English Regnal Years and Titles. By J. E. W. Wallis.
(S.P.C.K. 4s. net.)—To the excellent series of Helps for Students of History has been added an invaluable little book of reference, of which historians and lawyers and many other people will be glad to hear. It shows in a series of tables " the beginning of any regnal years of any English post-Ccmguestum monarch, the date of the Easter or Easters which fell within any such year, the diplomatic title of any sovereign since 1066, and the holder at any time of any of the eight titles of nobility which were (some still are) closely connected with the crown of England," as well as lists of Scottish and French Kings, Easter dates before the Conquest, and other chronological data. So far as we have tested it, the book appears to be remarkably accurate, and embodies the latest results of mediaeval study. The author promises two similar books, dealing With Easter days and week- days from year to year, and with Saints' days. Every serious student of history has long desired a cheap modern handbook of chronology to replace Sir Harris Nicolas's familiar old work, which is now scarce, and Mr. Wallis and his publishers are assured of a welcome for the book under notice and its proposed successors.—In the same series appears also The Turkish Restoration in Greece, 1718-1797 (Is. 3d. net), by Mr. William Miller, the leading authority on mediaeval and modern Greece up to the Liberation. Mr. Miller relates briefly and clearly the petty risings, instigated by Russia, which broke the monotony of Turkish tyranny. These risings prepared the way for the insurrection of 1821, which at last excited the sympathy of the West and proved successful.
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