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English Historical Review. January. Edited by the Rev. Mandell Creighton, MA. (Longmans.)—The first place in the list of con- tents is occupied by Mr. Douglas M. Ford's article on "The Growth of the Freedom of the Press," a lucid and interesting account of .a .great subject, though it contains little or nothing that is new. Mr. E. Armstrong contributes a somewhat abstruse essay on "The Political Theory of the Huguenots." Mr. John B. Bury makes an expedition into the comparatively unknown land of Byzantine -history. His "first part" takes him down- as far as the death *of Michael IV. t Professor Laughton tells, from documents -which he -has found in the Public Record Office,. a story nothing less than 'romantic of ".The Captains of the 'Nightingale,' ".a story which, curiously enough, has not hitherto found a place in our naval histories. "Notes and Documents" occupy more than a third of the number, and iteem sometimes disproportionately long, as in the sixteen pages which are given to a disoussion "On the Accession Dates of the Early Kings of Jerusalem." Perhaps the most important is the continuation of Mr. Reginald F. D. Pal- grave's reply to Mr. Firth on "Cromwell and the Insurrection of 1653." Finally, we have "Reviews," a list of historical books recently published, and a summary of periodicals, English and foreign.
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