ence to be found in Libraries

Hunt, W., and Poole, R.L. Political History of England (earliest times
to the present). 12 vols.
Traill, H.D. Social England, 6 vols.
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 29 vols.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 10 vols.
Nelson's Encyclopaedia, 12 vols.
The International Encyclopaedia, 17 vols.
The New Encyclopaedia Americana, 15 vols.
The Catholic Encyclopaedia, 15 vols.
The Jewish Encyclopaedia, 12 vols.
Stephen, L. Dictionary of National [British] Biography, 66 vols.
(A work of the highest rank.)
Adams's Manual of Historical Literature.
Mullinger's Authorities on English History.
Bailey's Succession to the Crown (with full genealogical tables).
Henderson's Side Lights on English History.
Poole's Index to Reviews.

I. The Prehistoric Period

Dawkin's's Early Man in Britain.
Wright's The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon.
Elton's Origins of English History.
Rhys's Celtic Britain.
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Chronicle (legendary).
Geike's Influence of Geology on English History, in
Macmillan's Magazine, 1882.

II. The Roman Period, 55, 54 B.C.; A.D. 43-410

*Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War
(Books IV and V, chiefly 55, 54 B.C.)
*Tacitus' Agricola and Annals (chiefly from 78-84).
*Gildas' History of Britain (whole period).
*Bede's Ecclesiastical History of Britain (whole period).
Wright's The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon.
Elton's Origins of English History.
Pearson's England during the Early and Middle Ages.
Scarth's Roman Britain.[1]

[1] The best short history.

III. The Saxon or Early English Period, 449-1066

*The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (whole period).
*Gildas' History of Britain (Roman Conquest to 560).
*Bede's Ecclesiastical History of Britain (earliest times to 731).
*Nennius' History of Britain (earliest times to 642).
*Geoffrey of Monmouth's Chronicle (legendary) (earliest times to 689).
*Asser's Life of Alfred the Great.
Elton's Origins of English History.
Pauli's Life of Alfred.
Green's Making of England.
Green's Conquest of England.
Freeman's Norman Conquest, Vols. I-II.
Pearson's History of England during the Early and Middle Ages.
Freeman's Origin of the English Nation.
Stubbs's Constitutional History of England.
Taine's History of English Literature.
Church's Beginning of the Middle Ages.
Armitage's Childhood of the English Nation.[2]
Freeman's Early English History.[2]

[2] The two best short histories.

IV. The Norman Per