The author of this book is Professor Hearnshaw, who held many academic positions, including the Professorship of Intermediate History at the University of London from 1913 to 1934, and whose authorship attests to his long standing and long history in the science of history.
This book consists of seven chapters in which he discusses history as a science, its purposes, its methods, its history from the oldest eras, its benefits, its relationship with other sciences, and history among the Arabs. The author mentioned in his book a large group of prominent historians, philosophers, scholars, and writers who Perhaps the status of some of them will be hidden from students and readers.