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Les Sources de l'Histoire de France, XVI Siecle (1494-1610) by Henri Hauser Review by: James Westfall Thompson The American Historical Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Jul., 1916), pp. 792-793 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1835902 . Accessed: 15/05/2014 03:53 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Oxford University Press and American Historical Association are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The American Historical Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 193.105.154.120 on Thu, 15 May 2014 03:53:33 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Les Sources de l'Histoire de France, XVI Siecle (1494-1610) by Henri HauserReview by: James Westfall ThompsonThe American Historical Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Jul., 1916), pp. 792-793Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1835902 .

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792 Reviews of Books

Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, who murdered Moray and with whom the archbishop had dealings, was a picturesque villain who tried later to murder the Prince of Orange. What would not Robert Louis Stevenson have made of such material as that furnished by Bothwellhaugh, Chatel- herault, Queen Mary, Knox, and many others? Stevenson, of course, was a man of letters, but why should not the historian write literature? The volume is badly arranged. The same heading runs through the whole book, the chapters themselves have only dates for their titles, and no outline of the contents is to be found anywhere. The index, too, is without cross-references. Painstaking research and accuracy do not wholly compensate for these defects.

Les Souirces de l'Histoire de France, XVIe Si'cle ( I494-1610). Par HENRI HAUSER, Professeur a l'Universite de Dijon. Volume IV. Henri IV. (i589-16io). (Paris: August Picard. I9I6. Pp. xix, 223.) WITH this work M. Hauser completes a labor of erudition which has

occupied him for the past ten years, and which fills four volumes, cover- ing the period of the Italian wars, the reigns of Francis I. and Henry II., the wars of religion, and finally the reign of Henry IV. Carlyle compared the pamphlet literature of the Cromwellian epoch to the mines of Potosi. The comparison applies with equal aptness; both for volume and for quality, to the sources of French history in the sixteenth cen- tury. One who has himself spent many months of research in the archives of the history of France in this period may be permitted to congratulate M. Hauser most heartily upon the accomplishment of a task of scholarship in which love and duty must often have been com- mingled sentiments.

The character of this poly-volumed Maniuel was determined by the founder of the series, the late M. Auguste Molinier. It was primarily intended to be a critical catalogue of the narrative sources of French history, with some notice of those documentary and literary sources which were thought to be "indispensable", and which were somewhat unscientifically denominated "indirect ". The bibliographical determin- ism of M. Molinier has obviously embarrassed M. Hauser in the arrange- ment and treatment of his material, but he has nevertheless, for the most part, loyally adhered to the original scheme. But the categories of medieval historical bibliography cannot be adapted to modern history. AM. Bourgeois, in the volumes of this series devoted to the seventeenth century, frankly broke away from the original plan, being compelled so to do by the overwhelming mass of archive material in modern times, and the slight value of narrative material in comparison with it. It seems a pity that, for the sake of a theoretical unity of arrangement, which is manifestly inadequate for the epoch with which he is dealing, M. Hauser should have permitted himself to have been so inhibited in his labors.

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Foster. English Factories in England 793

Yet in spite of these self-imposed obligations of method M. Hauser has wonderfully succeeded in the accomplishment of his task. One knows him for an almost impeccable workman. This volume is no mere bibliographical finger-post; rather it is an avant-courier for the student of the history of the reign of Henry IV. of France. It seems hypercritical to notice omissions in so excellent a work. But I find no mention of the Journal d'un Curg Ligueur (I588-I605), edited by Bar- thelemy (Paris, i888); nor of Notes on the Diplomatic Relations of England and France, i6og-I688, by Professor Firth and Mrs. S. C. Lomas (Oxford, I906). The appendix to the 37th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, pages I8o-I97, also contains a list of the French ambassadors in England between I519 and I7I4, with references to manuscripts in the French archives, prepared by M. Baschet. Lists of transcripts of the correspondence of these ambassadors (to be found in the Record Office) are contained in Reports, 40-47, of the Deputy Keeper.

From the preface we learn that this book was completed before the war. In fact, it is dated August I, I914, from Dijon, perilously near the frontier. The Great War delayed publication for nearly a year, for M. Hauser under date of June IO, I9I5, has added a second preface which is part of the cry of scholarship the world around:

La guerre n'a pas seulement trouble le travail scientifique, elle a momentanement suspendu, en France du moins, le travail des editeurs. Pendant quelques mois, elle a meme empeche la publication de la plupart des periodiques. Elle a supprime toutes relations, meme intellectuelles, avec les etats belligerants. Nos bibliotheques ont cesse de recevoir les livres et les revues de nos ennemis. C'est, croyons-nous, la premiere fois dans l'histoire moderne qu'une lutte entre peuples revet ce caractere inexpiable, s'etend jusqu'aux domaines de la science et de la critique. Le monde pensant est vraiment dechire en deux parts. . . . Et tandis que les uns combattent, les autres, ceux qu'un sort jaloux retient au foyer, se disent que le devoir est de consacrer leurs forces intellectuelles a des oeuvres d'une utilite pratique immediate. Pour s'interesser encore a un livre comme celui-ci, il faut songer a la paix future, et la necessite de maintenir, dans une Europe renovee, le prestige scientifique de notre France.

There is the true patriotism of scholarship. JAMES WESTFALL THOMPSON.

The English Factories in India, I65I-I654: a Calendar of Docu- ments in the India Office, Westminster. By WILLIAM FOSTER, C.I.E. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. I9I5. PP. xxxix, 324.) IT is fortunate that the Original Correspondence series at the India

Office is so full for this period, as there are no documents for these years in any record office in India. The material as a whole can be analyzed under several main headings, though the chronological arrangement and the variety of interests often touched on in a single despatch require

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