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The student of early English history will be grateful to

Miss F. E. Harmer for her scholarly edition of Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth. Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 6s. net). This book contains twenty-three Anglo-Saxon charters, wills, and deeds, dated from 806 to about 960 A.D. The editor supplies translations and full notes. Her work was done at the suggestion of Professor H. Munro Chadwick, to whose help she acknow- ledges constant indebtedness, and who contributes a brief preface.