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GENERAL

HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION
IN EUROPE,

From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution.
BY M. GUIZOT,

Late Professor of History, now Prime Minister of France.

With occasional Notes by C. S. HENRY, D.D., Professor of Philosophy and History in the University of the City of New-York. One volume 12mo. Price $1 00.

"We hail with pleasure the republication of this able work. It is terse and full, and adverts to the most interesting topic in the social relations of mankind, the progressive improvement of the European nations from the overthrow of the Roman Empire by the Goths, and Huns, and Vandals, in the Fifth Century.

"The work of M. Guizot comprehends a Course of Lectures which he delivered, and which contain the spirit of Modern History, all condensed into a focus, to illuminate one most impressive feature in the annals of the world. A concise view of the chief themes will accurately unfold the importance of this volume.

The introductory lecture is devoted to a discussion of the general subject in its principles; which is followed by the application of them to the condition of European society. "M. Guizot next proceeds to develop the deranged state of the kingdoms of Europe, after the subversion of the Roman power, and the subdivision of the ancient empire into distinct sovereignties; which is followed by a survey of the feudal system. The various changes and civil revolutions of the people with the crusades, the conflicts between the nierarchical supremacy, and the monarchical and aristocratical authorities also, are developed with the fluctuations of society, through their combined tumultuous collisions; until the invention of printing, and the maritime discoveries of the fifteenth century, with the Reformation, produced a convulsion, whose mighty workings still are exhibited, and the rich fruits of which constantly become more plentiful and fragrant.

"The two lectures which close the series, are devoted to the English revolution of the seventeenth, and the French revolution of the eighteenth century.

"There are two features in M. Guizot's lectures which are as attractive as they are novel. One is, the lofty moral and religious principles which he inculcates. We doubt that very few professors of history in our own country, in their prelections, among their students, within an American College, would have commingled such a continuous stream of the best ethics, with a subject avowedly secular, as M. Guizot has incorporated with his lectures addressed to the Parisian infidels.

"Another is, the predominant influence which he has attributed to Christianity, in effecting the progressive melioration of European society.

"To the friends of religious freedom especially M. Guizot's Lectures on Civilization are a most acceptable present; because they are not the result of a controvertist's en deavours to sustain his own opinions in a polemical conflict with an adversary, but the deliberate judgment of an impartial observer, who has embodied his decisions in cidentally, while discussing another topic."-N. Y. American.

PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION,

COMPLETE HISTORY OF MODERN CIVILIZATION;

From the Fall of the Roman Empire until the Year 1789. With com. plete Chronological and Historical Tables. Translated from the French of M. GUIZOT.

This volume is the second part of M. Guizot's "Course of Modern History," in thirty three Lectures, and is an erudite and luminous development of the principal changes, events, derangements, and organization of the modern European nations after the fall of the Roman Empire, until they assumed their present chief characteristics. It forma a complete filling up, in minute details, of the former work, and is precisely adapted to enfold the origin, attributes, and operations of the political systems connected with fou dalism, and the subsequent revolutions of the kingdoms of Europ❤.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE full explanation given by M. Guizot, in the following preface, of the nature of this work, renders any remark on my part unnecessary. I will therefore merely state that in translating it my desire has been to render the author's meaning as nearly as possible in his own style; whether I have succeeded in this object, it is for others to determine. As to the books, documents, and speeches quoted, I have in all cases gone back to the original sources consulted by the author, and given the ipsissima verba of the respective writer or speaker. M. Guizot, in setting forth his authorities, refers to his own edition of the Memoirs relative to our Revolution (a most valuable publication); the references in my translation are to the best English edition of each work cited. The ample index now given is an entirely new feature, and will, I trust, be accepted as an important WILLIAM HAzlitt.

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