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The British diplomatig Service, 1689–1789. By D. B. Horn. Oxford University Press. 1961. xv + 324 pp. 42s. Europe in The Eighteenth Century, 1713–1783. By M. S. Anderson. London: Longmans. 1961. xii + 364 pp. 25s. The Eighteenth Century Constitution: Documents And Commentary. By E. N. Williams. Cambridge University Press. 1960, xvi + 464 pp. 52s. 6d. (Student's edition, 27s. 6d.) Sir Robert Walpole: The King's Minister. By J. H. Plumb. London: Cresset Press, 1960. 363 pp. 30s. In Montesquieu, a Critical Biography (Oxford University Press. 1961. xv + 432 pp. 45s.) An Introduction to Eighteenth Century France. By John Lough. London: Longmans, 1960, xvi + 349 pp. 28s. The Fourth Earl of Sandwich. Diplomatic Correspondence, 1763–1765. Edited by Frank Spencer. Manchester University Press. 1961. 334 pp. 45s. The Voyage of The ‘Resolution’ And ‘Adventure’, 1772–1775. Edited by J. C. Beaglehole. Cambridge University Press, for the Hakluyt Society. 1961. cliv + 1021 pp. £6. La Marine De L'an II: Mobilisation de La Flotte De L'océan 1793–1794 (Paris: Marcel Rivière. 1959. 276 pp.) La Contre‐Révolution. Doctrine et Action. 1789–1804. By Jacques Godechot. Paris: Presses Universitaires. 1961. 426 pp. 24NF. L'europe Du XIX e Et Du XX e Sièclei Problèmes Et Interprétations Historiques: vols, i–ii, 1815–1870. Edited by M. Beloff, P. Renouvin, F. Schnabel and F. Valsecchi. Milan: Marzorati (English distributor‐Parker, Oxford). 1959. xiv + 1122 pp. £8 8s. Gooch's collection of essays, French Profiles: Prophets and Pioneers (London: Longmans. 1961. viii + 291 pp. 30s.). The Friendly Societies in England, 1815–1875 (Manchester University Press. 1961. x + 262 pp. 32s. 6d.) Thiers et le Baron Cotta. By Robert Marquant. Paris: Presses Universitaires. 1959. xxi + 537 pp. 18 NF. Mr. Secretary Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel To 1830. By Norman Gash. London: Longmans. 1961. xiv + 693 pp. 70s. James Anthony Froude. A Biography, 1818–56. By Waldo Hilary Dunn. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1961. xiv + 261 pp. 35s. The Railways of Britain: An Historical Introduction. By Jack Simmons. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1961. xii + 264 pp. 30s. Industrial Growth and Population Change. By E. A. Wrigley. Cambridge University Press. 1961. xi + 193 pp. 32s. 6d. In English Radicalism, The End? (London: Allen and Unwin. 1961. 640 pp. 70s.) Henry Pelling's A Short History of The Labour Party (London: Macmillan. 1961. 135 pp. 21s.) ‘The Observer’ And J. L. Garvin, 1908–1914: A Study In a Great Editorship. By Alfred M. Gollin. Oxford University Press, 1960, xiv + 445 pp. 45s. The Spanish Civil War. By Hugh Thomas. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1961. xxviii + 720 pp. 42s. Receuil Des Instructions Données Aux Ambassadeurs Et Ministres de France, XXVII Espagne (Paris: Editions du centre de la Recherche Scientifique. 1960, x + 121 pp. 12 nf.). ‘Que sais‐je?rsquo; series by H. Méthivier in L'ancien Régime (Paris: Presses Universitaires. 1961. 128 pp.). The Journal de L'assemblée Des Notables de 1787, with accounts of the bureaux of the King's brothers, Monsieur and the Comte d'Artois, by the Comte de Brienne and Loménie de Brienne, is an important addition to the printed sources for the period. It has been edited with scholarly thoroughness by Pierre Cheallier (Paris: C. Klincksieck. 1960. xxxviii + 144 pp. 16 NF.) History of The Tahitian Mission, 1799–1830. This has now been printed in a careful and scholarly edition, with annotations and an introduction by C. W. Newbury, for the Hakluyt Society (Cambridge University Press. 1961. liv + 392 pp. 40s.). Six Hundred New Churches (London: S.P.C.K. 1961. xvi + 208 pp. 12 plates. 50s.), by M. H. Port. Victorian Suburb (Leicester University Press. 1961. 240 pp. 30s.) Lyon Transformed: Public Works of The Second Empire, 1853–1864 (University of California Press. 1961. 160 pp.). The Conseil D'état in Modern France (Columbia University Press: O.U.P. 1961. ix + 205 pp. 40s.) Deutsche Parteiprooramme 1861–1961 (Göttingen: Musterschmidt. 3rd ed. 1961. 404 pp. 24 Dm) H. M. Hyndman and British Socialism (Oxford University Press. 1961. 304 pp. 35s.). Le Journal ‘Defense de la France’, which appeared clandestinely in France during the German occupation, began in July 1941 with 5000 copies. In July 1943 its circulation was 100,000, and it reached 450,000 copies in the number issued in January 1944. The 48 numbers of the paper, up to August 1944, have been edited, with an introduction, by Marie Granet (Paris: Presses Universitaires. 1961. vii + 283 pp. 18 nf.).