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Hardwick — continued. the student of ecclesiastical history in the Middle Ages, we know no English work which can be compared to Mr. Hardwick's book.” — .

This volume is intended as a sequel and companion to the “History of the Christian Church during the Middle Age.” The author's earnest wish has been to give the reader a trustworthy version of those stirring incidents which mark the Reformation period, without relinquishing his former claim to characterise peculiar systems, persons, and events according to the shades and colours they assume, when contemplated from an English point of view and by a member of the Church of England.

This volume forms a Class-book of Old Testament History from the ''earliest times to those of Ezra and Nehemiah. In its preparation the'' most recent authorities have been consulted, and wherever it has appeared ''useful. Notes have been subjoined illustrative of the Text, and, for the sake'' ''of more advanced students, references added to larger works. The Index'' has been so arranged as to form a concise dictionary of the persons and places mentioned in the course of the narrative; while the Maps, which have been prepared with considerable care at Stanford's Geographical Establish&shy;ment, will, it is hoped, materially add to the value and usefulness of the Book, “A careful and elaborate though brief compendium of all that ''modern research has done for the illustration of the Old Testament. We'' know of no work which contains so much important information in so small a compass.’ —.

A sequel to the author's Class-book of Old Testament History, continuing the narrative from the point at which it there ends, and carrying it on to ''the close of St. Paul's second imprisonment at Rome. In its preparation''