MURRAY'S STUDENT'S MANUALS. 



|i lu'ics at €liiss-l)flfllis for giitbantcli Srl]0lars. 



Forming a Complete Chain of History from the Earliest Ages down to Modem Times. 

 Each Work is complete m One Volume, Post 8vo, price 7s. 6d. 



'• This series of STUDENT'S MANUALS, ANCIENT and MODERN, edited for the most part by 

 DR. WILLIAM SMITH, possess several distinctive features which render them singularly valuable 

 as educational works. They incorjxirate, with judicious comments, the researches of the most 

 recent historical investigators, not only into the more modem, but into the most remote periods 

 of the history of the countries to which they refer. The latest lights which comparative philology 

 has cast upon the migrations and intermiugUngs of races are reflected in the histories of England 

 and France. We know no better or more trustworthy summary, even for the general reader, of 

 the early history of Britain and Gaul than is contained in these volumes respectively. 



" While each volume is thus, for ordinary purposes, a complete history of the country to which 

 it refers, it also contains a guide to such further and more detailed information as the advanced 

 student may desire on particular events or periods by copious Usts of the ' Authorities.' This 

 most useful feature seems to us to complete the great value of the works, giving to them the 

 character of historical cyclopedias, as well as of impartial histories." — The Museum. 



" Before the publication of these Student's Manuals there had been established, by the claims 

 of middle-class and competitive examiners on young men's brains, a large annual demand for 

 text-books that should rise above the level of mere schoolboy's epitomes, and give to those who 

 Would master them some shadow of a scholarly knov.-ledge of their subjects. Such books were 

 very hard to find. Mr. Murray now brings out his seven-and-sixpenny manuals. They are most 

 fit for use in the higher classes of good schools, where they may be dehberately studied through 

 with the help of a teacher competent to expand their range of argument, to diversify their views 

 by the strength of his own reading and reflection, and to elicit thought from the boys themselves 

 upon events and the political changes to which they have led. Even the mature scholar may be 

 glad to have on his shelves these elegant manuals, from which he can at a glance refresh his 

 memory as to a name or date, and he will not use them for reference alone. He will assuredly be 

 tempted to read them for the clearness of statement and the just proportion with which there is 

 traced in each of them the story of a nation." — Examiner. 



SCRIPTURE HISTORY. 

 THE STUDENT'S OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY. 



From the Creation of the World to the Return of the Jews from Captivity. With an Intro- 

 duction to the Books of the Old Testament. By PHILIP SMITH, B. A. With 50 Maps and 

 Woodcuts. 



" Of our own land, as well as of Greece and Rome, we have histories of a scholar-like 

 character ; but Old Testament history has not been ao carefully or so fully treated before. 

 It is not a little surprising that a subject of such universal importance and interest should 

 have so long been disregarded. This volume is a very able and scholarly work. As a book 

 for Sunday reading, we feel assured it will be very welcome and widely serviceable." — Wes- 

 Uyan Times. 



THE STUDENT'S NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY. 



With an Introduction, containing the connection of the Old and New Testaments. By 

 PHILIP SMITH, B.A. With 40 Maps and Woodcuts. 



" This is another of those useful m-anuals of history which will no doubt obtain a wider 

 circulation than the similar volumes on the History of Greece or Rome, as the subject- 

 matter is of wider interest ; at the same time, it will be more closely scrutinized. We are 

 glad to say that it will endure this scrutiny, and will satisfy the more it is examined. Its 

 tone is eminently reverential." — Churchman. 



ANCIENT HISTORY. 

 THE STUDENT'S ANCIENT HISTORY of the EAST. 



From the Earliest Times to the Conquests of Alexander the Great, including Egypt, Assyria, 

 Babylonia, Media, Persia, Asia Minor, and Phoenicia. By PHILIP SMITH, B.A. With 70 

 Woodcuts. 



' ' ' Ancient History ' used to mean Greece and Rome and ' sacred history ' only. These aro 

 aU sepiirately provided for in this Student's Series, and there still remains matter enough in 

 the domain of ancient history to fill this closely printed and tersely written volume. Our 

 admiration of the mode in which a difficult task, involving great research, has been per- 

 formed is cordial, and we may be permitted to express sui-prise that a history of this nature, 

 crammed full of unfamiUar names, and of necessity abounding in names rather than in facts, 

 can prove such attractive reading." — Saturda;/ £evie>c. 



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