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Those who are fairly well acquainted with the Stuart period

will find The English Revolution, by Mr. I. Deane Jones (Heinemann, 10s. 6d.), both stimulating and suggestive. It is a typical product of the Oxford historical school, in-which the author lectures. It bristles with epigrams and paradoxes, all intended to make the undergraduate think, but sometimes rather exasperating for the older reader. Yet in the main Mr. Jones's comments are sound enough, especially in the

• .emphasis that he lays upon the religious aspect of the con- . troversies of the seventeenth century. Fear of Ronian Catholicism was common to both Royalists and Parliamen- .Aarians, and persisted after the Restoration as well as before it. "Professor Barker contributes a lively introduction to this thoughtful book.