The English Constitution, 1603 - 1088. By Norah Powys. (Sherratt and Hughes.
Is. net.)—Miss Powys has given us here one of those tabulated statements of historical facts, in this ,instance of the Constitutional kind, which students often find so useful. They do not in any way supersede the study of books ; they help the reader to formulate his conclusions. An unpractised person will often fail to grasp the most important details. Here he will be led to see what they are, to understand their mutual "relation, and so forth. Even a careful reader, say of S. R. Gardiner, as by common acknowledgment the chief authority on this period, may get no small advantage from this summary.
"Paper 1V." we read that " the Long Parliament had met in tpanie on Nov. 3rd, 1640. The indirect cause may be said to have been the King's marriage with Henrietta Maria." "Indirect" would have been better "remote." No one would guess that the marriage had taken place fifteen years before.
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