24 MARCH 1923, Page 22

Mr. Innes, a well-known writer of history text-books, has now

produced a history of the British Commonwealth for schoolboys of the upper forms. He shows himself as industrious and orderly as ever. The history is, for the most part, social, legal and economic ; Mr. lanes denies himself the blandishments of picturesque and amusing anecdotes. Nothing here will disturb orthodoxy or encourage a hare-brained theorizing. There are maps, genealogical tables and general summaries. Poor children