With 7 Coloured Maps and 70 Woodcuts. (830 pp.) Post 8vo. 7s. 6d. THE STUDENT'S HUME. A HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES INCORPORATING THE CORRECTIONS AND RESEARCHES OF RECENT HISTORIANS AND CONTINUED TO THE TREATY OF BERLIN, 1878. NEW EDITION, revised, corrected, and partly re-written, by J. S. BREWER, M.A. LATE OF THE RECORD OFFICE, AND PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, 'THE STUDENT'S HUME' was originally published in 1858. But the progress of events, and the publication of many important historical documents, public and private, previously unknown, induced the Editor to subject the Work to a thorough revision; and he called to his aid the late Professor BREWER, who, possessing an unrivalled knowledge of all periods of English History, was perhaps the highest authority upon the subject. He bestowed unwearied pains upon the revision of the work, and a few weeks before his lamented death he gave the following account of his labours, and the principles which guided him in the revision: 'I have brought the work down to the Treaty of Berlin. On the whole, I think it is the most handy and complete manual of English History which exists for schools and experience will prove it to be so. To keep the work to its title and size, to introduce the corrections necessitated by the progress of original research, to remove positive misstatements, has required no small amount of care and judg. ment. But I have been guided to the best of my ability by historical truth, by the investigations of recent trustworthy historians, by the wants of the student, and by my own researches, now of some years' standing. The popularity of the Work must depend on its merits for accuracy and ability, and its sufficiency as a good Manual. Competitive examinations have entirely put it out of any schoolmaster's power to exclude a thoroughly good History from his schoolroom, because he may have a sentimental dislike to some of its statements. I am fully convinced that the road to success is by careful investigations and temperate narrative, showing the reader that there is another side to the question than that which some recent writers have presented. 'Wherever there was fair evidence for Hume's statements, I have retained them, and still more frequently Hume's estimate of motives and characters when he had the facts before him, because, though not entirely free from prejudice, he had excellent good sense and sound judgment.' |