"Many passages reveal the sure touch of a skillful artist who knows how to decorate a story with telling phrase and the right kind of detail.

Lucas, Henry S.

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BOOK REVIEWSThe Mingling of the Races. By G. M. TRJWE;LYAN. (London: Long-mans. Green & Co., 1934. Pp. 192. $1.35.)This brief account is a splendid addition to the many popularbooks dealing with the history of England. Professor Trevelyandraws upon an inexhaustable fund of knowledge of social, economic,religious, and intellectual history and produces a clear picture inlucid language. Many passages reveal the sure touch of a skillfulartist who knows how to decorate a story with telling phrase andthe right kind of detail. Not the least fascinating among the manypleasant passages is the account on pages 110-112 of the Scandin-avian invasions. In no other work can a reader find in the briefcompass of 191 pages so splendid a picture of the important forma-tive history of the English people to the death of Henry I in 1135.The book should be read by all whose conception of English his-tory during this remote age has been derived from Green. In nobetter way can he get a realization of the immense progress whichhistorical studies have made during the past two generations.HE;NRY S. LucAsThe Irrepressible Conflict, 1850-1865. By ARTHUR CHARLEs COLE.(New York: The Macmillan Company. 1934. Pp. 468. $4.00.)Professor Cole's work is a part of the series on the "History ofAmerican Life," edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger and Dixon RyanFox. It provides an unusually interesting and valuable contributionboth in its adequate documentation, and in the comprehensive dis-cussion of social and cultural development. It is not an easy task tore-interpret the forces that divided North from South. Here arethe many threads of the story of division. Economic factors arerecognized and described, but more as a part of a popular tendency,that is, taking the attitudes of various classes into account. It is insome ways a study in public opinion.The two civilizations developed in contiguous territories alongquite different lines. These differences affected politics, but politicalplatforms and campaigns exhibited the external event, not the back-grounds or cause. Professor Cole appreciates the importance of theMiddle West in the period. He has used a vast number of news-(231)

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