Dr. Sacheverell"s sermons.
1710 Peace proposals by Louis at Gertruydenberg rejected.
Dr. Sacheverell sentenced: Tory party greatly helped thereby.
Battle of Almenara (Spain): French and Spanish defeated by Stanhope.
Battle of Saragossa: French and Spanish defeated by Stanhope.
Battle of Brihuega: Stanhope beaten by Vendome.
Battle of Villa Viciosa: General Staremberg defeated by Vendome: Spain secured for Philip V.
Bouchain taken by Marlborough.
Fall of the Whigs.
General Post Office established.
St. Paul"s Cathedral finished.
1711 All Whigs dismissed from office, and Tories alone to form the Ministry, thus establishing the principle that the members of the Cabinet should all be of the same political party.
d.u.c.h.ess of Marlborough supplanted by Mrs. Masham.
Death of the Emperor Joseph, and accession of Archduke Charles: no farther need now to continue the war.
Tories determined to put an end to the war.
1712 Twelve new Tory peers created to destroy the Whig majority which was in favour of continuing the war.
Marlborough deprived of his command: Ormonde to succeed him.
Peace Conference at Utrecht.
Act against Occasional Conformity.
1713 (March 3). Treaty of Utrecht: Spain to Philip: Minorca and Gibraltar to England: Spanish lands in Italy and Netherlands to Emperor Charles: Sicily to Savoy. Prussia made a kingdom.
1714 Quarrel between Harley and Bolingbroke: Harley dismissed.
Schism Act: schoolmasters to belong to the Church of England.
Bolingbroke"s free trade proposals defeated by the Whigs.
Death of Electress Sophia: George of Hanover now heir to the British throne.
(July 30). Death of Anne: Accession of George I.
Oxford: HORACE HART, Printer to the University
Herbert Strang"s Stories for Boys
_SOME PRESS OPINIONS_
ATHENAEUM:--"Herbert Strang is second to none in graphic power and veracity."
SPECTATOR:--"Mr. Strang"s name will suffice to a.s.sure us that the subject is seriously treated,"
SAt.u.r.dAY REVIEW:--"Excellent as many of the best stories by the best writers for boys are, we feel that he is first of them all."
SPEAKER:--"Not only the best living writer of books for boys, but a born teacher of history."
GUARDIAN:--"Mr. Strang"s care and accuracy in detail are far beyond those of the late Mr. Henty, while he tells a story infinitely better."
CHURCH TIMES:--"If the place of the late G.A. Henty can be filled it will be by Mr. Herbert Strang, whose finely-written and historically accurate books are winning him fame."
SCHOOLMASTER:--"Mr. Strang is ent.i.tled to premier place amongst writers of stories that equally interest boys and adults."
STANDARD:--"It has become a commonplace of criticism to describe Mr.
Strang as the wearer of the mantle of the late G.A. Henty.... We will go further, and say that the disciple is greater than the master."
DAILY TELEGRAPH:--"Boys who read Mr. Strang"s works have not merely the advantage of perusing enthralling and wholesome tales, but they are also absorbing sound and trustworthy information of the men and times about which they are reading."
TRIBUNE:--"Mr. Herbert Strang"s former books "caught on" with our boys as no other books of adventure since Henty"s industrious pen fell from his hand."
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN:--"Mr. Henty was the ancient master in this kind; the present master, Mr. Herbert Strang, has ten times his historical knowledge and fully twenty times more narrative skill."
GENTLEWOMAN:--"This is the literature we want for young England."