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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 245, 13 October 1908, Page 3

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Indeed the, r Jprpjfect; Tiiet-' 'tjjith'-. gncour^etoent 7 "froto--\fe*ret^' l quarter—most grateful of all, the great Mommsen himseif;;infor;nied ! consecutive>narrative of was he . ! was too ill to write, wishing the enterjjrise aii- the idea was first mentioned to the authorities at the British Museum,, the stupendous niture of the task had been"put forwards as ,^ -reason for.'the.absehce ';j6£ any-such world history from English literature y but with the iprofTered on all hands, the accomplishment of an be compassed only by a vast scheme of international assumed practicable-proportions, j !,,-'"" ? . v \ : .; ,j!,.,;,t .... ■l.O-j'P.W, '■■■\S..'. : - :-' x .?"•:. -'~>:r The 2«; volumesramd the ' The Editor-in-Chief was able to enlist the work of production was-carried'oh for a-time in/ Bervices of the most eminent historians in all She, i ■?. fas well ;as In ' : centres of learning—from Oxford, Canon Cheyne, XA In-.the.courste of gathering matter for the first, of Biblical scholars, and Professor of < the. History,- no less- thaii3o,ooo volumigs were ," : the Interpretation of Scripture; ProfessorPelhdrn; .;* carefully examinedjand discussed, and , late President of Trinity; Professor G. W. G. of over 1,300 emment-historians has gone to Oman, the brilliant professor of Modern History.. ...... the making vbfiok.-, ,Tne From-Cambridge,-.Dr. John Holland Rose,Me : I .'presented : to; the^ ; reader m one continuous • celebrated authority upon Europe during, the ~ narrative ranfetf.ftto : :fift^nsetob , a.r^rdi;on t :a lf .. -i Napoleonic era from London, Dr. Jamesl ' bakedclay cylinder, of his invasion of; Judah, to Gavrdncr, C. B. y editor of the Calender of State Lord Papers for the reigh oFHenry VIII, and Jpl& l -'- % } J *W*a Maekinder, oi the School of Economics. Berlin, I IIC UI ine ". . . which for the past half: century has been the '"." 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Professor Vamhiry, ahd contain an average of 660 pages "each; with I of Buda Pesth r most adventurous of .modern■::-: V 660 wbitds to the page) are.divided aa^oUows-2--i ; 1 historians, offered his of, ; r ~ volome:.: I ideals the two-earnest known , the near East, Brinhley of Tokio, his civilisations, ibomol Egypt *rid\ Babylonia. In-no i -of Japan. The Professor of History at Harvard, eh °* ,made daring ihe . r» Jit _* n.'a jj r/ii « n J tko h»ad of vhfi 19th-century been : more wtonishing or proved mere. ; Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, and the head ot tne Bj g nificant .; , i^^ ; , E g,riian to agreatextent, • ~ Research Department of the Carnegielnstnpupn,: »i»nd>B*byloni»n history altogether, are the discoveries/ \ - i- Professor vete among the of the past aixty years, and our wfaolecohceptioh"of the American histoSftant who gave their services to world has shifted; i|owU|Ui^\:hlitsrimAda««;-A« - —'r.^« c -*r£!r - rrV«'« i. —~2ia kictnrvfnr'Pnfrtich pyramids least as early as 4804—which was the the makmg of the first world history for B-ngUJA i&ffi&i date tor'the with*ome * - readers issued since the, loth century* ... -i-.\- ■.-. confidence of the state of cxvilieation in Babylonia some '; ' ,v * - . 'L-mi 4.M>*f> ' sixty .or seventy «nturies-befew ourlera. 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Moreover the plan niever a hation7yft the cmX- - - r j *._ i a. k.»t i,;»i«™ m»i «inW ■■ '«ation that still remains the.ideal of liberty andculture, ... ;■ proposed, not merely the best history that could -■ i . occnpgeß ' tße and fourth vohimes.'Volumes vf be produced by the most eminent living his- an(l Vll treat of ««n«;ftoithe year when the last native : torians but by the preservation of the finest emperor in Italy abdicated to the Gothic King Odoacer. - achievements of previous generations, the best :'TheUter history of ? "t" 1 TT » jv. „„.„„ tu a t all «X» ncrAa i the.Byzanttne Empire to the taking of Constantmople : history that the 19th century, that all the ages fey lT(l4sß)i mmWestern*Empirer:hom i in fact, could put forth. The labours ot all the > . ; Odoacer to Charlemagne, and from ChariMnagne to 1 great historians that ever livedo have gone ' Canosaa. 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The Historians History is, tnereipre, wnat a V XIU, of which the second portion gives the true history- should, be— international In this bistory of'the iVetfe«rlonds., Volume XlVtakes up the respect the English world history " may fairly" history ot Germany, or.rather of.the Holy, Soman claim to excel those admirable German world- Empire, where Volume^ Jt, carries it down to histories which have exerted so profound an r effect upon the life of the nation, and have con- Empire of AtaMa-Hungary..: Thehiatofy ; 'of Prw»*«.ia . '. tribufed not a little to the extraordinary r. -particular is dealt with in^yulumeXVwhii^.'takes^jybei nrokfess which Germany has made in the past history to the preaoiit stateToi'the-ixew Germah Empire. : t'i Tn. \£ZS ainhitiniiß of fh*»BP trnrlr? Volume XIV might almost"oe called of the <• forty years. The, most ambitious of these, world Hapsbures. whife Volume XV is the history of,the i histories is exclusively the work of berman iil,S; : Hoherizollerna, :and ; few thrD«s_ : are more interesting 1 torians and inevitably the record takes on the; than to trace the <sr tne ; character of a world revolving round Germany Scandinavia and SwitzerMjQtXnpy J^bmtiX^l,jM .o »v. '.-TklitiV • mistikp r«f fhe, 'firtTt - - Russia Volume XVH;- Thehistories England', Seat-ji as the centre. This is a mistake of trie tiret , and j„ tand occupy f<to volumes—xvfc to XXI. magnitude. The supreme value of true history VolumeXVHl takes tfceireadertothedeatlxrfSichard ' is that it shows the reader the experiences, of .„ , ro,,VolumeXlXtothede<^rat^h.of.warl)etween-th« % othe^people'as well as of his own, froniivriside. 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