17 SEPTEMBER 1881, Page 13

"FRENCH HISTORY FOR ENGLISH CHILDREN."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In the review of Miss Brook's "French History for English Children," the writer remarks that the "story of France, as a whole, has been" only "half told" before, and that it "is prac- tically unbroken ground." May I call his attention to a short but most comprehensive work by W. Chambers, published in 1871, "France : its History and Revolutions," and which is essentially a history of its people, rather than of its kings ?- I am, Sir, &c.,

Middlesbrough, September 9th. C. P. W.