READING REFERENCES FOR ENGLISH HISTORY BY HENRY LEWIN CANNON, PH.D. = ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, LELAND STANFORD 613196 ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL COPYRIGHT, 1910 BY HENRY LEWIN CANNON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 810.6 The Athenæum Press PREFACE Teachers of history are fairly well agreed both upon the desirability of collateral reading for their students and upon the difficulty of providing adequate facilities for this kind of work. The present book is designed to minimize this difficulty, first, by disclosing the surprisingly large amount and variety of material for English history to be found in almost any library; second, by suggesting definite topics for the students to follow up in their reading; third, by providing definite references which the students can easily find for themselves. It is hoped that teachers and librarians, on the one hand, may thus be relieved from much arduous and time-consuming labor; and that, on the other, students and other readers may be enabled to work effectively and with dispatch. From the Table of Contents it will be seen that the work consists essentially of two parts: first, a Book List of works referred to, and second, Topics and References covering the whole field of English history and including the colonies. Some features of the Book List may here be pointed out for the benefit of those who may use the book. The compiler in selecting the works to be referred to began by preparing a list of the works recommended by the various bibliographies, excluding such books as students would not be apt to use. With this list as a basis, a number of typical university and city libraries were carefully gone over, and books which were not to be found on their shelves were dropped from the list as being inaccessible. Other books met with in these libraries were added if they appeared useful. In this way the Book List was automatically regulated, and as an important consequence each title in the list has |