CHARLES KNIGHT’S 
Popular History of 
England. 
As an appropriate companion to Guizot’s Popular History of France, 
we have issued in Eight Octavo Volumes this truly magnificent work. It is an 
Illustrated History of Society and Government, from the earliest period to the 
year 1867. By Charles Knight. With more than 1000 Illustrations, including 
numerous fine Steel Portraits. 
This is the only complete Standard History of England. 
The reader must go through Hume, Smollet, Macauley, Froude, Martineau, and 
others, to go over the ground which is well covered in this work. Not only does it 
give with accuracy and system the historical events from the Druidical times down 
to the present decade, but it also depicts minutely the manners and customs of each 
era. The author suggests that its title should be a History of the English People, 
rather than a History of England. Numerous plates illustrate the text, and present 
vividly to the reader the actors and scenes of the narrative; and a copious Index 
facilitates reference to the contents of the work. 
We very cordially recommend these volumes to the readers whom they seek. We know of no 
History of England so free from prejudice; so thoroughly honest and impartial; so stored with facts, 
fancies, and illustrations; and therefore none so well adapted for school or college as this.— London 
Athenaeum. 
Its literary merits are of a very high order; indeed, nothing has ever appeared superior, if any¬ 
thing has been published equal, to the account of the state of commerce, government, and society at 
different periods. — Lord Brougham. 
Mr. Knight’s book well deserves its name; it will be emphatically popular, and it will gain its 
popularity by genuine merit. It is as good a book of the kind as ever was written. — Westminster 
Review. 
The best history extant, not only for, but also of, the people. — All the Year Round. 
A standard book on the shelves of all libraries. — London Spectator. 
The last and greatest literary work of his life. This history will remain, for many a long day, 
a standard work. — London Times. 
work is the 
very best History of England that we possess.— London 
Standard. 
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