1. _Sacred and Ecclesiastical History._--Josephus' Works; Millar's
History of the Church; Jahn's Hebrew Commonwealth, Mosheim's
Ecclesiastical History; Milner's Church History; Scott's Continuation of
Milner; Life of Knox; Gilpin's Lives of the Reformers; Fuller's and
Warner's Ecclesiastical History of England; Millar's Propagation of
Christianity; Gillies' Historical Collections; Jones' Church History;
Mather's Magnalia; Neale's History of the Puritans; Wisner's History of
the Old South Church, Boston; Bogue and Bennett's History of the
Dissenters; Benedict's History of the Baptists; Life of Wesley; History
of Methodism; Life of Whitefield; Millar's Life of Dr. Rodgers; Crantz's
Ancient and Modern History of the Church of the United Brethren;
Crantz's History of the Mission in Greenland; Loskiel's History of the
North American Indian Missions; Oldendorp's History of the Danish
Missions of the United Brethren; Choules' Origin and History of
Missions. Those who have not sufficient time for so extensive a course,
may find the most interesting and important events in the progress of
the church during the first sixteen centuries of the Christian era, in
the author's Sabbath-school Church History.
2. _Secular and Profane History._--Rollin's Ancient History; Russel's
Egypt; Russel's Palestine; Plutarch's Lives, to be kept on hand, and
consulted as the names appear in history; Wharton's Histories; Beloe's
Herodotus; Travels of Anacharsis; Mitford's Greece; Ferguson's History
of the Roman Republic; Baker's Livy; Middleton's Life of Cicero;
Murphy's Tacitus; Sismondi's Decline of the Roman Empire; Muller's
Universal History; Hallam's History of the Middle Ages; James' Life of
Charlemagne; Mills' History of the Crusades and of Chivalry; Turner's
History of England; Burnett's History of his own Times; Robertson's
History of Scotland; Robertson's Charles V.; Vertot's Revolutions of
Sweden; Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal; Sismondi's History of the
Italian Republics, (abridged in Lardner's Cabinet of History;) Roscoe's
Lorenzo de Medici and Leo X.; Sketches from Venetian History; Malcolm's
History of Persia; Irving's Life of Columbus; Prescott's Ferdinand and
Isabella; Robertson's History of America; Bancroft's History of
America; Winthrop's Journal; Ramsay's American Revolution; Marshall's
Life of Washington; with the Biographies of Penn, Jay, Hamilton, Henry,
Greene, Otis, Quincy, Morris, the Signers of the Declaration of
Independence, Sparks' American Biography, with the Lives of any other
distinguished Americans; Scott's Life of Napoleon.