SOURCE: A review of Histoire de Peuple Anglais au XIX^e Siecle, Vol. I, in The American Historical Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, January, 1913, pp. 367-68.

In the following review, Fryer praises the originality of Halévy's thesis concerning nineteenth-century English history, while acknowledging the logical shortcomings of his arguments.

This volume [Histoire du Peuple Anglais au XIX^e Siècle. Tome I. L'Angleterre en 1815] is the first of four projected by M. Halévy as a history of the English people in the nineteenth century. The undertaking is monumental. It deserves notice because M. Halévy is one of the first writers to essay a definitive synthesis of the monograph material for the period. But, to judge from this first installment, his interpretation will disregard traditional views and offer suggestions that are quite new. Already, in this introductory volume, dealing with English society at the close of the...