《剑桥新近代史》第十卷的编者贝里已经按照一定的规格完成一本集体写作的历史,他纵然没有解决集体写作中所碰到的一切问题,却解决了其中大部分问题,这本历史因而是和剑桥大学向来指定一位作者负责写一章的标准力法相符合的。它把欧洲权势处于极盛时代的四十年中欧洲及世界史予以概括的叙述,是一本富有内容的历史读物。应该补充这样一点,就是在贝里所写的序言与令人佩服的论“民族性与民族主义”的一章里,他本人为历史学者 Bailey, editor of Volume 10 of New History in Cambridge, has completed a collective writing history according to certain specifications. Although he did not solve all the problems encountered in collective writing, he solved most of the problems History thus coincides with the standard-setting method that Cambridge University has always assigned an author to write a chapter. It summarizes the history of Europe and the world in the 40 years in which the European Powers were at their heyday. It is a rich historical reading. It should be added that in the preface and the most admired chapter on “nationality and nationalism” written by Berry, he himself as a historian