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MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS 7
HISTORICAL SERIES
GERMANY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY—continued.
" This book contains five lectures which were delivered at Manchester
University by distinguished professors and experts. The lectures were
part of a series on salient topics of modern history and literature, and
were arranged at the instance of the representatives of journalism in
South-East Lancashire. We respect alike the journalists who desired
to be instructed on a subject on which there is only too much writing
without knowledge and the University which was willing to meet a
demand outside its routine. . . . We must say a word in praise of the
excellent summary and index. These are a model of what such things
should be in a book of this kind." The Spectator.
" We have said enough to show that this book is one which appeals
with peculiar force at the present moment to students of politics,
economics, letters and social reform." The Standard.
" The authors are all specialists of note, and they have produced a
most interesting book." Irish Times.
No. XIV.
A HISTORY OF PRESTON IN AMOUNDERNESS.
By H. W. Clemesha, M.A. Demy 8vo., pp. xii. 344, 5
maps. 7s. 6d. net. (Publication No. 6y, 1912.)
" This careful study of the history of Preston, in Lancashire, is
worthy of a good place in the Historical Series issued under the
patronage of the University of Manchester. It embodies the main
results of modern scholarship on the problems of municipal origins and
development. For this reason alone the book may be regarded as a
trustworthy manual, which should be at the elbow of all students of
burghal history." Scottish Historical Review.
" Mr. Clemesha has produced what must certainly be described as a
valuable book which adds to our understanding of English town development
both in the mediaeval period and in a less degree in the age of
industrial transformation. His book ought to be bought and studied
by every Prestonian, and it will be of use to serious historical
students." Manchester Guardian.
" This interesting book is a useful addition to the increasing volume
of the local history of English towns, on which so much light is being
thrown by the publication of the Calendar of Patent Rolls, and other
State Papers. . . . There are valuable chapters on the Gild Merchant,
and on Government and Town Life in the Middle Ages. . . . Local
histories of this kind are valuable for reference to students of historical
law and of the development of municipal life in England."
— The Academy.
" He [Mr. Clemesha] has produced a very readable as well as a learned
book. He is always clear, puts his point well and simply, and, when he
warms to a crisis, can write with vigour and even eloquence. Where it is
necessary to touch on matters of recent and personal interest, as in the
chapters on municipal reform, recent political history, and religious
organization, he combines an historian's frankness with the reticence
of a good Prestonian. From first to last the book is a model pieco
of local history. It should be well read, and not in Preston only."
— The Oxford Magazine.
" The whole question of the position of gilds and the Gild Merchant is
admirably discussed by Mr. Clemesha in a chapter which is in many
ways the most interesting in the book."
Liverpool Courier.
No. XV. A SHORT HISTORY OF TODMORDEN. By J.
Holden, M.A. Crown 8vo, pp. xiv. 242, 25 full-page plates
and illustrations in the text. Cloth, 2s. net ; or cloth extra,
2s. 6d. net. (Publication No. 68, 1912.)
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