D'Arnay; carefully edited, and
forming a valuable work for study or amusement.

Constantinople and its Historical Associations; with some
Account of its Institutions and the Manners and Customs of
the People.

History of the Rise and Progress of the Trading Communities
of the Middle Ages.

Trading Communities of Modern Times; a Popular View of the
Origin, Structure, and General Tendency of the Joint-Stock
Trading and Commercial Bodies of Modern Times.

The Ruins of Athens and their Historical Associations; with
Notices of the Modern City and its Inhabitants.

A History of London, Ancient and Modern.

A History of the Endowed Schools of Great Britain.

The Incas of Peru, with some Account of the Ruins of their
Greatness.

A popular History of the British Army.

A popular History of the British Navy.

II. Popular Biography.

One of the most useful and pleasing forms under which knowledge can be
presented to the general reader is that of the Biography of
distinguished men, who have contributed to the progress of that
knowledge in some one or other of its various departments. But it too
frequently happens, that the biographical notices of great men consist
rather of personal, trivial, and unimportant details, than of a clear
and broad outline of the influence which they exerted upon the pursuit
and upon the age in which they were distinguished. The true object of
Biography is, while tracing the progress of an individual, to show not
only what result his active life has produced on the well-being of his
fellow-men, but also the position which he occupies as one of the
"great landmarks in the map of human nature."

Yet we are not satisfied with a biography which regards its subject in
his public capacity alone: we are naturally curious to ascertain
whether the same qualities which rendered him celebrated in public,
followed him likewise into private life, and distinguished him there.
We regard with interest, in his private capacity, the man who has been
the originator of much public good: we look with an attentive eye on
his behaviour when he stands alone, when his native impulses are under
no external excitement; when he is, in fact, "in the undress of one
who has retired from the stage on which he felt he had a part to
sustain."

But a detail of the public and private events in the life of a
distinguished man, do not alo