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HISTORY. 
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. 12 s. 
“He is, however, undoubtedly sound in search in a field 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 
to a protective system in the intellectual de- 
partment, we might perhaps look forward to 
a time when our historians would raise the 
cry of protection for native industry. Of 
the unquestionably greatest German men of 
modern history — I speak of Frederick the 
Great, Goethe and Stein — the first two found 
long since in Carlyle and Lewes biographers 
who have undoubtedly driven their German 
competitors out of the field. And now in the 
year just past Professor Seeley of Cambridge 
has presented us with a biography of Stein 
which, though it modestly declines competi- 
tion with German works and disowns the 
presumption of teaching us Germans our own 
history, yet casts into the shade by its bril- 
liant superiority all that we have ourselves 
hitherto written about Stein.... In five long 
chapters Seeley expounds the legislative and 
administrative reforms, the emancipation of 
the person and the soil, the beginnings of 
free administration and free trade, in short 
the foundation of modern Prussia, with more 
exhaustive thoroughness, with more pene- 
trating insight, than any one had done be- 
fore.” — Deutsche Rundschau. 
“ Dr Busch’s volume has made people 
think and talk even more than usual of Prince 
Bismarck, and Professor Seeley’s very learned 
work on Stein will turn attention to an earlier 
and an almost equally eminent German states- 
man It is soothing to the national 
self-respect to find a few Englishmen, such 
as the late Mr Lewes and Professor Ceeley, 
doing for German as well as English readers 
what many German scholars have done for 
us.” — Times. 
“ In a notice of this kind scant justice can 
be done to a work like the one before us; no 
short resume can give even the most meagre 
notion of the contents of these volumes, which 
contain no page that is superfluous, and 
none that is uninteresting. .... To under- 
stand the Germany of to-day one must study 
the Germany of many yesterdays, and now 
that study has been made easy by this work, 
to which no one can hesitate to assign a very 
high place among those recent histories which 
have aimed at original research.” — Athe - 
nceum. 
“The book before us fills an important 
gap in English — nay, European — historical 
literature, and bridges over the history of 
Prussia from the time of Frederick the Great 
to the days of Kaiser Wilhelm. It thus gives 
the reader standing ground whence he may 
regard contemporary events in Germany in 
their proper historic light We con- 
gratulate Cambridge and her Professor of 
History on the appearance of such a note- 
worthy production. And we may add that it 
is something upon which we may congratulate 
England that on the especial field of the Ger- 
mans, history, on the history of their own 
country, by the use of their own literary 
weapons, an Englishman has produced a his- 
tory of Germany in the Napoleonic age far 
superior to any that exists in German.” — 
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.), 12 s. 
“We trust Mr Mullinger will yet continue the University during thetroublous times of 
his history and .bring it down to our own 
day.” — Academy. 
“ He has brought together a mass of in- 
structive details respecting the rise and pro- 
gress, not only of his own University, but of 
all the principal Universities of the Middle 
Ages We hope some day that he may 
continue his labours, and give us a history of 
Vol. II. In the Press. 
the Reformation and the Civil War.” — Athe- 
nceum. 
“ Mr Mullinger’s work is one of great 
learning and research, which can hardly fail 
to become a standard book of reference on 
the subject. . . . We can most strongly recom- 
mend this book to our readers.” — Spectator. 
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