Introduction

OF THE SORBONNE

Translated by G. G. BERRY

With a Preface by F. YORK POWELL

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1904

TO THE READER

It is a pleasure to recommend this useful and well-written little book to English readers. It will both interest and help. There are, for instance, a few pages devoted to the question of evidence that will be an aid to every one desirous of getting at the truth respecting any series of facts, as well as to the student of history. No one can read it without finding out that to the historian history is not merely a pretty but rather difficult branch of literature, and that a history book is not necessarily good if it appears