HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS. 9 HISTORICAL SELECTIONS. Readings from the best Authorities on English and European History. When young children have acquired the outlines of history from abridgements and catechisms, and it becomes desirable to give a more enlarged view of the subject, in order to render it really useful and interesting, a difficulty often arises as to the choice of books. Two courses are open, either to take a general and consequently dry history of facts, such as Russell's Modern Europe, or to choose some work treating of a particular period or subject, such as the works of Macaulay and Froude. The former course usually renders history uninteresting; the latter is unsatisfactory, because it is not sufficiently comprehensive. To remedy this difficulty, selections, continuous and chronological, have in the present volume been taken from the larger works of Freeman, Milman, Palgrave, and others, which may serve as distinct landmarks of historical reading. "We know of scarcely anything," says the Guardian, of this volume," which is so likely to raise to a higher level the average standard of English education." Hole. A GENEALOGICAL STEMMA OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE. By the Rev. C. HOLE, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. On Sheet, Is. The different families are printed in distinguishing colours, thus facilitating reference. A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Arranged by the Rev. CHARLES HOLE, M. A. 18mo. neatly and strongly bound in cloth, 4s. 6d. Compiled and Second Edition. One of the most comprehensive and accurate Biographical Dicionaries in the world, containing more than 18,000 persons of all countries, with dates of birth and death, and what they were distinguished for. Extreme care has been bestowed on the verification of the dates; and thus numerous errors, current in brevious works, have been corrected. Its size adapts it for the desk, portmanteau, or pocket. 66 An invaluable addition to our manuals of reference, and, from its moderate price, cannot fail to become as popular as it is useful."-TIMES. Hozier. THE SEVEN WEEKS' WAR; Its Antecedents and its Incidents. By H. M. HoZIER. With Maps and Plans. Two vols. 8vo. 28s. "The This work is based upon letters reprinted by permission from Times." For the most part it is a product of a personal eye-witness of some of the most interesting incidents of a war which, for rapidity and decisive results, may claim an almost unrivalled position in history. THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA. Compiled from Authentic Documents. By CAPTAIN HENRY M. HOZIER, late Assistant Military Secretary to Lord Napier of Magdala. 8vo. 95. "Several accounts of the British Expedition have been published..... 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