the most significant of Calvin's letters from the 1400 printed in the Corpus Reformatorum.

Documentary publications: E. Graber, Die Urkunden König Konrads III. (Innsbruck, Wagner, 1908, pp. viii, 130).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: A. Schultze, Über Gästerecht und Gastgerichte in den Deutschen Städten des Mittelalters (Historische Zeitschrift, CI. 3); H. D. Foster, Calvin's Programme for a Puritan State in Geneva (Harvard Theological Review, October).

NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM

The State Commission on the preparation and edition of a descriptive inventory of the historical and artistic monuments in the Netherlands has published its fifth report, for the year 1907. The inventory for the province of Utrecht will soon be published and that of southern Holland is nearly completed. An index to the periodical literature relating to the monuments published from 1900 to 1906 inclusive, will be issued in the Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond.

The Bulletin Bibliographique du Musée Belge for July contains a résumé of an excellent discourse by Professor G. Kurth on the life and deeds of Notger, the first prince-bishop of Liège, delivered in commemoration of the ninth centenary of his death.

Georges Smets, a pupil of the late Professor L. Van der Kindere, has published a monograph on Henri I., Duc de Brabant, 1190-1235 (Brussels, 1908, pp. xxii, 340), the first part of which sets forth in annalistic form all that is known of Henry I. from his birth in 1165 to his death in 1235, while the second part is a synthetic account of the history of his reign.

A Linschoten Society, patterned after the Hakluyt Society, has been organized by a number of Dutch scholars. The first of its series of publications, of which two volumes will be issued yearly, will be the Itinerary of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, edited by Professor Kern. This will be followed by Cornelis Houtman's first voyage to the East Indies, and Verscheide Voyagiens by David Pietersz de Vries. The address of the secretary of the society is 18 Nobelstraat, the Hague.

Dr. S. van Brakel has published a work of much value on De Hollandsche Handelscompagnieën der zeventiende Eeuw (The Hague, Nijhoff, 1908).

The first volume of Matériaux pour servir à l'Histoire de la Dentelle en Belgique (Paris, Lamertin, 1908) is by E. Van Overloop and G. Des Marez.

Documentary publications: H. Reimers, Friesische Papsturkunden aus dem Vatikanischen Archive zu Rom (Leeuwarden, Meijer and Schaafsma, 1908, pp. viii, 126); F. J. L. Krämer, Archives ou Corre

spondance Inédite de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau, third series, II., 1700 (Hague, Nijhoff, 1908, pp. xxxviii, 603).

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Noteworthy articles in periodicals: F. Keutgen, Zur Geschichte Belgiens im Mittelalter (Historische Zeitschrift, CI. 3).

NORTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE

The first installment of an index to more than 4000 articles on Norwegian topography in seventy-five periodicals, arranged alphabetically under names of places, has been published by the Deichmanske Bibliothek in Christiania.

Under the title Islandica, I., a bibliography of the Icelandic sagas and minor tales, by Halldor Hermansson, remarkably complete and extending down to 1264, has been issued by the Cornell University Library.

An English Bibliography on the Near Eastern Question, by Voyslav M. Yovanovitch, is being published by the Servian Royal Academy (Belgrade, Svetislav Tzviyanovich) as the forty-eighth part of the Spomeniks, second series. It consists of 1600 entries, from the year 1480 to 1906.

The second volume of Professor N. Jorga's Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches (1908, pp. viii, 380) comes down to the year 1538. The work, which is written from the sources, is issued in Professor Lamprecht's series Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten (Gotha, Perthes).

A vast amount of information concerning the different races of the Balkan Provinces is contained in Signor Amadori-Virgili's first volume of nearly a thousand pages on La Questione Rumeliota e la Politica Italiana (Bitonto, Garofalo), which also contains sketches of the history of the various states. The second volume will deal more particularly with Italian policy towards this region.

K. Zdravomyslov has published a brochure entitled Sviedienia o Konsistorskikh Arkhivakh i Tzerkovnoarkheologhitcheskikh Utchrejdeniiakh v Eparkhiiakh (Saint Petersburg, 1908), notices of the archives of the consistories and of the archaeological ecclesiastical institutions in Russia. Historical information is given concerning sixty-four archives of the Russian eparchies, and concerning thirty-five committees or archaeological societies devoted to the study of ecclesiastical antiquities.

Professor Leopold Karl Goetz has published through the house of Duncker, Berlin, a study of Staat und Kirche in Altrussland (1908, pp. viii, 214) treating of the Kiev period from 988 to 1240.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: O. J. Skattum, Ofir-Studier: Historisk-geografiske Undersögelser over det Salomoniske Guldlands Beliggenhed (Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, hist.-fil. Kl., 1907, 4).

AMERICA

GENERAL ITEMS

The Committee on the Documentary Historical Publications of the United States Government, appointed at the instance of the President by the Committee on Department Methods, held its third and final meeting in Washington on October 23 and 24. On that occasion and by subsequent correspondence it completed an elaborate report, which has been transmitted to the members of the Committee on Department Methods, has been approved by them, and is now in the press.

Writings on American History, 1907, the second issue in a series of annual bibliographies of which the volume for 1906 has lately appeared, is approaching completion under the editorial care of Miss Grace G. Griffin, and may be expected to be published in the spring.

The Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to 1783, etc., by Professor Andrews and Miss Davenport, will apparently be published in January.

Mr. James Schouler is publishing through Little, Brown and Company a volume entitled Ideals of the Republic, based on the author's lectures at Johns Hopkins University.

A work on United States Constitutional History and Law, by A. H. Putney, has been published by the Illinois Book Exchange, Chicago.

The Monthly Catalogue of United States Public Documents for September, 1908, issued by the Superintendent of Documents, has a useful note of several pages on the history of the publication of United States statutes by the government.

Mr. Asher C. Hinds's Parliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives, in eight volumes, has been issued from the Government Printing Office.

The Century Company have published The American Executive, by President Finley of the College of the City of New York.

A reference book on tariff legislation and debates in Congress from 1846 to 1897, prepared by Mr. G. H. Boyd, superintendent of the Senate document room, has been presented by the chairman of the Finance Committee and referred to the Committee on Printing. It contains tariff acts in full together with the committee reports thereon, and full references to all debates.

A Study of Primary Elections, by Professor C. E. Merriam, has been issued by the University of Chicago Press. The development of legal regulation of primaries from 1866 to 1908 is traced and general tendencies are discussed.

Doubleday, Page and Company have brought out Studies in the American Race Problem, by Alfred H. Stone. Mr. Walter F. Willcox of Cornell University contributes to the volume an introduction and three papers.

Mr. Burton E. Stevenson has edited a large volume of Poems of American History which Houghton, Mifflin and Company will publish.

The November Bulletin of the New York Public Library contains an extensive list of books relating to witchcraft in the United States.

As Others See Us is the title of a book to be published shortly by the Macmillan Company, in which Mr. John Graham Brooks has brought together the recorded opinions of America expressed by sundry critics. from Tocqueville to Bryce. Upon these quoted opinions Mr. Brooks offers his own comparisons and criticisms.

The American Antiquarian Society will publish in its Proceedings for October a calendar of those miscellaneous manuscripts relating to the French and Indian War which are possessed by the Society. This will supplement the installments previously published relating especially to the papers of Sir William Johnson and of Colonel John Bradstreet. The same number will also contain note-books of Dr. Saugrain relating to a journey in the Ohio country in 1788, and an article on early South American newspapers, by Mr. George P. Winship.

Among the several articles in the July number of the Magazine of History may be mentioned "Blockading Memories of the Gulf Squadron", by the late Lieutenant S. W. Powell, and Mr. D. T. V. Huntoon's third paper on Major-General Richard Gridley. In the August number are brief articles on "The Camp on the Neshaminy ", by C. H. Jones; "Florida County Names", by G. B. Utley; and Mr. H. E. Hamilton's second paper on Gurdon S. Hubbard. Among the original documents in these numbers are a letter from General Henry Dearborn to his son, November 25, 1807, and some letters of Washington and Lincoln. In the September issue is the first paper of a series by Leon Hühner entitled "Some Jewish Associates of John Brown". The same issue offers its readers a part of Mr. H. M. Baker's address "Why did Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) become a Tory ", and also a part of Mr. H. A. M. Smith's recent address on General Thomas Sumter.

The Records of the American Catholic Historical Society begin in the June issue the publication of "Some Correspondence Relating to the Dioceses of New Orleans and St. Louis", with notes by the Abbé Lionel St. G. Lindsay. The letters are from the archiepiscopal archives at Quebec. In the same issue are printed some letters from the Baltimore archives, of the time of Bishop Carroll, with annotations by Rev. E. I. Devitt, S. J. The series of letters from the first Catholic Bishop of Charleston is concluded in this number.

ITEMS ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

G. P. Putnam's Sons will soon publish Bartholomew Las Casas: his Life, his Apostolate and his Writings, by F. A. MacNutt.

A decree of Philip IV., signed at Madrid March 22, 1638, assuring

to the Duke of Veragua the American possessions of his ancestor Columbus, was recently found in New Orleans and is now in the possession of the Library of Congress.

It is announced that the next publication of the Club for Colonial Reprints, of Providence, will be "A Scheme for a Paper Currency together with Two Petitions written in Boston Gaol in 1739-1740", by Richard Fry. Mr. Andrew McFarland Davis contributes an introduction.

The Writings of George Washington, edited by Professor Lawrence B. Evans of Tufts College, the first volume in Messrs. Putnam's series of "Writings of American Statesmen ", will shortly come from the press.

Several pages of the October issue of the American Catholic Historical Researches are devoted to Catholic Loyalists of the Revolution and Catholic Officers in the Revolution.

The University Library of Princeton has issued a volume by V. L. Collins entitled The Continental Congress at Princeton (1783).

A discussion of the contributions of Charles Pinckney to the Constitution of the United States, by Hon. Charles C. Nott, former chief justice of the United States Court of Claims, has been published by the Century Company under the title The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught.

The September Bulletin of the New York Public Library contains three letters written to James Monroe in 1812 and 1814, one of which, by George Hay, is of considerable interest.

Mr. William K. Bixby of St. Louis has published privately, from originals in his possession, a volume of Letters of Zachary Taylor, from the Battlefields of the Mexican War.

Books on Lincoln continue to multiply. From the Macmillan Company comes Abraham Lincoln; the Boy and the Man, by James Morgan; from the McClure Company, The Boyhood of Lincoln, by Eleanor Atkinson, and The Death of Lincoln, by Clara E. Laughlin; from A. Wessels Company, The Wisdom of Lincoln, extracts from Lincoln's letters, speeches and state papers, edited by Dr. M. M. Miller, and Abraham Lincoln: a Tribute, by George Bancroft.

Charles Scribner's Sons have published Robert E. Lee, the Southerner, by Thomas Nelson Page.

'Stonewall' Jackson, by H. A. White, is to appear shortly from the press of George W. Jacobs and Company. The volume is included in the American Crisis series.

Captain S. A. Forbes has reprinted from the Transactions of the Illinois Historical Society a careful and interesting paper on Grierson's Cavalry Raid.

The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, by Eliza F. Andrews, which has been appearing serially, has been issued as a volume by the firm of Appleton.