A First History of the English People. Vol. II. By
Amy Baker. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—A simple and interesting account of the period between Edward I. and Elizabeth. The book will be certain to interest children in the doings of their ancestors, as it is no mere dry skeleton of facts, but has the life and movement of living reality, though we could not vouch for the accuracy of all the conversational and other details which produce this effect. It has the merit of being impartial in its account of the religious vagaries of the sixteenth century. There is one blunder. Craft Guilds are represented as having originated in the reign of Edward I., whereas they were already in existence in the twelfth, if not in the eleventh century.—We have also received a new and revised edition of First Principles of Modern History, 1815-1888. By T. S. Taylor. (Belle Brothers.)
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