As I have elsewhere told the story of Charles Lamb's life to the best of my ability, I have not thought it necessary, in editing his Letters, to tell it over again in my own words. The letters themselves contain his story at least from the year when he came of age and began in earnest the battle of his difficult and lonely life. From the year 1796 to a date preceding his death by only a few days, there are few incidents of that life that are not related or referred to in those letters. When read consecutively, and with the help of such sup- plementary information as can be provided in notes, they form an almost complete biography.

Although in the following pages I have chosen those plays, or most of them, which Charles and Mary Lamb omitted from their Tales from Shakespeare, and although I have taken a title very like theirs, my attempt has not been to round off or tag a conclusion to their inimitable work. They, as wise judges of what their book should be, found that a certain class of play lay outside their purpose. It is just these plays the historical ones which, with a different purpose, are here cast into narrative form.

King Henry IV, Part I, picks up where Richard II left off; Henry IV is now King of England but all is not well in his kingdom, Welsh leader Owen Glendower has defeated one of King Henry IV's armies, capturing Edmund Mortimer, its leader. Unfortunately our King does not have a son to take over the reins, his only son Henry V, known as Hal shirks responsibility, preferring to waste away his youth drinking, partying and getting up to trouble with his rogue friends, in particular a certain John Falstaff and his friend Poins.. . He even takes part in the robbery of travellers! If only the King could swap sons with the Percies, he's fighting; Hotspur, the son of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland is by all accounts a brave, couageous soldier. In an important soliloquy, Hal reveals that though he has been keeping bad company, he will soon show his true colors at the right time...

In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud propounds his perspective by enumerating what he sees as the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction, he asserts, stems from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. Many of humankind's primitive instincts (for example, the desire to kill and the insatiable craving for sexual gratification) are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community. As a result, civilization creates laws that prohibit killing, rape, and adultery, and it implements severe punishments if such rules are broken. This process, argues Freud, is an inherent quality of civilization that instills perpetual feelings of discontent in its citizens.

One hundred and fifty years ago A. F, Tytler set forth three Principles of Translation: To give a complete transcript of the original ideas; to imitate the styles of the original author; and to preserve the ease of the original text. In presenting selections from Max Weber to an EngHsh- reading public, we hope we have met the first demand, that of faithfulness to the original meaning. The second and the third demands are often disputable in translating German into English, and, in the case of Max Weber, they are quite debatable.

St. Heiric (Eric) of Auxerre, a Benedictine, composed this book of homilies around the years 865-870. He was a student of Lupus of Ferrière, John Scotus Erigena, and Haymo of Auxerre. In turn, he was the teacher of Remigius of Auxerre. This manuscript is a copy then of a homiliary done less than a century before. It is the oldest copy known to exist. The second oldest extant copy, which derived from MS 50, is in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale under shelf mark nouvelles acquisitions latines 464. It is dated c.1150. In a manner of speaking, this copy is a relatively recent discovery which is only just becoming known to students of homilaries in general and St. Heiric in particular. For many years the manuscript was virtually unknown, existing as it did in the Phillips collection in complete and utter disorder.

As I have elsewhere told the story of Charles Lamb's life to the best of my ability, I have not thought it necessary, in editing his Letters, to tell it over again in my own words. The letters themselves contain his story at least from the year when he came of age and began in earnest the battle of his difficult and lonely life. From the year 1796 to a date preceding his death by only a few days, there are few incidents of that life that are not related or referred to in those letters. When read consecutively, and with the help of such sup- plementary information as can be provided in notes, they form an almost complete biography.

The present volume completes the series on the Great War with an account of the general progress of events from the closing days of 1917 to the formal acceptance of the terms of peace by Germany on June 28, 1919, the fifth anniversary of the fatal murder at Sarajevo. It deals with the disappointing outcome of the great hopes of the Allies in 1917; the upheaval which detached Russia from the Western Powers; the economic and political situation and prospects of the Central Empires at a time when unHmited possibilities lay before them; the development of the effec- tive military strength of the United States; Germany's stupendous efforts in the West, which in a few days swept away the laboriously acquired gains of its opponents and created the supreme crisis of the whole war; the sudden turning of the tide of victory; the collapse of the Quad- ruple Alliance; and the deliberations from which the peace treaty issued.

Throughout the ages life has been a struggle. From the time when primitive man beset by constant peril sought with grovelling rites to propitiate grotesque creations of his own imagination, the human race has groped its way, blindly but instinctively, through violence and ignorance, towards light and freedom. But whenever man, escaping the malignant spell of superstition, has thrown off the crushing load of fear and has at last dared to stand erect and look Nature in the face, assurance nourished, pride usurped the place of fear, and nations, drunk with greed, arrogance, and lust of power, were borne by their own madness down the path of ruin. The present cataclysm seemed but the culminating disaster of this process.

Nations, like individuals, pass through periods of crisis, when emotion and moral conflict are so intense that the experience of generations seems to be crowded into as many days. The current of human life was suddenly engulfed in one of these whirlpools of excitement and anxiety during the midsummer days of 1914, when the bewildering confusion of contrasted sensations, hope and despair, enthusiasm and rancor, impressed their vivid and ineffaceable mark upon the memory of those whose lives and happiness were involved in the momentous decisions which were in suspense.

The subject with which this vokime deals is twofold. The mention of material forces and their mobilization in the contents of a history of a mitrhty war conveys at once an approximately adequate notion of the intended treat- ment. An examination of the armament and military establishments of the belligerent powers, which forms a natural part of the histor}' of any war, becomes an indis- pensable feature of a comprehensive account of the present conflict, by reason of the astounding progress in the methods and equipment of warfare accomplished in recent years, which very few persons outside the military profession have had the leisure or inclination to follow intelligently. This part of the subject requires neither apology nor explanation.

Nations, like individuals, pass through periods of crisis, when emotion and moral conflict are so intense that the experience of generations seems to be crowded into as many days. The current of human life was suddenly engulfed in one of these whirlpools of excitement and anxiety during the midsummer days of 1914, when the bewildering confusion of contrasted sensations, hope and despair, enthusiasm and rancor, impressed their vivid and ineffaceable mark upon the memory of those whose lives and happiness were involved in the momentous decisions which were in suspense.

The surgisal literature and ehperiense of past campaing, the teachings of Medical Schools and text-books, have alike proved strange to the surgisal practice of the present war.

Cieza de Leon, besides his two chronicles (translations of which already form part of the first series of the Hakluyt Society's volumes), completed a history of the conquest and civil wars of Peru. The manuscripts have not all been found, but Jimenes de la Espada edited and published the first part of the " War of Quito " by Cieza de Leon in 1880.

At the close of the nineteenth century and the opening of the twentieth, several efforts were made, both in Europe and America, towards the prevention of future wars, by substituting legal methods for brute force in the settlement of international disputes.