HISTORICAL NEWS

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Association was held in Cleveland on December 29-31. The presidential address of Mr. WilSam R. Thayer is printed in this number of this journal. The next number will contain the usual article descriptive of the proceedings. The meeting is especially marked by the retirement of Mr. Waldo G. Leland from the office of secretary, which he has held since 1908, and of Professor Evarts B. Greene from that of secretary of the Council, to which he was elected in 1913. Both these gentlemen have filled these offices with remarkable devotion and success, and the Association is greatly indebted to them for the energetic, resourceful, and methodical manner in which they have performed the services appropriate to their positions. Happily as these two officers have co-operated. it has seemed to some that in the general case it would be a better plan to have one secretary of the Association, an assistant secretary, and an editor of publications, the latter two to be paid officials acting under the direction of the secretary, and amendments intended to introduce this system were laid before the Council at its meeting on December 27, and before the Association at its business meeting on December 29.

The financial condition of the Association on December 1 when the treasurer's books were closed for the annual audit was very encouraging. The net receipts during the year amounted to $10,832.80, the net disbursements to $8,119.99, giving an excess of receipts over disbursements of $2,712.81. The cash balance on hand was $5,184.72. The assets in cash and securities amounted to $34,922.68, an increase during the year of $3,207.74. The assets of the American Historical Review Fund in cash and securities amounted to $2,173.80, making the combined assets reach a total of $37,096.48, an increase during the year of $5,023.26. The voluntary contributions of one dollar had on December 1 amounted to $1,432.

Volume II. of the Annual Report for 1916 has been distributed to the members of the Association. The Annual Report for 1917 will be distributed early in the year, and also, it is hoped, volume I. of the Annual Report for 1918. It is probable that the second volume of the latter Report, containing the Autobiography of Martin Van Buren, will not be issued until the second half of the year, as the printing appropriation will not suffice for its completion during the present fiscal year of the government.

Good progress is being made in the compilation of the Directory of

the Association which will be included in the Annual Report for 1918, volume I. Members who have not yet filled out the questionnaire are urgently requested to do so at once.

PERSONAL

Dr. Jesse Macy, professor emeritus of political science in Grinnell College, and formerly professor of history, died on November 2, aged 77. Famous as a teacher and as a sagacious publicist, he had published two small but meritorious books of history, in 1900 Political Parties in the United States, 1846–1861, and during the last year the volume, in the - Chronicles of America series, which is reviewed on a preceding page.

Col. William R. Livermore, U. S. A., noted as an accomplished engineer officer, and writer of part III. of The Story of the Civil War, continuing the late John C. Ropes's work of that name, died on September 27, at the age of 76.

Dr. Alexander Franz, extraordinary professor of history in the University of Frankfort, died in Berlin on March 1, 1919. He was born in Missouri of German parents. His works include a volume on Die Kolonisation des Mississippitales bis zum Ausgange der Französischen Herrschaft: eine Kolonialhistorische Studie (Leipzig, 1906).

Francis J. Haverfield, who since 1907 had been Camden professor of ancient history in the University of Oxford, died on October 1, at the age of fifty-nine. His principal productions had been a variety of valuable monographs on the history of Roman Britain.

Dr. Archer B. Hulbert has been appointed associate professor of American history in Clark University.

Professor W. L. Westermann of the University of Wisconsin has been elected professor of ancient history in Cornell University, as successor of the late Professor Sill. His work at Ithaca will begin next September.

Dr. J. G. Randall has resigned his position as historian of the Shipping Board and has been appointed professor of history in Richmond College.

Professor J. M. Leake, formerly of Allegheny College, is now professor of history and economics in the University of Florida.

Professor E. C. Griffith, lately of Brown University, has been made professor of history, and acting head of the department, in the University of Cincinnati.

Professor Wilson P. Shortridge has been promoted to be head of the department of history in the University of Louisville. Dr. W. F. Raney becomes assistant professor of history in the same institution.

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Sontents of the Genocer number if the Earu Outloog IWith the Ring Design Winter part-ady Lett. 3cari A he Great Lorary in Anenca or miser am E. Zedd: Velierement in the Great War in Dr. BV B. Jones and a Conne for the Bener Tade tanding 15 Lann-menca, by Professor de oder N. Bond. Andes in the Noremner number are, the German Press and the War by Dr. Meter S. Cark: Jama since tan by ProCessor Kenneth S. Latourette: Serra's Work on the Great War. by Alan W. Gale; and Anglo-American Diplomate Relations huing the Last Half-Century, by Dr. Charles H. Levermore. The December numver has another of the series of articles by participants in the war, enAffed "Over There" in Siberia, by Capt. Laurence B. Packard and a good paper by Professor A. H. Buffington on British and French Imperialism in North America. Completing with this number the tenth volume of the excellent and most useful magazine which he has edited under the names of the History Teacher's Magazine and the Historical Outlook, Professor McKinley takes occasion to present a group of very interesting surveys, by various competent hands, of ten years' progress in the teaching of history and other historical activities. Briedy, and without yielding to the temptation to comment on each of the eight surveys, it may be said that they present an encouraging record of advancement.

History for October has an article on the Dawn of the French Renaissance by Mr. Edward Armstrong and one on Nationality by Mr. Ernest Barker. The ecclesiastical policy of Diocletian and that of Constantine are considered by Miss Alice Gardner. Those interested in the progress of historical research in the English universities will obtain a notion of

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its course from a section containing lists of theses and publications accepted for higher degrees and of essays by graduates to which university prizes have been awarded, in the case of the universities of Leeds, London, and Manchester. More than one hundred such studies are listed. The lists for Cambridge, Liverpool, and Oxford may be expected in the next number.

We are informed by Father Hippolyte Delehaye, S. J., president of the Society of Bollandists, that he and his associates intend to resume publication of the Analecta Bollandiana, interrupted in 1914 before the issue of fasc. 4 of vol. XXXIII., and to maintain it if a sufficient number of subscriptions can be secured. The price of subscription is 20 francs. per annum. Subscriptions should be addressed, Société des Bollandistes, 22 Boulevard St. Michel, Brussels.

Ludo Moritz Hartmann has undertaken to edit a Weltgeschichte in Gemeinverständlicher Darstellung (Gotha, Perthes), which will extend to at least twelve volumes. The first and the third volume have been published. In the first appear the editor's introduction, a geographical introduction by E. Hanslik, the section on prehistoric times by E. Kohn, and the account of the ancient East by E. G. Klauber. The editor and J. Kromayer have co-operated in writing the third volume, which deals with Roman history.

Further issues in the S. P. C. K. series of Helps for Students of History are a pamphlet on The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts, by Dr. Montagu R. James, two lectures on ecclesiastical records, by Rev. Claude Jenkins, librarian of Lambeth Palace, and An Introduction to the History of American Diplomacy, by Professor Carl R. Fish of Wisconsin. The same publishing society announces Christian Inscriptions, by H. C. V. Nunn, in its series of Texts for Students; and volumes on The Parish Gilds of Medieval England, by H. F. Westlake, custodian of Westminster Abbey, on The Cistercians in Yorkshire, by J. S. Fletcher, and on The Reformation in Ireland, by H. Holloway.

The Census of Fifteenth Century Books owned in America compiled by a committee of the Bibliographical Society of America and printed in installments by the New York Public Library in its Bulletin has now been assembled in a handsome volume of xxiv +245 pages. The volume, which can be obtained from the library named, is the result of some twenty years' labor on the part of various librarians, bibliographers, and scholars. The data are derived from 169 public and 246 private collections, and report over 13,200 copies of more than 6600 titles. The catalogue is greatly abridged, the title-entries being confined to the fewest words that will identify the book, but is so comprehensive, so careful, and so well arranged (Hain's order is in general followed) that it will be exceedingly helpful to all students that need to use fifteenth-century books, of which it discloses a surprisingly large store in America.

A new work by Professor J. B. Bury, The Idea of Progress, an Inquiry into its Origin and Growth, will shortly be published in London by Messrs. Macmillan.

Professor George F. Moore of Harvard University has added to his History of Religions a second volume (Scribner) dealing with Judaism, Mohammedanism, and Christianity. The first volume, which treated of the ancient religions other than Judaism, was published in 1913.

Gabriel Hanotaux of the French Academy discusses a considerable range of topics of concern to the historian in an illuminating manner in the volume entitled L'Histoire et les Historiens, le Théâtre et la Guerre (Paris, Conard, 1919).

Lord Bryce's Democracy (Macmillan) relates especially to democratic achievements in Australia, New Zealand, and France, but also has chapters dealing with the South American republics, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, and the republics of antiquity.

The March number of the Ohio History Teachers' Journal is devoted entirely to the League of Nations, comprising three articles, namely: European Precedents for a League of Nations, by Clarence Perkins, American Precedents for a League of Nations, by Carl Wittke, the Monroe Doctrine and the League of Nations, by Homer C. Hockett, together with the text of the covenant as announced April 27, 1919, with notes pointing out changes made in the covenant as originally drafted.

The Grotius Society has published a monograph on International Rivers, by a young Belgian scholar, Mr. George Kaeckenbeeck.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace expects to publish soon a comprehensive study of the theory and history of plebiscites, entitled The Doctrine of National Self Determination, by Miss Sarah Wambaugh of Radcliffe College.

Industry and Trade, by Professors A. L. Bishop and A. G. Keller (Boston, Ginn, pp. 426, with many excellent illustrations), is a highschool or college text-book which presents an intelligent descriptive account of American industries and American trade and commerce taken up in a historical way though not in a historical order of arrangement.

A first volume of a history of the development of arms is entitled A Record of European Arms and Armour (London, Bell), by Sir Guy Laking. The work will occupy five volumes.

The July and October numbers of the Catholic Historical Review are combined in one issue. The main contents are four articles of exceptional interest: one by Professor Charles E. Chapman on Father Fermin de Lasuén; one by Father V. F. O'Daniel on Cuthbert Fenwick of early Maryland; one by Professor Laurence M. Larson on the Church in North America (Greenland) in the Middle Ages; and one by Father