HISTORICAL NEWS

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

The headquarters of the American Historical Association in the house of the Royal Historical Society at 22 Russell Square has been given up, because of the opportunity offered American students in general by the establishment and maintenance in London of the British Division of the American University Union. At 50 Russell Square, headquarters of that union and of the British Universities Bureau, American students of history, as of other subjects, will find helpful guidance and opportunities of mutual association. The director of the British Division is Dr. George E. MacLean, formerly president of the University of Iowa.

Professor Eugene C. Barker is preparing for publication by the Historical Manuscripts Commission the collection of manuscripts and printed documents known as the Austin Papers, bequeathed to the University of Texas by Col. Guy M. Bryan, grandson of Moses Austin. The papers deal particularly with the business of the Austins in Philadelphia, Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. Professor Barker would be glad to communicate with persons knowing of any other letters or writings of the Austins.

For the benefit of the special committee on the historical congress which is to be held at Rio de Janeiro in 1923, members of the American Historical Association who have any expectation of attending that congress are requested to notify the managing editor of this journal.

PERSONAL

Dr. Isaac Sharpless, who for thirty years, 1887-1917, was the honored president of Haverford College, died on January 16, at the age of seventy-one. His historical works were confined to the special field of the history of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, which they illuminated with much learning and fairness, insight and judgment. They were, A Quaker Experiment in Government (1898), Two Centuries of Pennsylvania History (1900), Quakerism and Politics (1906), and Political Leaders of Provincial Pennsylvania (1919), reviewed on an earlier page of this present number.

Robert M. Johnston, professor of modern history in Harvard University, died on January 28 at the age of fifty-two, of an illness aggravated by two years' service with the American Expeditionary Force in France, where he represented the Historical Cal Staff. Educated chiefly in England, but also

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the United States, he was professor in Bryn Mawr College in 1907-1908 and had been at Harvard since that date. His most important works concerned Italian history, The Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy (1904) and Mémoire de Marie Caroline, Reine de Naples (1912), but he also wrote extensively on military history and was one of the editors of the Military Historian and Economist.

George L. Beer died on March 15, aged 47. He was the author of excellent books on the colonial period of American history: British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765 (1907); The Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660 (1908); and The Old Colonial System, 1660–1754 (1912). He also had an important part in the historical work done for the American representatives at the Peace Conference.

Rev. Edward I. Devitt, S. J., professor of Maryland colonial history in Georgetown University for some twenty years past, and author of various writings on the Catholic history of the colonies, died on January 27 at the age of seventy-nine.

Thomas M. Owen, who since 1901 had been the efficient director of the Department of Archives and History in the state government of Alabama, died on March 25, aged fifty-three.

Ethelbert O. S. Scolefield, librarian of the Provincial Library of British Columbia, and also provincial archivist, died on December 25, 1919, at the age of forty-four, after long illness. He had been provincial librarian for twenty-two years and with enthusiastic and tireless labor had built up both the library and archives into very important repositories of historical material.

Professor Julius von Pflugk-Harttung, author of numerous works in German history, died in Berlin on November 5, 1919, aged seventy-one.

Friends of the late Archdeacon Cunningham propose, as a permanent memorial to him, to place an appropriate window in St. Andrew's Chapel in Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, the church of which he was vicar from 1887 to 1908. Contributions may be sent to the present vicar of St. Mary's, Rev. C. L. Hulbert.

Professor Wallace Notestein of the University of Minnesota has accepted election as professor of English history in Cornell University, and will begin teaching there in October.

Dr. R. W. Kelsey of Haverford College has been promoted to the full rank of professor of history.

Dr. George F. Zook, professor of history in the Pennsylvania State College, has resigned that position to take charge of the division of higher education in the Bureau of Education at Washington. Dr. A. E. Martin has succeeded him in the department of history, political science, and economics at the college.

Professor R. V. D. Magoffin of the Johns Hopkins University has been appointed director of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome for the year 1920-1921.

Dr. E. Merton Coulter, formerly professor of political science and economics in Marietta College, Ohio, has been elected associate professor of history in the University of Georgia.

In the University of Wisconsin, Professor Mikhail Rostovtsev, formerly of the Imperial University of St. Petersburg, has been appointed professor of history for the academic year 1920-1921. Professor Rostovtsev, who was chairman of the ancient history section of the Berlin Historical Congress of 1908, is now in residence at Oxford University, and will come to America in the autumn. Assistant-professor E. H. Byrne has been advanced to the rank of associate professor. Professor Beverley W. Bond of Purdue University has been appointed lecturer in English history for the second semester of this year. Professor A. L. P. Dennis has resigned his connection with the university.

Professor Joseph Schafer of the University of Oregon has accepted election as superintendent of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, and begins work there April 1.

At the Iowa State College, Mr. Louis B. Schmidt has been promoted from associate professor to professor of history. Mr. Albert B. Moore becomes assistant professor.

Dr. F. F. Stephens has been promoted from assistant professor to professor of American history in the University of Missouri.

Mr. J. W. Taylor of Wisconsin has been made professor of European history in the University of North Dakota. In the North Dakota Agricultural College the departments of history and social science have been separated and the former, which will give especial attention to agricultural and industrial history, has been put in charge of Dr. Earle D. Ross, who last year held the professorship of history in the Illinois Wesleyan University.

Professor Edward Krehbiel of Stanford University resigned his professorship in November to enter into commercial life; during the winter and spring Dr. Henry B. Learned of Washington has taken his place.

GENERAL

We have had the great pleasure of receiving fasciculus IV. of tom. XXXIII. of the Analecta Bollandiana, of which fasc. I was published on July 22, 1914. In a dignified but moving prefatory he Bollandist fathers set forth the calamities to which warfare and jected their enterprise during the intervening years, arrest, in January, 1918, of the president of the group two members) Father Hippolyte Dele, who remain

months. Now, though with resources sadly diminished, this venerable society, with undiminished courage, resumes the age-long labors to which it has been devoted with such signal profit to the learned world. In a little volume lately published, À travers Trois Siècles: l'Oeuvre des Bollandistes, 1615-1915 (Brussels, pp. 284), Father Delehaye presents an interesting history of the society's work, to be more fully noticed later in this journal. In the present number of the Analecta, the most noteworthy contribution is an article on the canonization of saints in the Russian church, by Father Paul Peeters, Bollandist. The four numbers of 1920 will form vol. XXXVIII. Vols. XXXIV.-XXXVII. (1915– 1919) are in preparation and will be sold as they are completed, along with the completing portions and index of M. Ulysse Chevalier's Repertorium Hymnologicum. The annual subscription, for countries of the Postal Union, will hereafter be twenty francs.

World History is the subject of the annual Raleigh Lecture, delivered before the British Academy in 1919 by Viscount Bryce, and published by Milford.

Right Hon. Herbert A. L. Fisher, president of the British Board of Education, has published a volume of Studies in History and Politics through the Oxford University Press.

Die Entwicklung der Geschichtswissenschaft an den Führenden Werken betrachtet (Munich, Oldenbourg, 1919, pp. xi, 461) is by Professor Moritz Ritter.

Papers on the Legal History of Government: Difficulties Fundamental and Artificial, by Melville M. Bigelow, includes studies of the Unity of Government, the Family in English History, Medieval English Sovereignty, the Old Jury, and Becket and the Law (Little, Brown, and. Company).

Seals and Documents (Milford, pp. 21) is the subject of a paper contributed to the British Academy by Dr. Reginald Lane Poole, keeper of the archives at Oxford.

Dr. J. Holland Rose's inaugural lecture as Vere Harmsworth professor of naval history at Cambridge treats of Naval History and National History (Cambridge University Press, pp. 46).

J. Combarieu has completed his Histoire de la Musique des Origines au Début du XXe Siècle (Paris, Colin, 1920, pp. 670) with a third volume covering the period since the death of Beethoven.

A. H. Keane's Man, Past and Present (Cambridge University Press) has been revised and largely re-written by A. Hingston Quiggin and A. C. Haddon.

An Introduction to Anthropology (Macmillan, pp. ix, 259), by the Rev. E. O. James, is a general survey of the early history of the human

race.

Totem and Taboo (Routledge, pp. xii, 268), by Professor Sigmund Freud, deals with resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and of neurotics. The translation is by A. A. Brill.

To the Bulletin of the New York Public Library for December Mr. George F. Black contributes a valuable list of works relating to lycanthropy, to that of January a list on Druids and Druidism.

The late Sir Clements Markham's work on Arctic and Antarctic Exploration, edited by Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard, and illustrated with maps and photographs, will shortly be issued by the Cambridge University Press.

The American Jewish Historical Society held its twenty-eighth annual meeting in New York on February 22 and 23. Among the papers read we note one by Professor Gotthard Deutsch on the Talmud as Source-Material for Jewish History; one by Dr. Harry Friedenwald on Jewish Physicians in Italy, and their relation to the Papal and Italian states; and one by Max J. Kohler on Jewish Civic Activity and Patriotism during the Civil War.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: G. F. Steffen, Die Weltgeschichte (Neue Rundschau, July); H. E. Barnes, Psychology and History (American Journal of Psychology, October).

ANCIENT HISTORY

The syndics of the Cambridge University Press have undertaken to publish in eight volumes, on the same general plan as their modern and medieval histories, The Cambridge Ancient History, to be prepared by various specialists under the editorship of Professor J. B. Bury, Mr. S. A. Cook and Mr. F. D. Adcock.

Dr. W. M. Flinders Petrie's book, Some Sources of Human History (S. P. C. K., pp. 128) contains three chapters-Unwritten History, dealing with early civilizations, centres of culture, roads, names, art; Byways of Written History, referring to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, India, China, ancient science, coins, etc.; and Habit, Custom, and Law, touching on ancient law, property, wills, slavery, etc.

The Carnegie Institution of Washington has lately published vol. III. of the late Professor W. Max Müller's Egyptological Researches, a quarto of 88 pages and 41 plates, entitled The National Uprising against the Ptolemaic Dynasty according to the Two Bilingual Inscriptions of Philae.

The Yale University Press has begun the publication, in five volumes, of the collection of Babylonian records in the library of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, and has also issued in its Oriental series a volume of some two hundred Neo-Babylonian Letters from Erech, chiefly relating to affairs of the temple at that place, and edited by Professor Albert T.