. We welcome the publication in this country, in one
handsome volume running to nine hundred pages, of Mr. Cyril E. Robinson's England : A History of British Progress from the Earliest Ages to the Present Day (Methuen, 21s.). The book is primarily intended for American readers, and has already enjoyed considerable success in the United States. Many English readers, however, should find the work a pleasant aid to the refreshment of memory. Mr. Robinson makes no claim to supplant other historians. He is neither an original nor a critical scholar. But he possesses a sure eye for the essential facts, steers a good middle course through controversial issues, and displays a happy gift for illuminating the social background of a period with a thoroughly characteristic incident or story. Dealing with every aspect of life, his book is too comprehensive to. plumbovry deep. But it supplies a sound, lucid, and exceptionally readable survey of the broader lines of national development, visualized as movement rather than as detail.
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