CURRENT LITERATURE.
The English Historical Review, under the able and judicious editorship of the Bev. Mandell Creighton, is now firmly estab- lished, and has become indispensable to the careful writer, and even to the careful reader, of history. Its "Notes and Docu- ments," mainly original, supply the materials from which future histories will be drawn. Among the " Notes " in the July number, two diaries of the Battle of Waterloo will be found especially interesting. The articles include a very erudite essay on the early life of Wolsey, an estimate of the " great" Conde decidedly unfavourable to his reputation, and a short paper by Mr. F. W. Maitland on " The Suitors of the County-Court," which is calcu- lated to throw doubt on the generally accepted belief that all the freeholders in a county were suitors of the Court, and to do some- thing more than suggest the possibility that the original " county franchise " was distributed through an intricate network of private charters and prescriptive liabilities.
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