GRIFFITH AND FARRAN'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES.

HISTORICAL READER,

No. 2.

Stories from English history.

BY

OSCAR BROWNING, M.A.,

SENIOR FELLOW AND HISTORICAL LECTURER OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

GRIFFITH AND FARRAN,

SUCCESSORS TO NEWBERY AND HARRIS,

WEST CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, LONDON.

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f. 1913

PREFACE.

THE aim of the writer of this series of Historical Readers has been that they should be readable, and should be history. The first book consists of a series of episodes covering the whole range of English history, and expressed in simple language. The other three deal respectively with the early, middle, and later periods of our annals, and, although they do not form a continuous narrative, it is hoped that nothing will have been left out which it is important that children should know, or that cannot easily be supplied by the teacher. The writer has, in the second and third books, aimed rather at simplicity of subject and treatment, than at using elementary language. He has avoided, as far as possible, the multiplication of dates and proper names, which burden the memory without appealing to the intelligence. In the