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The rapid sale of the first edition and the universal approval with which it has been received, show that the author's convictions have been well founded, that his views have been widely accepted both by teachers and learners, and that the work is eminently calculated to serve the purpose for ''which it was intended. Although full of instruction and calculated highly'' to interest and even fascinate children, it is a work which may be and has ''been used with profit and pleasure by all. “I have, I hope,” the author'' says, “shown that it is perfectly easy to teach children, from the very first, to distinguish true history alike from legend and from wilful inven&shy;tion, and also to understand the nature of historical authorities and to weigh ''one statement against another. I have throughout striven to connect the'' history of England with the general history of civilized Europe, and I have especially tried to make the book serve as an incentive to a more accurate study of historical geography.” In the present edition the whole has been carefully revised, and such improvements as suggested ''themselves have been introduced. “The book indeed is full of instruction'' and interest to students of all ages, and he must be a well-informed man indeed who will not rise from its perusal with clearer and more accurate ideas of a too much neglected portion of English History.” —.

The object of the present series is to put forth clear and correct views of history in simple language, and in the smallest space and cheapest form in which it could be done. It is meant in the first place for Schools; but it is often found that a book for schools proves useful