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It has also published the opinions , . wMv% ?*|Pir^l .'•■ • '••'■'■ of purchasers in New Zealand-opinions which fully endorse the the absence of a complete history m the The Price a Matter for Wonder. |M\W- J ' estimate formed of the book in England, Here there are re- English language has been acutely felt J^^S^SkSt SShfngabout f|l\v % printed a few of the review's which appeared in the leading and commented UT)On Such a WOl'k Was P a P er and printing will wonder how these' iipi\"' v 7- j j • • 7 / mi j i • • y jc ji ' * ' massive volumes, with their fifood, strong. i l|Sfi| ■' A'tA - ; - London and provincial papers. The testimony in favour of the . , , , _ .. . ... j„„ui a „,„.. ; to „ ,„„„ ,°", : ' K ' fMm '.V 511 „. . P iv • , ■ 77 • gneVOUSlv needed, for the absence Of it diirable Paper, clear type, and innumer- Jlgjft ,\:<A , . . History from all sides is overwhelming. * ' able illustrations, could possibly have f/Ito' **\ '' did not mean onlv that English readers, been P ut , on thejmarket at such a price." j- 131; .<\ ..»• •„ ■ . d t u , ,t, » & ' -LIVERPOOL DAILY POST :■■■' I [lifw :*.*|V '*"'"' V —-- -No Praise Can Be Too High. well acquainted with the histories of their ' ... lUK M, „ "No praise can be too high for this unrivalled experiment in bool; pro- The Best Method Honourably f fflffiuA "I*\ duction. In its vastness of scale, its laborious and conscientious workman- OWU and Othei'l'aCeS, possessed no WOl'k Carried Out \ F'JMm . " : k. f, V- " •* ship, its wealth of picturesque detail, and the scrupulous fairness of its tone . . . . " Wlntiw miv «v ._ ~„. ti,o '_,_i, rt j KOTili '' "U HS& ■- =• : ' ■ on controversial matters, The Times History leaves nothing to be desired. Combining theSO Separate IIIStOITCS lllto adopte d S ee m on the whole to™e the '*' J^^S^ It challenges the criticism of every expert in his own field, and maintains a . , , -~. . ~ ~ . . „ ~„_„ t, J „,„', _ f ~„„c f, „„f- „.,,j „. " v : ;' high standard of scholarship WEEKLY. OUC true whole. It meant that history Of universal hiSy,andfhat"f h« Scope and Detail. any kind had practically dropped. OUt Of been carried out with the most honourable , fcAlttS Soßiwtf, Scope and Detail. * . I . thoroughness aud with results that should teemTH CehtoeT . .. d , ■ All the striking events of the world, all its outstanding characters, all the horizon of the general reader—history secure entirely merited success."— 0 ./A'.)' 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' At a COSt of £70,000, and with the J \ he rise and fall ~o f dynasties are unrolled the factions of the nobility, . _~,,..,.,., , .. , . , 5 j before us m one long and gorgeous pano- -.-;.■■ :.:.'■-,■ The single scholar, ploughing a lonelv furrow, can hope to bring the collaboration of a very ]„««, staff through rama, and it is precisely in its character of a great and moving panorama that light of original research to the eluc.dation of only a little tract of tm.e- COllftOOiatlOn 01 ,X Vdy laige Stan tlllOUgll thia |t / ,tQ ug ft has \^ n So(lght> aH pos3ibie the age of Pericles, the great French Revolution. Here one has specialists r,(MMOfI of t,PTI VParS TllP TiITIPS fillpd tllP to present the history of all the peoples as a succession of vital and dramatic working together in order to resume, reva.iv, and criticise ail the labours 01 J JCUWU ,L utf ct * X ' ' -*- 110 J, - 11 " ,: ' «"" scenes, vivid with light and colour, and thmbbing with emotion, The price such historians, and to explain them as being not the accounts of isolated eat need and at a single stroke °"ave may probably challenge comparison w'tl, »iwK or any work which; onanythjng ."- incidents in the onward march of mankind, but as so many phases of a pro- & » DO like a corresponding scale, has yet been produced in English"—27/^V. cess in the last analysis cosmicaI."— SCOTSMAN (Edinburgh), English readers Complete histories Of every TABLET (London). J ... 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