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HELP FROM FRIENDS AND BOOKS. xv
1903) and the Illustrerad Svensk Litteratur Historia of
Henrik Schiick and Karl Warburg (3 vols., 18961897) are
works of which any country might be proud. All of them
would, however, be more useful to the student if they had
larger tables of contents, lists of the illustrations, and more
references to authorities. The first edition of the Sveriges
Historia has, it should be said, an admirable index ;
and
the covers of its fasciculi supply a list of illustrations
which last help the (unfinished) second edition sadly needs.
As far as I can judge, J. H. Turner s English translation
of Geijer s famous history (up to 1654) is a good one, but
that of Anjou s first volumes, by H. M. Mason, is some
times unintelligible, and sometimes misleading. I have
seen it stated that Anjou s second work (1593 1693 A - D -)
has also been translated ; but, if so, I have been unable to
find a copy. Anjou is an able writer, but his method in
volves a good deal of unchronological arrangement, and is,
therefore, puzzling to the reader. Reuterdahl and Cor
nelius are both duller, but it is easier to find in them what
one needs.2
I am glad to hear that my friend, Mr. G. C.
Richards, of Oriel College, has translated Cornelius
Handbok i Svenska Kyrkans Historia, which has a good
chronological table, and a fair index. The reader will
find some useful detailed criticism of Cornelius in Dean
Lundstrom s article in the second volume of the K. H.
Arsskrift (for 1901), in which the learned author also
sketches his own idea of the division of the subject in
hand.3
2
Reuterdahl s Svenska Kyrkans Historia is in four volumes
(six parts) and goes down to 1533 (Lund, 1838 1866). Cor
nelius Svenska Kyrkans Historia efter Reformationen in two
volumes, covering the period 1520 1883, was published in
1886 1887. It has no index, but a good table of contents. His
Handbok i Sv. K. H. covers the whole ground in one volume,
3d. ed., 1892.
3
A nmdrkingar och tilldgg till C. A. Cornelius Handbok i
Svenska Kyrkans Historia, ra.m., pp. 173-216. I shall have
occasion to cite many articles from this review, and I have to
thank the editor for his very great kindness in giving me copies
of the whole ten volumes (1900 1909) at present issued.
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