Excerpt from Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages, in Black and White, Vol. 1 of 2: Made on the Spot, From Records in the Archives of Switzerland A preface is usually so seldom read, and generally so little wanted, that the author of this work long hesitated as to the propriety of appending one. The reflection, however, that it was ushered into the world under the title of History, at length decided her to point out explicitly the abundant sources whence the materials were drawn, lest it might be supposed th at these pictures were, in reality, nothing more than a few leading facts laid down to form a superstructure for a fabric of fiction. All the prin cipal details of the Huns' War, more especially liable to suspicion from the dramatic character of its incidents, will be found in Wiirstisen's Great Ger man Chronicle of Basle, published scarcely one hun dred years afterwards, when the events narrated were yet in the memory of many aged persons, by whom they were transmitted to posterity, both orally and by writing A. Short notice of this famous cloisteral dispute may also be met with in the eleventh volume of the Conservateur Suisse, a periodical publication. 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.