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Mignet, F. A. History of the French revolution. 

Bohn Library $1

Readers cannot fail to pronounce this one of the most interesting volumes on the French revolution.

Morris, C. Historical tales; the romance of reality. 

Phila., Lippincott, 1893 $1.25

The best known and most romantic episodes of French history.

Yonge, C. M. Young folks' history of France. 

Bost., Estes & Lauriat, n. d. $1.50

These stories put such facts as need most to be remembered in a comprehensible form, and to attach some real characteristic to each reign.

946. SPAIN.

Amicis, E. De. Spain. 

Il.N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1894 $2.25

What he says has the freshness of immediate sensation; what he sees lives and burns under his gaze with intensity.

Bonner, J A child's history of Spain. 

Il.N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1894 $2

Begins with the Roman conquest, followed by the Goths in Spain, discovery of America, etc.

Fernald, J. C. The Spaniard in history. 

N. Y., Funk & Wagnail's Co., 1898 75c

The author believes that it is possible to gain an estimate of a nation by swift characterization at critical moments of its history, which shall be more just, as well as more vivid, than any that can be gained by monotonously tracing the chronology.

Fisk, J. Story of the Spanish Armada. 

Il.1893

No effort has been spared to make this work as complete and as interesting as possible.

Hume, M. A. S. Modern Spain, 1788-1898. 

Il.N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1900 $1.50

Mr. Hume tells the story of Spain during a century of struggle upward out of an abyss into which despotism and bigotry had sunk it.

Latimer, E. W. Spain in the nineteenth century. 

Chic, McClurg & Co., n. d. $2.50

A general review of what has happened in Spain during the present century.