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The Americans in the Philippines. By James A. Le Roy.

2 vols. (Houghton Mifflin Company. 42s. net.)—Mr. Le Roy's death at the early age of thirty-three has deprived the world of a writer who might have ranked with Prescott,

Motley, and Parkman among the greatest American historians. These valuable volumes form the best account which we have seen of American dealings with the Philippines. They are eminently judicial in tone and interesting in style, and cover the earlier Spanish regime, the American conquest, and the first year of the Philippine war.