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MARIE JOSEPH LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS (1797–1877) The History Of The French Revolution (1895) · Translated by Frederick Shorbel (????–????) ℹ️ "A clear, rapid, dramatic narrative, but often superficial, and, in the words of Carlyle, "as far as possible from meriting its high reputation."...

HENRY PACKWOOD ADAMS (1881–????) The French Revolution (1914) ℹ️ "THIS is an elementary book; it aims, above all, at making the story clear. Its other purpose, not less important, is to indicate the present state of the chief problems associated with the great Revolution. It is based mainly on...

The Mythology Of All Races (1916–1931) comprising 13 volumes, pubished by Marshall Jones Company ℹ️ "THERE are many good books on the mythology of particular peoples or races, ancient and modern, and much material accessible in books of travel and works on ethnology and religion; for classical...

IERNE LIFFORD PLUNKET (1885–1970) The Fall Of The Old Order: A Textbook Of European History, 1763–1815 (1909) https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.85866/page/n3 Isabel Of Castile And The Making Of The Spanish Nation, 1451–1504 (1915) ℹ️ "ISABEL of Castile is one of the most remarkable...

MURIEL ORLIDGE DAVIS (????–????) The Story Of England (1912) ℹ️ "Attractive and easily readable, arranged in excellent form and order." (Birmingham Daily Post) https://books.google.gr/books?vid=PRNC:32101047591456 The Great War And What It Means For Europe (1915) 📖 111 pages long. Divided...

GEORGE WILLIS BOTSFORD (1862–1917) A History Of Rome: For High Schools And Academies (1901) https://archive.org/details/ahistoryromefor00botsgoog/page/n8/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/historyofromefor00bots/page/n7/mode/2up An Ancient History For Beginners (1902) https://archive.org/details/...

ROBERT MATTESON JOHNSTON (1867–1920) The Roman Theocracy And The Republic: 1846–1849 (1901) ℹ️ "He begins his story with a backward glance at the rise of the papacy in the Roman Empire; then proceeds to trace very briefly the growth of the papacy down to modern times; until, with the accession...

GERALDINE EMMA HODGSON (1865–1937) The Teacher's Rabelais (1904) 📖 70 pages long—excluding 2 pages bearing poems, 2 pages of Preface and 2 pages of Notes . ℹ️ "No edition of the pedagogic portions of Rabelais seems to exist in English. The present volume is an attempt to fill the blank, which ...

ADRIAN HENRY TIMOTHY KNOTTESFORD FORTESCUE (1874–1923) The Greek Fathers (1908) ℹ️ "This little book contains outlines of the lives of the great Greek fathers, from Athanasius to John Damascene, with list of their chief works and a few bibliographical notes. No one will expect to find anything...

The author is Robert Matteson Johnston (1867–1920)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Matteson_Johnston

PREFACE By the term Historical Studies On The French Revolution , I refer stictly to studies examining linearly the events that form the French Revolution. Other studies examining numerous aspects—biographies, social factors that led to its outbreak, etc.—will be posted in other posts. Historical V...

WILLIAM TURNER (1871–1936) History Of Philosophy (1903) ✓ ℹ️ "The purpose of the writer in compiling this text-book has been so to set forth the succession of schools and systems of philosophy as to accord to Scholasticism a presentation in some degree adequate to its importance in the history...

I posted another copy of Buchan's study, dating from 1923. The copy from Pubic Library of India must not be PD, since it mentions later impressions.

A Popular Manual Of English Literature (1885) by Phillips, Maude Gillete (1860–????) ℹ️ "This Manual aims to present, in a manner at once simple, attractive, and philosophical, a general survey of the historical development of English literature by dividing it into ten ages, with their respect...

SIR RICHARD WINN LIVINGSTONE (1880–1960) The Greek Genius And Its Meaning To Us (1915 · 2nd Edition) 📖 Contains Ancient Greek terminology & literary fragments. ℹ️ "When I began to teach Latin and Greek, a friend asked me what I supposed myself to have learnt from them, and what I was tryin...