NOTES AND NEWS

The death of Mr. Howard M. Jenkins occurred October 11, from an accident at Buck Hill Falls, Pocono Mountains, in eastern Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1862 Mr. Jenkins was successively editor of the Norristown Republican, Wilmington Daily Commercial, The American and The Manufacturer of Philadelphia, and The Friends' Intelligencer and Journal. He was also the author of several historical works: Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Mr. Jenkins was born in Gwynedd in 1842), The Family of William Penn, the first volume of A Memorial History of Philadelphia, A Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Samuel Spencer, and a number of magazine articles of an historical nature.

Sir John George Bourinot, K. C. M. G., clerk of the Canadian House of Commons and a well-known writer on Canadian history and law, died at Ottawa, October 13, 1902, in his sixty-fifth year. His most important books were Canada (Stories of the Nations); How Canada is Governed; Parliamentary Procedure and Government in Canada; Cape Breton and its Memorials of the French Régime; Builders of Nova Scotia; A Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada; Canada under British Rule. He was for some time president and afterwards honorable secretary of the Royal Society of Canada, and was identified with the polit ical and intellectual life of the Dominion for the past forty years.

Canon George Rawlinson, sometime Camden professor of ancient history at Oxford and author of many books, died October 6, at almost ninety years. His historical writing was done largely in the time when scholars in his field were not expected to know the hieroglyphic and cuneiform literatures, but it appears that the Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, the volumes on Parthia and Sassanian Persia, and the translation of Herodotus, though all published in the sixties and seventies, may still be used with profit.

Historical students have several reasons to remember M. Gaston du Fresne, Marquis of Beaucourt, who died on August 12. His Histoire de Charles VII, in six volumes, to which he devoted some twenty years, now stands as a durable and in large part definitive work. He founded, in 1866, the Revue des Questions Historiques and was still conducting it at the time of his death. Also, among other things, he founded, in 1868, the Société Bibliographique and was the directing spirit of its various activities, notably the publication of the Polybiblion and of M. Chevalier's Répertoire des Sources Historiques du Moyen Âge. In the [The department of Notes and News is under the management of Earle W. Dow.]

October number of the Revue he directed there is a brief account of his work and his practical aims, by M. E. G. Ledos.

M. René de Maulde, whose death occurred recently, was one of the most productive historical writers in France. Born in 1848, he published his first scientific work in 1868, at the age of twenty, soon followed it up with several considerable studies relating to Orléanais and Avignon in the Middle Ages, and then, with astonishing rapidity, brought out numerous books bearing upon the history of France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among these last were three volumes of an Histoire de Louis XII, and three volumes on La Diplomatie au Temps de Machiavel.

Students of the Renaissance will be among those to regret keenly the death of M. Eugène Müntz. His Vie de Raphaël, by which he first became widely known, was followed up by many important books, especially L'Histoire de l'Art pendant la Renaissance, Les Précurseurs de la Renaissance, Léonard da Vinci, and Pétrarque.

From Germany and Austria comes report of the death of Professor Ernest Dümmler, of the University of Berlin, author especially of a Geschichte des Ostfränkischen Reiches, and at the head, since 1888, of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica; Dr. Konrad Maurer, professor at the University of Munich since 1849 and author of many works relating to Scandinavian countries, especially Iceland; Dr. Julius Ficker, of Innsbruck, professor, and eminent student of the history of law in Italy and Germany; and Dr. Ferdinand Kaltenbrunner, professor of the auxiliary sciences of history at Innsbruck and writer especially in the field of diplomatics.

Dr. Hannis Taylor has been appointed professor of constitutional history and common law of England, and of international private law, at the Columbian University in Washington.

Among other recent appointments are those of Dr. J. W. Garner and Mr. W. L. Fleming as lecturers in history at Columbia University; Dr. H. E. Bolton, formerly of the State Normal School, Milwaukee, as instructor in history at the University of Texas; Mr. F. A. Ogg, instructor in history at the University of Indiana; and Mr. H. E. Wells, professor of history and political science in the Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Part XXIX. of the Historical Atlas of Modern Europe contains "Europe at the Time of the Third Crusade," by the editor, Dr. Poole; "Germany, 1815-1897," by C. Grant Robertson; and "Scandinavia in the Thirteenth Century," by W. A. Craigie. Part XXX. has "Germany, 1648-1795," by Mr. Robertson; "India in 1792 and 1845," by Professor Oman; and "South Africa Previous to the Suppression of the Boer Republics," by C. G. Robinson. With these two parts this atlas is completed, and the thirty parts may now be bought either separately or bound together in one volume. The price, in the latter case, has been fixed at thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents.

There is a noteworthy article in The Geographical Journal for September by Professor W. M. Ramsay, on "The Geographical Conditions Determining History and Religion in Asia Minor."

A late number of the Bibliothèque de Bibliographies Critiques is devoted to Taine: "Bibliographie Critique de Taine," by Victor Giraud (Paris, Picard, 1902, pp. 83).

The house of F. Alcan, Paris, will publish L'Idée d'Évolution dans la Nature et l'Histoire, by G. Richard. A part of this work forms the leading article of the August number of the Revue de Synthèse Historique: "La Notion de l'Arrêt de Développement en Psychologie Sociale."

A Literary History of Persia, by Edward G. Brown, aims to be not so much an account of Persian literature in the narrower sense as a history of Persian thought and the part played by Persians in the sphere of religious, philosophical, and scientific speculation. The first volume comes down to 1000 A.D. (Scribner).

ANCIENT HISTORY.

In their "Historical Series for Bible Students," Messrs. Scribner have published lately A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians, by G. S. Goodspeed. Attention may be called also to another recent volume in a similar series, the "Bible Student's Library": Samuel and his Age : a Study in the Constitutional History of Israel (New York, E. and J. B. Young and Co.).

Dr. G. W. Botsford has written a text-book of ancient history, An Ancient History for Beginners, upon the lines recommended by the Committee of Seven (Macmillan).

M. P. Allard's Julien l'Apostat has been completed by the publication of volumes two and three, which deal especially with Julian's paganism, the Christians, and the Persian War (Paris, V. Lecoffre).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: A. M. Stevens, Prevalent Illusions on Roman History (Contemporary Review, August); Eugène de Faye, Introduction à l'Étude du Gnosticisme au II et au III Siècle (Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, beginning with May).

MEDIEVAL HISTORY.

The Papal Monarchy: From Gregory the Great to Boniface VIII. (590-1303), by William Barry, is the latest addition to the "Stories of the Nations" (Putnam).

The English Historical Review for October contains an account, by Professor A. G. Little, of publications in recent years on St. Francis and the early history of the Franciscan movement: "The Sources of the History of St. Francis of Assisi." In this connection it may be noted that the Fischbacher house (Paris) has lately published as the fourth fascicle of "Opuscules de Critique Historique" the first part of Les Règles et le Gouvernement de l'Ordo de Pænitentia au XIII Siècle, by Father P. Mandonnet.

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The Dent-Macmillan series on towns of the Middle Ages has led up "Larger Medieval Town Series.” This will contain new works and also notable volumes of the smaller series, the printing will be on larger paper, and the illustrations promise to be more adequate than was formerly possible. The series is opened by Mr. Gardner's Florence. Attention may also be directed here to a new work on Siena: Siena, her History and Art, by R. L. Douglas (London, Murray).

The appearance of the third part of Dr. W. A. Copinger's Supplement to Hain's Repertorium Bibliographicum completes one of the most important bibliographical publications of recent years. The original work included descriptions or mentions of 16,311 works; Dr. Copinger has made approximately 7,000 corrections of or additions to the entries in Hain, and besides has given information on some 6,000 volumes printed in the fifteenth century to which Hain did not refer at all. The third part is devoted largely to an "Index to the Printers and Publishers of the Fifteenth Century, with Lists of their Works," compiled by K. Burger, of Leipzig (London, Sotheran).

A collection entitled "Philosophes du Moyen Âge. Textes et Études" has been inaugurated by M. de Wulf, of Louvain, for the purpose of setting forth some of the foundations of his recently published history of medieval philosophy. The first fascicle contains the text of De Unitate Formae, by Giles of Lessines, composed in 1278 (Paris, Picard).

The August number of the Revue de Synthèse Historique contains an account of the work done, mainly in the last thirty years, on the history of medieval philosophy: "La Philosophie Médiévale Latine jusqu'au XIVe Siècle," by H. Delacroix.

Two text-books of medieval history have appeared recently; The Middle Ages, being Part I. of An Introduction to the History of Western Europe, by James Harvey Robinson (Ginn); and A History of the Middle Ages, by Dana C. Munro (Appleton).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: P. de Puniet, La Liturgie Baptismale en Gaule avant Charlemagne (Revue des Questions Historiques, October); A. Werminghoff, Die Fürstenspiegel der Karolingerzeit (Hisforische Vierteljahrschrift, LXXXIX., 2); E. Blochet, Les Relations Diplomatiques des Hohenstaufen avec les Sultans d'Égypte (Revue Historique, September); H. Werner, Ueber den Verfasser und den Geist der sog. Reformation des Kaisers Sigmund (Historische Vierteljahrschrift, October).

MODERN HISTORY.

A volume of the shorter writings of the late Bishop Creighton has been edited by Mrs. Creighton: Historical Essays and Reviews. Its historical contents relate mainly to the period of the Renaissance (Macmillan).

The thirteenth volume of the Recueil des Traités et Conventions Con

clus par la Russie avec les Puissances Étrangères, by Professor F. de

Martens, is devoted to the treaties with France from 1717 to 1807; the next volume will contain the treaties from 1808 to the present time. An introduction in volume thirteen traces the history of diplomatic relations between France and Russia to 1717, when the first treaty of alliance was concluded.

Mention may be made of some new books bearing upon the military side of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods: Napoleon as a General, 2 vols., by Count Yorck von Wartenburg (Scribner); Campagne de 1809 en Allemagne et en Autriche, Vol. III., by Lieutenant-Colonel Saski (Paris, Berger-Levrault); L'Expédition d'Égypte (1798–1801), Vol. III., by C. de la Jonquière (Paris, Charles-Lavauzelle); and Mémoires du Colonel Delagrave, edited by E. Cachot, which aims to be a complete story of the campaign in Portugal, from April, 1810, to May, 1811 (Paris, Delagrave).

Letters of Dorothea, Princess Lieven, during her Residence in London, 1812-1834, edited by Lionel G. Robinson, consists of letters of Madame de Lieven to her brother during the twenty-two years' residence of her husband as Russian ambassador to England. They throw light upon the political affairs as well of the continent as of England.

Mr. Alleyne Ireland has brought together a few chapters on the history of Chinese intercourse with western nations, in a volume entitled China and the Western Powers (Boston, Laureus Maynard).

Recent biographical literature includes notably: Life and Letters of H. Taine (1828-1852), translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire (Dutton); Personal Reminiscences of Bismarck, by Sidney Whitman (Appleton); and the Memoirs of Paul Kruger, Told by Himself, published in America by the Century Company.

Among the noteworthy recent books upon contemporary history are : From the Fleet in the Fifties: a History of the Crimean War, by Mrs. Tom Kelley, with which is incorporated letters written in 1854-1856 by the Rev. S. K. Strothert, chaplain to the Naval Brigade (London, Hurst and Blackett); Despatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, selected and arranged by W. Wood (London, Richards); and Recollections of a Diplomatist, 2 vols., by Sir H. Rumbold (London, Arnold).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: K. Lamprecht, Aus den Zeiten holländischer Grösse und ihres Verfalles (Neue Jahrbücher für . . Geschichte und deutsche Litteratur, August); B. B. Warfield, The Printing of the Westminster Confession, appendixes (Presbyterian and Reformed Review, October); G. Roloff, Zur Napoleonischen Politik von 1803-1805 (Historische Vierteljahrschrift, October); Otto Harnack, Die Ursachen der Niederlage Napoleons I. im Herbste 1813 (Historische Zeitschrift, LXXXIX., ., 3; A. Vaschalde, The Monks of Rabban Hormisd (Catholic University Bulletin, October).

GREAT BRITAIN.

A royal charter was issued on August 8, incorporating "the British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical, and Philological