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AbstractBook reviewed in this article:The Last Medici. By Harold Acton.Germany after Bismarck: The Caprivi Era, 1890–1894. By J. Alden Nichols.The Vicky Regime, 1940‐44. By Robert Aron in collaboration with Georgette Elgey. Translated by Humphrey Hare.Two Years of French Foreign Policy: Vicky, 1940–1942. By Andrienne D. Hytier. Volume XXV in Etudes d'Histoire Economique, Politique et Sociale.The Queen's Wards: Wordship and mariage under Elizabeth I. By Joel Hurstfield.Vantage at Sea: England's Emergence as an Oceanic Power. By Thomas Woodrooffe.Economic Elements in the Pax Britannica; Studies in British Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century. By Albert H. Imlah.The Nation Takes Shape, 1789–1837. By Marcus Cunliffe. Volume in The Chicago History of American CivilizationBondsmen and Bishops: Slavery and Apprenticeship on the Codrington Plantations of Barbados, 1710–1738. By J. Harry Bennett, Jr. Volume 62 in University of California Publications in History.American Independence through Prussian Eyes. A Neutal View of the Peace Negotiations of 1728–1783: Selections from the Prussian Correspondence.The Nation Takes Shape, 1789–1837. By Mrcus Cunliffe. Volume in The chicago History of American Civilization.The Jacksonian Era, 1828–1848. By Glyndon G. Van Deusen. Volume in The New American Nation Series. Edited by Henry Steele Commanger and Richard B. Morris.The Making of an American Community: A Case Study of DEmocracy in a Frontier Country.British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860–1901. By Claerk C. Spence.Angry Voices: Left‐of‐Center Politics in the New Deal Era. By Donald R. McCoy.A History of Japan to 1334. By George Sansom. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1958. Pp. x, 500.Tales of the Foreign Settlements in Japan. By Harold S. Williams.Okinawa: The History of an Island People. ByGeorege H. Kerr.