This English translation of substantial selections from the Malleus maleficarum (connected by the translator's useful paraphrases of intervening text) is the second Englishing of the work to appear in two years. The full Latin edition and complete English translation by Christopher Mackay (Cambridge 2006) is more extensive and detailed, but for classroom and general readers' use, Maxwell-Stuart has provided an adequate version, basing his translation on the 1588 Frankfurt edition. He and Mackay have done the world of witchcraft scholarship a mighty favour: they have eliminated the need for anyone ever again to use the dreadful 1928 translation of the Malleus by Montague Summers, a work whose many shortcomings Maxwell-Stuart itemises carefully (pp. 37–8 and passim in the introduction and footnotes). His introduction offers a sensible and generally accurate account of the intellectual ambience of the Malleus, magic generally in the fifteenth century, the career of the work's main author, Heinrich Institoris, the structure of the Malleus and its subsequent history. Maxwell-Stuart draws on most of the extensive recent scholarship, which enables him to offer useful cautionary observations on Institoris's alleged misogyny, the limited size of printings of the work and the idiosyncratic character and Nachleben of the work. The bibliography, while not exhaustive, is adequate. Time constraints probably made it impossible for Maxwell-Stuart to cite Mackay.