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On Modern Times. IV.; The Cambridge Modern History, Vol. Ukert, Geschichte der europaeisch. On the Age of the Renaissance. Zeitalters d. The general stir in men's minds, as indicated in the revival of learning and in remarkable inventions and discoveries, was equally manifest in great debates and changes in religion. One important element and fruit of the Renaissance is here seen.

WASHINGTON IRVING: Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. H. HALLAM: Introduction to the Literature of Europe. 1839. WM. PRESCOTT: Conquest of Mexico; History of Ferdinand and Isabella. SIR A. HELPS: The Spanish Conquest in America. 1867. M. PASCAL D'AVEZAC: Les Décades de Pierre Martyr, etc. OSCAR PESCHEL: Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckung. 1858.

Two excellent histories of the period of discovery are O. F. Peschel, Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen , and Sophus Ruge, Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen . More recent works are S. Gunther, Das Zeitalter der Entdeckungen , and Carlo Errera, L'Epoca delle Grandi Scoperti Geografiche .

V, ch. xxii; S. Ruge, Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen , in the ambitious Oncken Series; Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, La colonisation chez les peuples modernes, 6th ed., 2 vols. , the best general work in French; Charles de Lannoy and Hermann van der Linden, Histoire de l'expansion coloniale des peuples europeens, an important undertaking of two Belgian professors, of which two volumes have appeared Vol.