‘The author has struggled manfully with the difficulties of his subject, and not without a distinct measure of success. He has availed himself of the latest researches on the period, and his narrative is well ordered and illustrated by excellent maps and some useful appendices.’--_Manchester Guardian._ REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE, 1789-1815 By H. Morse Stephens, M.A., Professor of History at the University of California, U.S.A. Forming Volume VII. of Periods of European History. ‘As a piece of literary workmanship can hardly be surpassed.... The result is a boon to students, and a serviceable book of reference for the general reader.’--_Daily News._ ‘Mr. Stephens has written a very valuable and meritorious book, which ought to be widely used.’--_Manchester Guardian._ ‘An admirable, nay, a masterly work.’--_Academy._ ‘To say that Mr. Morse Stephens has compiled the best English textbook on the subject would be faint praise.’--_Journal of Education._ ‘We are happy to extend a hearty welcome to this much-needed Series, which, if it throughout keeps on the same high level of this volume, will fill up a painful gap in our accessible historical literature.’--_Educational Times._ ‘The volume contains one of the clearest accounts of the French Revolution and the rise of the First Napoleon ever written. In fact, it is the work of a real historian. The style of the book is strong and picturesque.’--_Western Morning News._ MODERN EUROPE, 1815-1899 By W. Alison Phillips, M.A., formerly Senior Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford. Forming Volume VIII. of Periods of European History. ‘An exceedingly difficult task has been accomplished, we may say without hesitation, to admiration. We have read the book with the keenest and quite unflagging enjoyment, and we welcome it as one of the very best histories that have been written within the last few years.’--_Guardian._ ‘It has achieved, with a remarkable success, the difficult task of compressing into a compact space the long history of a time of extraordinary complications and entanglements; but--much more important--it has never lost vigour and interest throughout the whole survey.... The completeness of the book is really extraordinary.... The book is by far the best and handiest account of the international politics of the nineteenth century that we possess.... Should give Mr. Alison Phillips distinct rank among historians of the day.’--_Literature._ ‘Altogether, the book offers a most luminous and quite adequate treatment of its subject, and makes a worthy conclusion of a Series that well deserves to be popular.’--_Glasgow Herald._