Murray's History of England. By M. A. Tucker. (John Murray
3s.)—In writing this "Outline History for Middle Forms" Miss Tucker has had to compress into the space of some four hundred pages the history of nearly two thousand years. And she has done it with great skill. We have put it to such a test as va) could command, and found it satisfactory ; nothing necessary omitted, and proportion duly observed. Some of Miss Tucker's propositions are questionable. "Henry probably intended to make the breach with Rome permanent by endowing a ndw nobility with the spoils of the monasteries." There seems some- thing strange in the idea of a Tudor Sovereign foundin a new no`bility. Probably Henry's policy was more opportunist. Was Queen Mary chiefly responsible for the perseeutions ? The diffi- culty is that some dioceses were almost wholly free.
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