The Life of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury. By R.
I. Woodhouse. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—It is a pity that Morton's life should not have been thoroughly worked out. Mr. Woodhouse has not contributed a great deal to his biography, though he has collected some of the materials necessary. But if he will read Mr. Gairdner's " Henry VII." through carefully— he quotes enough from it —he will find something, and that not by any means unimportant, about Morton which he has omitted. He will not find, however, we think, in any of Mr. Gairdner's works that St. Mighel in Barroys is " in Louvain," and if he had carefully investigated the history of Margaret of Anjou, he would not have said so. Mr. Woodhouse might do worse than make more use of the various articles in "The Dictionary of National Biography" which deal with the men and women of Morton's time.
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