Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life and Times of Bertrand Du Guesclin, Vol. 1 of 2: A History of the Fourteenth Century
The original draft of the work was completed - after seven or eight years of assiduous labour, during the intervals of leisure from other and engrossing employments - a little more than two years ago; and I had set myself to the task of re-writing the whole, of which not above one hundred and twenty pages of manuscript were completed, when the work was suspended by my public duties, in the month of Decem ber, 1860. About the rst of June of the following year I resumed the revision, which was finished just one year ago, about the gloomiest period of the great struggle between the South and the North, when Fort Donelson fell and Nashville was occupied by our enemies. Amidst the distractions of passing events, I attempted to write the introduction which I had designed but the times to me were then too sad to inquire into the history of the past - the present absorbed all my thoughts; and now, if the prospect is less gloomy than before, I have no leisure from my public engagements to carry out my design.
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