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A Series of Historical Studies intended to present in graphic narratives the stories of the different nations that have attained prominence in history.
In the story form the current of each national life is distinctly indicated, and its picturesque and noteworthy periods and episodes are presented for the reader in their philosophical relations to each other as well as to universal history.
12º, Illustrated, cloth, each $1.50 Half Leather, each $1.75 Nos. 62 and following Nos. net $1.35 Each (By mail) $1.50 Half leather, gilt top, each net $1.60 (By mail) $1.75
(_From an Engraving of the Miniature in the MS. of "The Discovery of Guinea," 1448._)]
BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD; OXFORD UNIVERSITY EXTENSION LECTURER AUTHOR OF "A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION"
NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN 1903
_Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_ BY T. FISHER UNWIN
Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New York G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
This volume is written on a different plan to that adopted in most of the volumes in the same Series which have preceded it, and attempts to give a short chronological history of Portugal. An episodical history, though more interesting than a consecutive narrative, in that it treats only of the most striking events, demands from the reader a groundwork of accurate knowledge. This is not given with regard to the history of Portugal in any book in the English language with which the author is acquainted. Dunham, who combined a history of Portugal with that of Spain, in five volumes published in Lardner's _Cabinet Cyclopædia_ between 1838 and 1843, based his account on Vertot's _Révolutions de Portugal_, first printed at Paris in 1678, and modern English standard books of reference still make use of Dunham, and contain the old blunders of identifying Portugal with Lusitania, recognizing the fictitious Cortes of Lamego in 1143, regarding the victory of Ourique as a "prodigious" victory, &c., &c. Since the time of Dunham, a few books have been published in England bearing on special periods of Portuguese history, such as the lives of the Marquis of Pombal and the Duke of Saldanha, published by John Smith, Count of Carnota, and two volumes of a _History of Portugal_, by E. MacMurdo, and which is still in progress; but there exists no book containing a complete and trustworthy history to which students may be referred.