American Bureau of Republication and Library of Facsimiles, much discussed in the columns of the Evening Post last winter, was warmly commended, and there was much promise of co-operation on the part of the leading libraries of Europe.

The Macmillan Company announce for autumn publication a General History, described as philosophical in its character, by Dr. Emil Reich; a History of Political Theories from Luther to Montesquieu, by Professor William A. Dunning of Columbia University, continuing his previous volumes on the political theorists of ancient and medieval times; a History of Education, by Professor Paul Monroe of the same institution; the ninth volume ("Napoleon and his Times") of the Cambridge Modern History; and Vols. V.-VIII. of Purchas.

We are in receipt of a copy of the First Annual Report of the English Sociological Society, prefaced by an Address of the Hon. James Bryce, President, at the first annual general meeting, March 22. This society was constituted in November, 1903, with "scientific, educational, and practical aims ", has a membership of four hundred, and seems well started on its career. Mr. Bryce's brief address is noteworthy for its moderation and practical spirit.

Vol. XXVI. of E. Berner's Jahresbericht der Geschichtswissenschaft has appeared, comprising the literature of 1903 (2v.).

The Historisches Jahrbuch, XXVI. 3, gives a detailed statement of the issues since 1903 in Lamprecht's Allgemeine Staatengeschichte, in the three divisions of "Geschichte der europ. Staaten ", "Geschichte der aussereurop. Staaten ", "Deutsche Landesgeschichte". It announces as in press the following: Bachmann, Geschichte Böhmens, Bd. II.; Jorga, Geschichte Rumäniens; Kretschmayer, Geschichte Venedigs; Seraphim, Geschichte von Liv-, Est- und Kurland, Bd. I.

An inexpensive Atlas zur Kirchengeschichte has been published at Tübingen by K. Heussi and H. Mulert (66 maps,-M. 4).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: E. Bernheim, La Science Historique Moderne (Revue de Synthèse Historique, April). (This is apropos of Lamprecht's recent Moderne Geschichtswissenschaft, and aims to place Lamprecht with respect to methodology and to estimate his originality. Concludes that he is inconsistent, has derived his ideas mainly from Hegel and Comte, but has applied them with originality. In the June issue of the Revue Lamprecht makes a brief response); P. Lacombe, Notes sur Taine (Revue de Synthèse Historique, April, June).

ANCIENT HISTORY.

The entire historical library of the late Theodor Mommsen has been presented to the University of Bonn. Professor Otto Hirschfeld, Mommsen's literary executor, is preparing for publication three volumes of his unpublished writings. The first volume, which has already appeared, contains sixteen essays on Egyptian and Roman law. The other

two will contain contributions to the history of Roman law, law-books and legal procedure.

The Macmillan Company have issued the first number of 66 University of Michigan Studies", edited by H. A. Sanders and devoted to Roman history.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: F. Savio, Alcune Considerazioni sulla prima Diffusione del Cristianesimo (Rivista di Scienze Storiche, I. Contends that Christian proselytism proceeded in the West much more slowly than usually supposed); A. Muller, Sterbekassen und Vereine mit Begräbnisfürsorge in der Römischen Kaiserzeit (Neue Jahrbücher für das klassische Altertum, March); J. Reville, Le Progrès de l'Histoire Ecclésiastique Ancienne au XIX siècle et son Etat actuel (Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, L. 3).

MEDIEVAL HISTORY.

A renewed historical interest and activity is being manifested at present in the Benedictine Order. In 1906 there will begin in Rome the publication of a quarterly Rivista Storica Benedettina, directed by members of the order and devoted to its history especially in Italy. French Benedictines are projecting a resumption of the labors of the Benedictines of Saint-Maur in the field of the history of the religious orders, and plan a series entitled, La France Monastique; while in May appeared the first issue of the Revue Mabillon, the chief contributors being J. M. Besse, L. Levilain, and G. Guillot.

German Roman Catholic scholars have begun the publication of a series of Lives of the Saints (Sammlung Illustrierter Heiligenleben,— Kempten and Munich, Kosel), intended to bring before the public the result of the latest investigations. There have already been published (1904) Gunter, Kaiser Heinrich II. der Heilige; Egger, Der heilige Augustinus, Bischof von Hippo; and Kralik, Der Hl. Leopold, Markgraf von Oesterreich. The series is intended to be analogous to the French one of M. Joly, Les Saints; in this latter the latest publications (Paris, Lecoffre) are the Abbé Martin's Saint Columban, and Suan's Saint François de Borgia (1905).

An important addition has just been made to Professor Ulrich Stutz's (Bonn) "Kirchenrechtliche Abhandlungen" by L. K. Goetz, Kirchenrechtliche und Kulturgeschichtliche Denkmäler Altrusslands, nebst Geschichte des Russischen Kirchenrechts (Stuttgart, 1905). The documents are presented in German translations, though for some the original Russian is also given.

The Arna-Magnaean Legation have brought out the second and concluding part of their palaeographical atlas. The first or Danish section appeared in 1903. The present volume presents thirty-seven folio phototype plates, containing facsimile reproductions of fifty-three Norse or Icelandic manuscripts or documents of the period 1150-1300-Grágás, Heimskringla, the Codex Regius of the Edda of Saemund, etc. The

Carlsberg Fund has promised to defray the expenses of an additional Norwegian-Icelandic section, continuing the work into the fifteenth

century.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: G. Seeliger, Forschungen zur Geschichte der Grundherrschaft im früheren Mittelalter (Hist. Vierteljahrschrift, Aug. A useful survey of the successive views).

MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY.

Dr. Ludwig Pastor has undertaken to publish a collection of documents on papal history from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century (Ungedruckte Akten zur Geschichte der Päpste vornehmlich im XV.XVII. Jahrhundert) as supplement to his history of the Popes. Vol. I. comprises 205 documents and comes to 1464.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: P. Richard, Origines de la Nonciature de France: Nonces Résidants avant Léon X., 1456-1511 (Revue des Questions Historiques, July); S. Ehses, Hat Paolo Sarti für seine Geschichte des Konzils von Trient aus Quellen geschöpft, die jetzt nicht mehr fliessen? (Historisches Jahrbuch, XXVI. 2); J. F. Jameson, The Age of Erudition (University of Chicago Record, July).

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

Longmans, Green and Co. announce an important co-operative Political History of England, under the general editorship of Rev. William Hunt, now President of the Royal Historical Society. It will comprise twelve octavo volumes (450-500 pp.) and will be intended for the public, though furnished with critical and bibliographical appendices to each volume. The authors are announced as follows: Vol. I. 1066, Thomas Hodgkin; II. 1066-1216, Professor George B. Adams; III. 12161377, T. F. Tout; IV. 1377-1485, C. Oman; V. 1485-1547, H. A. L. Fisher; VI. 1547-1603, A. F. Pollard; VII. 1603-1660, F. C. Montague; VIII. 1660-1702, R. Lodge; IX. 1702-1760, I. S. Leadam; X. 1760-1801, Rev. W. Hunt; XI. 1801-1837, Hon. G. C. Brodrick and J. K. Fotheringham; XII. 1837-1901, Sidney J. Low. Some of these volumes will appear the present year.

The Clarendon Press published in July an Illustrated Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical personages who died between 1625 and 1714 recently exhibited at Oxford. The volume is of much interest and contains descriptions of 228 portraits (representing 42 painters, the chief of whom are Kneller and Lely) with brief. biographical notes on the subjects; 66 of these are excellently reproduced. A brief introduction by Mr. Lionel Cust, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, sketches the development of portrait painting that came in the later seventeenth century through the influence of Van Dyck. The artistic interest of the volume is perhaps not very great, but the student of the period will find it of much service. The originals were contributed to the Loan Exhibition mainly by the different Oxford

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colleges, though the largest single contribution was that of the Bodleian Library.

The first three volumes of the official series of Indian Records published by the government of India, Bengal in 1756-57, with an historical introduction by the editor, Mr. S. C. Hill, will shortly appear (London, Murray).

It was announced that the literary executors of Cardinal Newman have entrusted the writing of his biography to Mr. Wilfrid Ward. The life of Cardinal Manning has been undertaken by the Rev. W. H. Kent, who is in possession of much new material.

Mr. John Murray will shortly publish Further Memoirs of the Whig Party, 1807-1821, by the third Lord Holland, edited by Lord Stavordale; a Life of Sir James Graham, edited by Mr. C. S. Parker; and The Military Life of H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge, written under the authority of the late duke from documents in his own possession. But the Letters of Queen Victoria, edited by Mr. A. C. Benson and Viscount Esher, though progressing rapidly, cannot, it is announced, be ready for some months.

An organization called “The Cantilupe Society" has been instituted, for the publication of episcopal registers and other ecclesiastical documents of the diocese of Hereford. The secretary is the Rev. J. R. Burton of Ludlow.

In connection with Macmillan's recent announcement of The Life of St. Patrick and his Place in History, by Professor J. B. Bury, it should be noticed that N. J. D. White, D.D., has published in Vol. XXV. of the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin, 1905), a new critical edition of "Libri Sancti Patricii, The Latin Writings of St. Patrick", with introduction and English translations.

The scanty material on Irish history of the middle of the eighteenth century is now being added to by the publication in the English Historical Review of the correspondence of Archbishop Stone and the Duke of Newcastle, edited by C. Litton Falkiner from the Newcastle Papers in the British Museum. The first installment (July) is confined to the year 1753 and throws light upon an important and obscure controversy on finances in the Irish Parliament in that year; a matter which is represented as important in the development of the modern Irish Party. In this connection there is an interesting article in the July Edinburgh Review, "Ireland under George II.", based on the Report on the MSS. of Mrs. Stopford-Sackville of Drayton House, Northamptonshire", I.,

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Vol. IX. of the second series of Archaeologia contains interesting accounts of the recent excavations of Caergwent (Venta Silurum), of additional portions of the Roman wall of London found at Newgate, of the hauberk of chain mail and its conventional representations, and of the Crystal of Lothair; also, some chancery proceedings of the fifteenth century and records of the manor of Durringdon.

The latest volume of the Oxford Historical Society is an excellent numismatical treatise, well illustrated by facsimiles, Oxford Silver Pennies from A. D. 925 to A. D. 1272, by Mr. C. L. Stainer.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: W. T. Waugh, Sir John Oldcastle, I. (English Historical Review, July).

FRANCE.

The French government is projecting a reorganization of French archival deposits, attention having been called to defects by historical societies and legislative discussion. A commission of investigation has been established under the presidency of the Minister of Public Instruction. The main change projected is the nationalization of the administration of the archives, the departmental archives being now locally controlled and without close relations with the central ones. This movement toward centralization is however opposed by the consistent advocates of provincial autonomy.

M. Aulard has begun a new and revised edition of his Orateurs de la Révolution, the first volume, "L'Assemblée Constituante", having appeared (Paris, 1905, pp. 573).

Students of revolutionary history will welcome any additions to the publications of municipal Procès-verbaux. Those of the city of Lyons that were issued last year will be usefully supplemented by those of a neighboring town, Villefranche-sur-Saone, which reflects the development in its great neighbor. This is being published now in the Journal de Villefranche, edited by Dr. A. Besançon; the first volume covers 1789-1793.

The Société d'Histoire Contemporaine has undertaken the publication of the Correspondance of La Forêt, French ambassador in Spain 1808-1813. There are 835 dispatches, which will be published during the next six years in six volumes.

The Société des Archives Historiques de la Gironde issues as its volume for 1904 a reproduction of fifty seventeenth-century drawings of the towns and monuments of southwest France. These were the work of two Dutch artists, Hermann van der Hem and Joachim de Weert.

The Société Archéologique et Historique de la Charente has published Tables Générales of its Bulletins et Mémoires, 1845-1900, prepared by J. Baillet and J. de la Martinière (Angoulême, 1905, pp. 365).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: Lucien Febvre, La FrancheComté (Revue de Synthèse Historique, April and June); V. L. Bourilly, Les Rapports de François I. et d'Henri II. avec les Ducs de Savoie, Charles II. et Émanuel Philibert, 1515-1559, d'après des Travaux Récents (Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, June); E. Bourgeois, La Collaboration de Saint-Simon et de Torcy; Etude Critique sur les Mémoires de St.-Simon (Revue Historique, July-August); W. Struck, Die Notabelnversammlung von 1787 (Historische Vierteljahrschrift,