text, and thus deepen and strengthen the impression which the verbal descriptions convey. They are well drawn and admirably executed, and add essentially to the utility, as well as the attractiveness of the work. The style is easy, vigorous, and chaste-entirely unambitious, yet not inferior in any particular to that of works which, in this respect, put forth much more lofty pretensions. The work engaged the constant and unwearied labors of the several writers employed upon it for upward of seven years, and its copyright cost the original proprietors little less than fifty thousand dollars. It has been very widely regarded, by some of the highest and best authorities, as in every essential respect the best History of England ever written.

Hitherto the very high price of the English edition has rendered it entirely inaccessible to the great body of the American people. It is now presented in a form and at a price which will, it is confidently believed, place it within the reach of the great majority of the reading public throughout the United States. In thus republishing this extensive work, the American publishers believe they are rendering an important service to the cause of popular instruction and of general intelligence.

HARPER AND Brothers.