GREAT EVENTS IN MODERN HISTORY:

Comprising the MOST REMARKABLE DISCOVE-
RIES, CONQUESTS, REVOLUTIONS, GREAT BATTLES,
and other Thrilling Incidents, chiefly in Europe and America,
from the commencement of the Sixteenth Century to the pre-
sent time. Embellished with over 500 Engravings, by W.
Croome, and other eminent artists. The following are ex-
tracts from notices of the press received by the Publisher.

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

‘<We have here, within the compass of eight hundred pages,
the history of those events of modern history, which have been
‘big with mighty consequences,’ and with which, therefore, all
men should become acquainted. Beginning with the discovery of
America, by Columbus—that new starting-point of civilization
—the work proceeds through the history of the various Euro-
pean nations, culling those great periods when, either by wars
or revolutions, each nation began to occupy a conspicuous place
in the general estimation of men, and to make its influence felt
by those without its limits. The late revolutions in Europe,
the Mexican war, and the gold discoveries in California, are
rapidly and vividly sketched. The illustrations, principally
from designs by Croome, are numerous, well executed, serving
to impress the striking scenes and characters of history upon
the tablet of memory. The whole work, in design and exe-
cution, reflects great credit upon all concerned in its produc-
tion.”