Asiatique in La Fin du Moyen Empire Egyptien: Étude sur les Monuments et l'Histoire de la Période comprise entre la XIIe et la XVIII® Dynastie (vol. I., Paris, Picard, 1918, pp. xii, 519). He has made a thorough critical study of the Greek tradition, especially as represented by the reporters of Manetho, and has then turned from that to reconstruct the history of the period from the monuments, many of which have come to light in recent years. He presents strong arguments for the short chronology and for the existence of Theban dynasties synchronous with the Hyksos in Lower Egypt.

M. Félix Sartiaux, in a pamphlet of 56 pages, L'Archéologie Française en Asie Mineure et l'Expansion Allemande (Paris, Hachette), gives a brief history of the scientific work of France in Asia Minor since the sixteenth century, shows how in the years preceding the war German aggressiveness had interrupted and hindered the work of other nations (for instance, the author's own labors at Phocaea), depicts the recent miseries of the expelled Phocaeans, for whose benefit the pamphlet is sold, and appeals to the society of nations on their behalf.

L. Pareti in the first volume of his Storia di Sparta Arcaica (Florence, Libr. Internazionale, 1917, pp. 276) discusses the pre-Greek and pre-Dorian periods and continues to the conquest of Messenia, with an appendix on Cyrene. A second volume will deal with the Spartan constitution and government.

Sycophancy in Athens, by Dr. John O. Lofberg of the University of Texas (University of Chicago, pp. xi, 104), is a thorough treatise on the development of the sycophant-barrator, informer, false accuser, malicious prosecutor, pettifogger-on the opportunities for his activity afforded by the peculiar judicial system of Athens, on his methods as shown by the orators and other writers, and on the careers of a number of typical Athenian sycophants.

Professor E. Païs has continued his history of Rome in two volumes, Dalle Guerre Puniche a Cesare Augusto (Rome, Nardecchia, 1918, pp. xii, 762). In large measure the same period furnishes the subjects for consideration by E. Ciaceri in Processi Politici e Relazioni Internazionali: Studi sulla Storia Politica e sulla Tradizione Letteraria della Repubblica e dell'Impero Romano (ibid., pp. xi, 434).

As a condensed picture for more or less popular purposes Mrs. Elizabeth O'Neill's Rome: a History of the City from the Earliest Time (London, Jack), is an excellent piece of work. The volume belongs to the series The Nations' Histories.

E. Cocchia has made a prolonged study of Il Tribunato della Plebe, la sua Autorità Giudiziaria studiata in rapporto colla Procedura Civile (Naples, Pierro, 1917, pp. 563).

The Oxford University Press announces The Life and Reign of the Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus, by Maurice Platnauer.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: L. Pareti, Pelasgica [concl.] (Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, July); L. Weniger, Vom Ursprung der Olympischen Spiele (Rheinisches Museum, LXXII. 1); J. Paris, Contributions à l'Étude des Ports Antiques du Monde Grec, II. Les Établissements Maritimes de Délos (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, XL. 1); P. Cloché, Les Naopes de Delphes et la Politique Hellénique de 356 à 327 av. J. C. (ibid.); M. O. P. Caspari, A Survey of Greek Federal Coinage (Journal of Hellenic Studies, XXXVII. 1); U. Kahrstedt, Zwei Beiträge zur Aelteren Römischen Geschichte (Rheinisches Museum, LXXII. 2); C. Jullian, L'Impérialisme Romain et la Gaule (Revue Hebdomadaire, October 19); W. Soltau, Die Echten Kaiserbiographien: Der Weg zur Lösung des Problems der Scriptores Historiae Augustae (Philologus, LXXIV. 3).

EARLY CHURCH HISTORY

In 1913 the work of editing a series entitled The Beginnings of Christianity was given to Professors F. J. Foakes Jackson and Kirsopp Lake. The Macmillan Company expects to issue the first two volumes, dealing with the Background of the Acts of the Apostles, and the third volume, containing the text of the Acts, this spring. These volumes, while largely the work of the editors, contain contributions from Dr. C. J. G. Montefiore, and Professors H. T. Duckworth and C. H. Moore.

An exceedingly useful reference book is completed by the appearance of volume II. of the Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, prepared by Drs. James Hastings, J. A. Selbie, and J. C. Lambert (London, T. and T. Clark).

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

An account of Le Incursioni Vandaliche in Sicilia (Girgenti, Montes, 1917, pp. 142) is the fruit of the researches of S. La Rocca.

A collection of studies of Benedictine life, Benedictine Monachism, by Abbot E. C. Butler, president of the English Benedictines, comes from the press of Messrs. Longmans.

La Vie Religieuse dans l'Empire Byzantin au Temps des Comnènes et des Anges (Paris, Leroux, 1918, pp. iii, 244), by Dr. L. Oeconomos, bears the approving stamp of a preface by Professor C. Diehl.

The first volume of an Histoire des Normands (Paris, Fasquelle, 1918, pp. x, 611) has been published by J. Revel.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: A. K. Porter, The Rise of Romanesque Sculpture (American Journal of Archaeology, OctoberDecember); Maurice de Wulf, The Society of Nations in the Thirteenth Century (International Journal of Ethics, January).

MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

The proposed undertaking of a Bibliothèque de Synthèse Historique in a hundred volumes which was announced on the eye of the war (A. H. R., XX. 218) is to be resumed under the direction of M. Henri Berr, who has published, as a sort of prolegomenon, La Guerre Allemande et la Paix Française; Le Germanisme contre l'Esprit Français; Essai de Psychologie Historique (Paris, Renaissance du Livre, 1919).

C. Giachetti has written an account of the history of Trent under Austrian rule with the title La Vigilia di Trento, l'Ultimo Periodo della Dominazione Austriaca nel Trentino (Milan, Treves, 1917, pp. 276).

A study of Napoleon's continental system, its theory and its actual effects on the peoples concerned, is presented by Mr. Eli F. Herkscher in Kontinental-Systemet (Skrifter utgifna af Handelshögskolan, III., Stockholm, Norstedt).

Under the supervision of Dr. G. W. Prothero, the Historical Section of the Foreign Office is issuing a series of handbooks on subjects considered of special interest during the peace negotiations. One of these, Professor C. K. Webster's The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815, has recently been published by the Oxford University Press.

The European Commonwealth: Problems Historical and Diplomatic, by J. A. R. Marriott (Oxford, Clarendon Press), is a collection of essays, which together constitute a study of the evolution of the modern state. The period is that between the Napoleonic Wars and the present war.

L. de Lanzac de Laborie has edited an interesting volume of Correspondances du Siècle Dernier: un Projet de Mariage du Duc d'Orléans, 1836, Lettres de Léopold Ier de Belgique à Adolphe Thiers, 1836–1864 (Paris, Beauchesne, 1918).

It is understood that Professor C. D. Hazen will bring out shortly, through Henry Holt and Company, a volume entitled Fifty Years of Europe (1868-1918).

From the Teachers' College Press, Sydney, N. S. W., comes a small volume on the causes of the Great War, European History since 1870, by C. H. Currey. The titles and the arrangement of the chapters show plainly that affairs of eastern Europe have been given the predominant place and that every effort has been made to follow the last forty years of Balkan politics. The book is intended as a text-book.

The diplomatic relations between Germany and France from 1870 to the outbreak of the Great War have received a fresh contribution in M. Ernest Daudet's La Mission du Comte de Saint-Vallier (Plon). The Comte de Saint-Vallier represented France at the Berlin court from December, 1877, to December, 1881, a period in which Bismarck was in singularly conciliatory mood toward France. M. Daudet promises to follow this by a volume on Saint-Vallier's successor Baron de Courcel.

The Game of Diplomacy, "by a European Diplomat" (London, Hutchinson), is the work of a member of the Russian diplomatic service since 1883, who has served in Greece, France, Spain, and Germany.

Grotius: Annuaire International pour l'Année 1917 (the Hague, Nijhoff) contains a number of important articles on recent international relations. Among these are Dr. J. H. W. Verzijl's La Jurisprudence des Prises et le Droit des Gens, and Professor G. W. J. Bruins's Les Mesures relatives à la Crise Économique aux Pays-Bas, which deals. in detail with measures of the Dutch government in the first months of the war. The volume also contains the text of various prize-court decisions in Germany, England, and France.

Some side-currents of the great movements of European affairs in recent years are subject of record or discussion in Il y a toujours des Pyrénées (Paris, Payot, 1918) by J. Laborde; and in Les Pays Méditerranéens et la Guerre (Paris, Renaissance du Livre, 1918), by Louis Bertrand. Both volumes give considerable attention to Spain and its relations.

The second Balkan war and the preliminaries of the Great War furnish the subjects for the fifth and sixth volumes of A. Gauvain's L'Europe au Jour le Jour (Paris, Bossard, 1918-1919). This work is probably the most exhaustive single study of international relations antecedent to the Great War which is at present available. To the same field belongs La Triple Entente et la Guerre (Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1918, pp. ix, 362), by A. Gérard.

Messrs. Longmans have recently announced The History of Zionism in England and France by M. Nahum Sokolov, with an introduction by Mr. Balfour.

While there are chapters on the present economic problems of the islands of the Pacific in Mr. G. H. Schofield's The Powers in the Pacific (John Murray), its chief interest lies in its story of the historical relations of Europe and America to these islands.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: M. Lange, Villars en Flandre, 1709-1712 (Revue de Paris, September 1); E. Gachot, Les Lignes de Torrès Védras (Revue des Études Napoléoniennes, November); E. Lenient, Waterloo (Annales Révolutionnaires, October); G. P. Gooch, Germany's Debt to France (Quarterly Review, January); anon., La Politique de Benoît XV. (Revue de Paris, October 15, November 1).

THE GREAT WAR

C. Escalle has prepared an Essai de Bibliographie Méthodique de la Guerre de 1914: Généralités, Mémoires, Correspondances, Biographies, Origines de la Guerre (Dijon, Berthier, 1918, pp. viii, 191). The second part of Jean Vic's La Littérature de Guerre: Manuel Méthodique et Critique des Publications de Langue Française, Août 1914-Août 1916

(Paris, Payot, 1918), previously mentioned (A. H. R., XXIII. 236), has appeared, completing the work as originally announced.

The publication Guerre de 1914: Documents Officiels, Textes Législatifs et Réglementaires (Paris, Dalloz, 1914-1918) is now complete to the close of the war, in twenty-four volumes and supplement.

Professors Morris E. Speare and Walter B. Norris of the United States Naval Academy have compiled and edited a volume of readings in contemporary history and literature bearing the title World War Issues and Ideals (Ginn and Company, 1918, pp. xi, 461). The collection was prepared especially for use in the War Issues Course of the curriculum laid down for the S. A. T. C., but will be found equally useful in the courses in contemporary history and world issues which are being conducted in most colleges and universities. The readings, which number about fifty, are composed of extracts from speeches and writings of recent or contemporary statesmen, soldiers, scholars, or men of affairs, such as President Wilson, Elihu Root, General Malleterre, Maurice Barrès, Frederick J. Turner, Archibald C. Coolidge, A. Lawrence Lowell, Bainbridge Colby, etc. They are arranged in seven groups: I. The Issues of the World War; II. The Atmosphere of the World War; III. The Spirit of the Warring Nations; IV. Democratic and Autocratic Ideals of Government; V. The New Europe and a Lasting Peace; VI. Features of American Life and Character; VII. American Foreign Policy.

A suggestive experiment in carrying out the plans of the government for the Students' Army Training Corps is presented in the Outline of a Course on the Issues of the War, as conducted at Dartmouth College, prepared by Professors H. D. Foster, F. H. Dixon, and J. P. Richardson. The Dartmouth method of conducting the course was to study two contrasting types of nations, comparing them at a variety of points. For the work of the first term, the only one actually given, Germany and England were used as the typical states.

A History of the World War, by F. A. March and R. J. Beamish, for which Gen. Peyton C. March writes an introduction, has come from the press (Philadelphia, Winston). The volume is illustrated with reproductions from the official photographs of the United States, British, and French governments.

Charles Benoist has reprinted a second volume of his fortnightly political surveys from the Revue des Deux Mondes in L'Europe en Feu, Chroniques de la Grande Guerre (Paris, Perrin, 1918) covering the latter half of 1916. General Malleterre has issued the fourth volume of his Études et Impressions de Guerre (Paris, Tallandier, 1918) dealing with the fourth year of the war. J. Reinach's Les Commentaires de Polybe (Paris, Fasquelle, 1918) has reached its fifteenth volume. DixHuit Mois de Guerre, Juillet 1916 à Décembre 1917 (Paris, Hachette,