A gallery of master historians.
Series: Kings treasuries of literature; ed. by Sir A.T. Quiller Couch
Publisher: Dent
Published: 1900
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Historians; History -- Historiography
Table of contents: value: British.  Edward Gibbon: Queen Zenobia; The Goths in Rome.  Sir William Napier: The battle of Coruña; The British soldier.  Lord Macaulay: Lord Halifax.  George Grote: Sokrates, his death; The adorning of Athens under Perikles.  Thomas Carlyle: The storming of the Bastille; Charlotte Corday.  James Anthony Froude: The Spanish Armade; The coronation procession of Anne Boleyn.  Mendell Creighton: The flight of John XXIII from Constance; The trial of Hus, its fairness.  Lord Acton: The rise and fall of the Mexican Empire; The massacre of St. Bartholomew. Thomas Hodgkin: A banquet at Attila's palace; Charles the Great, his coronation.-  American.  William Hickling Prescott: Hernando Cortes, Conqueror of Mexico.  John Lothrop Motley: The relief of Leyden.-  French. Jules Michelet: The opening of the Estates-General.-  German.  Theodor Mommsen: The peace between Rome and Carthage.-  Italian.  Guglielmo Ferraro: Cleopatra, her imperial policy; Caesar.-  Classical.  Thucydides: The escape by night of the Plataeans.  Tacitus: Vespasian.  Arminius - the German Hero.-  What is history? A short essay.