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WORKS on general history have often been noticed in NATURE, especially from the point of view of the space and the position which they assign to science. There has undoubtedly been a marked improvement in the matter, and the very attractive book under notice is a good example, suggesting also one or two points of criticism in its presentation. It is certainly the best thing of the sort that we have seen in English a sketch of world history in some seven hundred pages with abundant illustrations and excellent maps and diagrams and written throughout by both authors with full knowledge and an almost perfect impartiality.
World History:
the Growth of Western Civilization. By R. Flenley and W. N. Weech. Pp. xix+757. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1936.) 12s. 6d. net.
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MARVIN, F. World History. Nature 138, 263 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138263a0
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