Shorter Notices
Ramsay Muir. Edited by Stuart Hodgson. (Lund Humphries. 8s. 6d.)
PROFESSOR RAMSAY MUIR was an able historian, as such works as The Expansion of Europe testify, and an active and valued member of the inner councils of the Liberal Party. Much the most im- portant part of the present volume, which includes some of Muir's essays and several appreciations of him, consists of a fragment of auto- biography, full of both personal and public interest. In the latter category may be specially commended Muir's account of the in- ception and progress of the University of Liverpool and his notes on a visit to India in 1913 and 1914. Even after the lapse of thirty years, the three or four pages dealing with caste and other perennial factors in the Indian problem form as admirable an analysis as could come from any pen today.
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