Half Hours of English History selected and illustrated by C. K

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SELECTED AND ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES KNIGHT, VOL. I. LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT, 90, FLEET STREET.

ADVERTISEMENT.

. "Half-Hours op Exglish History," although, forming a Companion Series to " Half- Hours with the best Authors," differs in several particulars from the plan of that collection. 1. Although the articles, taken on an average, will each furnish reading for about a Half-Hour, they canDot, from the nature of the work, be so arranged as to supply continuous reading for every day and week of the year. 2. They are not selected as specimens of the excellence of style, although many articles are necessarily taken from those who may be included amongst " the best Authors" ; but chiefly as affording a succession of the more graphic parts of English History, chronologically arranged. The Editor was led to the conception of his plan, from the consideration that the portions of History upon which general readers, and the young especially, delight to dwell, are those which tell some story which is complete in itself, or which furnish some illustration which has a separate as well as a general interest.

Book I. Book III

The Roman Period. William I. to Henry III. Page 1. Cæsar's Invasion of Britain Dion Cassius. 5. Cymbeline . . . Shakspere. 15. The Invasion of Claudius . Milton. 18. Boadicea . . . Xiphiline. 22. Scene from Bonduca, a) Beaumont & Tragedy . . . j Fletcher. 26. The Druids . . . C. Knight. 30. Severus .... Xiphiline. 33. Persecution of Diocletian : ) -d _ Alban . . j •BEDE* 36. The last Komans . . Bede. 37. Silchester . . . C. Knight.