It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort ofchallenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretenceto particular scholarship and am merely a member of the public. The answer is thatI know just enough to know one thing: that a history from the standpoint of amember of the public has not been written. What we call the popular historiesshould rather be called the anti-popular histories. They are...