LANGER CHOSEN EDITOR OF HISTORICAL SERIES

W. L. Langer '15, associate professor of History, has been chosen by Harpers' to be general editor of an historical series dealing with the history of Europe from 1510 to the present day. Contributors to the series, announced by Professor Langer yesterday, include five members of the University faculty as well as three Harvard graduates.

First Volume This Year

The series will come out in 20 volumes. Each volume is designated as an independent work, but will at the same time be a unit in the larger plan. The books will be published as they are completed and not necessarily in chronological order. The first volume will probably make its appearance at the end of this year, but the whole series will not be completed for several years. The price per volume will be about $4.

"The aim," Professor Langer states, "is to set forth in broad lines the leading currents in European development." A special effort will be made to bring out the great social, economic, intellectual, and scientific movements.

List of Contributors

A number of prominent historians are contributing to the series, including graduates of Harvard and members of the University faculty. The historians contributing to this project in the order of the volumes each will write include: Professor E. P. Cheyney, of the University of Pennsylvania; Professor Ernest Nelson; Professor Wilhelm Pauck of the University of Chicago; Reverend Mr. R. H. Lord '06, assistant professor of Government; C. J. Friedrick; Miss Violet Barbour, of Vassar; Professor L. B. Packard '09, of Amherst; Professor Penfield Roberts '16; Professor Walter Dorn; Professor Leo Gershoy; C. C. Brinton '19, assistant professor of History; Professor Guy Stanton Ford; Professor Fredrick Artz; Professor W. L. Langer '15; Professor Robert Binkley; Professor Carleton Hayes, of Columbia University; Professor S. B. Fay '06; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale; and Professor William Lingelbach. An additional volume on the economic revolution will be written by Professor E. F. Gay, professor of Economic History