Excerpt from Historical StudiesI have gathered together in this small volume some historical sketches written by J. R. Green during the time of his work in the East End of London, before the writing of the Short History. In the Letters lately published, Mr. Green describes the circum stances oi difficulty and enthusiasm under which many of these papers were written.The studies on Dunstan, on London and Stephen, the Ban of Kenilworth, and one or two others, are not otherwise easily accessible. It has seemed well to add (by the kind permission of the proprietors) some reviews which appeared in the Saturday Review, since in these the writer frequently breaks out into discussions larger than that of the merit of a single historical volume - as, for example, the aims of history in the past and in the present, the changes it has gone through and the in¿uences that have affected it, the battle of the great classes that made up English life when under. The Edwards it broke through feudal tradition, or the examination of some definite facts of history. The brevity of some of these dis eussions does not make them the less suggestive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.