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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 125, 25 November 1908, Page 11

Some Events of Wl|#j+ hlCfni'YT' hi\Tf* If All fViri Some Events,-^ World-History. V f ildll lii^Llll V IldiVL Vlfll 1 Ldil Continued. Dominion ot N.Z. proclniraed ' ' Confession of Augsburg Anglo-Russian Agreement "What history have I read?" It is a question that gives S. bT P " n Expedition to Lhassa „ . . . & Sack ol « ome Duma summoned pause, tne more arresting because, as history affords at once the Battle of Pavi « Se° of B STn W " ' ' most fascinatin S and most profitable reading, a satisfactory ££.. rOl.?S" r Ol .?S" 1 - Ai coronation of Edward vii. answer might reasonably be expected. coJta'cra o™*0 ™* "" Spani'sh^AmTican^ar Of anY ° tller Subject a general ignorance might be eXCUSed 011 M»g c "a«'B Circmnnavigation Grsco-TurKish War the plea that the subject was not of universal importance, or was Chirre So'vS o 'v! 10 Emp n eror Battle of OmUurman -in -n -i n .-■/• -. . ™» " ■ • * « .. ■.. Dreyius Case <* ull > o r called for special faculties. The reverse is true of history. Jj"j" * ! Mm »*m«"> oolTn vlv'-^-i The record of human experience, what could be more universally The Holy Sag™" Gordon at Khartum valuable f An epic made up of all the true stories, what could prove Savonarola b' ZZJSZJFUnt m v or ! ■"kMrthig to read ? Is it not curious to reflect that most of £s"™ ZL fi£i Majnba what has happened in the world is unknown to you ? caxton at Westminster : I?usso=Tnrkish War m, £ -„ -, it -jin -■ -„ Discovery of Cape of Good Third Republic in France lhe ±ault QS n o* lie with the reader. He may fairly Hope S o"ln E-p. r--* f r t Uta S ! ate t0 the a1 * enCe ' nOt ° f hiStOriCal WOCkS («* *S 7£L*Z S51 - 0 ■ v Battle of sedan *he Historians History mentions 8000 of first importance), but of a Wars o! the R08"R 08 " p™™lL»"7k 5 . hhtor ?- m histOTioal librar y' written to be read staining any S>s3Ll*S > 53Ll*' <H *" ' '"Sgratz degree of completeness. The want is now filled by the Historians' FaH of Con st«ntinopie, uss pJeeing^TsLes History of the World. To say that it offers English readers their wydif^nTthe Lollards American civil War first opportunity of seeing history as a whole, is to indicate, but by it hh c a fT Burned liltf/ Unification of Italy , 1 . « ai -LXLtF Garibauii Frees Naples no means to exhaust, its extreme importance. Eor in giving the le of A B|nconrt ?rime n an M War y rGadel ' * W ° VU historV ' the Historians' History also gives him what WsTof Moscow coup d'Etat of Napoleon in. he could not obtain before, a complete history of each separate JU ttle ° f Sempach Hevolutiona of MS nmiT .j.,,,. r The Great Schism Swiss Civil War COUntiy. Career of Timur I?JTI\ IZTIL Even of En S land there was no satisfactory history for his v™'™* ■ - 138S* Railways introduced purpose. The great historians, Preeman, Gardiner, Stubbs, devoted T^mLl™*'^" .. S JLjJ'iS Srm Bin themselves to short periods. Preeman wrote two volumes about the Turks enter Enro P« 7 ,Z Jul l ?r lutlon reigu of William :Rufus ' Jt is °^ iousl y impossible for any but a SSX^SSS™ -. Greek War of Independence <> titj/ i -r, *.-.■... n x.. Holy Alliance professed student to read even English history on such a scale. gT s at Avi^ non Ba«ii°oi*wntcrioo LeSS distiD § uisned scholars wrote complete histories of England, but Rlvo S it LL o ce f aS waifa°ce nded ihe Hundred Days each one suffered from some drawback, so that it would be safe to say Ih«I h «, Sid ! Ia J l V f spers „,.,. i t j • Battle of fcvesliam Thi s Sench at ftfoscoT nmG ° Ut ° f eV6IT readerS ° f this announcement do not Kingdom of Granada Founded war with united States possess Knight, or Bright, or Green upon their shelves. Green's Sejgwz* Khan" I*"*1 *"* Bo^^en^of Copenhagen histoi T> deservedly popular, is but a one-sided work, dealing chiefly D «nte ta " "^tOTreaty of Tilsit with social conditions. Bright has rather the character of a text- GioryTf' Venice inQ /. l r £i:\?l y j° man Empire took *™ <b* upper cl*»es ™ school. The English portion of the sii. Battle of Austeriitz Historians' History of the World surpasses, even in the matter of Henry iv. at canossa , siavi* Tr'adi^AbSiied mere s P ace ' these separate histories of England, and at the same time 3 " Conqntst ol ' whiff of eyeshot gi yes the reader complete histories of the rest of the British Emnire Exploits of the Cid l Napoleon at Toulon ■ 1 x r Rurik f oun ds Russian Empira execution of Louis, xvi. " ancl or France, Germany, tne United btafces, Japan, Russia, and Norsemen settle in France 1789 nof Te " or every other country, each on a similarly detailed scale. Treaty o! Verdun rail of Bastille " Alfred the Great Jonvocation of States^ General The publication of the Historians' History has entirely Changed Charlemagne . Qfkrt New South Wales Colonised „ , »11 • t, .. -, 7 , „ , . ° crowned at Rome °"" cook's voyages tlie aspect ot things. Before its advent, the reader simply vwent cuaries Martei repels Sara. 5S ZZrSL* Engine w^nt history altogether, even that of his own race. He had to be oSj 1 "" ftw Foundation of United States content with the COllf ession that, odd as it might SOUnd, most of what Mohammed 00/« S:"T B ul'ef ST™* had in the world must remain unknown to him. With the X'S °! SJS* First Partition of Poland Historians' History in his possession, the Whole epic of man's Justinian makes Laws woiio takesTuebec doings— from the first movements revealed to us by the glimmering jfl P anL W a e dopTc6™nese e ciVfc Bait": ol SeT of the S"? d ™* ™ Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the events of this;/ 'jSS*^^ : ~jL ihe seven Years' War very year inNew Zealand — is open to him. To the left and right >of ', at c )** ll o s ~ < **?'A \lliance of Three Petticoats N, i ■ , '• tap it , . , , " EDglish Conquest of Britain I rvjK Battle of cuiioden thls announcement is a list of some leading events, picked at, Romans leave Britain '" war of ausw^L^Z ha P hazard » aud thrown together in more or less chronological . order. Dwlson 1 ?/ 1"1 "* 8 B<HM oqFrederick "wGre^conque™ TlieV mfl J se * VQ to indicate SOme of the heads, as it Were, to the SriSe'the Empire Ear ' stor y told - in tlie Historians' History of the World. Everyone of SSKe? 1 pSftS? RR ° mB wood's Halfpence these events has its own bearing upon history as a whole, and ieveru^/nvadeSotf DeiS'Jf'chSlrxii. possesses its own intrinsic interest. Each one of them counts l^EfifilmJoil^" lacobite Rising of 1715 so much in the experience of the human race and has its lesson ' Mi . rr lacle' 1 acle '° f . Thuni . „.17A South Sea Bubble . L . dering Legion , . J-jß^Sf Kingdom of Prussia estab- to teil 5 to many oi them attaches also, the personal interest of Marc «s Aurelius, Emperjatr lished i. m • i i -rrn , i ,-, , Hadrian visits Britain can*ur- of r.ihrnifir striking characters. What does the reader know about these events ? Administration of Tr.a^n ujp.inv oi uiurmiar Agncola makes tfi wT..™:!L ■» The CTents and the P ersonalities "£ l"^°'-y. *»» story of the bSSSJT"' 7ft Battle of Narva rsion world, our own world — it is a shame not to be familiar with them ; it £ eras ,! lem „ „ „...._.., L v ' » ueyolt of Boadicea pI" of' "yticf ia * ™ stG of 5 » a waste of drama and romancp sur- v f3r ßtlMn : 1 Batt!e of La Ho^ ue passing the inventions of the playwright and the novelist. campaigns of Germanicus lM%y<) Glcncoe Massacre . x «/ o V arus defeated . n Achievements of Peter the In tn e next few years, now that the means of acquiring it have M""!? 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