Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-04-13
HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
BY PHILIP SMITH, B. A.
ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THE DIcTIoN-
ARIES OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES BOG
RAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY.
PLAN OF The WORK.

Since Sir Walter Raleigh solaced his iinprisonm mt
in the Tower by the composition of his ''History OF
the World, the literature Of England has never yet
achieves, the Work which lie left unfinished. There
have been Universal Histories, from the bulk OF
encyclopedia to the meagre outline in which the
| annals of each nation separately recorded; but
without attempt to the story of Divine Prov
dence and human progress in connected narrative
1t proposed to supply this want by work condensed
enough TO kecpit within reasonable size, but yet SC
full to be free from the dry badness of epome
The literature of Germany abounds in hstory-such
| as those of Muler Schlosser, Kari Won Rotteck
Duncker and others-which at prove the demand
for such book, and furnish models, in degree
| for its execution. But even those great works are
somewhat deficient in that organic Wity which is the
chief aim of this "Iiistory of the World
The study ofour whole like that OF each sepa
| rate nation, has "a beginning, mddle and an end
The story propose to follow, from its beginning IN
the sacred records and from the dawn of civilization IN
the east-through the successive Oriental Empires
the rise ofibery and the perfection OF heather poty
arts, and literature in Greece and Romethe change
which passed the face of the world when the light
ofChristanity sprung uphe origin and first appear
OF those barbarian races which overhrew both Ill
visions of the Roman Emprethe annals OF the States
which rose on the Empires ruins, including the PIC
turesqua details of medieval history, and the steady
progress of modern liberty and civlzation-and the
extension of these influences by discovery, conquest
colonzation and Christian missions, to the remotest
regions of the earth In word separate histories
reflect the detached of human action and suffer
ing our aim is to bring into one view the several parts
which assured ly form one great whole, moving on
wards under the guidance of Divine Providence to the
unknown end ordained in the Divine purposes.
No pains be spared to make this history scholar
like in substance and popular in STYLE 1t will be foun
ded the best authorities ancient and modern, orig
nal and secondary The vast progress recently made
III historical and critical Investigations, the results OBJ
tanned from the"modern science of comparative phil
oogy and the discoveries which have laid open new
Conformation concerning the east, afford such
facilities to make the present fit epoch for our un
dertakihg.
The work will be divided into three Periods, eacf
complete in itself, and will form Eight Volumes il
Deny Octave.
Creation to the Fail of the Western Empire, in A.
476. Two Volumes.
II.-MEDIEvAL HISTORY Civil and Ecclesiastical
from the Fall ofthe Western Empire to the taking o
Constantnople by the Turks, in A. D. 1853 TIVE
Volumes.
III.-MoDERN HISTORY, from the Fall of the Byzan
tine Empire to own times. -Four Volumes.
1t will be published in vols, Price in cloth
$3.50 per volume. Sheep, $3.50. Half morocco $500
Volume now ready.
AGENTS WANTED
IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
Applications should be made at once to the publishers
d. APPLETON & CO.,
AS & AS Broadway, How York
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