A History of Historical Writing. By James Westfall Thompson, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History (Emeritus), the University of California, with the Collaboration of Bernard J. Holm, Assistant Professor of History, the University of Maryland, Former Research Associate in History, the University of California. Volume I, From the Earliest Times to the end of the Seventeenth Century. Volume II, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1942. Pp. xvi, 676; ix, 674. $14.00.)