of the most accessible sources, giving in each case the name of the publisher and the price. THE MOST ACCESSIBLE SOURCES There are various volumes of illustrative material and collections of reprints available for the use of schools. Two books containing extracts from the sources have appeared recently, Selections from the Sources, by Charles Colby, and Sidelights on English History, by Ernest Henderson. The former covers the ground from the earliest time to the middle of the present century; the scope of the latter is limited to the period from the accession of Elizabeth to the accession of Victoria. The different volumes of the series, English History by Contemporary Writers (general editor, F. York Powell), and a similar series in Scottish history, deal with some of the most important periods. Selected numbers of the Translations and Reprints issued by the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania furnish material for special aspects of English history. Three valuable volumes of documents have been published: Select Charters, by W. Stubbs (Latin); Select Statutes and Constitutional Documents, by R. Prothero; and Documents of the Puritan Rebellion, by S. R. Gardiner. The source book of English history, in course of preparation by Dr. Lee, is chiefly documentary. Pamphlets dealing with questions of the day are often of great value. Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets and Political Pamphlets (both edited by George Saintsbury) give some of the most important examples of original material of this nature. Political Pamphlets, edited by Pollard, is a book of similar character. The Parliamentary History and Parliamentary Debates are to be found only in the largest libraries, but the three volumes of Representative British Qrations, edited by C Adams, Political Orations (Camelot Series), and Mo Political Orations, edited by L. Wagner, give some of noteworthy speeches by the most famous orators. The Bohn Library contains many of the early chroni in English translation. Froissart's Chronicles (Lord I ners's translation) have been edited recently by G. Macaulay. The Arber English Reprints afford much v able material, especially for the sixteenth century. Selec numbers of Cassell's National Library and of the South Leaflets supply source material in a very cheap fo Diaries, letters, memoirs, and biographies are of espe value. The less formal character and the marked perso element of this class of material render it useful in sti lating the interest of the student. A volume of the Pa Letters, that invaluable record of middle-class life in fifteenth century, is published in the Bohn Library. Th is also a complete edition in three volumes. The Let and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, edited by T. Carlyle, of great interest. For the Restoration there is the inim ble Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited by Wheatley. In Bohn Library are found Asser's Life of Alfred and Hut inson's Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson. The latter w has been edited recently with much care by C. H. Fir the editor of the valuable Ludlow Memoirs. For the teenth century there are Cardinal Wolsey, by G. Cavend and William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More. In tim recognition of the coming one thousandth anniversary the death of Alfred two new books have appeared, Alf. in the Chroniclers, by L. Conybeare, and King Alfred, F. York Powell (English History by Contemporary Writer A source library including most of the works enumera above may be obtained for about forty-five dollars, and be found fairly adequate for a study of the whole course English history. CHAPTER I-BRITONS AND SAXONS 1. The British Isles in the First Century By COR I. Britain: Its boundaries, shape, and surrounding seas THE NELIUS (55?-circ. 120), greatest historians. HE geography and inhabitants of Britain, already described by many writers, I will speak of, not that my research and ability may be compared with theirs, but because the country was then for the first time thoroughly subdued. And so matters, which as being still not accurately known my predecessors embellished with their eloquence, raphy which shall now be related on the evidence of facts. Britain, the largest of the islands which Roman geography includes, is so situated that it faces Germany on the east, Spain on the west; on the south it is even within sight of Gaul; its northern extremities, which have no shores opposite to them, are beaten by the waves of a vast open sea. The form of the entire country has been compared by Livy and Fabius Rusticus, the most graphic among ancient and modern historians, to an oblong shield or battle-axe. And this, no doubt, is its shape without Caledonia, so that it has become the popular description of the whole island. There is, however, a large and irregular tract of land which juts out from its furthest shores, tapering off in a wedge-like form. Round these coasts of remotest ocean the Roman fleet then for the first time sailed, ascertained that Britain is an island, and simultaneously discovered and conquered what are called the Orcades, islands hitherto unknown. Thule, too, was descried in the distance, which as yet had been hidden by the snows of winter. Those waters, they say, are sluggish, and yield with difficulty to the oar, and Britain. The noble biog Tacitus wrote of his father in-law con tains some very interesting accounts try where Agricola's most brilliant of the coun were triumphs achieved. Then, i.e. in the time of Agricola. "It seems believed that Tacitus both Spain and Gertend much north than they actually do." Church many to ex further to the and Brod ribb. Le. Orkneys. |