History and Historians.

The almost humorous picture drawn recently by the Honorable J. W. Fortescue, who, with Mr. Julius Corbett, has been appointed to write the official history of the war, illustrates very forcibly the change that has come over history and history-making in the last hundred years or so. Mr. Fortescue was speaking in London, and he referred to the way they were handicapped by the fact that they only knew one side of affairs. Writing a history of the war before the war was over, he said, when they did not know what the issue would be; when they knew nothing of the other side, nothing of the diplomatic work, nothing of scandals and wirepulling, was impossible. Christian Science Monitor.