details of the narrative, both as to their choice and their treatment, they are the author's own; on these points I have not thought it right to go beyond suggestion. It may perhaps be hard for me to speak impartially of a book to whose general merit I am pledged by its mere appearance; but I can honestly say that it is the result of genuine work among the last and best lights on the subject. I believe it to be thoroughly trustworthy, and that it will give clearer and truer views on most of the points on which clear and true views are specially needed than can be found in any other book on the same small scale.

EDWARD A. FREEMAN.

SOMERLEAZE, WELLS,

March 8th, 1873.

V. FROM ETHELSTAN TO THE DANISH KINGS
VI. THE DANISH KINGS

VII. FROM EDWARD TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST
VIII. THE OLD ENGLISH AND NORMANS

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