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his mistrust of the modern vogue for specialization (pp. 5-7, 140) remain as apt today as when they were written (in the 1960s). On the other hand, it is not difficult to recognize some of the features of Toynbee's method that irritated his critics-features like his subjective, almost autobiographical style, or his fondness for speculation and for foretelling the future. Moreover, his preoccupation with the process of change and with patterns of growth and decay frequently leads him to neglect the historian's equally important task of conveying what it was like to be alive in a particular place at a particular time: in this respect he could be compared unfavourably with a writer like Fernand Braudel, whose historical canvas is in many respects quite as broad as Toynbee's yet who also manages to bring alive a whole society-indeed, a whole series of societies-in a way that Toynbee does not. Inevitably in a book of this kind, the extracts often seem too short for the ideas they contain to be adequately expounded. But that is perhaps no bad thing: part of the purpose of an anthology, as the editor points out, 'is that the reader may be impelled to move on, in due course, to the works themselves' (p. x). And it is of course on those works rather than on selections from them, however well chosen, that any mature judgement of Toynbee's stature as an historian should be based. HUGH DUNTHORNE Swansea NOTE In the review of John Cule, Wales and Medicine (ante, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 242 43), the reviewer commented on the apparent absence of a full entry for Henry and Thomas Vaughan. This was based on the Appendix as a source for authors bearing initials from the end of the alphabet. The author of the book has pointed out to us that, in fact, a full entry for Henry and Thomas Vaughan is included in the text proper. EDITOR Aled Eames, Ships and Seamen of Anglesey, 1558-1918. (National Maritime Museum for the Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 1981. Pp. 674, 50 photographs, line drawings, maps and charts, £ 8.50) has been reprinted in the Modern Maritime Classics series. This fine work, obtainable from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF, was previously reviewed ante, Vol. 7, No. 4 (December 1975), pp. 482-3.