This series contains translations from the original sources of European history from Roman times to the reorganization of Europe by the Congress of Vienna in the nineteenth century. Complete, the set is in six volumes, but the separate numbers can be had in pamphlet form at from fifteen to twenty-five cents. The value of original source material to aid the pupil in obtaining a vivid sense of the life and manners of past ages is felt by all history teachers. But it cannot be emphasized too much. How much more realistic and impressive than the cut-and-dried statement on the Crusades of the average text-book, are actual accounts by contemporaries and Crusaders themselves, as, for example, the statement by Fulcher of Chartres of the start: “One saw an infinite multitude speaking different languages and come from divers countries.” ... “Oh, how great was the grief ... when husband left the wife so dear to him, his children also....” Or the letter by Count Stephen from before the walls of Antioch, March 29, 1098: “These which I write you are only a few things, dearest, of the many which we have done, and because I am not able to tell you, dearest, what is in my mind, I charge you to do right, to carefully watch over your land, to do your duty as you ought to your children and your vassals. You will certainly see just as soon as I can possibly return to you. Farewell.” The Crusaders thus appear as real men and women to the pupil. Or let him read the text of the Act of Supremacy: “An act concernyinge the kynges Highness to be supreme head of the Churche of Englande and to have auctoryte to reforme and redresse all errours, heresyes and abuses in the same,” and he cannot but feel that he has gotten back to the source upon which the statements of the text-book are based. It is this kind of material in convenient form that Translations and Reprints contain. The pamphlet form commends them especially for classroom use. In the bound form the six volumes are very well adapted for reference work in the school library. Besides these extracts from the original sources, there are published by the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania the “Source Book of the Renaissance,” by Professor Merrick Whitcomb, “Documents on Federal Relations,” by Professor H. V. Ames, and various Syllabuses, those of special interest to teachers being Munro and Sellery’s Syllabus of the History of the Middle Ages, 1909, and Ames’s Syllabus of American Colonial History, revised edition, 1908. Published by Department of History University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA * * * * * A Source-Book of American History