DESPITE the long connection of this country with Portugal, Portuguese
history and civilisation have not unnaturally been regarded as primarily a domain for the specialist. In seeking a form for a memorial volume to two great British scholars in this field, Edgar Prestage and Aubrey FitzGerald Bell, Mr. Livermore has done a good service in providing not a mere haphazard collection of papers, but a set of chapters which provide an adequate and, in many respects, enticing introduction to the whole field of Portuguese and Brazilian studies. In achieving this aim, Mr. Liver- more was aided by the late Professor W. J. Entwistle; and it is sad that this volume has now in a sense to be regarded as a memorial to this excellent and humane scholar as well. It would perhaps be invidious to select individual contributions for commendation; but the handsome plates are worth men- tioning, for they form an integral part of the book, and show how much is lost when economy prevents illustration. M. B.
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