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 472 SHORT NOTICES July of lasting interest, and so are his few words at the end of the lecture upon the ideal student. It is a source of some pleasure to one who has spent most of his life in the two colleges of Henry VI to find here com- memoration — and such commemoration — of Croke, Cheke, Savile, and Porson. M. R. J. In a former volume of this Review,^ Mr. R. G. Marsden dealt with the history of the Mayflower ; Dr. Rendel Harris in The Last of the ' Mayflower ' (Manchester : University Press, Longmans, 1920), starting from Mr. Marsden 's discoveries, applies much industry and learning to the same subject. Space forbids to enter into the minutiae of the argument ; but the general conclusion is that, there being four ships in question — the original Pljmaouth Mayflower of 1620, the Salem Mayflower of 1630, the Boston Mayflower of 1653, and the East India Mayflower of 1655 — there seem good reasons for maintaining that the first three may be identified as the same vessel. Incidentally, Dr. Rendel Harris publishes some interesting letters of John Eliot, the New England missionary. H. E. E. Although based on a study of documents in the Royal Archives at The Hague, Lieutenant-General S. I. van Nooten's biography, Pn'rw Willem II (The Hague : NijhofF, 1915), bears some of the marks which may be expected in the work of an amateur. The author's enthusiasm for his subject is at times carried so far as to become unfair partisanship, and his acquaintance with the printed materials for the history of the period is incomplete. More than half the book, however, deals with the prince's life before the peace of Miinster, that is, before he was plimged into acute political controversy. The interest of the eight documents printed at the end is mainly personal and social : all of them except one relate to the prince's English marriage, and his visit to Amsterdam with the princess in the following year. 8. Cambridge is fortunate in having two foundations for the teaching of naval history, and still more in having two qualified exponents of different views on the subject. Dr. Holland Rose, the Vere Harmsworth Professor, in his Naval History and National History (Cambridge : University Press, 1919), deals with the relation of naval history to history in general, and justly complains that many naval historians specialize too rigidly, and fail to connect their subject with the wider life of the age. As an instance he gives William James, the historian of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He argues that naval history ought to include not merely the history of the fleet and its operations, but the maritime development of the state, the growth of its colonies and its commerce, and the economic and political causes which led to naval wars and the attainment of sea-power. From the specialists in naval history he turns to the general historians, and shows that Macaulay did not devote adequate attention to the naval side of the struggle with Louis XIV, or Leadam to the naval side of the war of the Austrian succession and the Seven Years' War. Finally, he points out that
 * Ante, xix. 669.