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id and thorough. (14.) _E.A. Freeman_. "History and Conquests of the Saracens." Six lectures (ed. 1870). Spanish affairs are treated rather as a [Greek: parergon] in Lecture v. An unprejudiced and accurate writer, with a strong bias, however, against chivalry (see Lecture v., p. 182). (15.) _Ockley_. "History of the Saracen Empire" (Reprint in the Chandos Classics). (16.) _Gibbon_. The parts relating to the Saracens are conveniently reprinted in the "Chandos Classics." (17.) _Robertson's_ "History of the Christian Church." Vol. iii. (18.) _Milman's_ "Latin Christianity." Bk. ix. (19.) _Stanley_. "Lectures on the Eastern Church." Lect. viii. (20.) _Hallam's_ "Middle Ages." Vol. iii. (Chivalry). (21.) _Geddes_. Expulsion of the Moriscoes, in his Miscellaneous Tracts. 1730. Also Account of MSS. and Relics found at Granada in 1588; and View of Court of Inquisition in Portugal. (22.) _Lecky's_ "Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe." 2 vols. (23.) _Buckle_. "History of Civilisation in England," chap. viii. "Spanish Intellect from Fifth to Nineteenth Centuries." Vol. ii. pp. 425-597. (24.) _Carlyle_. "Hero Worship. The Hero as Prophet." (25.) _C.M. Yonge_. "Christians and Moors in Spain." "Golden Treasury" Series. 1878. Obscure in method, and often inaccurate in facts. To give one instance only out of many--The authoress says (p. 29), that Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet rebelled and died in battle. It is well known (Gibbon, vi. 274, 276) that he did neither. (26.) _R. Bosworth Smith._ "Mohammed and Mohammedanism." 1874. A brilliant, but essentially unfair book, Christianity being extolled in theory, but sneered at in practice. We are too forcibly reminded of "Brutus is an honourable man." His own accusation of others falls upon himself. P. 61, he says--"Most other writers have approached the subject only to prove a thesis. Mohammed was to be either a hero or an impostor: they have held a brief for the prosecution or the defence." (27.) _S. Lane-Poole._ "The Moors in Spain." "Story of the Nations" Series. 1887. A clever and popular compilation from De Gayangos' translation of Al Makkari, Dozy, Southey's "Chronicle of the Cid," and Washington Irving's "Granada." (28.) _Blunt._ "Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, and Schools of Thought." 1874. The articles on Mohammedanism, the Adoptionists, and others I have found very useful. There is, however, nothing said of the Priscillianists (of Sp
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