In Eight Volumes. Crown Svo. With Maps, etc. Six Shillings net each Volume. The Complete Set £2, Ss. net. PERIODS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY General Editor— ARTHUR HASSALL, M.A., Student of Christ Church, Oxford. The object of this series is to present in separate Volumes a comprehensive and trustworthy account of the general develop- ment of European History, and to deal fully and carefully with the more prominent events in each century. No such attempt to place the History of Europe in a compre- hensive, detailed, and readable form before the English Public has previously been made, and the Series forms a valuable con- tinuous History of Mediaeval and Modern Europe. Period I.— The Dark Ages. 476-918. By C. W. C. Oman, M.A., Chichele Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. 6s. net. Period II. — The Empire and the Papacy. 918-1273. By T. F. Tout, M. A., Professor of Mediaeval and Modern History in the University of Manchester. 6s. net. Period III.— The Close of the Middle Ages. 1273-1494. By R. Lodge, M. A., LL.D., Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. 6s. net. Period IV.— Europe in the 16th Century. 1494- 1598. By A. H. Johnson, M.A., Historical Lecturer to Merton, Trinity, and University Colleges, Oxford. 6s. net. Period V. — The Ascendancy of France. 1598- 171 5. By H. O. Wakeman, M.A., late Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford. 6s. net. Period VI.— The Balance of Power. 1715-1789. By A. Hassall, M. A., Student of Christ Church, Oxford. 6s. net. Period VII.— Revolutionary Europe. 1789-1815. By H. Morse Stephens, M.A., Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. 6s. net. Period VIII.— Modern Europe. 1815-1899. By W. Alison PHiLLirs, M.A., formerly Senior Scholar of St. John's College, Oxford. 6s. net.
