The October number of the American Historical Review (Vol. VII, No. 1) contains articles by an able corps of writers on a wide range of subjects. Goldwin Smith, in The Age of Homer, aims to locate the Homeric period through a study of its political, social, and æsthetic conditions. He concludes from evidence of this nature that Homer wrote at a date later than that fixed by Herodotus, and later than is now generally believed. In Anglo-Saxon Feudalism, George Burton Adams, applying a strict definition to the term “feudalism,” concludes that, in its essential characteristics, this institution did not exist in Anglo-Saxon England. This is contrary to the impression created by recent writers, notably, Professor Maitland, in his Domesday Book and Beyond. Charles W. Colby, in The Jesuit Relations, reviews editor Thwaites's great work and discusses critically the historical value of the sources in question. To any one using the relations the article is well worth reading. Carl Becker writes on Growth of Revolutionary Parties and Methods in New York, 1765-1774. Albert Bushnell Hart contributes The Monroe Doctrine and the Doctrine of Permanent Interest. He first states the various meanings of “the Monroe doctrine,” and then lays down six principles upon which any doctrine of “permanent interest” of the United States must be based. The documents printed in this number are Letters on the Nullification Movement in South Carolina, 1830-1834, II.

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