"Neglect not the reading of History, "All our hopes of the future depend for from it you will learn easily the n a soun ,i understanding of the experience that has cost others t .. dear."- P ast - ~ The Emperor Basil to his son Leo. Fttierte Harrison. 0^ S ' HISTqq Av' WORLD 0/, iVr (published this year in London by The Times) 4: Jt /y /y for the sale of which, at the introductory price and upon easy terms —only 7/6 a month — the subscription list was opened in New Zealand on the 10th instant, % makes claim to the reader's attention on two accounts.
The "Historians' History of the World" makes a double appeal, in that it performs a service unatleinpled for 130 years in English literature, and this service the greatest that coukl be compassed by any boo!:. Since 1779 there has been no complete library of historical reading, no world history, for English readers, and a more valuable, at once, and interesting publication than the vivid and detailed record of man's experience is unimaginable. The Story of Stories.
It is tlie story of stories, the richest possession of the human race, the common heritage into which all should enter. Of other studies it may be said that they demand special faculties, or that the profitable pursuit of them requires the devotion of a lifetime. History alone is the universal study. It is never too early nor too late to begin. For the profitable and enjoyable reading of it no special gifts are needed. History indeed crosses the borderland of studies and enters the realm of literature where it rivals the finest romance on the score of interest alone, with the advantage that the stories told by history are true, and act themselves out upon a larger scene and through a greater diversity :>f character and circumstance than all the writcis of romance have together invented. Indeed a detailed history of mankind embraces the originals of every type of jhavacter and every situation in romance, with all those greater workings of destiny which, the man-written story does not touch. The Scenes of the World Dram*. The brillfant civilisation which we see existing in the valley of the Nile, four thousand years and more before our era; ihe might of the Babylonian-Assyrian Empire, collapsing to sudden and utter Dblivion; the heroic struggle of Greece with Persia—the "West with all its potential development against the East destined 10 immobility; the glory of Athens, the iemocratic naval power aiming at empire, md in the space of a single generation setting models for all posterity in literature, :he arts and speculation; the slow rise in Italy of the greatest political power the world has seen; the wide peace and order of the Roman Empire gradually disintegrating before the Germanic peoples af the north; the triumph of Christianity, :he appearance of Islam at both ends of the Mediterranean; the beginnings of
jationalities; feudalism; the Crusades; the international power of the Papacy; the development of the royal power md the rise of cities; the Renaissance; the Reformation; the discovery Hid colonisation of America; the world power of Spain, of Portugal, of Holland; the winning of the seas by Britain; the revolt of the American colonies heralding the French revolution; Napoleon, the international figure, triumphant over kings and their armies, checked by the resistance of the people in Germany, Russia and Spain; the period of reaction; " '48;" the granting of responsible government to Canada, the Australian States and New Zealand; Italian and German unity; the sudden awakening in the Far East—such are the scenes through which the reader follows the world drama. The Great Figures. • And across this mighty stage he sees the great figures moveRamses, Sargon, Cyrus, Themistocles, Pericles, Epaminondas, Alexander, Hannibal, Scipio, Sulla, Csesar, Augustus, Justinian, DdoaceT, Attila, Mohamed, Charlemagne, Constantino, Alfred, Otto, William the Conqueror, Saint Louis, Richard Ccour de Lion, Edward 111., Tamerlane, Louis XI., Charles "V., Hildebrand, Jengliiz Khan, Luther, Elizabeth, Akbar, Gustavus Adolphus, The Great Elector, Wallenstein, William the Silent, Cromwell, Peter, Charles XII., Louis XIV., Catherine, Frederick, Maria Theresa, Pitt, Washington, Napoleon, Wellington, Stein, Metternicli, Lincoln, Bismarck, Ito—what diversity of character! The Waste of Experience. And from this reading, which excels all other in interest, the reader learns as he goes, learns the best knowledge the world holds, all that we know by experience of personal and corporate conduct, of causes and effects, of policies and destiny. Such knowledge feeds the imagination with truth instead of dreams; broadens the mind, fits it to form opinions that are worth holding. " Ignorance of history means a wilful waste ot' experience." " Neglect not the reading of 'history, for from it you may learn cheaply the experience that lias cost others dear." And these lessons constitute the sole guidance to the future. " All our hopes of the future depend upon a sound understanding of the past." Thus history affords the finest entertainment, the best culture of
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