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For literary scholars, and particularly for students learned in French literature of the sixteenth century, this volume of papers (revised reprints in all but two cases) will be of special interest. The unitiated will probably be most attracted by "Rabelais and Geographical Discovery," and the two essays on Rabelais and Montaigne. It is for the specialist to assess the value of the scholarly attempt to make Cartier's Canadian expeditions a source of reference in the voyage of Pantagruel. Did Swift find in Rabelais a prototype for Gulliver? No reader can fail to be struck by the fairness and sound judgment displayed in Mr. Tilley's estimate of Montaigne. Humanism under Francis I" is also an admirable study. World History, 1815-1920. By Prof. E. FUETER. Translated by Prof. S. B. FAY. (14s. net. Methuen.) Twelve years ago the Swiss historian, Prof. Eduard Fueter, sprang to sudden fame by his masterly treatise on Modern Historiography. In this leading work he showed a profound knowledge of the writings of all the great historians of recent events, a sound judgment as to their merits, and a remarkable impartiality. These admirable qualities are equally evident in his sketch of "World History, 1815-1920," published in Zurich, 1921, and now translated by Prof. Fay, of Smith College. The special feature of this illuminating study is that it is not a

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