Excerpt from The History of Modern Education: An Account of the Course of Educational Opinion and Practice From the Revival of Learning to the Present Decade

The chief difficulty in its preparation has arisen from the abundance and complexity of the materials that have been presented. An attempt has been made, by a careful selection of truly representative facts and personages, by a rigid exclusion of all other matters however intrinsically interesting, and by treating the several centuries from the standpoint of what in them seemed most characteristic, to con struct a narrative which should be truthful and perspicuous without being unduly bulky. The reader will judge how far this attempt has been successful.

The works to which the author has been specially indebted have been so frequently mentioned in the following pages that it seems needless to enumerate them here.

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