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Rh According to the scheme of examination for unpaid attachéships, instituted in December 1855 when Lord Clarendon was at the head of the Foreign Office and approved by Lord John Russell in 1859, but no longer in force, History was of the kind, candidates themselves said, that they could ‘get up’ in three months, and get rid of in a week. And no wonder: ‘for the convenience of candidates’ it had been settled that, ‘as regards modern history generally’, they were to be examined in ‘so much of Heeren’s Historical Manual of the Political System of Europe and its Colonies as treats of history since 1789’, and in the fourth volume of Russell’s Modern Europe; and, as regards any particular country to which they might