=1815-1837. PEACE AND REFORM.= Edited by A. C. W. EDWARDS, Christ’s Hospital, Horsham. =1837-1856. COMMERCIAL POLITICS.= By R. H. GRETTON, M.A. [_In preparation._ =1856-1876. FROM PALMERSTON TO DISRAELI.= Edited by EWING HARDING, B.A. =1876-1887. IMPERIALISM AND MR. GLADSTONE.= Edited by R. H. GRETTON. =1535-1913. CANADA.= By JAMES MUNRO, M.A., University of Edinburgh. =1637-1688. THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS.= By J. PRINGLE THOMSON. * * * * * =1689-1746. THE JACOBITE REBELLIONS.= By J. PRINGLE THOMSON. LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. _OPINIONS OF THE PRESS_ “The compilers have taken a sensible view of their functions. They give a sufficiency of statutes and documents; but they have been more particularly at pains to unearth narratives, character-sketches, and passages of satire or argument. They aim at stimulating the imagination and at provoking discussion. Teachers will be grateful to them for avoiding hackneyed material; and it will indeed be an expert who browses in either of these volumes without finding that his attention is called to unfamiliar but most attractive sources of information. For our own part, we have been incited by Mr. Bell to look up Bradford’s ‘History of Plymouth Plantation,’ and by Mr. Perrett to send for the ‘Lives of the Norths.’ These volumes are just of the right length. They contain a hundred and twenty pages apiece, which is about what the intelligent school-boy may be expected to assimilate in the course of one term. And each relates to a period of manageable proportions--the sort of period that is set for a ‘Local’ or a ‘Certificate’ examination as a special subject. It would be difficult for a school-boy, however willing, to work over the whole of English history with the deliberation which the use of such a source-book implies. But the occasional study of a short period on these lines is essential if history is to be made a living subject. The series that Messrs. Bell are preparing will give to teachers the widest possible range of choice; for it will contain twenty volumes, the first dealing with Roman Britain and the last with the years 1901-1912.... Each volume will be a capital shilling’s worth.”--_Manchester Guardian._ “Must make the study of history infinitely easier both for teacher and pupil, and infinitely more interesting.”--_Spectator._ “Will make the history lesson a real pleasure to the scholar.”--_Educational News._ “As incentives to greater interest in history, they cannot fail to be most useful both to teacher and student.”--_Athenæum._ “Every secondary school should have the series in use.”--_Education._ LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. FOOTNOTES: [1] To be “in lot and scot” is in modern phrase “to pay rates.” [2] _I.e._, if he be killed. [3] Date unknown. [4] _I.e._, “alms.” To hold in “almoin” is to hold by the sole service of prayers for the grantor.