History of Modern Europe. By Thomas Henry Dyer, LL.D. Revised
and Continued to End of Nineteenth Century by Arthur Hassell, M.A. (G. Bell and Sons. Os. net per vol.)—We have here an instalment of a third edition of Dr. Dyer's book, Vol. I., containing the period 1453-1525, and Vol. LI., 1525-1585. Four more volumes will be needed to complete it. The original has been revised, sometimes rewritten, and generally supplemented by the editor. During the last thirty years much historical information from original sources has been put at the disposition of the historian, and this has been and is to be utilised by Mr. Hassell. This is a kind of labour to which it is difficult to do adequate justice. We are glad to see that Dr. Dyer's work, itself a per- formance far too good to be superseded, is to be accommodated to present needs.
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