The ancient Greek historians (Harvard lectures) by J. B. Bury.

Works by Professor J. B. BURY.
A HISTORY OF
THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE
FROM ARCADIUS TO IRENE
(395 A.D. to 800 A.D.)
Two Vols. 8vo. 32s.
CLASSICAL RE VIEW.-" Mr. Bury's volumes are an important and
valuable contribution to our knowledge of a period the history of which has
been too much neglected by scholars."
GUARDIAN.-" Mr. Bury's great merit lies in his wide and bold grasp
of cecumenical history. Nobody has better taken in the nature of that ' eternal
question,' the first stages of which are to be found recorded in the opening
chapters of Herodotus, and the latest (as yet) in the morning's news from
Armenia or from Crete. There is no need for any one to teach Mr. Bury the
root of the matter.... Mr. Bury has thoroughly grasped the true substance
and meaning of his vast subject."
SA TURDA Y RE VIE W.-" Mr. Bury's volumes are the fruit of diligent
and independent work amongst a mass of difficult materials, and will have to
le reckoned with by all who follow in his steps. Moreover, Mr. Bury shows
a commendable resolve not to accept traditional views as a way out of difficulties.... He has taken a larger view than any previous writer of the lives and
characters, the resources and dangers, of the later Emperors. He has followed
them into the details of their policy, and has not considered anything undeserving
of his attention. Still more, he has done his best to reproduce the life, the art,
and the learning of Byzantium. Perhaps his chapters on the literature of the
times and his estimates of the authorities whom he follows will have the most
enduring influence on English scholars "
THE LIFE OF ST. PATRICK
AND HIS PLACE IN HISTORY
8vo. 12s. net.
A THENEUAI.-" A life of St. Patrick in which careful and minute
research has not quenched a bold and vivid imagination.... In no book have
we found more ingenuity in probing for historic truth amid a cloud of absurdities,
and such weighing of evidences as the appendix offers seems to us a model of
acuteness in conjectural criticism."
TIMES.-" A book which any layman may read with interest and which
every student of the period will read with attention and admiration."
DAILY TELEGRAPH-" Professor Bury has achieved success in an
exceedingly difficult task. He has given form and distinctness to one of the
most intangible figures in history."
WEST7.INSTER GAZETTE.-" We need not say more than it is
worthy of the successor of Lord Acton."
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