KING HENRY THE FIFTH'S' POET HISTORICAL. By W. F. P.
Stockley. (Heath Cranten. 7s. 6d. net.) MR. STOCKLEY is diffuse and writes in a difficult, sometimes in a violent style, and his chief motive for writing seems to be anger that anyone should think that the Church of England was Protestant before the Reformation and Catholic after- wards. Though there is evidence that he has a considerable knowledge of English history and of English literature, the object of this display is not very clear. We learn from the cover, however, that the book is intended to be a consideration of "- thoreligionOf pre-Refortinition Europe in-which Henry V moved and lived and had his iking ; and then the spirit of international Rome energizing to the saving of society, even if moving at times under a weight of its own bialy's monstrous abuses and intolerable scandals."
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