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=Notable Histories=

Grote's _History of Greece_, 12 vols. (E. L.); Green's _Short History of the English People_ (American Book Co.). _History of the English People_, 4 vols. (Burt); Macaulay's _History of England_, 3 vols. (E. L.); Hume's _History of England_, 6 vols. (Harper); Machiavelli's _History of Florence_ (W. G. C.); Gibbon's _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, 7 vols. (W. C.); Motley's _Rise of the Dutch Republic_, 3 vols. (E. L., W. C.); Sismondi's _Italian Republics_ (E. L.); Hallam's _Middle Ages_ (W. G. C.); Prescott's _Works_, 14 vols. (Lippincott); Parkman's _Works_, 12 vols. (Library edition); J. A. Symond's _Renaissance in Italy_, 7 vols. (Holt); Carlyle's _French Revolution_, 2 vols. (E. L.).

=Annals=

Tacitus's _Annals_ (E. L.); _Annals of English History_, by Roger de Hoveden, 2 vols. (Bohn). _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, with an English translation by Richard Price: in the "Monuments Historica Britannica" (1848). Voltaire's _Annales de l'Empire_ was first published in 1753-4. It has been translated into English.

=Chronicles and True Relations=

_Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda, de rebus gestis Samsonis Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi_ (Camden Society, London, 1840). The second book of Carlyle's _Past and Present_ is based on this old chronicle. Froissart's _Chronicles_ (E. L.); William of Malmesbury's _Chronicles of the Kings of England_ (Bohn); _Old English Chronicles_, including Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Britons, Gildas's Chronicle, Nennius's Chronicle, and the spurious Chronicle of Richard of Cirencester, (Bohn); _Chronicles of the Crusades_, by Lord John de Joinville (Bohn).

Ticknor discusses in detail the origin, subjects, and character of the Spanish chronicles, in his _History of Spanish Literature_, Vol. I. pp. 166-228 (fourth American edition, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). For account of early French chronicles see Saintsbury's _Short History of French Literature_, Book I,