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SIXTY-THREE years ago, before a single American writer had an established reputation, William Tudor founded the "North American Review." During its first years the Review, notwithstanding the fact that it gave nothing for its contributions, barely paid expenses; and never before the present year has it been a paying investment. But, however unsuccessful from a business point of view the Review may have been, its pages have ever exhibited the highest scholarship this country possessed, and its list of contributors includes the name of almost every American writer who has attained any enduring distinction...
...period left out is that of the Reformation, a period at once most important and most interesting. In England,* the entire Tudor dynasty is thus omitted; in France, we lose the important reign of Louis XI., the period of the struggle with Burgundy, and of the final consolidation of the kingdom, the reign of Francis I., and the religious wars. In Germany, we lose Luther and the whole Reformation; in the Low Countries, the tyranny of Philip II. and the rise of the Dutch Republic. To suppose that a student will carefully study this period by himself is expecting rather...