Edited by a Committee of the North Central History Teachers' Association Composed of Wayland J. Chase, The University of Wisconsin, Chairman; Karl F. Geiser, Oberlin College; Laurence M. Larson, The University of Illinois; Clarence Perkins, Ohio State University. Assisted by Victoria A. Adams, Calumet High School, Chicago; Carl E. Pray, State Normal School, Milwaukee; William L. Westermann, The University of Wisconsin. SEWARD, S. S. Note-Taking. Chicago, Allyn and Bacon. Pp. vi, 85. 50 cents. Some note-taking is generally judged to be an essential accompaniment of supplementary reading and has a commonly recognized place in high-school work. Consequently, many teachers feel the need of making definite effort to teach their pupils the rudiments of the process. To them this book will be suggestive and helpful, for it is the product of several years of experience with classes of college students to whom the author was seeking to teach effective methods of note-taking. Its contents fall into the following divisions: The Aim in Note-taking; How to Condense Notes; How to Organize Notes; Special Problems in Notetaking; Various Examples of Notes. It is not a book for the high-school pupil, but it is recommended to his teacher. Wayland J. Chase. WARD, A. W., and WALLER, A. R. The Cambridge History of English Literature. Vol. IV. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. x, 658. $2.50. This volume follows the development of English prose and poetry during the latter half of the Elizabethan period and the earlier decades of the Stuart reigns. The period covers approximately fifty years, beginning with the translations of Sir Thomas North (1579), translations "that Shakespeare used in passive obedience," and closing with the publication of Michael Drayton's last verses in 1630. It was an age of wonderful fruitage in English literature; but, as the drama is reserved for the next volume in the series, the present work is concerned principally with writers of lesser importance. Consequently, its greatest usefulness will be as a reference book; it is packed with information, not only as to books and the writers of books, but also as to the life and the intellectual tendencies of the time. Still, there are several chapters that the general reader will enjoy, such as those on the "Authorized Version," the English pulpit, the beginnings of English philosophy, early writers on politics and economics, and the founders of libraries. While the work is planned especially for literary students, it will also be found useful in the study of history. Raleigh, Hawkins, John Smith, Bacon, Thomas Bodley, and many more whose writings are discussed were not pre-eminently men of letters; their chief activities lie in the broader field of English history. But the student of history is interested in all the phases of their careers, and will find the present volume interesting, suggestive and helpful. Laurence M. Larson. BAIKIE, JAMES. The Sea Kings of Crete. New York, The Macmillan Co. Pp. xiv, 274. $2.00. In his recent book upon the civilization of ancient Egypt, “The Story of the Pharaohs," Rev. Mr. Baikie showed an unusual ability to summarize the results of recent excavations in Egypt and put them in an attractive and readable way. His latest book, "The Sea Kings of Crete," is an attempt to place before the reading public a similar summary of the Mycenaean or Minoan civilization. The book is deserving of praise in every respect. The material is well organized, the style engaging, and the illustrations the best that have yet appeared in any popular work upon the subject. There is little chance that further discoveries will change our present view of Minoan culture in its general aspects. Mr. Baikie represents the Cretan civilization as nonGreek, and has given a carefully drawn and clear picture of its overthrow by invasion from the Balkan peninsula. He deals convincingly with the relations of the Mycenaean art and life to the Homeric Greek civilization. The trade connections with Egypt and the counter-influence of Crete and Egypt are sufficiently emphasized. The table at the end of the book, comparing the Egyptian with the Minoan chronology, will be a great help to teachers. The book deserves the highest recommendation to teachers of ancient history, and should be in every complete high-school library. For reference reading upon the Minoan life for high schools and colleges it is the best work which has so far appeared. The excellence of the illustrations and the simplicity of the style give it the preference. William L. Westermann. GRAVES, FRANK PIERREPONT. A History of Education during the This book is the continuation of the same author's History of Education before the Middle Ages," but may be used quite independently of it. The author continues "to view the educational process from the standpoint of the development of individualism," but does not overdo it. Throughout the book he gives a reasonable amount of historical background, the lack of which is a grave defect of most text-books on the history of education. The book is well-proportioned, clear and interesting, and is, undoubtedly, the best text-book on the subject. As a historical reference book it will be very useful, since it provides excellent treatment of the cultural side of many great historical movements, a phase often scantily treated in historical text-books and reference books. The chapters dealing with monasticism, scholasticism, the medieval universities, humanistic education and the educational effects of the Protestant Revolt will be very helpful to the high-school history teacher and can be profitably used by the more mature students. Clarence Perkins. New OSTROGORSKI, M. I. Democracy and the Party System in the United This volume is an abridgment and revision of the author's great work-" Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties.” While based largely on the second volume of the former work, the author has taken advantage of the criticisms passed upon it and has here revised, brought up to date and added new material. The volume is devoted exclusively to the United States, and, since it is one of the few philosophic discussions upon our extraconstitutional government, it will at once commend itself to the attention of students of political science. Beginning with the Boston clubs, on the approach of the Revolution, the author traces the evolution and extension of the party system-local and national; analyzes the factors that have contributed to the rise and fall of the various parties and factions, and defines the motives and forces that have developed and perpetuated the "politicians and the machine." These latter have been the curse of our political life. "Democracy, Party and Plutocracy, taken together, completely altered the direction of government and went far to reduce the Constitution of the United States to a paper constitution." But against the abnormal development of these factors there has been a recent reaction, and this reaction, he thinks, has already demonstrated that political parties organized on the old lines have outlived their usefulness and that the hope of our democracy lies in a complete, though not necessarily radical, change in our conception of party functions. The true basis of an elective or nominating system lies in a voluntary association of individuals freed from the tyranny and domination of State interference and State control. author proposes many specific and general reforms. The elective system, he thinks, has been carried to excess, that it was never established as a result of scientific thinking. Its wide application has, instead of making responsibility more direct. scattered and weakened it. Every extension of the elective régime beyond legislative functions and local self-government is a move in the wrong direction. "The enforcement of laws lies, by its very nature, outside all divergence of political principles." There can be but one conception of executing laws, and there is therefore no reason why this function of government should belong to one party any more than to another. Not so with legislative functions; here divergence of opinion is necessary, and here the political party may serve a beneficial purpose. The elective system should therefore be largely confined to the policy-determining department of government. The In the clearness and vigor of his style, in the originality of his ideas, in his philosophic insight into our political life and institutions, the author has produced a work ranking with that of De Tocqueville and of Bryce; and its interest is enhanced by the fact that this too is written by a foreigner, namely a Russian, Karl F. Geiser. Periodical Literature HENRY L. CANNON, PH.D., EDITOR. (Conducted with the co-operation of the class in current literature of Leland Stanford, Jr. University. Contributions suitable for this department will be welcomed. Address Box 999, Stanford University, Cal ifornia.) "History in the German Secondary Schools," by Ellen Scott Davison, of Bradford Academy, in the Educational Review for November, is the paper read at the session of the American Historical Association in New York in December, 1909. -In the "Mercure de France" (November 1), Pierre Leguay characterizes "M. Seignobos and History," or, rather, M. Seignobos' views upon the various phases and functions of historical inquiry and teaching. He considers the key-note to all of these views to be a high regard for what is useful and practical. -In the "Magazine of History" for September, Lew Allen Chase writes upon "The Upper Mississippi a Century Ago," drawing his material largely from the journal of Alexander Henry, the Expeditions of Pike, and Thwaites' Early Western Travels. -In the same number the unique mission of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities is explained by its secretary, William Sumner Appleton: "It aims to relieve all existing societies of their hardest work-that of preservationtaking it upon its own shoulders, ready to face danger wherever it may threaten throughout its territory." -Commenting upon this, the Editor of the Magazine quotes from the London "Graphic" of July 9 the following, relative to the proposed sale of the Scottish estates which include the Pass of Killiecrankie: "There is no reason as yet to think that any man who buys it will desire to spoil its beauty; but is not this a case where the nation, rather than a private individual, should go to the auction, and does not the sale of the Pass of Killiecrankie raise the larger question of the nation's duty to preserve some of its most historic and most beautiful plots of earth from any danger of degradation and spoiling? Surely there are some yards of earth ---where Harold died at Hastings, where Magna Charta was signed, where men fought to the death at Bannockburn and Flodden-which should be held as sacred soil, not to be overbuilt by dwelling-houses or workshops, and not to be claimed as the back gardens of wealthy men, where trespassers will be prosecuted.'' -The various phases of Iowan history that attract or should attract the historian's attention are reviewed by Louis Pelzer in the "Iowa Journal of History and Politics " for October. They are of considerable interest, as suggesting to historians of other localities important subjects for possible inquiry, such as the following: Exploration, settlement, successive sovereignties, successive territorial jurisdictions, politicslocal and national; institutions-church, education (newspapers), society, customs, marriage; race groups-Scandinavians, Germans, Jews, Bohemians; industries-railroads, banking, agriculture. -Margaret L. Woods, in the "Fortnightly Review" for November, portrays the varied occupations of "The English Housewife in the Seventeenth Century." Of these, she remarks: The big country. house of those days-and a small one in proportion-was a kind of home-factory, where a variety of manufactures were carried on. Not only were wool, hemp and flax prepared and spun, but medicinal waters and perfumes were distilled, unguents and washes compounded. It was also a malt-house, a brewery, a candle-maker's, and a clothier's establishment." -The "Deutsche Rundschau" for October contains a brief address by Adolf Lasson in commemoration of the Berlin University centenary celebration. The address outlines the conditions which led to the founding of the university, and warmly praises its services to the nation and to the world of learning. The names of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Schleiermacher and Hegel are conspicuous in the story. From a student body of 256 in 1810, the attendance has risen to almost 9,000 in 1910. -"A Hero of Dorchester Heights" is the topic of the address delivered by Professor Archer Butler Hulbert before the Bunker Hill Monument Association last June. By means of the letters of Washington, Putnam and others, the connection of Rufus Putnam with the fortification of Dorchester Heights, previous to the Battle of Bunker Hill, is shown; also Washington's general appreciation of Putnam as an engineer. -The Hispanic Museum, situated in New York, was founded and endowed by Mr. Archer Milton Huntingdon, and opened in 1908 under the auspices of the Hispanic Society of America. The character of the museum and the aims of the society are described by Professor William R. Shepherd, of Columbia University, in the Independent of November 10. He states: "The Hispanic Society is especially desirous of encouraging original investigation in its chosen field (Spain and Portugal). Those who wish to undertake such work are assured of every possible aid. RECENT HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS. LISTED BY CHARLES A. COULOMB, PH.D. (EDITORIAL NOTE.-Beginning with this issue and continuing in the forthcoming numbers, Dr. Charles A. Coulomb, of Philadelphia, will compile for the Magazine a list of historical publications issued by American publishers during the preceding month. In order that this work may begin with the current school year, the installment for the current month lists the publications from September 1 to October 30, 1910.) AMERICAN HISTORY: Abbott, Willis J. The Story of Our Navy for Young Americans. New York; Dodd, Mead & Co. 521 pp. $2.00. Alexander, Hartley Burr. The Religious Spirit of the American Indian, as Shown in the Development of His Religious Rites and Customs. Open Court Pub. Co.; Chicago. 51 pp. 30 cents. Bigelow, John, Jr. The Campaign of Chancellorsville. New Haven, Conn.; Yale University Press. 528 pp. $10.00. Bradford, T. Lindsley (compiler). Bibliographer's Manual of American History. Revised and edited by Stan. V. Henkels in 5 vols. Vol. 5. Philadelphia; Stan. V. Henkels. Per vol., $3.50. Coman, Katharine. Development. New York; Longmans, Jenks, Tudor. When America Became a The Negro in Parkman, Francis. tory of the United States. New edi- Dixon, Roland B. The Chimariko Indians New Labor Legislation. Berkeley, Cal.; Univ. of California. 461 pp. $4.00. Fearn, Frances (editor). Diary of a Refugee (driven from New Orleans by its capture by the Union troops). New York; Moffat, Yard & Co. 149 pp. $1.25. Frothingham, R. The Rise of the Republic of the United States. 10th edition. Boston; Little, Brown & Co. 640 pp. $2.00. Hall, Clayton C. Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684. (Original Narratives of Early American History.) New York; Chas. Scribner's Sons. 460 pp. $3.00. Hart, Albert Bushnell. Epoch Maps, Illustrating American History. 4th revised edition. New York; Longmans, Green & Co. 60 cents. Hill, Rob. Tudor. The Public Domain and Democracy; a Study of Social, Economic and Political Problems in the United States in Relation to Western The Oregon Trail. Edited for use in schools by Edward E. Hale, Jr. New York; Newson & Co. 320 pp. 40 cents. Ragan, Robert A. Escape from East Tennessee to the Federal Lines; the History . . . of his Individual Experiences during the War of the Rebellion. Washington, D. C.; J. H. Dony. 53 pp. $1.00. Riley, F. L., Chandler, J. A. C., and Hamilton, J. G. Our Republic. A History of the United States for Grammar Grades. Richmond, Va.; Riley and Chandler. 550 pp. 65 cents. Taft, W. H. Presidential Addresses and State Papers from March 4, 1909, to March 4, 1910. Vol. 1. New York; Doubleday, Page & Co. 612 pp. $1.80. Taussig, Frederick W. The Tariff History of the United States. 5th edition revised. New York; G. P. Putnam's Sons. 422 pp. $1.50. Tittle, Walter. Colonial Holidays. Being a collection of contemporary accounts of holiday celebrations in Colonial times. 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