HISTORY OF THE WORLD A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: edited, with the assistance of a distinguished board of advisers and contributors, Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin. Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France. Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University. Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan. Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris. Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin. Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University. Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg. Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society. Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin. Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University. Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen. Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary. Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London. Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris. Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Vienna. Prof. W. L. Fleming, University of West Virginia. The state of society and literature at this period, 3. The press-the poets, 3. The outbreak of war, 4. First engagements; the battle of Edgehill, 7. The king repulsed at Turnham Green, 8. Macaulay's estimate of Hampden, 12. Gloucester and Newbury, 13. The Solemn League and Covenant with Scotland, 17. Growing importance of Cromwell, 18. Gardiner's estimate of Pym, 19. Religious fanaticism, 20. The Irish "Cessation" and the Scotch invasion, 20. The Mongrel Parliament at Oxford, 21. Marston Moor, Lostwithiel, and Newbury, 24. Parliamentary rigour, 26. The Self-Denying Ordinance and the new model, 26. Religious bigotries and Laud's execution, 27. The warring creeds and intolerance, 30. Peace negotiations at Uxbridge, 32. The victories of Montrose in Scotland, 33. The new model army, and Naseby, 34. The king's letters and insincerity, 37. The mission of Glamorgan in Ireland, 40. The king surrenders to the Scots, 42. Charles a captive in England, The army versus parliament, 48. Rise of the agitators, 50. The army abducts the king, 51. The expulsion of the eleven members, 52. Riots in London, 55. The Heads of the Proposals, 56. Rendezvous at Ware; mutiny suppressed, 59. The king escapes from Hampton Court, 60. The vote of non-addresses and the "second civil war," 62. The Scotch invasion and the battle of Preston, 65. Treaty of Newport and anti-royalist feeling, 68. Pride's Purge, 69. The king taken to Windsor, 71. The king before the high court, 73. Guizot's account of Charles' execution, 75. Various estimates of the event: Clarendon; Milton; Guizot; Knight, 79. John Lingard, 81. Guizot's comparison of the English and the French revolutions, 84. The organ- |