TURES
ON
MODERN HISTORY

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

JOHN NEVILLE FIGGIS, Litt.D.
SOMETIME LECTURER IN ST. CATHARINE'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

AND

REGINALD VERE LAURENCE, M.A.
FELLOW AND LECTURER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

SOME PRESS OPINIONS.

_TIMES._--"The treatment is personal, fresh, and original
throughout. Lucidity is unfailing. Learning is marshalled behind
_every_ paragraph, and almost behind every sentence, and yet is
never obtrusive. The lectures are equally adapted to illuminate the
scholar and to introduce the novice to the study of the mighty
scheme of human affairs in its dynamic flow. The selection of
detail is governed by consummate judgment; and frequently
information drawn from sources alien to the matter in hand is
dropped into its place with a sureness and precision which
astonishes; controversial questions, when introduced, are
legitimately brought forward as an illustration of historical
method, and not as the diversions and digressions of an overstocked
mind."

_ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW._--"Three hundred years of European
history are covered in these nineteen lectures, masterpieces of
lucid statement, of suggestive and stimulating criticism.
Everywhere, whether the lecturer be sketching the salient features
of the sixteenth century or of the eighteenth, whether he be
dealing with Italy or America, we feel the sureness of touch of one
who is familiar with every detail. Although we may often not agree
with his trenchant judgments, with his paradoxes, or even with his
interpretation of the teaching of history, we are made to feel that
his ample knowledge would never have been at a loss for weighty
arguments in answer to every objection."

_TRIBUNE._--"The pages abound in indispensable corrections of
popular and pedagogic errors, and in revelations of new facts. No
one could do this so well as Acton, because no historical scholar
who ever lived kept himself so well abreast of Continental research
or so completely in touch with the world of scholars. All archives
were open to him, and all archivists put their knowledge at his
disposal; wealth, social position, and leisure gave him advantages
denied to almost every other scholar."

MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd., LONDON.

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