LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED AND REFERRED TO IN THE LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY. THE shortest Course of Historical Reading, that can be proposed, seems to be the following: (1.) Three first chapters of Gibbon; and the 9th for the Romans and Barbarians, &c.; the chapters about Mahomet and his followers. Butler on the German Constitution, the subjects there mentioned to be followed up in Gibbon. (2.) Hénault's, or Millot's Abridgment of the History of France; or the History of France, lately published by D'Anquetil (not the Universal History,) in 14 small 8vo. volumes; with the Observations sur l'Histoire de France, by the Abbé de Mably, a book quite invaluable. Voltaire's Louis XIV. &c., &c., and Charles XII. with the Memoirs of Duclos. (3.) Robertson's Historical Works, with most of Coxe's House of Austria, and Watson's Philip the Second. (4.) Hume and Millar. Parts of Laing's Scotland; Leland's Ireland. Burke's European Settlements,- Belsham and Adolphus (neither without the other), Historical Parts of Annual Register. (5.) (1.) To these may be added (to make a Second Course); Koch on the Middle Ages, an excellent book; and Butler's Horæ Juridicæ, for different codes of law, &c. (2.) To these may be added; Wraxall's Memoirs of the House of Valois, and Wraxall's History of France. (3.) To these may be added; Harte's Gustavus Adolphus, - parts of Roscoe's Lorenzo de' Medici, and more particularly parts of his Leo the Tenth; with Planta's Helvetic Confederacy. (4.) To these may be added; Much of Rapin, particularly from the death of Richard the Third. Parts of Clarendon, and Burnet's History of his own Times. Cobbett's Parliamentary History, to be read in a general manner with Hume. Macpherson's and Dalrymple's Original Papers, with Fox's History of James the Second, and the Appendix, (5.) To these may be added; Lacretelle's Histoire de France pendant le XVIII. Siècle, afterwards his Précis Historique de la Révolution Française. To all these may again be added (to make a Third Course); Parts of Pfeffel, a book of great authority, and of Sale's Koran, Mosheim, - L Russell's Modern Europe may supply the rest; and the volumes of the Modern Universal History may be referred to, for accounts of every state and kingdom; the best authors are mentioned in their margins. Priestley's Lectures should be looked at for the Nature of Historical Authorities, &c., &c. For Chronology there is a great French work, L'Art de vérifier les Dates. This appears to be the shortest course of Historical Reading that can be proposed. But Adam Smith should also be studied, and the work of Mr. Malthus, with the works in morals and metaphysics. Of Statesmen and Legislators, History and Political Economy are the professional studies, and are never to cease. The Books referred to in the Lectures, down to the end of the American War, were the following: - Cæsar, - Tacitus (de Mor. Ger.), for Romans and Barbarians; with the three first chapter of Gibbon, and the 9th.- Lindenbrogius, for Barbarian Codes; Salique Code to be read, ― Baluze, for Capitularies, Butler on the German Constitution, Ditto Hora Juridica, — Rankin's History of France, to be looked at, Gregory of Tours in Duchesne, Hénault's Abridgment of the History of France, Millot's ditto,— D'Anquetil's History of France, Abbé de Mably's Observations, &c., Pfeffel, for German History, Stuart's View of Society,- Koch on the Middle Ages, of which the last edition in 1807 is the best. In the Middle ages the leading points are: 1st. Clovis (see Gibbon). 2nd. Pepin (see Montesquieu). 3rd. Charlemagne (Latin Life of, by Eginhart). 4th. Elective nature of the crown in Germany, and hereditary in France (Pfeffel and Mably). 5th. Temporal Power of the Popes (Butler, - Koch, Gibbon, 49th chap.) 6th. Feudal System. Montesquieu (but more particularly Mably, Robertson, Millar, and Stuart's View of Society). 7th. Chivalry. St. Palaye (his work to be found in the 20th volume of Mémoires de l'Académie). 8th. Popes and Emperors (Gibbon, Koch, Giannone, 5th chap. 19th book). 9th. Hanseatic League, &c. (Pfeffel.) And 10th. the Crusades (Gibbon). MAHOMET. SALE'S Koran, — Preface of, and Preliminary Dissertation, with a few chapters of the Koran itself. Prideaux's Life of Mahomet is not long, but seems not very good. Neal's History of the Puritans,-- Fox's Martyrs. And also Burnet's History of the Harris's Lives of the Stuarts, &c. &c. will be found full of information, and Somerville's History of William and Anne should be read, with Coxe's Sir Robert Wal pole. FRENCH HISTORY. HENAULT and Millot, and D'Anquetil's History to be read, and important subjects to be further considered in the great historians, Velly, — Père Daniel, but Velly recommended, a work of great detail and value, continued by Villaret, and afterwards by Garnier, but not yet half finished. Robertson's Charles the Fifth, Introduction of, — Smith's Wealth of Nations; the chapters in the 3rd book, on progress of Towns, &c., will give the student an idea of the progress of society in the Middle Ages. ENGLISH HISTORY. TACITUS' Agricola, — Suetonius, - Wilkins on Saxon Laws, - Hume's Appendix,- Millar on the English Constitution,— Nicholson's Historical Library, Priestley's Lectures on History, - Delolme and Blackstone, Blackstone on the Charters to be read, Sullivan's Law Lectures, close of, for his Observations on Magna Charta,- Monkish Historians by Twysden, Camden, Gale, &c.— Lingard. SPANISH HISTORY. FOR the Moors, &c. in Spain, see Gibbon, chapters in 5th vol. 4to. 51, 52, and a late Work by Murphy, Mariana, the great historian, of whom there is a character in Gibbon, and a translation by Stevens; but the 16th and 17th vols. of the Modern History may be looked at, along with Mr. Gibbon's Outlines in the second volume of his Memoirs, Robertson's Introduction to Charles the Fifth, then his Charles the Fifth, and Watson's Philip the Second, Pfeffel from Rodolph to Charles the Fifth, may be looked at, and Coxe's House of Austria, with Planta's History, for the rise of the House of Austria, the Swiss Cantons and Helvetic Confederacy; and for Italy and the Popes, the 69th and 70th chapters of Gibbon will be sufficient. FRENCH HISTORY TO LOUIS THE TWELFTH. ABBÉ DE MABLY, Robertson's Introduction to Charles the Fifth, and three Notes, 38, 39, 40, — Parts of Philip de Commines, for Burgundy and Life of Louis the Eleventh, Notices taken by Hume of the French history. ENGLISH HISTORY TO HENRY THE EIGHTH. HUME's Reign of Edward the Third, pages 490 and 491, 8vo. edit. compared with Cotton's Abridgment of the Records, Cobbett's Parliamentary History, Henry's History may be looked at, when Cotton, Brady, Tyrrell, Carte, cannot be consulted, Bacon's Life of Henry the Seventh, - Monkish Historians, Sir J. Hayward, — Lingard. REVIVAL OF LEARNING, &c. INTRODUCTION to the Literary History of the 14th and 15th Centuries (Cadell, 1758), worth looking at, and not long, - Mosheim's State of Learning in the 13th and 14th Centuries, Gibbon, chapters 53 and 66,- Lorenzo de' Medici, parts of, and more particularly of Leo the Tenth, by Roscoe, Read the accounts of the Reformation, 1st, in Robertson's Charles the Fifth; 2nd, History of Charles the Fifth, in Coxe's House of Austria; 3rd, VOL. I. B in the two chapters of Roscoe's Leo the Tenth; 4th, in the 54th chapter of Gibbon. Read the Introduction and first four chapters of Mosheim, in vol. 4 of our English Edition; second part of Mosheim's History of Lutheran and Reformed Churches; and lastly, the first part of Mosheim, more particularly the close of it, for the History of the Romish Church. Viller's Prize Essay on the Reformation, more particularly on the Influence of the Reformation, and the Appendix on the political situation of the States of Europe. Council of Trent (Father Paul) 2nd book, and latter part of the 8th. FOR REFORMATION IN ENGLAND. -- FOR Wickliffe, see Henry's History of England, Neal's History of the Puritans, Fox's Martyrs, - 3rd vol. of Mosheim, and Milner's Church History. Hume's account of our Reformation should be read, — and the same subject in Robertson's History of Scotland, and first Appendix in Macleane's edition of Mosheim,- Burnet's History of the Reformation should be read, Fox's Book of Martyrs, and Neal's History of the Puritans, should be consulted. In Fox, the account given of Lambert, Cranmer, and Anne Askew, may be sufficient, - M'Crie's History of the Reformation in Scotland should be referred to, and there is a very good account of Luther in Milner's Church History. Lingard's History. CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS WARS IN FRANCE. INTRODUCTION to Thuanus or De Thou. Then, the civil and ecclesiastical parts of the work that belong to the History of France. The military part may be slightly read. The French translation is recommended. Brantome, parts of, - Memoirs of Sully, parts of, — Wraxall's Memoirs of the House of Valois, and his History of France, — Abbé de Mably. Edict of Nantz, 1st chapter of, for first introduction and persecution of Calvinism in France. Maimbourg's History of the League mentioned; but see Wraxall for the League. Esprit de la Ligue, by D'Anquetil (scarce book), partly incorporated into his present 8vo. History, of 14 vols. There is a new work by Lacretelle, in two volumes, Histoire de France pendant les Guerres de Religion. HENRY THE FOURTH, OF FRANCE. PÉRÉFIXE'S Life, - De Thou, Sully's Memoirs, - Mably and Wraxall recommended, Voltaire's Henriade, — Fifth Book of Edict of Nantz, and the Edict with the secret articles, to be read. RELIGIOUS WARS IN THE LOW COUNTRIES. GROTIUS, -Bentivoglio, - Strada, - original authors. Brandt's History of the Reformation, a century after. Watson's Philip the Second (all of it to be read, with the first four books, and other parts of Bentivoglio), - Bentivoglio, Strada, - and Grotius to be read for the important period that preceded the coming of the Duke of Alva. |