SOURCE: "Maitland," in Daylight and Champaign: Essays, revised edition, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948, pp. 271-77.

In the following essay, Young evaluates Maitland as a historian.

Some years ago it was proposed in Cambridge to issue, with due comment and annotation, Maitland's Collected Papers. 'The Syndics of the University Press did not, however, see their way to a new edition on these lines, and another project was suggested. This was to select certain of the papers likely to be most useful to students in law, history, and politics, to edit them and publish them in one volume.… The editors venture to think that they (the students to wit) have here all that is of practical use to them; and they have put them upon their inquiry as to where they can find the rest.' In other words, if you want to get marks, you will read Maitland's Selected Essys: if...