OtatribstUni to toast Hotiets, whether r«f alar or occasional, are invited. Tk»y should be dr»wm up on the pattern of those priated below, tad addressed to Mr. R. L. ?oole, at Oiftrd, by the first wook la Karen, Jaae, Beptomber, tad Xtoember.] Report concerning work undertaken in English collections for the purpose* of the .' Uonumenta Oermaniae:' by K. HAUTE, concluded [on formularies and miscellaneous pieces found with them; an unpublished vision of the Carolingian age (here printed from the

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... ambeth MS. 173); and other notices and extracts. Among these may be mentioned new texts of the letter of Thietmar of Montecassino to Charles the Great (Oriel Coll., Oxf., MS. 42) and of the • Annales Mettenses' (Durham Cath. Libr. MS. c. iv. 15)].-N. Arch. xxii. 3. he inscription of Aberciia: by F. CCUONT [against A. Dieterieh's interpretation].-Rev. Inslr. publ. Belg. xl. 2. A Roman calendar taktn from the ' Fasti' of Ovid [incomplete]: printed by H. OUONT [differing in many points from those printed by R. Merkel].-BibL £oole Chartes, lviii. 1, 2. On the newly published texts concerning Clement of Met*; by C. WBTJUSJ [critical notes].-Hist. Jahrb. xviii. 2. Jordani*: by B. von SIMSOS [who thinks that his mention of his • conversio' (' Get. 1 1. 265-266) does not prove him to have been a monk; it may merely refer to hi* ordination. It is suggested that he was possibly a bishop in western Africa].-N. Arch. xxii. 3. Dynamiut of Marseilles: by M. MAKITICS [who collects notices about Dynamius, mentioned by Gregory of Tours as ' rector Provincial,' and prints the text of his poem, • De Lerine insula laus,' with a new collation].-Mitth. Oesterreich. Oesch. xviii. 2. A list of emperors from Justinian to Leo III: printed from the Berlin MS. Phillipp. 130 by M. MANITIUS.-N. Arch. xxii. 3. Tlie Frankish additions to Isidore's chronicles: by B. KBUSCH [on points of chronology]. Mitth. Oesterreich. Oesch. xviii. 2. On a letter of Hadrian I to tlie abbat of St. Dcnys (Jafle 2491): by K. HAMFE [which supplies the gap in the text (Mubillon • de Re Diplomat.' ii. 492) by the words, ' [quod Petrus archiepiscopus Mediojlanensis,' and examines the circumstances in which the letter was written].-N. Arch. xxii. 8. On a Lorsch calendar [Berlin MS. Phillipp. 131]: by M. MANITIUS [who prints extracts showing it to be transcribed from an Anglo-Saxon calendar, 801-814].-N. Arch, xxii. 3. Notes on Carolingian poets : by P. VON WINTEBFELD. I: The use of Prudentius by Walohfrid and Hrotsvit. II: The Hague fragment describing Charles the Great's Spanish campaign [considered as a prose sketch for a poem]. Ill: Collations and emendations of other pieces.-N. Arch. xxii. 3. Tlie canonical collections attributed to Ivo of Charlres: by P. FOUENIEB. II: The • Decretum' [the manuscripts; the relation of the work to the ' Decretum ' of Burchard of Worms, to the collection which forms parts i. and ii. of the ' Tripartite,' to the ' Collectio Britannica,' to the Penitential ascribed to Fulbert of Cbartrcs, to VOL. XII.-NO. XLVIII. 8 o at New York University on May 31, 2015 http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from NOTICES OF PERIODICALS Oct. the ' Libri de synodalibus csusis' of ReRino, etc. From these sources the author derived nearly three-quarters of his matter; what remains is mainly taken from the forged decretals or consists of excerpts from the fathers. The collection was made c. 1095].-Bibl. tcole Chartes, lviii. 1, 2. Serloof Dayeux and the poems attributed to him: by H. BUIIMER [who accepts six of the poem8 as his compositions, the rest being by a younger Serlo of Wilton, Marbod, Godfrey of Winchester, and others; collects notices of the life of Serlo of Bayeux (c. 1100); and describes his writings, with a description of the difficulty as to his name and numerous emendations of T. Wright's text of his verses].-N. Arch. xxii. 3. An unknown clmrter of Conrad III [1151]: by R. STEDSFKLP [the document confirms the emperor's diploma of 1147 to the bishop of Embrun].-Mitth. Oesterreich. Gesch. xviii. 2. Vacarius's 'Suinma de matrimonio :' edited by F. W. MAITLAND.-Law Quart. Rev. 51. July. Fragment of a Iihcinau necrology [twelfth to fourteenth century]: printed\by W. MEIIZ.-Anz. Schweiz. Gesch. 1897, 4. Tltc Byzantine poem on Alexander and its sources: by H. CnnisTEKSEX SB. Bayer. Akad. (phil.-hist. Cl.) 1807, 1. Documents concerning tlie history of Flanders in the first luilf of the fourteenth century: by H. THIE^NE. I: Inventory of the property left by the Flemings slain at the battle of Cassel [1328]. II: The question of the fortifications after the treaty of Arques. Ill; Flanders and Edward III in 1340.-Bull. Coram. Hist. Belg., 6th ser., vii. 1. Notes on Nicolatts Minorita : by K. EUDEL [on the manuscripts of this writer's contributions to the mendicaut controversy under John XXII, with extracts and collation*].-Hist. Jahrb. xviii. 2. Werner of Liige; by L. SCHUITZ [who accepts him as the author of the lives of the popes from Benedict XII to Urban V attributed to Dietrich of Nieheiin, and shows him to be the same with Werner of Haselbecke, a canon of St. Cassius at Bonn and 'soriptor et secretarius pape,' who died in 1384].-N. Arch. xxii. 3. Documents illustrating the history of Achaia, Cyprus, Athens, and Zenta [1382-1413]: printed by the late comte L. DE MAS LATME.-Bibl. Kcole Chartes, lviii. 1, 2. Life and u-ritings of John of Wesel: by 0. CLEMEN.-D. Zft. Gesch.-wiss. N. F. ii. 2. A papal eyipher of the sixteenth century: by J. §CSTA [from the papers of cardinal Morone, 1563].-Mitth. Oesterreich. Gesch. xviii. 2. The latest discoveries in biblical lands: by P. DELATTBE. -Rev. Quest, hist. lxii. 1. July. Discoveries in Asia Minor.-Quart. Rev. 371. July. Maspav's ' MiUes den peuples.'-Church Qu. Rev. 88. July. On the earliest history of the Greeks: by J. BELCCH. I: Ethnological questions. II: The migrations.-Hist. Zft. lxxix. 2. An estimate of Alexander the Great: by B. KIESE [who agrees with D. O. Hogarth as to the late date of his deification, so that it can form no element in our judgment of his ideal. The writer in the main follows Droysen, as against Grote and Kaerst, in his high estimate of Alexander's political gifts].-Hist. Zft. lxxix. 1. Tlie Roman ' laudationes' and their influence upon the annalists: by W. SOLTAU [showing how the rhetorical tendency (due to Greek influence) of the historical writers of the first century B.C., used by Livy, cav.sed the more trustworthy statements of the older annalists to be forgotten]. -D. Zft. Gesch.-wiss. N. F. ii. 2. 77M economic condition of the Gennans in the time of Caesar [treated in connexion with and criticism of B. Hildebrand's ' Recht und Sitte']: by W. WITTICH and by L. EniunDT Hist. Zft. lxxix. 1 and 2. On Josephus: by G. F. UKOEB. IV: The republic of Jerusalem. V: The lost historical work of Josephus [on Syrian history!.-SB. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. (phil.-hist. Cl.) 1»97, 2. at New York University on May 31, 2015 http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from Recent literature on tlie apostolic age [dealing with F. J. A. Hort, L. Duchesne, and C. WeizBicker]: by E. C. BCTLEII.-Dublin Rev. N.S. 23. July. Principate, comitatus, and nobility in Tacitus's Gcrmania, xiii: by W. SCHCLTZE [who takes ' nobilitas' to be social consideration, not birth, and combats Wiessnev's reassertion of the existence of the private ' comitatus' among the Germans].-D. Zft. Gesch.-wiss. N.F. ii. 1. The holy tee and Pelagianitm: by J. CHAPMAN.-Dublin Rev. N.S. 23. July. (Continued from 21. Jan.) The pseudo-Arvatius: by O. KORTH [who identifies Arvatius with St. Servais, the patron of Maastricht].-Anal. Bolland. xvi. 2. A contemporary native historian of Morocco: by F. CODEKA [giving an account of a Moorish history from the Mussulman invasions to 1893].-Boletin R. Acad. Hist. zzx. 8. Recent researclus in the history of Frankish law: by B. SCBB6DBB. II [chiefly on the relation of royal legislation to the national laws].-Hist. Zft. lxxix. 2. Lea's ' History of Indulgences :' by W. H. KENT.-Dublin Bev. N.S. 23. July. Tanchelm: by C. HUYOHINS [who considers that the sect he initiated, founded on gnostic and Manichean principles and influenced by the growing doctrines of the Cathari, owed its importance to its appeal to the selfish passions of the populace].-Bev. Instr. publ. Belg. xl. 2. Ulrich von Eppenstein, abbat of St. Qall and patriarch of Aqitileia [fiiai]: by P. BOTLEF.-Jahrb. Schweiz. Gesch. xxii. Nicholas Breakspear (Adrian IV) [in connexion with the life by A. H. Tarleton].-Church Qu. Bev. 88. July. St. Dominic and the foundation of the monastery of Prouille: by J. GUIRACD.-Rev. hist. lxiv. 2. July. A thirteenth-century Italian notice of prices at tlie fair of Troyes:. by. A. SCHAUBX.-Zft. Social-WirthschaftBgesch. v. 8. The alliance of Bern with the bishop of Sion [17 July 1352]: by B. HOPPELER.-Jahrb. Schweiz. Gesch. xxii. Philip the Fair and the bull ' Ausculta fili:' by B. HOLTZMANN [who holds that Philip suppressed the bull and published instead the more uncompromising 1 Deum time ' forged by, Pierre Flotte ; the publio burning of the bull (probably the missing original of the 'Ausculta fili') is defended, against Rocquain, ai historical].-D. Zft. Gesch.-wiss. N.F. ii. 1. Marsiglio of Padua and William of Ockham: by J. SULLIVAN. II [maintain! that the former is more important than the latter so far as the relations between pope and emperor are concerned].-Amer. Hist. Rev. ii. 4. Peter Paul Vergerius the elder [1370-c. 1445] [a contribution to the early history of humanism]: by K. A. KOPP.-Hist. Jahrb. xviii. 2. St. Catherine of Genoa [1447-1510].-Church Qu. Bev. 88. July. Martin Luther [on the causes of his separation from the Roman church, the stages in his religious development, and his influence on the history of Germany].-Quart. Bev. 371. July. Calvin's infancy at Noyon [with documents and views]: by N. WEISS.-Bull. Hist. Protest. Franc, xlvi. 7. July. The attitude of Switzerland dining the war of tlie league of Schmalkalden: by K. GEISER, with documents [1546].-Jahrb. Schweiz. Gesch. xxii. Lucero the inquisitor: by R. C. LEA [on fictitious charges made in the early days of the inquisition].-Amer. Hist. Rev. ii. 4. St. Francis de Sales as a preacher; by H. B. MACKEY. I.-Dublin Bev. N.S. 23. July. The courts in the grand-duchy of Lithuania at the close of tlie sixteenth century: by I. LAPPO.-Zhur. Min. Nar. Prosv. June. Venon de Vtlet and la Mdmara : by A. R. VILLA [documents relating to these African garrisons in the reigns of Philip III and Philip IV. These, together with the narrative of the loss of Bugia, previously noticed, are of high interest to the student of Spanish-African history].-Boletin R. Acad. Hist. xxx. C. NOTICES OF PERIODICALS Oct. Louis XIV's attempts to obtain the empire : by H. VAST [who prints the agreements made by the electors of Saxony (1664), Bavaria (1670), and Brandenburg (1679)this last substantially identical with one accepted by the elector of Saxony in the same year-to support the French king's candidature for the empire].-Rev. hist, lxv. 1. Sept. Russia and France in tin first half of the eighteenth century [oh the visit of Peter the Great to Paris and his proposal to marry his daughter Elizabeth to the due de Chart res].-Russk. Starina. Aug. Hamburg and the Ostend company: by E. B.uscn Zft. Social-Wirthschnftsgcsch. v. 3. The controversy on the origin of th; seven years' war; by J. WEISS [who gives a summary of M. Lehmann'u argument].-Hist. Jahrb. xviii. 2. The alliance between Russia and Austria at the time of the seven years' war: by E. STCHEPKIN.-Zhur, Min. Nar. Prosv. Aug. Diderot's political ideas: by H. SUE.-Rev. hist. lxv. 1. Sept. Cliarles Engelbert Oelsner [1764-1828]: by A. STERN. Ill [fragments of his memoirs concerning the history of the French revolution, 1791].-Rev. hist. lxv. I. Sept. The French expedition to Ireland in 179S: by D. SAMPSON.-Dublin Rev. N.8. 123. July. The duke of Richelieu in Russia [his activity in south Russia and the foundation of Odessa]: by P. MAIKOV.-Russk. Starina. July. Alexander I and Napoleon at Erfurt: by V. L.VCHIXOV, iv, v.-Russk. Starina. June, July. The Russian campaign [1812]; from surgeon Socrate Blanc's letters on the road from Paris to Wilna: by A. DE OAMNIERS.-Rev. Quest, hist. lxii. 1. July. Daniel Raymond: by C. P. NEILL [author of ' Thoughts on Political Economy,' 1820, the first.systematic treatise on political economy written by an American. Raymond undertook to refute Adam Smith]. -Johns Hopkins' Univ. Studies in Hist, and Pol. Sci. xv. 6. Joliann Adam Miihlcr and his views on the ecclesiastical system: by A. VON SCBUID.-Hist. Jahrb. xviii. 2. Diplomatic missions to Ote court of China : by W. \V. ROCKILL. The Kotow question. II.-Amer. Hist. Rev. ii. 4. Ethnography and historical science in America : by F. RATZEL.-D. Zft. Gesch.-wiss., N.F., ii. M. B. 3, 4. France Dupuy's work at the Trisor des chartes [from 1615] and the origin of the Supplement [the ' sacs' of Dupuy's classification]: by H. F. DCLABORDE.-Bibl. Ecole Chartes, lviii. 1, 2. , French documents transferrtd to the E>iglish government after the treaty of Britigny : by J. VIABD [who prints a warrant of John the Good tor the handing over of documents concerning certain districts, and a receipt for them ; and suspects that many such documents may be hereafter brought to light in the Public Record Office.-Bibl. Ecole Chartes, lviii. 1, 2. The death and funeral of Philip the Fair, from a report made to the court of Majorca [1314]: printed by C. BAUDON DE MONY.-Bibl. Ecole Chartes, lviii. 1, 2. The French theatre before ConieilU: by M. SEI-ET. -Rev. Quest, hist. lxii. 1. July. Humanism and tlie reformation in Fiance [1512-1552]: by H. HACSER.-Rev. hist lxiv. 2. July. The religious opinions of Margaret of Navarre, studied from her poems : by A. LEFRAXC, continued.-Bull. Hist. Protest. Fran?, xlvi. fi, 8, 'J. June, Aug., Sept. The siege of Chartres by Condt [1568]: by H. LEHR.-Bull. Hist. Protest. Franc, xlvi. 6, 7. June, July. Th: rebellion at Hesdin ; Farguts and tlu first president Lamoignon [1658-1668]: by A. DE BOISLISLK [who examines the particulars of the affair in connexion with a fictitious anecdote told by P. A. de La Place in his ' Pieces intlressantes' published in 1781, and shows that Fargucs was a rebel], I.-Rev. Quest, hist. lxii. 1. July. at New York University on May 31, 2015 http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from 1897 NOTICES OF PERIODICALS 821 The execution of the princeti Lubomirska at Paris in 1794: by F. DOITBROVSKI.-Russk. Starina. Aug. Central Vergis and the last days of Charctte in Venitie [24-20 March 1796]: by A. DE GANMEIIS.-Kev. hist. Ixv. 1. Sept. The rtgicidesof the convention after the revolution: by £. WKLVEBT [who traces their fortunes under the empire and after the restoration down to the amnesty of 1830. He thinks that the votes of the mass of members in favour of Louis XVI's death were dictated by fear, and explains by this motive their subsequent action during the revolution and afterwards. A list is given of sixty-eight, out of a total which ia overestimated at 462, who lived to the age of eighty years and upwards].-Rev. hist. lxiv. 2. July. Napoleon I and the protestant churches of France: by A. LODS.-Bull. Hist. Protest. Franc, xlvi. 8, 9. Aug., Sept. General Trochu [from his posthumous memoirs]: by A. DE GANNIZBS.-Rev. Quest. hist. lxii. 1. July. Germany and Austria-Hungary Abbat Hartwig ofHcrsfeld as an historian: by F. KURZE.-D. Zft. Gesch.-wiss. N.P. ii. 2. The house of Aribo [from the ninth to the twelfth century]: by J. EOOER [who traces the ramifications of the family in south-east Germany, and also its relation to the older counts palatine].-Arch. Oesterreich. Gesch. lxxxiii. 2. The origin of handicrafts in Germany : by G. VON BELOW. II: The historical position of wage-work.-Zft. Social-Wirthschaftsgesch. v. 3. Contributions to the history of the financial administration of Austria in the thirteenth century: by A. DOPSCH (continued from vol. xiv.) II: On the organisation of the revenue system, and the offices of landschreiber and hubneister.-Mitth. OesterreicK Gesch. xviii. 2. Royal elections in Germany from the middle of the thirtet.ith to the middle of the four teenth century: by H. BBEBSLAD [who maintains that the electoral princes copied the procedure of papal elections].-D. Zft. Gesch.-wiss. N.F. ii. 2. The Augsburg Interim: by G. WOLF [with a discussion of the question whether Charles V originally intended it to bind the whole empire or only the protestants].-D. Zft. Gesch.-wiss. N.F. ii. 1. On the origin of the pacification of Bmck [ 15?3]: by J. LOSERTII [who shows that the text of the archduke Charles's engagement to the protestants of Styria wag falsified by the vice-chancellor Wolfgang Schranz, and defends the estates from the charge of complicity with any forgery in this connexion].-Mitth. Oesterreich. Gesch. xviii. 2. The policy of the Palatinate and the Bohemian election of 1619: by M.RITTER.-Hist. Zft. lxxix. 2. The origin and groncth of the Lippowan colonits [sectaries who separated from the Russian church in the seventeenth century] in Bukouina : by R. F. KAINDL [chiefly from materials collected by the late F. A. Wickenhauser. The main settlements began in the lust quarter of the eighteenth century] Arch. Oesterreich. Gesch. lxxxiii. 2. Charles William Ferdinand, duke of Brunstcick [1735-1806].-Edinb. Rev. 881. July. The commons and common fields of England.-Edinb. Rev. 381. July. The battle of Hastings : by J. H. BOUND [in connexion with the monograph of W. Spatz, with whom on some points he agrees, but whom he charges with cices3 of criticism and with a ' tendance a b&tir des theories en dehors des fait-'].-Rev. hist. Ixv. 1. Sept. The Red Book of the Exchequer : by J. H. ROUND [who critioises adversely the genealogical work of the editor].-Genealogist. July-at New York University on May 31, 2015 http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from .822 NOTICES OF PERIODICALS Oct. Wyntoun's ' Original Chronicle:' by \V. A. CUAIOIE [with a discussion of the recensions represented by the leading manuscripts].-Scott. Rev. 59. July. Inventory ami sale of goods at St. Peter's, Cornhill [1546-1552]. I.-Antiquary, N.S. 93.' Sept. Some troubles of tlic Eliiabcthan episcopate: by N. BIRT.-Dublin Kev. N.S. 23. July. Mahan's • Life of Kelson.'-Edinb. Rev. 381. July By W. O'C. Mounts.-Scott. Rev. 59. July. Extracts from unpublished letters of George Canning to John Ilookluim Frere [1801-i8 2 5]._Quart. Rev. 371. July. Modern English local government: by M. R. MALTDY [an examination of the different departments of local government, poor law, education, Ac, with a view to showing the extent to which they are under central control or supervision].-Columbia Univ. Stud, in Hist. Econ. and Pol. Sc. ix. i. The annals of Banff.-Quart. Rev. 371. July. Italy The archives of Macerata: by L. ZDKKAUER [giving a preliminary analysis of their contents. Those relating to the financial administration of the thirteenth century are of interest].-Arch. stor. Ital. 5th ser. xix. 2. The archives of Viterbo to 1495 [with index]: by P. SAVWNONI, concluded.-Arch. R. Soc. Rom. xx. i. 2. The Roman Cainpagna [its topography and history]: by O. TOMASHETTI, continued. -Arch. R. Sec. Rom. xx. i. 2. Presbyter Scholaro of Messina and the clwtcrs of his monastery of San Sahatore (or San Pantalconc); by V. in GIOVANNI [who prints the diplomas of count Roger and of Roger I, the will of Scholaro, Ac, from a Latin version exemplified in 1506]. Arch. stor. Sicil. N.S. xxi. 3, 4. Costume and jewels in use in tin Xeapolitan provinces from the twelfth to the sixteenth century: by R. BEVEBE.-Arch. stor. Napol. xxii. 2. Sicilian nuptial usages in the middle ages: by C. A. QABUFI, with documents [I2OJ-