MEDIEVAL HISTORY

The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press have arranged to begin the publication of the Cambridge Medieval History soon after the completion of the Cambridge Modern History, with which it will be generally uniform. The work, which will be in eight volumes, has been planned by Professor J. B. Bury and will be edited by Professor H. M. Gwatkin, Miss Mary Bateson, and Dr. G. T. Lapsley.

A Handelsgeschichte der romanischen Völker des Mittelmeergebietes bis zum Ende der Kreuzzüge has been published by A. Schaube through Oldenbourg, Munich.

M. H. D'Arbois de Jubainville's book on the Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology (pp. 256) has recently been translated from the French with additional notes by R. Į. Best and published by Simpkin.

Students of medieval culture will find a rich store of monumental source-material in the great work of Professor J. Hampel, Alterthümer des frühen Mittelalters in Ungarn (Brunswick, Vieweg, pp. xxxiv, 853; xvi, 1006). The first volume contains a systematic explanation, with over 2,300 illustrations, of objects dating from the fourth to the eleventh century, discovered in Hungary and preserved in various European museums. The second volume, no less richly illustrated, is devoted to a detailed description of the finds, and the third volume is an atlas containing 539 tables of illustrations.

The first volume of a history of the Sixth Century A. D. entitled: The Age of Justinian and Theodora, by W. G. Holmes, has been published by Messrs. Bell (1905, pp. 378).

The house of Desclée, Rome, has published under the title S. Francisci Assisiensis Vita et Miracula, additis opusculis Liturgicis, auctore Fr. Thoma de Celano a new critical edition of one of the principal Franciscan sources, edited by the Capuchin scholar E. Alençon (pp. lxxxvii, 482).

The latest volume in the Collection de Textes pour servir à l'Étude et à l'Enseignement de l'Histoire is the Annales de Flodoard (Paris, Picard, pp. lxviii, 307) edited by M. P. Lauer. Scholars will be grateful for a new edition of this invaluable work, which, covering the years from 919 to 966, is one of the most important sources for the history of the period, especially for the history of northern France. The last critical edition was published by Pertz in 1839, and was based upon only four of the seven manuscripts used by the present editor. The introduction contains an account of the life and writings of Flodoard, of the editions and manuscripts of the Annals, and an argument which appears to prove that the Greek letters at the end of each of the paragraphs devoted to a year represent the date according to the Byzantine era. Appendixes contain two brief texts found on manuscripts of the Annals -an obit of Charles the Bald and Visiones Flothildis-and extracts

from various works, included in this volume in order to facilitate the study of their relation to the Annals.

A third edition of Gaston Paris's Littérature Française au MoyenAge, XIe-XIVe Siècle has been published by M. P. Meyer and M. Bédier through Hachette (pp. xvii, 344). The corrections and additions are taken from annotations made by Gaston Paris upon a copy of the second edition. The bibliography, which was compiled in 1889, has been thoroughly revised.

Professor J. Loserth has recently published through the house of R. Oldenbourg, Munich, a Geschichte des späteren Mittelalters, 1197–1492, which forms the second of the series of handbooks of medieval and modern history edited by G. v. Below and F. Meinecke.

Two recent contributions to the military history of the Middle Ages are R. Czeppan's Die Schlacht bei Crécy, 1346, and F. Mohr's Die Schlacht bei Rosebeke, 1382. Both are doctoral dissertations published by Nauck, Berlin.

Professor E. Daenell, whose book on the Geschichte der deutschen Hanse in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts was published in 1897, has continued that work in two important volumes on Die Blütezeit der deutschen Hanse: Hansische Geschichte von der 2. Hälfte des XIV. bis zum letzten Viertel des XV. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, Reimer, pp. xvii, 474; xv, 561).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: A. Poncelet, Le Testament de Saint Willibrord (Analecta Bollandiana, XXV. 11.); J. B. Hablitzel, Hrabanus Maurus und Claudius von Turin (Historisches Jahrbuch, XXVII. 1); L. Levillain, Jugement d'un Pape Jean en Faveur de Corbie [c. 1000?] (Le Moyen Age, January-February); P. Alphandéry, De quelques Faits de Prophétisme dans des Sectes Latines Antérieures au Joachimisme (Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, LII. 2); K. Baas, Zur Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Heilkunst im Bodenseegebiet (Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, IV. 2); K. Hampe, Die Wundmale des hl. Franz von Assisi (Historische Zeitschrift, XCVI. 3); A. Fierens, La Question Franciscaine: Les Ecrits des Zélateurs de la Règle aux premiers Temps de l'Histoire Franciscaine d'après les Récentes Controverses (Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, April); J. Finot, La Paix d'Arras (14141415), concl. [Pièces justificatives, pp. 187-218] (Annales de l'Est et du Nord, April); P. Richard, Origines des Nonciatures Permanentes: La Représentation Pontificale au XVe Siècle (1450-1513), concl. (Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, April).

MODERN HISTORY

Professor Williston Walker has written a life of John Calvin for the series of Heroes of the Reformation published by Putnams.

The third volume of Letters and Papers relating to the First Dutch War, 1652-1654, the preparation of which was begun by Dr. S. R.

Gardiner, has been completed by Mr. C. T. Atkinson, and printed for the Navy Records Society as the thirtieth volume of their publications.

The house of H. Welter has published the thirty-seventh volume of Mansi's Amplissima Collectio Conciliorum, edited by J. B. Martin and R. P. L. Petit, and covering the years 1720-1735. This volume is at the same time issued as volume one of a new series of about ten volumes intended to cover the period from 1720 onward, and entitled Collectio Conciliorum Recentiorum Ecclesiae Universae.

M. J. E. Driault, author of La Politique Orientale de Napoléon, has recently published in the Bibliothèque d'Histoire Contemporaine a volume entitled Napoléon en Italie, 1800-1812 (Paris, Alcan).

Ma Vie Militaire, 1800-1810 (Hachette, 1906, pp. xxiii, 332), by J. Chevillet, a trumpeter in the eighth regiment of chasseurs à cheval, is published from the original manuscript by M. Georges Chevillet, the author's grandson, with a preface by M. Henry Houssaye of the French Academy.

La Rome de Napoléon (Paris, Plon, 1906, pp. 697), by M. L. Madelin, is an important study of the French domination of Rome from 1809 to 1814, based upon documents in public and private archives.

The Duke of Argyll, 1823-1900 (London, Murray), is the title of a forthcoming work comprising his autobiography down to 1857, and his life from that date onward, based on his correspondence and diaries, edited by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll. The Duke's active participation in politics began in 1847.

Le Vicomte de Gontaut-Biron, French ambassador to Berlin after the conclusion of peace, has given an account of his mission in his volume entitled Mon Ambassade en Allemagne, 1872-1873 (Paris, Plon).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: A. E. N. Simms, Some Historians and the Reformation (Twentieth Century Quarterly, April); J. Trésal, Les Responsabilités de la France dans le Schisme Anglican (Revue des Questions Historiques, April); R. Ancel, La Secrétairerie Pontificale sous Paul IV. (Revue des Questions Historiques, April); G. Edmundson, Early Relations of the Manoas with the Dutch, 1606– 1732 (English Historical Review, April); Juan Pérez de Guzmán, Las Ultimas Negociaciones de Matrimonios Regios entre Inglaterra y España, en 1623 (La España Moderna, April, May); C. B. Favre, La Diplomatie de Leibniz, concl. (Revue d'Histoire Diplomatique, April); G. Bonet-Maury, Deux Ambassades Françaises au Maroc sous Louis XIV., 1691–1693 (Revue Bleue, April 28); L. Cahen, L'Idée de Lutte de Classes au XVIIIe Siècle (Revue de Synthèse Historique, February); F. Mensel, Zur Histoire de mon Temps Friedrichs des Grossen (Historische Zeitschrift, XCVI. 3); F. C. Wittichen, Die Politik des Grafen Hertzberg 1785-1790 (Historische Vierteljahrschrift, April); La Roma di Napoleone (La Civiltà Cattolica, April 7); J. v. Pflugk-Harttung, Das Gefecht bei Limale 18. Juni 1815 (Historisches Jahrbuch, XXVII.

1); Lettres Inédites du Comte Charles de Montalembert au Baron Anckarsvärd, 1829–1857 (Revue d'Histoire Diplomatique, XX. 1).

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Dr. F. Haverfield of Christ Church, Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy, has published through Mr. Henry Frowde a work entitled The Romanisation of Roman Britain, which is based on archeological data.

An investigation into the financial system of the Anglo-Norman feudal state has been made by Professor Patow in his monograph entitled Compotus Vicecomitis (Berlin, Weidmann, pp. 62).

Professor Tout of the University of Manchester and Miss Hilda Johnstone, fellow of the same university, have edited for the Camden series of the Royal Historical Society a volume entitled State Trials of the Reign of Edward the First, 1289-1293 (London, 1906). The book is based upon two unpublished plea rolls "containing the official proceedings of the trials of the judges and other royal officers, before a special Commission appointed by Edward I. in 1289 ", and includes select cases, analyses of the rolls, and a curious satire narrating the events of the year 1289 in scriptural phraseology. In the introduction Miss Johnstone analyzes the accusations and concludes that "a very real oppression had lain upon the country during the King's absence."

The Oxford University Press announces as in preparation a work by Professor C. W. Oman on The Great Rebellion of 1381.

Professor Walter Raleigh's The English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century, first printed as an introduction to Messrs. MacLehose's edition of Hakluyt's Voyages, April, 1905, has been revised and reissued separately (Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons, 1906, pp. 205).

We note the publication of The Great Lord Burghley, (William Cecil): a Study in Elizabethan Statecraft (London, Nash, pp. xv, 511) by Martin Hume.

The Johns Hopkins Press announces a second series of reprints of economic tracts under the editorial direction of Professor J. H. Hollander. The series consists of: A Discourse of Trade, by Nicholas Baron (1690); Several Assertions Proved, by John Asgill (1696); Discourses upon Trade, by Dudley North (1691); England's Interest Considered, by Samuel Fortrey (1663). The first and second of these are now ready. Each tract will contain an introductory note and text annotations by the editor.

Fontenoy, and Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession, is the title of a work by F. H. Skrine recently published by Messrs. Blackwood.

The first volume of Mr. J. B. Atlay's work on The Victorian Chancellors (Little, Brown, and Company) includes lives of Lyndhurst,

Brougham, Cottenham, and Truro. The two volumes will be a virtual continuation of Lord Campbell's Lives.

Recent volumes in the Victoria History of the Counties of England relate to Lancashire (vol. I.), Worcester (vol. II.), and Northamptonshire (genealogical volumes).

Dr. M. J. Bonn has embodied the results of his long and critical researches in two volumes entitled Die englische Kolonisation in Irland (Stuttgart, Cotta, 1906, pp. viii, 397; 320). The work, which is based. partly on documents in the Dublin Record Office, begins with the colonization by the Anglo-Normans and comes down to the present time.

A selection of official documents dealing with the history of Old Fort William in Bengal (London, Murray) has been edited for the Indian Records Series by Dr. C. R. Wilson, late in charge of the records of the government of India.

British government publications: Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry III., 1232-1247; Calendar of Close Rolls, vol. IX., Edward III., 1349-1354; Acts of the Privy Council of England, N. S., 1600-1601; Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1694-1695.

Other documentary publications: F. J. C. and D. M. Hearnshaw, Southampton Court Leet Records, 1578-1602 [Southampton Record Society] (Southampton, Gilbert, pp. 165-372).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: W. Spotswood Green, The Wrecks of the Spanish Armada on the Coast of Ireland (The Geographical Journal, May); J. M. Anderson, James I. of Scotland and the University of St. Andrews (Scottish Historical Review, April); C. H. Firth, Ballads on the Bishops' Wars, 1638-1640 (Scottish Historical Review, April); D. K. Broster, A French Traveller in Charles II's England (Cornhill Magazine, May); W. C. Abbott, The Long Parliament of Charles II., II. (English Historical Review, April); H. Bingham, The Early Organization in London of the Scots Darien Company (Scottish Historical Review, April); F. Treffry, St. Patrick (The Westminster Review, May).

FRANCE

M. Alfred Franklin's Dictionnaire Historique des Arts, Métiers et Professions exercés dans Paris depuis le Treizième Siècle forms a large octavo volume of 1,000 pages, published by H. Welter, Paris.

A bibliography of Agrippa d'Aubigné with five unedited letters of Prosper Mérimée, printed in the Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français (May-June, 1905), has been issued in separate form (Paris, Agence Gén. de la Société, pp. 40).

We should have noted earlier the important article entitled "Les Archives Pontificales et l'Histoire Moderne de la France", by M. G. Bourgin, in the Bibliographie Moderne for September-October, 1905.