papers and other Sources for the History of International Relations'
THE importance of diaries and dispatches and letters to historians of bygone periods cannot be over-stressed; but of equal importance in these days, when diaries and letters are as unilluminating as they arc brief, is the newspaper-though it perhaps demands a wiser discrimination on the part of the historian. How he, in fact, deals with this type of information-source-and such similar types as journals, letters, autobiographies, etc.-forms the subject of Mr. Woodward's next-to-last talk. He will give, in addition, means whereby the general reader may find his way among the first-band authorities of this kind, checking statements for himself.