Source Problems in English history. By A. B. White and
W. Note- stein. (Harper and Brothers. Cs. net.)—Two Professors of the Univer- sity of Minnesota illuatrate, by the eight typical cases in this book, a very good method of teaching history. Thus for " Aired and the Danes " we have first a brief historical sketch, then an account of the sources of our knowledge of the time, then a set of questions, and finally well-chosen extracts from the Chronicle and Aseer's Life. The origin of the jury, the rise of the House of Commons, freedom of speech under the Tudors and Stuarts, and the peace negotiations of 1782-83 are other suggestive topics, and the last of all, strange to say, is the Parliament Act of 1911, with extracts from Hansard, the Times, and the Annual Register, and the full text of the measure. Thus the American youth studies our most recent history, while the English youth, as a rule, ends his exiguous historical reading with the battle of Waterloo.
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