NOTES AND NEWS

GENERAL

Mr. Robert Nisbet Bain, assistant librarian at the British Museum and author of many works on Slavonic and Scandinavian history and literature, died in May at the age of fifty-four.

We have just received notice of the death of Mgr. Pietro Wenzel, archivist of the Vatican.

Stanislaus Murray Hamilton, connected from 1880 till lately with the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the Department of State, editor of the Writings of James Monroe, Letters to Washington and other works, died in the city of Washington on May 10, aged 54.

Professor Charles W. Mann of Lewis Institute, one of the most valued historical teachers in Chicago, died May 1. The edition of the Diary of James K. Polk, which he had been preparing for the Chicago Historical Society, will be finished by Dr. M. M. Quaife, and will appear some time in the autumn or winter from the press of A. C. McClurg and Company.

Professor Eduard Meyer of the University of Berlin serves as the next German exchange professor at Harvard University, lecturing on ancient history. Professor George F. Moore goes to Berlin to lecture on the history of religions. Mr. G. W. Prothero of London lectures on the history of the British Empire during the second half of the year.

At the University of Chicago Dr. Ferdinand Schevill has been promoted to the full rank of professor in history; Dr. William E. Dodd, hitherto professor at Randolph-Macon College, has been appointed professor of American history; Dr. Joseph P. Warren has been promoted to an assistant professorship.

Professor William Stearns Davis of Oberlin College has been appointed professor of ancient history in the University of Minnesota.

We have delayed to notice that Dr. William E. Lingelbach was promoted last fall from the position of assistant professor to that of professor of European history in the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Oliver H. Richardson of Yale University has been appointed to the professorship of European history in the University of Washington. Dr. Emerson D. Fite has been promoted to an assistant professorship of history at Yale University.

Dr. Clarence Perkins of the University of Missouri has been made assistant professor of history in the Ohio State University.

Mr. Payson J. Treat has been appointed assistant professor of history and political science in Leland Stanford University.

The secretary of the American Historical Association has distributed to members the biennial Handbook. Besides giving the addresses of members the pamphlet conveys much useful information relating to the publications and activities of the Association. The Annual Report of the Association for 1907, consisting of two volumes (the second devoted to a portion of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas) is expected to come from the Government Printing Office in July. Volume one of the report for 1908 has been transmitted to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and composition upon it can begin immediately after the beginning of the new fiscal year. Professor Krehbiel's prize essay on The Interdict, for which subscriptions should be sent to the treasurer, Dr. Clarence W. Bowen, is now in press.

A new publication devoted to the history of the natural sciences, Archiv für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik, edited by K. von Buchka, H. Stadler and K. Sudhoff, with the collaboration of the most eminent specialists, is to be published by Vogel, Leipzig. Articles will be printed in German, English, French or Italian.

The Annual Magazine Subject-Index for 1908, edited by Mr. Frederick W. Faxon (Boston Book Company, pp. 193) is a subject-index to 120 American and English periodicals additional to those which are included in the Readers' Guide and Annual Library Index. Though general in character it should be mentioned here because about thirty of the periodicals indexed are journals of history or genealogy and about as many more are publications of American historical societies.

From the papers left by the late Professor Ludwig Traube, of Munich, his friends and disciples propose to publish a series of five volumes of Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen, edited by Franz Boll. The first volume (Munich, Beck, 1909, pp. lxxv, 263) relates entirely to palaeography and the history of manuscripts, the principal portion being a history of palaeography from Papebroch to the present time. Among its other contents are a summary history of manuscripts and libraries, and a biography of Traube with a list of his published works.

A third and enlarged edition of the standard work, Genealogisches Handbuch der Europäischen Staatengeschichte, by O. Lorenz, has been prepared by E. Devrient and published by Cotta (Stuttgart, 1908).

In spite of the intimate relation that exists between history and economic geography, workers in one field are often ignorant of what is being accomplished in the other. To help to remove this defect the Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine prints in its February number a series of notes on over thirty books and articles published in France within the last two years and bearing upon both departments of learning.

A monumental collection of the most important sources for the history of religion and civilization, Orbis Antiquitatum: Religions- und

Kulturgeschichtliche Quellenschriften im Urtext, Umschrift und Uebersetzung, is to be published by Lumen (Leipzig and Vienna), under the direction of M. Altschüler and J. Lanz-Liebenfels. The first issues are to be old versions of the Bible, of Talmudic and cabalistic documents and of the apocrypha of the Old and New Testaments. The most important manuscripts will be reproduced in phototype in an atlas. Part of the codex Hebr. 95 of the Munich library, the only complete manuscript of the Talmud of Babylon, has been published (Pars III., Tomus I., Cod. Hebr. Monac. 95, Die Pfersee-Handschrift, Heft I.), and the first volume (Genesis) of Die Griechischen Bibelversionen (Septuagint and Hexapla).

Of more popular character than the foregoing will be a collection announced by the house of Dietrich, Religions-Urkunden der Völker, edited under the direction of Dr. J. Boehmer with the collaboration of many German university professors. This series will consist of free translations into German of the religious texts of all peoples, together with some descriptive sources, and introductions, notes and indices. One of the five sections of the collection relates to the primitive peoples of America. A volume has already appeared on Die Religion der Batak: Ein Paradigma für Animistische Religionen des Indischen Archipels, by J. Warneck.

A. N. Blatchford's Church Councils and their Decrees (London, P. Green, pp. 151) contains short accounts of the councils of Jerusalem, 45; Nicaea, 325; Constantinople, 381; Chalcedon, 451; the second and fourth Lateran Councils, 1139, 1215; Toulouse, 1228; Constance, 1415; Trent, 1545; and the Vatican Council, 1869.

Studies in Mystical Religion (Macmillan, 1909, pp. 556), by Mr. Rufus M. Jones, treats of the mystics from the days of primitive Christianity to the end of the English Commonwealth.

Dr. W. P. Ker of University College, London, delivered an address to the Historical Society of the University of Glasgow on January 8, 1909, On the Philosophy of History (MacLehose).

Mr. E. Bruce Forrest has contributed an article on The Equipment of a History Room to a recent issue of the School World.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: E. Ibarra y Rodriguez, Cómo debe ser Enseñada la Historia? (Cultura Española, February); A. D. Xenopol, Zur Logik der Geschichte (Historische Zeitschrift, CII. 3); James Ford Rhodes, Newspapers as Historical Sources (Atlantic Monthly, May); F. H. Clark, The Influence of the Report of the Committee of Seven on History Work in the High Schools (Educational Review, April); A. L. Smith, History and Citizenship: a Forecast (Cornhill Magazine, May) [a lecture on F. W. Maitland].

ANCIENT HISTORY

Under the title The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, especially in its Relations to Israel (London, Luzac, 1908, pp. 249), Professor R. W. Rogers has published a set of lectures delivered by him at Harvard University.

The French Institute of Oriental Archaeology was opened at Cairo in April. Its publications, which will relate to the history of Egypt, will be published through the house of Fontemoing, Paris.

The first part of Raymond Weill's Les Origines de l'Egypte Pharaonique, covering the second and third dynasties, has been published in the Annales du Musée Guimet (Paris, Leroux).

The first volume of Dr. Georg Möller's work on Hieratische Paläographie (Leipzig, Hinrichs) deals with Egyptian book-writing in its development from the fifth dynasty to the period of the Roman Empire.

The fourteenth volume of Archives Marocaines (Paris, Leroux) contains two monographs by Nahum Slouschz, assistant at the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, of which one, Judéo-Hellènes et JudéoBerbères, is a study of the origins of Jews and Judaism in Africa (pp. 272), and the other, Les Hébraco-Phéniciens, is an introduction to the history of the origins of Hebrew colonization in Mediterranean countries (pp. 206).

Writings relating to Greek history published outside France from 1901 to 1908 are analyzed by G. Glotz in the May-June number of the Revue Historique.

From the Clarendon Press comes the first volume of Scripta Minoa: the Written Documents of Minoan Crete, by A. J. Evans. This volume treats especially of the earlier pictographic and hieroglyphic script, but contains an introductory general view of the progress of the discoveries, the successive types of script and their relation to one another.

Six lectures delivered before the University of London by David G. Hogarth, director of the Cretan Exploration Fund, treating mainly of the circumstances under which Hellenic civilization came into existence, have been issued by the Clarendon Press under the title Ionia and the East.

Professor Allan Marquand of Princeton has contributed a volume on Greek Architecture (New York, Macmillan, 1909, pp. x, 425) to the series of illustrated Handbooks of Archaeology and Antiquities edited by Professors Percy Gardner of Oxford and F. W. Kelsey of the University of Michigan. In this admirable book the principles of construction, form, proportion, etc., are discussed with much learning but so clearly as to be intelligible to beginners.

The first volume of the Library of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Paris is entitled Mélanges d'Histoire Ancienne (Alcan), AM. HIST. REV., VOL. XIV -56.

and includes the following monographs: M. Aemilius Scaurus, A Study of the History of Parties in the Seventh Century at Rome, by G. Bloch; Histoire de l'Ostracisme Athénien, by J. Carcopino; and L'Approvisionnement d'Athènes en Blé au V. et au VI. Siècles, by L. Gernet.

L. Pareti's Ricerche sulla Potenza Marittima degli Spartani e sulla Cronologia dei Navarchi (Turin, Bona, 1909, pp. 90), separately printed from the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, second series, vol. LIX., treats of the Spartan navy from its origins to the Persian wars, the origin and the chronology of the navarchia, the composition of the fleet in classic times, the navy from 372 to 146 B. C., and the officers of the navy from the Persian wars to the battle of Leuctra.

From the University of Chicago Press comes a doctoral dissertation, accepted by the University of Bern, on Artaxerxes III. Ochus and his Reign, by N. C. Hirschy. The author has given special consideration to the Old Testament sources bearing upon the period.

A life of Theodor Mommsen by L. M. Hartmann (Gotha, Perthes, 1908), which professes to be only a biographical sketch, contains in the long appendix some political articles by Mommsen, published in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitung of 1848, and a brief writing which appeared in Die Nation in 1902.

A volume of "The Collected Essays of H. F. Pelham ", edited by F. Haverfield, is announced for publication by the Clarendon Press.

Professor F. Haverfield has published through Macmillan a revised edition of Dr. W. P. Dickson's translation of Mommsen's Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian, originally published in its English edition in 1886, and now out of print.

Professor D. R. Stuart, of Princeton, has issued in the series of Macmillan's Latin Classics, edited by Professor Egbert, a text of Tacitus: The Agricola, in which he has "endeavored to evaluate . . . the data rendered accessible by Annibaldi's recent publication of the Jesi manuscript", discovered in 1902.

Of the greatest importance for its subject is M. E. Bréhier's Les Idées Philosophiques et Religieuses de Philon d'Alexandrie (Paris, Picard, 1908, pp. xiv, 336), in which the author explains the doctrines. of the philosopher more clearly than has been done hitherto, and shows their historical origins.

Mr. T. R. Glover, of St. John's College, Cambridge, author of Life and Letters in the Fourth Century and of Studies in Virgil, tries to make the thought and life of classical times real to the reader in his book on The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire (Methuen, 1909, pp. 359).

Das Leben des Heiligen Symeon Stylites, the fourth heft of the series of Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Altchristlichen