MODERN HISTORY

America
  Eliot, Samuel
    History of the United Stales

  Prescott, W.H. 
    History of the Conquest of Mexico
    History of the Conquest of Peru

England
  Edward Hyde, E. Of Clarendon
    History of the Rebellion

  Macaulay, lord
    History of England

  Buckle, Henry
    History of Civilization in England

  Bagehot, Walter
    English Constitution

France
  Voltaire
    Age of Louis XIV

  Tocqueville, de
    Old Regime

  Mignet, Francois
    History of the French Revolution

  Carlyle, Thomas
    History of the French Revolution

  Lamartine, A.M.L.  De
    History of the Girondists

  Taine, H.A. 
    Modern Regime

Germany
  Carlyle, Thomas
    Frederick the Great

Greece
  Finlay, George
    History of Greece

Holland
  motley, J.L. 
    Rise of the Dutch Republic
    History of the United Netherlands

India
  Elphinstone, Mountstuart
    History of India

Russia
  Voltaire
    Russia under Peter the Great

Spain
  Prescott, W.H. 
    Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella

Sweden
  Voltaire
    History of Charles XII

Papacy
  Milman, Henry
    History of Latin Christianity

  Von Ranke, Leopold
    History of the Popes

A Complete Index of the world’s greatest books will be found at the end of Volume XX.

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Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment and thanks for permitting the use of the selection by H.A.  Taine on “Modern Regime,” appearing in this volume, are hereby tendered to Madame Taine-Paul-Dubois, of Menthon St. Bernard, France, and Henry Holt & Co., of New York.

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SAMUEL ELIOT

History of the United States

Samuel Eliot, a historian and educator, was born in Boston in 1821, graduated at Harvard in 1839, was engaged in business for two years, and then travelled and studied abroad for four years more.  On his return, he took up tutoring and gave gratuitous instruction to classes of young workingmen.  He became professor of history and political science in Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1856, and retained that chair until 1864.