Description: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (1822-1904) was an acclaimed American historian and translator. She produced a dozen interesting and well- researched histories.Latimer's most important work was a series of histories of Europe in the 1800s. The first volume, France in the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1892, when Latimer was 70. Mrs. Latimer's history of Turkey and Russia was her second history, first published in 1893. She followed this with a history of England (1894), Italy (1896), and Spain (1897). These books reveal much study and considerable understanding of national and world development. They abound in anecdotes and are written in a vivacious style. Chapters include: The Emperor Alexander I and Madame de Krudener, The Grand Duke Constantine and Janette Grudzinska, The Crescent Versus Christendom, Turks - Russians - and Greeks, The Czar Nicholas, The Crimean War, The Emperor-Liberator and His Reforms, Four Sultans, Islam, Turkish War of 1877 - General Skobeleff, The Assassination of Alexander II, Alexander III, Siberia - Central Asia - The Baltic Provinces -The Persecution of the Jews, Sultan Abdul Hamid, The Two Danube Kingdoms - Serbia and Romania, and The Balkan Principalities and Provinces.

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