In the Press HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES Edited by THE REV. M. CREIGHTON, M.A., FELLOW AND TUTOR OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD, With Frontispiece and Maps. The most important and the most difficult point in Historical Teaching is to awaken a real interest in the minds of Beginners. For this purpose concise handbooks are seldom useful. General sketches, however accurate in their outlines of political or constitutional development, and however well adapted to dispel false ideas, still do not make history a living thing to the young. They are most valuable as maps on which to trace the route beforehand and show its direction, but they will seldom allure any one to take a walk. The object of this series of Historical Biographies is to try and select from English History a few men whose lives were lived in stirring times. 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