SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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Mr. R. B. Morgan has compiled a fourth volume of his admit.. able _Readings in English Social History from Cantemporary Literature (Cambridge University Press, 4s. net) which may be commended to the attention of teachers. This volume covers the Stuart period and contains some delightful extracts from Fynes Morison, Mrs. Hutchinson, Fuller, George Fox, Pepys, Evelyn and the State Trials, with well-chosen illustrations. Children will read it with interest and gain a real knowledge of the atmosphere of the times.—Two other text-books of interest are The Expansion of Britain, by W. R. Kermack, and A Short History of British Agriculture, by John Orr (Clarendon Press, 2s. 6d. net each). Both are pleasantly written and convey much information in a compact form. Both, too, are illustrated.
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