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By JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON
Professor of History in Columbia University

714 PAGES. WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

The excellence of Robinson's "History of Western Europe " has been attested by the immediate and widespread adoption of the book in many of the best schools and colleges of the country. It is an epoch-making text-book on the subject, in that it solves in an entirely satisfactory manner the problem of proportion.

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W. G. BEACH, Associate Professor of Economics and History, State Agricultural College, Pullman, Washington I have no hesitation in recommending Robinson's Western Europe in the highest terms, as the best book of its kind yet published. The pronounced change in selection and arrangement of material, as compared with other books of the same class, is a vast improvement. What is lost in inevitable omission is far more than compensated for by the gain in simplicity, definiteness, and interest. The careful avoidance of the encyclopedic form so often followed is a great advantage, and results in a really useful text for teaching purposes.

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Professor Robinson has written an admirable textbook. It is readable and interesting from beginning to end. It is scholarly and stimulating. To have treated so large a subject with so much freshness, clearness, fairness, and sense of proportion is to have achieved an unusual success. The illustrations and maps are numerous, unhackneyed, and illuminating.

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There is no doubt that Robinson's History of Western Europe is an epoch-making work in the treatment of European history. There is no other history in the same compass to which we can turn to-day for such an admirable, scholarly, and at the same time simple presentation of such topics as Feudalism, the Medieval Church, the Protestant Revolt, and the eve of the French Revolution. Were the pupil to leave his historical studies with a

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Robinson's History is, in my judgment, a most valuable addition to the teaching facilities for the period which it covers. Professor Robinson has been most successful in keeping out unessentials, and also the hitherto considered "important events," which have obscured the main course of the development of civilization in our textbooks. To my mind, however, the greatest charm which the book possesses is the perfectly sympathetic spirit with which the author has undertaken each topic of the entire period.

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