7oi Jtidory of the English Landed Interest. 
that lie desires. “ Mr. Gamier holds out a hope of writing one 
day, for people who are not farmers, a book on the history of 
agriculture. Let him compose it in the same spirit as that 
in which he has written his Hist or ij of the English Lamled 
Interest, condescending to details which everybody is assumed 
to know, but of which most of us are ignorant, and he will in- 
struct and occasionally amuse.’’ The critique from which I have 
just cited is a little hard upon our author in two respects. 
“ We do not,” it says, “ find Mr. Gamier makes adequate use 
of Arthur Young’s Tours of a Farmer in the North and East 
of England ; ” now the period of Vvhich Mr. Gamier treats in 
his present work ends with the Rev'olution in 1689, and Arthur 
Young was not born until 174d ; consequently, Mr. Russell 
Garnier’s presentation of Mr. Arthur Young must chronologically 
be a pleasure to come. In the second place, objection is taken 
to the imaginary journey through Tudor England in the style 
of Le Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece. Three pages only 
are occupied by Mr. Gamier in this way; I cannot see that in 
his desire to be vivid and pictorial — in short, to please — he has 
greatly erred. I have always supposed that Barthelemy jum- 
bled distinct periods in Greek history, and was blamed for that, 
and not at all on account of his style ; anyway, Mr. Gamier 
has erred, if at all, in the society of a writer whose reputation 
tested by time has not failed to survive. And so let us take 
leave of the critiques of “ the full volume now under review,” 
in which volume, it is further accorded, “ there is an abundance 
of good material.” 
Mr. Gamier takes his reader by the hand, and leads him 
pleasantly, rapidly, and by easy stages across the evolutionary 
centuries of English history down to the Revolution of 1689, 
both sides of the way being crowded with interesting illustrations 
and strewed with pregnant facts, concerning the history of 
English land. Herein lies the crux : the capacity of the historian 
may be tested by every reader for himself in answer to the test 
question. How far do the facts adduced bear upon the several 
issues ? On the one hand, is anything wanting ? — on the other, 
is there redundancy ? The six stages, the breathing places, the 
several periods, are these : the Roman, the Anglo-Saxon, the 
Norman, the Middle Ages, the Tudor, and the Stuartine, with 
the close of which period the present volume eiids. I propose in 
my few remaining observations to follow this convenient chrono- 
logical order. 
When in the face of the hostile Britons the standard- 
1)earer of the 10th Roman legion, the Legio Victrix, leaped on 
shore, shouting to his comrades, “ Men, follow me ! ” civilisation 
