Mary Platt Parmele was a historian who wrote short histories of various European nations during the late 19th century.From the preface:"It is more important to comprehend the forces which hav
If this book seems to have departed from the proper ideal of historic narrative--if it is the history of a Power, and not of a _People_--it is because the Russian people have had no history yet. There
No name is more fraught with picturesque and romantic interest than that of the "Spanish Peninsula." After finishing this rare bit of handiwork nature seems to have thrown up a great ragged
