Excerpt from John Heywood's Supplementary Manchester Readers, Vol. 1 of 5: An Additional Series for Elementary Schools of All Grades, the Historic Reader; Compiled to Suit the Requirements of Standards V. And Vi, of the New Code A school history of England, however admirably 1t may be adapted for its purpose, can at the best be nothing more than a Simple chronicle of the chief events of each reign, and the principal personages who have taken part in them. We are told that a certain event happened, or that a certain thing was done, but as the limited size of the book forbids more than the briefest mention of the causes which were instrumental in bringing about the event or action, and the consequences which may be traced from it, the narrative from its brevity naturally loses much in descriptive force, colour, and general interest, that it would have possessed could it have been told at greater length. And again it is not one, possibly, in a hundred senior pupils at an elementary school who has the chance of getting a sight of Charles Knight's valuable Popular History of England, or the History of England. B Hume and Smollett, or any of the numerous histories of the indivi ual reigns of some of our monarchs, or sections of our country's annals, that are separated from the times that precede and follow them by well denned landmarks. There is no cheap volume even that afiords judicious seled7 tions of portions of histories such as those to which allusion has been made and therefore to supply the manifest want of a school book of this kind, of convenient size, and of moderate price, the present volume has been produced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.