Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-06-08
PLAN OF TfEEI WORK.

| Since Sir Walter Raleigh solaced his inprisonm ut
i'll the Tower by the composition of his 'liistory of
the World the literature Of England has never yet
ach eyet the work which lie left unfinished. There
have been "Unversal Histories from the bulk of
encyclopaedia to the most neagre outline i'll which the
annals of each nation separately recorded but
without an attempt to trace the story of Divine Provi
dence and human progress in connected narrative
1t proposed to supply this want by awork condensed
enough to keepit within reasonable size, but yet
full as to be free from the dry badness of epiome
The literature of Germany abounds in history-such
as those of Muller, Schlosser. Karl Won Rotteck,
Duncker. and others-whch at once 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 unity which is the
chief aim of this ''Iistoly Of the World.
The study -four whole like that of each sepa-
rate nation, has "a beginning, middle. and an end.
The story propose follow. from its ginning 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 Rume-the change
which passed the face of the world when the light
enthusiastically sprung up-the origin and first appear
of those barbarian which overthrow both di
visions of the Roman Empre-the annals of the States
which the Empires ruins. including the pic
uresque details of medieval history, and the steady
progress of modern liberty and civilizatonand the
extension of these influences by discovery conquest
colonization. and Christian missions to the remotest
regions of the earth In word, separate histories
reflect the detached scenes of human action and suffer-
ing our aim to bring into view the several parts
which assurcdly form one great whole moving
wards under the guidance Of Divine Providence to- the
unknown end ordained in the Divine purposes.
No pains will be spared to make this history scholar
like in substance and popular in style 1t will be foun
ded on the best authorities, ancient and modern orgi
nal and secondary The vast rogress recently made
iii historical and critical investigation the results OBJ
tanned from the modern science of comparative phil
oiogy. and the discoveries which have laid open
sources Contamination concerning the east afford such
facilities as to make the present fit epoch for
dertaking.
! the work will be divided into three Periods each
complete in itself. and viii form Eight Volumes in
Deny Octave
| I-ANcIEST HISTORY, Sacred and Secular; from the
Creation to the Fa of the Western Empire in A. D.
AIS Two Volumes.
| I.-MEDIEvAL HISTORY, Civil and Ecclesiastical ):
from the Fall Of the Western Empire to the taking of
Constantnop!e bY the Turks, in A. D. 1853. Two
Volumes.
| III.-MoDERN History, from the Fall Of the Byzan-
tine Empire to our times. -Four Volumes
1t will be published in vols, S vo Price in cloth
$3.50 per volume Sheep $3.50. Half morocco, 500.
Volume now ready
AGENTS WANTED