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The Christian Register’s Review of the 1849 Boston Edition of Hume’s History

“HUME’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND,” The Christian Register, vol. 28, no. 33 (18 August 1849), p. 131.

Anonymous

On The Christian Register, see selection #116. Reading Shakespeare in connection with Hume’s History, as the review recommended, would be an interesting project.

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HUME’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. We have received, through Messrs. Munroe & Co., Vol. II of this handsome reprint, by Messrs. Phillips, Sampson, & Co., which has just appeared. It embraces the period between A. D. 1216, and A. D. 1485, and the reigns of Henry III, and Edwards I, II, III, Richard II, the Henrys IV, V, and VI, the Edwards IV and V, and Richard III. It introduces also William Wallace, Robert Bruce, Wat Tyler and the Maid of Orleans, and details the battles of Bannockburn, Crecy, Poietiers [sic] and Azincour, the opposition of the barons, the quarrels of the houses of York and Lancaster, etc., etc.

We recommend the reading of Shakespeare’s Richard III, the Henrys IV, V and VI, and Richard III, in connection with this volume of Hume.