HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 17

HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE

Our London correspondent writes, that, under the title of "The Cambridge History of the British Kapire," the Syndics have undertaken to publish a comprehensive history of the British Empire overseas from its origins in the sixteenth century down to the end of the late war. The work, which will appear in six volumes, will be under the editorship of Professor J. Holland Eose, Professor A. P. Newton, and Mr. E. A. Benians, and in its construction will follow the co-op-erative plan adopted in • " The Cambridge Modern History" and in the other more recent Cambridge histories. The editors have invited the co-opera-tion of Professor W. Pi M' C. Kennedy (Canada), Professor Ernest Scott (Australia), Professor J. Hight (New Zealand), and Professor E. A. Walker ((South Africa), as editorial advisers in connection with the history of their own Dominions, and hope to soeure the co-operation, as contributors, of scholars in Great Britain, the Dominions, and the United States. Volumes 1.-111. will be devoted to the history of British expansion, Volume IV. to Canada and Newfoundland^ Volume V. to Australia and New Zealand, Volume VI. to South Africa. As the Syndics have in course of publication a Cambridge History of India, of which the last two volumes will be devoted specifically to British India, they do not piopose to include in the new work a separate volume on British India, though reference will necessarily be made in the first three voluihes to the history of India wherever it is essential to the clear presentation of the story of British expansion. It is hoped that the first volume will be published in 1927, and one or more volumes in each succeeding year.