Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome Part 80

FORTY-FIFTH AMERICAN, CORRECTED AND REVISED FROM THE THIRTY-FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION.

BY W.C. TAYLOR, LL.D., OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,

Author of a Manual of Ancient and Modern History, &c. &c.

HISTORICAL SERIES.

PINNOCK'S FRANCE,

HISTORY OF FRANCE AND NORMANDY, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE REVOLUTION OF 1848,

WITH QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION AT THE END OF EACH SECTION,

BY W.C. TAYLOR, LL.D., OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,

Author of a Manual of Ancient and Modern History, &c. &c., and Editor of Pinnock's Improved editions of Goldsmith's Greece, Rome, and England.

ILl.u.s.tRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE THIRD ENGLISH EDITION.

PINNOCK'S ROME,

REVISED EDITION,

PINNOCK'S IMPROVED EDITION OF DR. GOLDSMITH'S HISTORY OF ROME,

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ROMAN HISTORY,

AND A GREAT VARIETY OF INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE WORK,

ON THE MANNERS, INSt.i.tUTIONS, AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ROMANS;

WITH QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION AT THE END OF EACH SECTION.

TWENTY-FIFTH AMERICAN, FROM THE NINETEENTH LONDON EDITION, IMPROVED

BY W.C. TAYLOR, LL.D.,

WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS BY ATHERTON AND OTHERS.

PINNOCK'S GREECE,

REVISED EDITION,

PINNOCK'S IMPROVED EDITION OF DR. GOLDSMITH'S HISTORY OF GREECE, REVISED, CORRECTED, AND VERY CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED, BY THE ADDITION OF SEVERAL NEW CHAPTERS, AND NUMEROUS USEFUL NOTES.

WITH QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION AT THE END OF EACH SECTION.

TWENTY-FIFTH AMERICAN, FROM THE NINETEENTH LONDON EDITION, IMPROVED

BY W.C. TAYLOR, LL.D.,

WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS, BY ATHERTON AND OTHERS.

HISTORICAL SERIES.

Pinnock's England, Greece, Rome, and France, have become school cla.s.sics. In order to make this series more complete, the volumes have been revised by that well-known historian, W.C. Taylor, LL.D., of Trinity College, Dublin.

The popularity of these books is almost without a parallel. Teachers unacquainted with them, will on examination give them a decided preference to any other historical series published.

_From the Pennsylvania Inquirer, Philadelphia_.

PINNOCK'S GOLDSMITH'S GREECE, ROME, AND ENGLAND.--The popularity of these histories is almost without a parallel among our school books.

Their use is co-extensive with the English language, and their names are familiar to all who have received an English education. But if permitted to remain as they came from the hands of the author, they would soon be antiquated; for not only is the stream of modern history flowing onward, but numerous scholars are constantly making researches into that of ancient times. These works are therefore frequently revised, and thus the labours of successive individuals are added to those of the gifted man who wrote them. The present edition is quite an improvement on the former ones. Several important matters which had before been omitted, have been introduced into the text, numerous notes and several new cuts have been added, and every chapter commences with one or more well selected poetical lines, which express the subject of the chapter, and will a.s.sist the memory as well as improve the taste of the student. We feel a.s.sured that these additions will increase the reputation which these works have hitherto so deservedly sustained.

_From_ JOHN M. KEAGY, _Friends' Academy, Philadelphia._

I consider Pinnock's edition of Goldsmith's History of England as the best edition of that work which has as yet been published for the use of schools. The tables of contemporary sovereigns and eminent persons, at the end of each chapter, afford the means of many useful remarks and comparisons with the history of other nations. With these views, I cheerfully recommend it as a book well adapted to school purposes.

_From_ MR. J.F. GOULD, _Teacher, Baltimore._

Having examined Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome, I unhesitatingly say, that the style and elegance of the language, the arrangement of the chapters, and the questions for examination, render it, in my estimation, a most valuable school book:--I therefore most cheerfully recommend it to teachers, and do confidently trust that it will find an extensive introduction into the schools of our country.

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_From the New York Evening Post._

A well written and authentic History of France possesses unusual interest at the present time. It becomes especially valuable when, as in the present case, it has been prepared with questions as a text-book for common schools and seminaries, by a scholar so accomplished as Dr.

Taylor. The work has pa.s.sed through three editions in England. The American editor has added one chapter on the late revolutions, bringing the history down to 1848, and has added to its value by ill.u.s.trations throughout, portraying the costume and the princ.i.p.al events of the reigns of which it treats.

This treatise goes back to the origin of the Celtic race, or the Cimbrians, as the offspring of Gomer, peopling the north and east of Europe on the one hand, and to the descendants of Cush--under the names of Scythians, Tartars, Goths, and Scots, warlike, wandering tribes, on the other, tracing the migrations of the latter till they drove the Celts westward, and the Rhine forms the boundary between the two nations. From the Gauls it goes on to the reign of the Franks, Charlemagne, the Carlovingian race, the history of Normandy, and the history of France from the first crusade through its lines of monarchies and its revolutions, to 1848. The style is clear and forcible, and from the compactness of the work, forming, as it does, a complete chain of events in a most important part of the history of Europe, it will be found interesting and valuable for general readers, or as a text-book in our schools. It is comprised in 444 pages, 12mo., and contains a chronological index and genealogy of the kings of France.

Want of s.p.a.ce prevents us from inserting all the recommendations received: we however present the names of the following gentlemen, who have given their recommendations to the Histories:

SIMEON HART, Jr., _Farmington, Conn._ REV. D.R. AUSTIN, _Princ.i.p.al of Monmouth Academy, Monson, Ma.s.s._ T.L. WRIGHT, A.M., _Prin. E. Hartford Cla.s.sical and English School._ REV. N.W. FISKE, A.M., _Professor Amherst College, Ma.s.s._ E.S. SNELL, A.M., _Professor Amherst College, Ma.s.s._ REV. S. NORTH, _Professor Languages, Hamilton College, N.Y._ W.H. SCRAM, A.M., _Prin. Cla.s.sical and English Academy, Troy, N.Y._ JAMES F. GOULD, _Princ.i.p.al of Cla.s.sical School, Baltimore._ A.B. MYERS, _Princ.i.p.al of Whitehall, Academy, New York._ HORACE WEBSTER, _Professor Geneva College, N.Y._ W.C. FOWLER, _Professor Middlebury College, Vermont._ B.S. n.o.bLE, _Bridgeport, Conn._ REV. S.B. HOWE, _Late President of d.i.c.kenson College._ B.F. JOSLIN, _Professor Union College, N.Y._