This volume contains a collection of essays designed to stimulate the systematic study of general history. Contents: The Use of History The Connection of History Some Great Books of History The History Schools A Survey of the Thirteenth Century What the Revolution of 1789 Did France in 1789 and 1889 The City: Ancient - Mediaeval - Modern - Ideal Rome Revisited Impressions of Athens Constantinople as an Historic City The Problem of Constantinople Paris as an Historic City The Transformation of Paris The Transformation of London The Sacredness of Ancient Buildings Palaeographic Purism Frederic Harrison (1831-1923) was a famous English writer, lawyer, and positivist philosopher who was also interested in literature and literary history.