Campaigns of Osman Sultans, Chiefly in Western Asia - From Bayezyd Ildirim to the Death of Murad the Fourth, (1389-1640), From the German of Joseph Von Hammer #270764

The best works of genius require no preface, or only a very short one, like that of Herodotus, which is a model in its way; for the historian puts his readers in possession at once of the nature of his work, and of his reasons for undertaking it, with as much judgment as brevity.