The size and general look of the book, its vividness of
narration, and its avoidance of abstruse argument would place it among
school-books; but its fresh and original views, and its general
historical power, are only to be appreciated by those who have tried
their own hand at writing history, and who know the enormous
difficulties of the task."--MR. SAMUEL R. GARDINER _in the Academy._

"We know of no record of the whole drama of English history to be
compared with it. We know of none that is so distinctly a work of
genius.... Mr. Green's volume is a really wonderful production. There is
a freshness and originality breathing from one end to the other, a charm
of style, and a power, both narrative and descriptive, which lifts it
altogether out of the class of books to which at first sight it might
seem to belong. The range too of subject, and the capacity which the
writer shows of dealing with so many different sides of English history,
witness to powers of no common order.... The Early History is admirably
done; the clear and full narrative which Mr. Green is able to put
together of the earliest days of the English people is a wonderful
contrast to the confused and proe-scientific talk so common in most of
the books which it is to be hoped that Mr. Green's volume will
displace."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

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| Page 291 adminstrative changed to administrative |
| Page 302 immedietely changed to immediately |
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