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By the same Author, to be completed in Four Parts,
CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS in ENGLAND and WALES: an Historical and Descriptive
Sketch of the various classes of Monumental Memorials which have been in
use in this country from about the time of the Norman Conquest.
Profusely illustrated with Wood Engravings. To be published in Four
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"A well conceived and executed work."--_Ecclesiologist._
8vo., cloth, price 12s., with a Coloured Plate of King Alfred's Jewel,
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT. By the Rev. J. A. GILES, D.C.L.,
late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Author of "The History of
the Ancient Britons," &c.
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are known respecting the Life of Alfred, exhibiting the various
opinions on disputed points, and containing a very fair, sensible
summing up by the biographer."--_Spectator._
Two vols., 8vo., 30s.
HISTORY of the ANCIENT BRITONS, From the Earliest Period to the Invasion
of the Saxons. Compiled from the Original Authorities. By the Rev. J. A.
GILES, D.C.L, late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
"The longer and more important passages are full and clear in
matter, always well presented, often in a masterly mode.... Dr.
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and he exhibits the same general _bon hommie_ and chronicler
disposition for minute and picturesque narrative which we noted in
his 'Life of Becket,' with more of a critical
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