the literature of colonialism that classed it with Les Canadiens d'autrefois of as likely to appeal to the general public and schoolchildren. However, the novelist Robertson Davies greatly enjoyed the book "[a]s an introduction to the history of exploration in Canada", writing that he wished he had been present at Bishop's lectures on which it was based. The Book of the Middle Ages Bishop's The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages takes its title from its American publisher's lavish periodical Horizon. The book was published in 1968 to complement The Horizon Book of Great Cathedrals (edited by Jay Jacobs), the pair constituting "The Horizon History of the Medieval World". Bishop's volume was "a work of impeccable scholarship and sprightly of style". The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages spans a millennium, from the 5th to the 16th century. "The narrative focuses on the minutiae of everyday living", and a reviewer judged that, together with the volume on cathedrals, the book would be "richly rewarding" both for those with specialist backgrounds and "anybody with an inquiring mind". The book was later republished as The Middle Ages, The Penguin Book of the Middle Ages, and The Pelican Book of the Middle Ages. A History of Cornell Before the publication in 1962 of Bishop's A History of Cornell, the university had just two histories: Cornell University: Founders and the Founding (1943), a highly regarded account by Carl Becker (first to be appointed University Historian) of Cornell before the arrival of its first students; and Waterman Thomas Hewett's plodding, four-volume Cornell University: A History (1905). Cornell's president, Deane Malott, named Bishop the second University Historian and relieved him of teaching duties for a year in order that he could produce a history in time for the university's centenary. Bishop completed the research and writing of the two-volume work A History of Cornell (1962) within three or four months. Frederick Rudolph's review of the work started: "Seldom in the writing of college and university history have responsible scholarship, felicitous writing, and the warmth and wisdom that come from knowing one's subject been so happily combined"; it continued with similarly glowing commentary. The review in The Journal of Higher Education said that: "Although written in a style to interest the general reader, the concentration inward – on the physical and educational development of the University, omitting any extended treatment of the larger social and academic context