Books: History Horsed*

History Horsed*

1066 AND ALL THAT—W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman—Dutton ($1.75).

"Histories have previously been written with the object of exalting their authors. The object of this history is to console the reader. No other history does this." British Authors Sellar & Yeatman have written, in 1066 And All That, a more than consoling parody of English history, from Caesar's conquest of Britain to the end of all things, when, the U. S. being "clearly top nation . . . History came to an end."

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