He grounds his hope of the Public taking an interest in this work altogether upon its own intrinsic utility. Its articles are drawn principally from historians of the first rank, and the most authentic annalists; and the dictionary OF dates will, in almost every instance, save its possessor the trouble Of turning over voluminous.

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