SPECIMEN PAGE FROM VOL X. (APPENDIX OF AUTHORITIES). ON THE AMERICAN REBELLION. 465 does not perhaps sufficiently consider in his essay. His other essays relating to this period should be read, but the views of history which they present must not be accepted in all cases. Bishop DOUGLAS, Seasonable Hints from an Honest Man, 1761; Case of the Trocps Serving in Germany, 1781; MAUDUIT, Occasional Thoughts on the Present German War, 1761, and other pamphlets. Many of the CARICATURES of Gillray, Rowlandson, and others are valuable as historical documents. In default of the originals, see WRIGHT, England under the House of Hanover, 2 vols., 3rd edit., 1852, republished in one vol. as Caricature History of the Georges [1867?]. (7) Of books on the American revolutionary war the best general history of a popular kind is by Mr. FISKE, American Revolution, 2 vols., 1891; it is written with moderation and a desire for impartiality. GORDON, History of the Rise of the Independence of the United States, 4 vols., 1788, with many documents. G. BANCROFT, History of the United States, centenary edition, 1879, vols. iii.-vi. containing the history of the revolution, display wonderful industry, but are disfigured by violent partisanship. Narrative and Critical History of America, edited by J. Winsor, vol. vi., 1888, has some good papers by various writers. Cambridge Modern History, vol. vii., The United States, 1903. TYLER, Literary History of the American Revolution, 2 vols., 1879, illustrates the course of American sentiment during the period. Sir G. O. TREVELYAN, The American Revolution, pts. i. and ii., 3 vols., in progress, written on the whig side: the views taken in the present book as to the causes and character of the dispute, and as to some other points are different from those advanced by this distinguished author. For the loyalists, L. SABINE, American Loyalists, Boston, 1847, revised edit., Biographies, etc., 2 vols., 1864, and Mr. FLICK, Loyalism in New York (Columbia University Studies, xiv.). The best purely military history of the war is by STEDMAN, History of the American War, 2 vols., 4to, 1794; he served under Howe, Clinton, and Cornwallis, and his book is a standard authority. TARLETON, Campaigns of 1780, 1781 in the Southern Provinces, 1787. Other books consulted are Washington's Writings and Life, by SPARKS, 12 vols., Boston, 1833-39; FRANKLIN, Works, edit. Bigelow, 10 vols., N.Y., 1887-88; TUDOR, Life of Otis, Boston, 1823; Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson, edited by P. Hutchinson, 2 vols., 1883, 1886; FROTHINGHAM, Siege of Boston, 1849, a careful piece of work, though written in a remarkably vainglorious tone; Mr. CODMAN, Arnold's Expedition to Quebec, New York, 1902, an excellent and interesting monograph; KINGSFORD, History of Canada, vol. v., 1892, also deals with the APP. 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