guarantees of English liberty extended also to the colonies, and through them were worked out in our own political system. In connection with a course in American Constitutional History the book is useful because it makes easy the preliminary study of the basis of American free institutions, in the practice and the concrete records of England; and fourteen of the twenty-four chapters are devoted to distinctively American utterances. After all, the usefulness of a collection, like the usefulness of a text-book, depends, to a large degree, upon the teacher. One who is awakened to the importance of constitutional development, to the study of charters and statutes and constitutions, as expressing the aspirations of the people, will know how to show young people that that side of history is interesting. Perhaps, also, in these days of storm and stress, of the creation of new political powers and influences, of undreamed complications with the affairs of the rest of the civilized world, it may be worth while to bring to the minds of young people the truth that our personal liberty, our freedom to move about, to take up callings, and to make the most of ourselves, is not a privilege which defends itself; that it behooves a free people not to give up principles for which they and their forefathers have been contending during more than eight centuries. ALBERT BUSHNELL HART. CONTENTS PAGE Critical Comment, continued :- TASWELL-LANGMEAD, English Constitutional History VON GNEIST, History of the English Parliament POLLOCK AND MAITLAND, History of English Law THOMAS CROMWELL, Letter to John Creke HALLAM, Europe during the Middle Ages STUBBS, Constitutional History of England. STUBBS, Constitutional History of England TASWELL-LANGMEAD, English Constitutional History FEILDEN, Short Constitutional History of England 47 LEGAL FORMS AND JURY TRIALS (1429) Statute: 8 Henry VI. Cap. 12 (1429) SIR JOHN FORTESCUE, De Laudibus Legum Anglice BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England SPENCE, Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery FORSYTH, History of Trial by Jury. GREEN, Short History of the English People TASWELL-LANGMEAD, English Constitutional History VON GNEIST, History of the English Parliament GARDINER, Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution 85 TASWELL-LANGMEAD, English Constitutional History TAYLOR, Origin and Growth of the English Constitution GARDINER, Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution. BORGEAUD, Adoption and Amendment of Constitutions BORGEAUD, Rise of Modern Democracy BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England. CREASY, Rise and Progress of the English Constitution HURD, Right of Personal Liberty . PATERSON, Liberty of the Subject, etc. TASWELL-LANGMEAD, English Constitutional History |