Mr. C. H. E. Carmichael, M.A., has brought out a
third edition, revised throughout, with notes and appendices, of Professor T. P. Taswell-Langmead's English Constitutional History. (Stevens and Haynes.)—Professor Langmead was cut off by disease early in a career full of promise, just after be had been appointed to the Chair of Constitutional History in University College, London (he never actually lectured). HM work begins with the Teutonic conquest, and is continued down to the present time, and is therefore practically a history of the English race on the side of its political life. The present editor has added seven appendices, one of the most interesting of which, at the present moment, relates to "The Early History of Tithes in Western Europe." It is not by any means favourable to very " high" notions on the jus divinum of the clergy to tithe. " The alleged establishment of tithes in England by EthelwulFs grant is clearly untenable." Professor Langmes.cVs work is one which may be not only profitably but agreeably read by all students of English history.
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