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In “The Dawn of History,” by J. L. 
Myres, we have the first brief and simple 
survey of the history of very early times. 
The author, an eminent British scholar, who 
has carried out many important anthropo- 
logical and archeological researches, here 
gives in simple form the most essential re- 
sults of his travel and learning as to the 
earliest human communities of Europe. 
“Medieval Europe,” by H. W. C. Davis, 
is a volume devoted to a fascinating subject. 
Herein the author traces the anarchy that 
accompanied the fall of the Roman Empire, 
the ephemeral life of the barbarian king- 
doms, the rise of the Empire and the new 
monarchies between A.D, 800 and 1000, and 
the later “Expansion of Europe.’ The 
characteristics of feudalism and the medie- 
val State, the vicissitudes of the Papal 
Church, the Crusades, and the growth of 
the free towns are discussed with great abil- 
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showing the greatness of the error which 
misrepresented the centuries separating the 
ancient and modern worlds as “a long night 
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THE ByZANTINE Empire. By Edward A. 
Foord. New York: The Macmillan 
Company. Cloth; 16mo.; Illustrated; 
432 pp. Price, $2.00 net. 
This volume is a thoroughly successful 
attempt to supply the need of a short, popu- 
lar history of the Later Roman Empire. 
There has been no work of this sort on this 
subject up to this time, available in the Eng- 
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Professor Oman’s sketch in Putnam’s 
“Story of the Nations” series and the monu- 
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“The Byzantine Empire,’ by the last 
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concerns itself mainly with the Byzantine 
Empire’s work as preserver of civilization 
and rearguard of Europe, concerning itself 
but little with ecclesiastical controversy, this 
being, in the author’s opinion, entirely sec- 
ondary in the matter in hand. On this point 
the reviewer differs with Mr. Foord, never- 
theless Mr. Foord’s volume is a valuable 
handbook of the subject, adequately illus- 
trated with maps and half-tones and tables, 
and an index of names. Although the 
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clarity and brevity, the general reader, too, 
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to be had in reading this fascinating record 
of one of the most interesting epochs of 
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THE Book oF THE CoTTaGE GARDEN, by 
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