NEW SCHOOL-BOOKS.
A Short Social and Political History of Britain, by Mr. R. L. Mackie (Harrap, 4s. 6d. net), is intended for the use of children of twelve, and should, we think, interest them. The author emphasizes the more important episodes, and gives explanations as well as bare facts. His illustrations are simple, numerous, and helpful.—For younger children, Miss E. W. Miller has written The Beginners' History of England (Harrap, 2s. 6d. net), which is readable and well illustrated, though we are not quite sure whether a simpler style would not have been more appro- priate.—Pupils in the higher forms will profit by Readings in English Social History from Contemporary Literature, 1485-1603, the third volume of a useful work edited by Mr. R. B. Morgan (Cambridge University Press, 4s. net), which contains fairly long extracts from the Tudor chroniclers like Harrison, from Hakluyt, Balogh, Latimer's sermons, and from contemporary letters. It is appropriately illustrated.—Advanced students, both in schools and universities, will find Miss L C. A. Knowles's Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 6s. 6d. net) instructive and impartial. She devotes special attention to the results of the astonishing development of mechanical transport, both for this country and for the Empire as a whole. Her book contains much information in a compact and interesting form.—Mr. L F. Salzman's Original Sources of English History (Cambridge : Heiler, 3s. net) may be mentioned as a lucid, though elementary, account of a large subject.
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