Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), August 30, 1845, vol. 2, no. 8, p. ???, col. ?

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Introductory Lectures on Modern History, delivered in Lent Term, 1842, with the Inaugural Lecture delivered in December, 1841. By Thomas Arnold, D. D., Regius Professor of Modem History in the University of Oxford, &c. Edited from the Second London Edition, with a Preface and Notes, by Henry Reed, M. A., Professor of English Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. New-York: D. Appleton & Co.

We take it for granted that there are few of our readers unacquainted with the great celebrity of these Lectures, or with the high estimation in which they are held by the historical scholars of Europe. We feel called upon, therefore, to say only a very few words of the book. It would be difficult, indeed, to say too much, were we to discuss its excellences. Independently of his sterling worth as mere historian, Dr. Arnold must command the attention and respect of every American by his earnest and most influential zeal as an Apostle of Liberty. The Preface (by Dr. Reed) to this American edition, is an admirably written commentary on the man.

The Messrs. Appleton have recently published “ The Life and Correspondence “ and “ The Miscellaneous Works “ of Doctor Arnold, both edited by Arthur P. Stanley, M. A. These volumes are published uniformly with the one now before us; and all are in the beautiful style so usual with the Appletons.