Excerpt from A Syllabus in Modern: European, History From Charlemagne, to the Present (800-1920) The purpose of this new excursion into an old field is only another serious attempt to guide the bewildered college youth carefully through the maze of facts, essential and unessential, in his first college course in history. It is hoped that this manual may also prove of some assistance to overworked instructors in their overcrowded classes of the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.