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Some Events of L!^i.^—, 1*i~;i»~ —~ i*s Rtoiv^^r nIOfAPU IM'l7/*-'ITAfI «*AA/I J some Evenis, 4 * World-History. fTudluljlUlj Cammed. Doialilion of N.Z. proclaimed '■.'■.*'.. ' Confession of Augsburg {SUSS fflr-' " Wl,at '""* * "■*'" B "?.-.iw* "gim snzr *" Duma snmmooeii pause, the more arresting because, as history affords at once the Battle oi Pavia w WBf ' most fas ™ting and the most profitable, reading, a satisfactory Sf.Rf , coronatioii of EdWd vh. answer might reasonably be expected,. : • Diet of worms ±0.41.-. South African War * ; -. ; \ . Cortes conquers Mexico Spanish-American War of > n y Subject a general ignorance might be eXCUSed OH Mn « e,lM ' B Clrcumnavlgatloa ~ , SrSSJH thepleathat the subject was not of universal importance/or was S/v!'^ Dreyius ease • dull, or called for special faculties, The reverse is true df history. Batt,e 0l Marl * Mno C o^»\ W iiiee 8 The reCord of Umm ex P erience > **«* could be more universally S^ST Gordpn at Khartum valuable ? An epic made up of all the true stories, what could prove [Jj"* more interestin g t0 read? Is ifc not curious to reflect that most of '£5™!"" J 4 ? 8 occupation pi Egypt i i 1 • ji* ' ■n • i . Columbus discovers America Majnfaa wnat lias happened m the world is unknown to you ? caxton at Westminster The fault does not lie with tie reader. He pay fairly "ST"* *» < «"* !2&tt.b„p.,,« f^* 1 Ms 1* t0 the ' abseMe > not ° f histeM «*<«« *** {£SSL-5» J-P'" Battle oi sedan tne Historians History mentions 8000 of first importance) but of a Wars of Roses ££3rt*&!T»' his W/orln S teicalffl«y,.writatobeMdandattammga n y rSL** niggrat? degree of completeness. The want is now filled by the Historians' FaH 0| Constantinople, i«3 FrSgT|ay«; 'History of the World. To say that it offers English readers their Loiiarus , American civil war first opportunity of seeing history as a whole, is to' indicate, but bv fv oh ? H r Burne4 1 d.ltf Unification of'ltaly i 1 ; m / . * wnstancs ATrJLtJ Garibaldi frees 'Naples n0 *neans to exhaust, its extreme importance. For in giving the Battle «'Aginconrt ;cfch w ; • reader a Wolld m ° Vh the Historians ' Histoi 7 also gives him what Soi mosmw ' coup d'Etat of Napoleon hi. he could not obtain before, a complete history of each separate Sempacli Revolutions of ?48 nnnntW The Great Schism Swiss civil war . •, country. Career , Tißnr ' Even Of England there no satisfactory history for his ™L 1340 RafiwayVinSucil purpose. The great historians, Ereeman, Gardiner, Stubbs, devoted TttilTnm" H"J s£m Bin' themselves to short periods. Ereeman wrote two volumes about thtf Torks eßter En ™p* reign of William Rufus. It is obviously impossible for ariybut a ' SJ^2. :^ tott , P rofessed student to read even English history on sucti a scale. 55 J,^" 1 Peterioo'Massvre Less distinguished scholars wrote complete histories of England, but Bmi •fTOo'* SSilldKj'- each one suffered from some drawback, so that it would be safe to say b^oTe™*^ oi JKailticori that nine out of every ten readers of this announcement do not Kingdom of Granada FomuM The French at' Moscow > _. . , ; _ .■ . ' „ ,„ . p m „; l . rf „• i„,.„ A war with united states possess Knight, or Bright, or Green upon their shelves. Green's jjjtoi&u ,SS Copenhagen popular, is but a one-sided work, dealing chiefly JJ**. im J " ' Treaty or Tiisit; withsocial conditions Bright has rather the character of a text- GioryofvLice lA Qri' ' '&J&F?**r book the upper etas in'school. The English portion of/the L q „er s^ Battle of Austeriitz Historians' History of the' World surpasses, even in the matter of Henry iv. at canossa j mere s P ace > these se P arate of England, and at the same time ' mmt ° f - whiff of: Grapeshot gives the,reader complete histories of the rest of the British Empire i ,Ex P ,oits of the Cid Napoleon-at Toulon , f-p n ... _ , r ' Hurik founds Ruttiun Efflpiff iixecution oi Louis xvi.. ana oi: mncej bermany, the United btates, Japan, Russia, and Norsemen settle in France fSVUsGr ; etell °^ QVCOW^V Y> eacil on a similarly detailed scale. ' Jjjj Convocationef 'states-Geacrai The publication of the Historians' History has entirely changed Charlemagne ' ;qaa ' New Sblitli Wales Colonised ti in „ '•* -i 4 '«. j • , / "owned at Rome ovv cook's voyages the aspect of things. Before its advent, the reader simply went charks uuta, repels Sara. . siege of: Gibraltar: without history altogether, even that of his own race. He had to be n "% a ! Toure Watt invents Steam Engine v , ~1 ~ - ~ . ~ , ~ . ' . uewn ot fi^^ Foundation of united states i content with the confession that, odd as it might sound, most of what Mohammed ■ , UOfJ With the ' ' First Partition: or Poland Historians' History in liis possession, the whole epic of man's Jusfinian makes' Laws .Peace of Paris. (i • .0 ■li a \ ■'■• 11 j. in,. . Fall of Westers Empire • woife takes Quebec doings—from the first movements revealed to .us by the glimmering japa„ eS e adopt cu£e cwi. Sol : &':' of the'grey :dawn in Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the events of this ' SLm" j*, ) ,'The Seven Years 1 ' war very year \n New Zealand—is open to him. To the left and right of it.cM'ons -. ">•' Alliance of Three Petticoats At,';. / i, ' a • v a n 1 t . •% , , English Conquest of Britain Roamns leave Britain - .• , f'*'Battle;of Fontenoy - : haphazard; andibrowh together in more or less chronological order, w"sions* es ' m T may;serve to indicate some of the heads, as it were, to the fettle Em^ stor y m * the ffistoiy of the World. Everyone of OSS^S I^'' Wood's Halfpence ■■ , ' these events has its own • bearing upon history as a whole, and seSKawTcotiand ' '■ SSo^^lmsii.,./.' : ''■ FMBOMes• ite=-own - :lniarinßto. interest. Each one of them counts . Jacobite Rising of 1715 so much in the experience of the human race and has its lesson mimcM oi Than. -iiy>i : South Sea Bubble ' , , „ - ■n ,y .- , , ~ • ~ , L . .• «: Kingdom of Prussia esiab. to tell; t 0 man^. of them attaches also the personal interest of Jfi£ h "fcJj B peror " . n-u ■(/■ ■, striking characters. What does the reader know about these events ? Administration of Trajan Capture' Of. Gibraltar > ' ° . vuva Agricola makes Britain i Battle of Bieniieim_.-.»-. . \ The events and the personalities of history, the story of the nSEJ; ,^ ince ' »,« War of the Spanish Success ~ u A. • t j, 1 o '1. ~, „ - . "e ßtrucfton 0l 7A Battle oi %v ? [sion .'world, pur own world-it is a shame not to be familiar with them; it S a t le o T ßoadicea Foundation of Calcutta is a waste of experience: it is a waste of drama and romance sur- ?, cro J , bur ? s R . ome Peace of Ryswick ' • •' ■ .. . . 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