The late Dr. J. H. Wylie, who died in 1914,
is well remem- bered by historical students for his astonishingly detailed account of the reign of Henry IV and of the first two years of the reign of Henry V, including a very substantial volume on the campaign of Agincourt. It is interesting to find that Professor W. T. Waugh, of McGill University, has taken up Dr. Wylie's half-finished third volume of The Reign of Henry the Fifth and completed it. (Cambridge University Press. 30s.). The task was formidable, but it has been successfully achieved. Here is the full story of Henry's conquest of Normandy, of his troubles with the doubtful Burgundian ally, John the Fearless, and of his triumph when John had been murdered at the bridge of Montereau, and his son, Philip the Good, was resolved upon vengeance on the treacherous Dauphin. Professor Waugh says that, when Henry died at Vincennes in 1422, he was lamented by many Frenchmen as well as by his English subjects, because " nothing in Henry impressed the French so forcibly as his zeal for justice." In this, surely, Henry V was a typical Englishman.
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