HISTORICAL NEWS

A General Index to vols. XXI.-XXX. of the Review, similar to the two preceding general indexes, has been prepared for the Board of Editors by Mr. David M. Matteson, largely on the basis of the volume indexes, and is now to be obtained from the publishers, the Macmillan Company (60 Fifth Avenue, New York), at the price of $2.00 for paperbound copies, and $4.00 for copies bound in the regular black half-morocco binding used for the volumes of the Review. It is a book of 183 pages, prepared with much care and intelligence, and must, we should think, be indispensable to many readers. The Macmillan Company also announces, at this time, that the general indexes for volumes I.-X. and XI.-XX. will hereafter be priced at $1.75 paper and $3.75 half-morocco.

The editor of this journal would be glad to know of the existence and location of a copy of the anonymous Mémoires d'un Voyageur qui se Repose (London, 1850).

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

The forty-first annual meeting of the Association will be held in Rochester on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, December 28, 29, and 30. The headquarters will be at the Hotel Seneca. The secretary of the Committee of Local Arrangements is Professor Dexter Perkins, of the University of Rochester. The chairman of the Programme Committee is Professor Laurence B. Packard, of Amherst. Members may expect to receive the programme before Thanksgiving Day. It may however be mentioned now that, beside features of it mentioned in our April number, there will be luncheons of those especially interested in Far Eastern history and that of modern Europe, dinners of those interested in medieval history and in the problems of research in colleges not provided with university libraries, and the usual dinner of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. A session on American history of the early period of the republic is also to be mentioned.

The Writing of History (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. xii, 143), the long-expected report of the Association's committee on that subject, was published in July, too late for notice in our July number. Unfortunately the reviewer has been prevented from preparing the desired review in season for our present issue. The volume is however of so much interest to members of the Association, and may so profitably be called to the attention of graduate students at the beginning of the academic year, that, without anticipating the reviewer's comments, it seems appropriate to enter here at least a brief description of the volume. Each member of the committee, Mr. Jusserand, Dr. Charles W. Colby, Professor W. C. Abbott, and Professor J. S. Bassett, has contributed his chapter ( 181 )

to the volume. The highly important subject which the committee had to consider is treated by each writer with freedom, from his own point of view, this latitude resulting perhaps in some repetition, but giving the book the character of a body of suggestion and discourse rather than of an attempt to make on such a subject a systematic treatise.

Copies of the (English) Historical Association's pamphlet on Foreign Policy and the Dominions, prepared by Professor W. J. Harte, of University College, Exeter, are still available for gratuitous distribution to any members of the American Historical Association who may apply for them to the editor of this journal.

THE ENDOWMENT FUND

The Committee on Endowment announces progress in the organization of state and district committees for the fall canvass and hopes to have this work completed by October 1. The New York City committee expects to complete its campaign in October but in most other districts the general canvass will be made during the week of November 8-13. The Council of the Association has directed that contributors of $1000 to the fund shall be designated as Patrons; of $5000 as Donors; and of $10,000 as Benefactors. One Benefactor and eight Patrons have already been enrolled as a result of advance contributions. The Carnegie Corporation has made a grant to the Association of $25,000, to be used as a revolving publication fund.

PERSONAL

History has had a serious loss in the death this spring of M. Albert Waddington, sixty-five years old, who was the author of two excellent volumes on La République des Provinces-Unies: la France et les Pays-Bas, 1630-1650 (1896-1897), two volumes on Le Grand Electeur FrédéricGuillaume (1905, 1908), and an Histoire de Prusse intended to comprise five volumes, of which only the first has appeared (1911).

Professor Claude H. Van Tyne has accepted an invitation to give next winter the Sir George Watson Lectures on American history in the British universities.

Dr. Clarence W. Alvord, formerly of the University of Minnesota, has been appointed by the University of London as Creighton lecturer for the academic year 1926-1927.

Miss Mary Lillian Stevenson, hitherto of Agnes Scott College and of the Rhode Island College of Education, has been appointed professor of history in the Constantinople Woman's College.

Professor John S. Bassett of Smith College will be in Europe on leave of absence during the coming academic year.

On occasion of the retirement of Professor James A. Woodburn from his long service as professor in Indiana University, his former students

have joined in producing a handsome volume of fifteen Studies in American History (Bloomington, the University, pp. x, 455); they are on various subjects, but nearly half of them are concerned with the history of the Old Northwest.

Prescott W. Townsend, assistant professor of history in the University of Indiana, has received a fellowship from Yale University, which he will use for the purpose of investigating certain problems of Roman history at points in North Africa.

Mr. R. B. House, who for seven years past has been secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission, has resigned that position; he has been succeeded by Mr. Albert R. Newsome, hitherto assistant professor of history in the University of North Carolina.

Professor Guernsey Jones of the University of Nebraska has been granted leave of absence for the first half of the year because of ill health.

Mr. Doane Robinson, veteran secretary of the State Historical Society of South Dakota, has resigned that position and has been succeeded by Lawrence K. Fox.

In the University of Chicago Professor C. Raymond Beazley of the University of Birmingham will give courses in the history of European discovery and expansion during the winter quarter; and Dr. José Vasconcelos, formerly minister of education of Mexico and president of the University of Mexico, courses in the history of Hispanic-American civilization and recent Mexican history during the spring quarter.

We note also the following promotions and appointments to chairs of history: Wheaton College, Clifford C. Hubbard to be professor of history and political science; Yale University, Daniel C. Knowlton, hitherto of Teachers College, to be assistant professor of visual instruction in history; Syracuse University, W. F. Galpin of the University of Oklahoma to be associate professor of history; New York University, André A. Beaumont, jr., to be assistant professor; Princeton University, A. N. Cook to be assistant professor; Rutgers College, M. N. Heald of Princeton to be assistant professor; Pennsylvania State College, W. F. Dunaway to be professor; Rollins College, Fla., Leland H. Jenks to be professor; Louisiana State University, L. C. Mackinney to be associate professor; University of Tennessee, P. M. Hamer to be professor; University of Illinois, T. C. Pease to be professor, F. C. Dietz and A. O. Craven to be associate professors, A. S. Roberts to be assistant professor; Illinois Wesleyan University, K. L. C. Trever to be assistant professor; University of Michigan, A. S. Aiton to be associate professor, Albert Hyma to be assistant professor; University of Wisconsin, E. H. Byrne and Carl Stephenson to be professors, C. P. Nettels and B. W. Phillips to be assistant professors, E. H. McNeal of Ohio State University to be professor of modern history for the year 1926-1927.

GENERAL

The International Committee of Historical Sciences, described in our last number (XXXI. 726-731), has, we understand, sent to the press the first of its series of bulletins, which will present a summary account of the organization of the historical sciences in the various countries, brief accounts of recent national historical congresses or similar gatherings, and other historical news of international interest. Largely as a result of the creation of this International Committee, the historical scholars of France have drawn together in a national organization called the Comité National Français des Sciences Historiques, ingeniously arranged upon a representative plan based on the regions of France, and so contrived as to give about equal weight to the university professors and other teachers of history, and to the French historical societies. Professor Georges Glotz has been made the president of the committee, MM. Chr. Pfister and Paul Fournier, vice-presidents, and M. Michel Lhéritier, secretary. A similar committee has more recently been formed in England by joint action of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, and the Historical Association.

An American proposal for reviving in some form the Jahresberichte der Geschichtswissenschaft was laid before the International Congress of Historical Sciences held at Brussels in the spring of 1923, and referred by it to the international committee for which provision was then made. Later, a grant made by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation to the American Historical Association for this and other purposes has made it possible to make definite plans for such an International Year-Book of Historical Bibliography. The International Committee of Historical Sciences has formed a special sub-committee on the project, including Messrs. Caron and Lhéritier of France, Reincke-Bloch of Germany, Leland of the United States, Temperley of England, Calisse of Italy, Friis of Denmark, and Handelsman of Poland. This committee will hold a meeting in Paris on October 21, for determination of plans and policy and, if possible, the selection of a general editor or editorial board.

Professors James H. Breasted and James Harvey Robinson have collaborated in a survey of The Human Adventure, summarizing man's achievements from the earliest times to the present, and published by Harper, in two volumes, of which the first, The Conquest of Civilization, has been prepared by Professor Breasted, the second, The Ordeal of Civilization, by Professor Robinson.

The Histoire Générale, edited by Louis Halphen and Philippe Sagnac, is to bear the title, Peuples et Civilisations. The first of its twenty volumes is now offered to the public; its theme, Les Premières Civilisations, is handled by G. Fougères, G. Contenau, R. Grousset, P. Jouguet, and J. Lesquier (Paris, Alcan, 1926, pp. viii, 437).

Since January, 1926, there has appeared a Bulletin Bibliographique de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine, published by the Office de

Documentation Internationale and the Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle. Published monthly, it contains a list of new works in all languages, relative to political, economic, and social questions, since 1919, and a list of principal articles on these subjects in some three hundred periodicals. It emphasizes the international organization of intellectual labors.

The Revue de Synthèse Historique, vol. XLI., contains as appendix a "Bulletin du Centre International de Synthèse; Section de Synthèse Historique ", giving a résumé of its proceedings from January to April.

There has been founded in-England a new Economic History Society, with Sir William Ashley as president, Professors W. R. Scott of Glasgow and E. F. Gay of Harvard as vice-presidents, and Drs. Eileen Power and F. W. Tickner as honorary secretaries. Besides caring in various other ways for the interests of economic history, the society intends to publish an Economic History Review, to be edited by Mr. E. Lipson and Mr. R. H. Tawney, with contributions from both English and foreign scholars. Subscriptions to the society may be sent to the honorary treasurer, Mr. J. A. White, 43 Dora Road, London, S. W. 19.

A. A. Knopf has just published Public Opinion and the Teaching of History, by Miss Bessie L. Pierce, assistant professor of history in the University of Iowa, an historical account and discussion of some of the attempts that have been made to control the teaching of history in our public schools.

In the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (Manchester), for July, Professor R. S. Conway, under the title A Graeco-Roman Tragedy, deals with Livy's account of the reign and death of Philip V. of Macedon; Dr. J. Rendel Harris has an ingenious paper on the Early Colonists of the Mediterranean-Egyptian, Arabian, and other; Professor C. H. Herford one on the Mind of Post-War Germany, a paper marked by insight and excellent feeling; and Dr. Antonio Mingana adds to his paper on the Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East, published in the Bulletin a year ago, a similarly learned and thorough study of the Early Spread of Christianity in India.

The July number of History has articles on the Geographical History of the Cinque Ports, by Dr. J. A. Williamson; on the Political Assumptions of some Medieval Men of Action (chiefly King Sverri of Norway), by E. F. Jacob, and on the Teaching and Practice of Handwriting in England (to be continued), by Mr. Hilary Jenkinson.

The Catholic Historical Review for April, besides presenting an account of the sixth annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, has a very substantial article on Echoes of Gallicanism in New France, by Sister M. Theodosia O'Callaghan of the Catholic Sisters' College in Brookland, D. C., and an article on Cardinal Mercier, by Mgr. W. P. H. Kitchin of Newfoundland; the July number has a