ABSTRACT
It is to be hoped, however, that the colourful and adventurous nature of much early modern European history will gradually recommend itself to teachers as offering a stimulating change from the well-known destinies of the Tudors and Stuarts and the development of transport. Improved library facilities, the great increase in well-illustrated books and the growth of project work and other individual types of study have already made this possible. Such reading matter as is available for young children tends to centre on the life of a great man and stress the adventurous expansion of the age. Wheaton's Read About It series includes Christopher Columbus by O. B. Gregory, which tells the story of his first voyage in simple sentences. M. M. Elliot'sEurope in World History has a clear layout with a page of text facing drawings, photographs and maps. The changing relation between Europe and the wider world is traced.
