16 OCTOBER 1920, Page 22

The Historical Association's admirable quarterly, History (Macmillan, En net), contains

in its October number a good article by Mr. Geoffrey Callender on "The Evolution of Sea. powerunder the firet two Tudors," showing how Henry VIII. built up a large royal fleet of heavily armed ships, carrying bigger guns than were used at Trafalgar. " Suoh being the state of his maritime defence, you can imagine the contemptuous indifference with which Henry VIII. snapped his fingers at the whole world." Professor Stanton writes on the Danelaw in the useful series of "historical revisions," and Mr. Norman Baynes discusses recent work in Roman history.