Recently Published, THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OP THOMAS ARNOLD, D. D., BY ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, M. A. The two volumes of the English Edition complete in one. To the American scholar and student, the Life of Dr. Arnold is of unusual value and interest. BY ARTHUR P. STANLEY, M. A. This volume consists of a republication of such Miscellaneous Writings of Dr. Arnold as are of permanent interest. ON MODERN HISTORY, DELIVERED IN LENT TERM, MDCCCXLII. WITH THE INAUGURAL LECTURE DELIVERED IN DECEMBER, MDCCCXLI. BY THOMAS ARNOLD, D.D., REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, EDITED, FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION, WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES, BY HENRY REED, M. A., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA: GEO. S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT-STREET. M DCCC XLV. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, BY D. APPLETON & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE ΤΟ THE AMERICAN EDITION. It will be seen from Dr. Arnold's prefatory note, that these Lectures were printed almost exactly as they were delivered; the date of the publication showing too that it was very soon after the delivery of them. The Lectures are altogether of an introductory character, and it was the humble hope of the author, that in succeeding years he would be enabled to devote other courses to the farther examination of modern history-the subject which he regarded as "of all others the most interesting, inasmuch as it includes all questions of the deepest interest, relating not to human things only, but to divine." The last lecture in this volume appears to have been delivered in the month of February, 1842, and it was upon the 12th of June that Dr. Arnold's sudden death took place. The hope of future labors in modern history was not to be fulfilled, and, in the words of his biographer, "the Introductory Lectures were to be invested with the solemnity of being the last words which he spoke in his beloved university." The design of these Lectures cannot be better described than by saying that they were intended to excite a greater interest in the study of history. Dr. Arnold's biographer thus speaks of them: "The course was purely and in every sense of the word 'introductory.' As the design of his first residence in Oxford was not to gain influence over the place so much as to familiarize himself with it after his long absence; so the object of his first lectures was not so much to impart any historical knowledge, as to state his own views of history, and to excite an interest in the study of it. The 137018 |