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A timely study of the great historian of the English constitution and medieval English law. The author examines Maitland's point of view and explains its novelty, shows how he moved from one subject to another, and provides an analysis of later contributions to the many and diverse problems with which Maitland was concerned, setting out conflicting and competing views.
Mr. Bell writes engagingly of the man and his method; and the clarity and charm of his style, his pleasant and un¬obtrusive humour, match similar qualities in his subject, whose wit, modesty and kindness were as notable as his scholar's irrepressible curiosity about historical realities.
His book will be valued by many besides the serious students of legal history and of medieval England to whom it will be indispensable.
