To its scholarly and valuable series of " Helps for
Students of History " the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has just added Seals, by H. S. Kingsford (Is. 3d. net)—a, compact sketch of an interesting branch of archaeology with a dozen illustrations—and • The French Revolution, by G. P. Gooch (8d. net), who describes the chief histories and some of the best biographies sal monographs on special topics. Mr. Gooch says with truth that " by far the best guide through the period from 1789 to 1799 is Madelin's The French Revolution," to which we have often referred, and that " to study the pages of Macklin after reading or re-reading Carlyle is to measure the sensational advance that has tak n place in our knowledge and interpretation of forces and events." In his brief account of the authorities for the revolution in Germany, we miss a refer- ence to Mr. Fisher's excellent book on the Napoleonic reforms in the Rhineland, which reactionary Prussia was unable to efface.
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