scholarship. The same quali- honestly endeavouring to arrive at an equit- 



ties that distinguished the earlier volume are able decision in all matters on which a decision 



again visible, and the whole is still conspi- has to be given . . . He has succeeded per- 



cuous for minuteness and fidelity of workman- fectly in presenting the earnest and thoughtful 



ship and breadth and toleration of view." student with a thorough and trustworthy his- 



Notes and Queries. tory." Guardian. 



"The account of the studies of the univer- 



TRAVELS IN NORTHERN ARABIA IN 1876 AND 

 1877. BY CHARLES M. DOUGHTY, of Gonville and Caius College. 

 With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. \In the Press. 



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