27 JULY 1918, Page 14

AMERICAN HISTORY FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN. [To THE EDITOR or THE "

SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Having read your suggestion that we should have a new history of the United States for our schoolchildren, I remembered a most delightful one, already written, which would, I think, meet the requirements of the case—America : a History, by Robert Mackenzie (T. Nelson and Sons). The copy I have was published in 1882. A history of Scotland, by the same author, was, I believe, the foundation of the one used in our Scottish schools.—I am,

Sir, &c., G. H. POLLARD. Burns Cottage, near Moffat, Dumfriesshire.