Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . s truly as if he had been created for amore successful novel than the two early and French versions of the book were madeby Bakhuizen van den Brink, archivist of Holland,and by M. Guizot. Bakhuizen commended Motleyswork as an excellent basis for the history of therise of the republic ; and other scholars in the 8l2 John Lothrop Motley Netherlands bore testimony to the thoroughnesswitli w
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . s truly as if he had been created for amore successful novel than the two early and French versions of the book were madeby Bakhuizen van den Brink, archivist of Holland,and by M. Guizot. Bakhuizen commended Motleyswork as an excellent basis for the history of therise of the republic ; and other scholars in the 8l2 John Lothrop Motley Netherlands bore testimony to the thoroughnesswitli which the American had examined the sourcesr. their national history. In London, :: Pome, and in Boston Motley con-tinu^.^, his researches and wrote industriously ; andthe second harvest of his labours appeared in i860in the form of the first two volumes of TJte LnitedNetherlands. The period treated was only fiveyears (1584-89), but the area dealt with was closely did the new state come into touch withFrance and England, its poise as a balance ofpower was so delicate, that in discussing itshistorj an understanding of conditions in adja-cent lands was essential. And even at the time. JOHN LOTHROP permission of Mr John Murray. it was fully recognised that Motley had availed 1himself of many sources of information not used by any earlier writer. In 1860-61 Motley was busied in the StatePaper Office and the British Museum, and livedwith his family in London. His letters givedelightful pictures of the social recognition hisreputation had won for him : Oxford honouredhim with an honorarj degree. Meanwhile hewas watching events in his own countn,- though he was, he was keenly and in-telligently patriotic, a firm believer in Republicangovernment; and in order to correct the mis-conceptions of American affairs which he heardconstantly expressed, he wrote two long lettersto the Times, reprinted later under the title ofThe Causes of the Civil War. In the
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