This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. SOME GREAT BOOKS OF HISTORY. Of all subjects of study, it is History which
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. SOME GREAT BOOKS OF HISTORY. Of all subjects of study, it is History which stands most sorely in need of a methodical plan of reading. The choice of books is nowhere a more perplexing task: for the subject is practically infinite; the volumes impossible to number; and the range of fact interminable. There are some three or four thousand years of recorded history, and the annals, it may be, of one hundred different peoples, each forming continuous societies of men during many centuries. Many famous histories in one or two thousand pages cover at most about half a century: and that for the life of one nation alone. Macaulay's fascinating storybook occupied him, we are told, more years of labour to compose than, in some of its periods, the events occupied in fact. A brilliant writer has given us twelve picturesque volumes which almost exactly cover the life of one queen. The standard history of France extends to 10,000 pages. And it is whispered at Oxford that a conscientious annalist of the Civil War completes the history of each year in successive volumes by the continuous study of an equal period. At this rate forty thousand years would hardly suffice to compile the annals of mankind. In this infinite sea of histories, memoirs, biographies, and annals, how is a busy man to choose? He cannot read the forty thousand volumes--nor four thousand, nor four hundred. Which are the most needful? which period, which movement, which people, is most deserving of study? When I say study, I am not thinking of students, but of ordinary fireside reading in our mothertongue for busy men and women: men and women who cannot give their whole lives to libraries, who, 'like the ancient Greeks, ' as Disraeli says, know no language but their own, and who are not goin.
خصائص المنتج:- الفئات: تاريخ
- غلاف الكتاب: غلاف عادي
- لغة الكتاب: الانجليزية
- الكاتب: Frederic Harrison
- الناشر: General Books
- رقم ال ISBN: 9781150990748
- عدد الصفحات: 144
- لأبعاد (الارتفاع*العرض*العمق): 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.31 inches