SOURCE: A review of Histoire du Peuple Anglais au XIX^e Siecle: Epilogue, in History, October, 1927, pp. 269-70.

In the following review, Davis surveys the major points of Halévy's Histoire du peuple anglais au XIX^e siècle.

M. Halévy has turned aside (not, we hope, indefinitely) from his great work on nineteenth-century England to write the epilogue of that unfinished story. The epilogue [of Histoire du Peuple Anglais au XIX^e Siècle] is by no means an improvisation. It has been simmering in his mind for thirty years, and its materials have been laboriously collected in the course of his duties as a teacher at the École libre des sciences politiques. We doubt whether any English writer could have given us an account so full, so clear, so impartial, and so well documented, of the ten years' ascendancy of the Unionist party from 1895 to...