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• Prefatory Note
• Historical Essays and Studies
• I: Wolsey and the Divorce of Henry Viii
• II: The Borgias and Their Latest Historian
• III: Secret History of Charles Ii
• IV: The Civil War In America Its Place In History
• V: The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Empire
• VI: Cavour
• VII: The Causes of the Franco-prussian War
• VIII: The War of 1870
• IX: George Eliot’s Life
• X: Mr. Buckle’s Thesis and Method
• XI: Mr. Buckle’s Philosophy of History
• XII: German Schools of History
• XIII: Talleyrand’s Memoirs
• XIV: The Life of Lord Houghton
• XV: A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation
• XVI: A Short History of Napoleon the First. By John Robert Seeley
• XVII: Mabillon Et La SociÉtÉ De L’abbaye De Saint-germain-des-prÉs À La Fin Du Xvii E SiÈcle. Par Emmanuel De Broglie
• XVIII: A History of England, 1837-1880 By the Rev. J. Franck Bright, D.D., Master of University College, Oxford
• XIX: A History of the French Revolution. By H. Morse Stephens. Vol. Ii
• XX: Wilhelm Von Giesebrecht
• Appendix

PREFATORY NOTE

With the exception of the hitherto unprinted paper entitled “The Causes of the Franco-Prussian War,” this volume consists of articles reprinted from the following periodicals: The Quarterly Review, The English Historical Review, The Nineteenth Century, The Rambler, The Home and Foreign Review, The North British Review, The Bridgnorth Journal. The Editors have to thank Mr. John Murray, Messrs. Longmans, Kegan Paul, Williams and Norgate, and the proprietors of The Bridgnorth Journal for their kind permission to republish these articles.

Acton and Simpson collaborated in writing the two articles on Buckle’s History of Civilisation (which it was impracticable to separate); the former of them is very largely Simpson’s work.

J. N. F.

R. V. L.

August 24, 1907.