. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. ; Gardiner, History of Englandfrom James I. ; Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell ; Macaulay, History of England from James H. ;Lecky, England in the Eighte
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. ; Gardiner, History of Englandfrom James I. ; Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell ; Macaulay, History of England from James H. ;Lecky, England in the Eighteenth Century; Mill, History of British India; MacMullen, History of Canada ; Martineau, History of England during the Peace; McCarthy, Historjof Our Own Times.] $f^/ c^i^MERICANS should not read the story of England asthey would that of a foreign country. Those of uswho have looked into the past, approach this tale withquickened heart-beats and a livelier interest. Our land was originally settled by Englishmen, and, much as immigration has since altered our race the foundation remains. It is not merely our language that comes to us from England; she gave us our bodies and our brains, our laws, our hopes, and even our rcligioa The grim barons who wrung the Great Charter from their un» willing king, the mighty sea-fighters who followed Drake and Raleigh, belong as much to our past as they do to that of any sturdy Briton of to-day. So it is 6i. ^02 The Story of the Greatest Nation^ not as an alien vomme, but ratlicr as an earlier chapter of our own more recenttale, that this story of England should be read Could we raise the curtain on Great Britain, far back in the twilight of his-tory, we should see, instead of an island, a projecting par: of the European con-tinent, for geologists agree that the country was once attacned to the had a climate of arctic severity, to which of course its animal and vegetablelife corresponded. About the only difference between the beast
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