Reviews And Short Notices

Book reviewed in this article: ANCIENT: THE GREEK AND MACEDONIAN ART OF WAR. By Sir F. E. Adcock ANCIENT: In HISTORY UNEARTHED ANCIENT: THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B by John Chadwick SERVICE IN THE POST‐MARIAN ROMAN ARMY MEDIEVAL: THE PATRIARCH NICEPHORUS OF CONSTANTINOPLE: ECCLESIASTICAL POLICY AND IMAGE WORSHIP IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE. BY P. J. Alexander EARLY ENGLISH LEGAL LITERATURE. By T. F. T. Plucknett MEDIEVAL: In THE HANDWRITING OF ENGLISH DOCUMENTS (London: Edward Arnold. 1958. 126 pp. 30s.) MEDIEVAL: THE GOLDEN TRADE OF THE MOORS. By E. W. Bovill. Oxford University Press. 1958. 281 pp. 30s. MEDIEVAL: THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA, vol. i. Edited by Sir Hamilton Gibb MEDIEVAL: THE OCCUPATION OF CHIOS BY THE GENOESE AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION OF THE ISLAND 1346–1566. By Philip P. Argenti MEDIEVAL: THE BLACK PRINCE'S EXPEDITION OF 1355–1357. By H. J. Hewitt MEDIEVAL: THE ESTATES OF THE PERGY FAMILY 1416–1537. By J. M. W. Bean THE INCISED SLABS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND, PREFACED BY A BRIEF MANUAL OF INCISED SLABS by F. A. Greenhill MEDIEVAL: A happy choice for inclusion in THE MAKERS OF CHRISTENDOM was ST. ODO OF CLUNY, being the Life of St. Odo of Cluny by John of Salerno and the Life of St. Gerald of Aurillac by St. Odo, translated and edited by Dom Gerard Sitwell, O.S.B. MEDIEVAL: THE ‘DIGNITAS DECANl’ OF ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL DUBLIN, edited by N. B. White with an introduction by Father Aubrey Gwynn, S.J SOME OXFORDSHIRE WILLS PROVED IN THE PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY, 1393–1510, edited by J. R. H. Weaver and A. Beardwood EARLY MODERN: MACHIAVELLISM. By Friedrich Meineke. Translated by Douglas Scott, with an Introduction by W. Stark. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul EARLY MODERN: THE CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR IN THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1956. 177 pp. 3) EARLY MODERN: THE MIDLAND PEASANT, THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF A LEICESTERSHIRE VILLAOE. By W. G. Hoskins, London: Macmillan. 1957. xxii + 322 pp. 30s. ENGLISH PEASANT FARMING, THE AGRARIAN HISTORY OF LINCOLNSHIRE FROM TUDOR TO RECENT TIMES. By Joan Thirsk THE STRUCTURE OF THE OTTOMAN DYNASTY. By A. D. Alderson THE MARGHANTS AVIZO EARLY MODERN: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: THE MARINER AND THE MAN. By Jean Merrien EARLY MODERN: THE ENTERPRISE OF ENGLAND: AN ACCOUNT OF HER EMERGENCE AS AN OCEANIC POWER. By Thomas Woodrooffe EARLY MODERN: SOCINIANISM IN POLAND. THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IDEAS OF THE POLISH ANTITRINITARIANS IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. By Stanislas Kot EARLY MODERN: THE PORT BOOKS OF BOSTON, 1601–1640. Ed. by R. W. K. Hinton EARLY MODERN: SEVENTEENTH‐CENTURY EXETER. By W. B. Stephens EARLY MODERN: THE EASTLAND TRADE AND THE COMMON WEAL IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By R, W. K. Hinton EARLY MODERN: Dr. J. P. Kenyon's THE STUARTS EARLY MODERN: OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE PURITAN REVOLUTION EARLY MODERN: BISHOP AND PRESBYTERY: THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, 1661–1688. By Walter Roland Foster EARLY MODERN: A PROFEST PAPIST: BISHOP JOHN GORDON. By T. F. Taylor EARLY MODERN: THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE SECRETARIES OF STATE AND THEIR MONOPOLY OF LICENSED NEWS, 1660–1688. By Peter Fraser EARLY MODERN: Professor Edgar Wind's PAGAN MYSTERIES IN THE RENAISSANCE EARLY MODERN: In THE BACKGROUND OF THE KNIGHTS REVOLT 1522–1583 EARLY MODERN: In a fascinating and scholarly little book LES VOYAGES DE CHARLES QUINT EARLY MODERN: Professor G. B. Harrison's A SECOND JACOBEAN JOURNAL LATER MODERN: PETER THE GREAT. By Vasili Klyuchevsky EARLY MODERN: THE CONDUCT OF THE DUTCH: BRITISH OPINION AND THE DUTCH ALLIANCE DURING THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION. By Douglas Coombs EARLY MODERN: Professor Henry Vyverberg in HISTORICAL PESSIMISM IN THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT EARLY MODERN: LA LUTTE CONTRE LES ÉPIZOOTIES, ET L'ECOLE VÉTÉRINAIRE DE LYON AU XVIIII e SIÈCLE. By Henri Hours EARLY MODERN: THE STATE AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN PRUSSIA 1740–1870. By W. O. Henderson EARLY MODERN: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE MODERN WORLD: A SURVEY FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT. By E. E. Y. Hales EARLY MODERN: THE SCHOOL TEACHERS: THE GROWTH OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION IN ENGLAND AND WALES FROM 1800 TO THE PRESENT DAY. By Asher Tropp EARLY MODERN: THE MECHANICS INSTITUTES OF LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE BEFORE 1851. By Mabel Tylecote EARLY MODERN: LA PREMIÈRE RESTAURATION ET LES CENT JOURS EN ALSACE. By Paul Leuilliot EARLY MODERN: ROMA DA MAZZINI A PIO IX: RICERCHE SULLA RESTAURAZIONE PAPALE DEL 1849–1850. By Alberto M. Ghisalberti EARLY MODERN: LORD DERBY AND VIGTORIAN CONSERVATISM. By W. D. Jones EARLY MODERN: THE INDEPENDENT IRISH PARTY, 1850–9. By J. H. Whyte EARLY MODERN: THE RISE OF THE BRITISH RUBBER INDUSTRY. By William Woodruff EARLY MODERN: BANKERS AND PASHAS. By David S. Landes EARLY MODERN: THE GREAT SIBERIAN MIGRATION. By D. W. Treadgold EARLY MODERN: Dr. Richard H. Wilde's JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC, 1895–1899: A STUDY IN THE FORMULATION OF IMPERIAL POLICY EARLY MODERN: NORTHERN IRELAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By John W. Blake EARLY MODERN: GESCHICHTE DES ZWEITEN WELTKRIEGES IN DOKUMENTEN EARLY MODERN: DEUTSCHLAND UND DER ENGLISCH‐RUSSISCHE GEGENSATZ, 1900–1914 by Dr. Oswald Hauser EARLY MODERN: Dr. O. H. Radkey's THE AGRARIAN FOES OF BOLSHEVISM EARLY MODERN: REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND. A STUDY OF DÁlL ÉIREANN, 1919–1948 by J. L. McCracken EARLY MODERN: Adrienne Doris Hytier in TWO YEARS OF FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY, VICHY 1940–1942 THE AMERICAS: LES FRANÇAIS EN AMÉRIQUE PENDANT LA DEUXIÈME MOITIÉ DU XVI e SIÈCLE: LES FRANÇAIS EN FLORIDE. Edited by Suzanne Lussagnet, with an introduction by C. A. Julien THE AMERICAS: THOMAS GAGE'S TRAVELS IN THE NEW WORLD. Edited by J. Eric S. THE AMERICAS: GEORGE WASHINGTON. By Marcus Cunliflfe THE AMERICAS: THE FEDERAL CONVENTION AND THE FORMATION OF THE UNION OF THE AMERICAN STATES, edited by Winton U. Solberg in the American Heritage Series THE AMERICAS: Blackwell P. Robinson in WILLIAM R. DAVIE THE AMERICAS: Stephen G. Kurtz in THE PRESIDENCY OF JOHN ADAMS THE AMERICAS: CREATED EQUAL, THE LINCOLN‐DOUGLAS DEBATES OF 1858 THE AMERICAS: Edward Younger under the title INSIDE THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT THE AMERICAS: THE CIVIL WAR: A SOLDIER'S VIEW THE AMERICAS: William M. Armstrong's E. L. GODKIN AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY 1865–1900 THE AMERICAS: Hans Huth, Curator of Research at the Art Institute of Chicago, in NATURE AND THE AMERICAN THE AMERICAS: William Kilbourn in THE FIREBRAND THE AMERICAS: Under the title of REBELLION IN THE BACKLANDS, an English translation by Samuel Putnam of Euclydes de Cunha's Os SertoTes was first published in 1944 and is now available in a cheap edition THE AMERICAS: In his LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH ASIA: THE STRONGHOLDS OF INDIA. By Sidney Toy ASIA: Dr. C. D. Sheldon's THE RISE OF THE MERCHANT CLASS IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN 1600–1868 ASIA: The letters printed in Professor H. N. Sinha's FORT WILLIAM‐INDIA HOUSE CORRESPONDENCE ASIA: TRADE AND FINANCE IN THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY (1793–1833). By A. Tripathi ASIA: THE MAKING OF THE MEIJI CONSTITUTION—THE OLIGARCHS AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN, 1868–1891. By George M. Beckmann ASIA: GENESIS OF THE MEIJI GOVERNMENT IN JAPAN 1868–1871. By Robert A. Wilson GENERAL: CLASSICAL EDUCATION IN BRITAIN 1500–1900. By M. L. Clarke GENERAL: In BARBARY LEGEND: WAR, TRADE AND PIRACY IN NORTH AFRICA, 1415–1830 GENERAL: HISTORY OF THE BRITISH IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY FROM C. 450 B.C. TO A.D. 1775. By H. R. Schubert GENERAL: ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN ENGLAND FROM THE REFORMATION TO 1950. By E. I. Watkin GENERAL: A HISTORY OF PRICES AND WAGES IN DENMARK GENERAL: Volume xxvii of the SURVEY OF LONDON, edited by F. H. W. Sheppard GENERAL: A HISTORICAL ATLAS OF CHESHIRE. Edited by Dorothy Sylvester and Geoffrey Nulty GENERAL: REASON AND CHANGE IN SGIENTIFIG DISCOVERY. By R. Taton, translated by A.J. Pomerans GENERAL: THE OXFORD DICTIONARY ÒF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH GENERAL: HISTORICAL STUDIES: I (London: Bowes and Bowes. 1958. 99 pp. 10s. 6d.), edited by Professor T. D. Williams. GENERAL: CORRESPONDENTIE VAN ROBERT FRUIN 1845–1899 (H. J. Smit en W. J. Wieringa (eds.). GENERAL: CONVOCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON GENERAL: Mr. Norman F. Ticehurst in THE MUTE SWAN IN ENGLAND GENERAL: THE ENGLISH LIBRARY BEFORE 1700, edited by Francis Wormald and C. E. Wright GENERAL: CHARLECOTE AND THE LUCYS by Alice Fairfax‐Lucy GENERAL: A HISTORY OF CHIPPING CAMDEN by Christopher Whitfield GENERAL: CHESTER CATHEDRAL, by R. V. H. Burne GENERAL: The ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY GENERAL: The appearance of a second edition of the valuable HISTORISCHER ATLAS DER SCHWEIZ by Hektor Ammann and Karl Schib GENERAL: The excellent HISTORICAL ATLAS OF WALES by Professor William Rees GENERAL: John Locke's ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (abridged), Disraeli's CONINGSBY, Machiavelli's PRINCE, Malthus' ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION, Voltaire's AGE OF LOUIS XIV, THE PASTON LETTERS, St. Augustine's CITY OF GOD, Boswell's JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES, Nietzsche's THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA. GENERAL: In DOCUMENTS OF MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT GENERAL: Louis L. Snyder's DOCUMENTS OF GERMAN HISTORY