The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society will be held on November 23 and 24 at Newark, N. J.

The Study of War for Statesmen and Citizens, edited by MajorGeneral Sir George Aston, embodies lectures delivered in the University of London, 1925-1926. There is an introductory address by Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Longmans).

The Evolution of War: a Marxian Study, by Emanuel Kanter, is published in Chicago by Charles H. Kerr and Company.

Social Factors in Medical Progress, by Bernhard J. Stern, is no. 287 of the Columbia University Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law.

In a pamphlet printed in Russian, but with an English summary, Phizitcheskie Phaktori Istoritcheskogo Prochessa, "Physical Factors of the Historical Process" (pp. 72), A. Tchijevsky of Kaluga puts forth a sketch and theory of the influence of cosmic factors upon the behavior of organized human masses and the general historical process.

The History of the Feminine Costume of the World, in two volumes, by Paul Louis De Giafferi, is published by Foreign Publications, Inc., 47 West 47th Street, New York.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has written The History of Spiritualism, in two volumes (New York, Doran).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: H. E. Barnes, The Essentials of the New History (Historical Outlook, May); Col. J. F. C. Fuller, The Influence of Armour from Alexander to Joan of Arc (Army Quarterly, April); W. G. Perrin, The Prime Meridian (Mariner's Mirror, April).

ANCIENT HISTORY

General review: Paul Cloché, Histoire Grecque [ancient] 1922-1925 (Revue Historique, January).

In L'Art et la Religion des Hommes Fossiles, by G. H. Luquet (Paris, Masson, 1926, pp. 231), the reader will find both a description and a theory of the origins of primitive art.

Materials for scholarship are furnished by Paul Collart's publication of Les Papyrus Bouriant, 63 Greek papyri from Egypt, belonging to the collection of the University of Paris, 58 being unpublished (Paris, Champion, 1927, pp. 250).

Dr. G. Contenau, who since 1914 has been general director of all French excavations in Syria, sums up in a manual entitled La Civilisation Phénicienne (Paris, Payot), in masterly fashion, clearly and concisely, and with many illustrations, what is now known of Phoenician art, religion, agriculture, navigation, commerce, writing, and exterior relations.

The Gifford Lectures delivered by Sir William Ramsay in 1915-1916, modified somewhat by years of further study, are now published under the title Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization (London, Murray).

The lectures of Professor John L. Myres, delivered on the Bennett Foundation at Wesleyan University, 1925-1926, have been published by the Abingdon Press with the title The Political Ideas of the Greeks, with special reference to Early Notions about Law, Authority, and Natural Order in relation to Human Ordinance.

The Loeb Classical Library (Putnam) has finished its issue of Polybius by the issue of the sixth volume, and has brought out four volumes (of eight) of Strabo, the fourth (of thirteen) of Livy, the first (of eight) of Josephus, and the first (of two) of Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, translated by Professor Kirsopp Lake of Harvard.

Professor Luigi Pareti of Florence, after long researches, intends to put forth in several volumes a work dealing with the whole cycle of Etruscan civilization from prehistoric times down to the decadence of Etruscan power. The first volume, lately published, is on Le Origini Etrusche (Florence, Bemporad).

Professor Tenney Frank has brought out, through the Johns Hopkins Press, a new and enlarged edition of his Economic History of Rome (Am. Hist. Rev., XXVI. 309), which includes the history of the Empire through the fourth century A. D. The additional 209 pages (chapters IX., X., XVIII.-XXII.) deal with the history of the provinces and its effect on Rome, rather than with the city of Rome to which the sixteen chapters of the first edition were devoted. There are a few additions to the original chapters, the longest being three pages on the racial inheritance of the Latins, inserted in chapter I. Chapter XVI. of the 1920 edition, on the Exhaustion of the Soil, has been omitted.

V. Chapot, professor in the École des Beaux-Arts, has written for Henri Berr's Bibliothèque de Synthèse Historique, a survey of Le Monde Romain, covering all the countries on the Mediterranean littoral, besides central and eastern Europe (Paris, Renaissance du Livre, 1927, pp. 503).

In a thoughtful and discriminating dissertation, A Study of the Causes of Rome's Wars from 343 to 265 B. C. (Princeton, pp. 69), Dr. J. W. Spaeth, jr., now assistant professor in Brown University, examines the fundamental causes (almost always political) and the more immediate occasions of the wars preceding the complete subjection of Italy south of the Apennines--the wars against the Samnites, the Latins, the Etruscans, the Gauls, and Tarentum.

Gabriel Lepointe proposes to consider in two volumes the life of Quintus Mucius Scaevola, consul in 95 B. C., proconsul in Asia and author of a great treatise in eighteen books on the civil law. The first volume (Paris, Tenin, 1926, pp. 134) discusses his career and his theories of pontifical law; the second will deal with his conception of the civil law.

The Princeton University Press has brought out Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire, by the late Professor F. F. Abbott and M. A. C. Johnson.

Beiheft XIX. of Klio consists in a facsimile reproduction of the Monumentum Antiochenum; die Neugefundene Aufzeichnung der Res Gestae Divi Augusti in Pisidischen Antiochia, accompanied by a critical commentary by Professors William M. Ramsay of Edinburgh and Anton von Premerstein of Marburg (Leipzig, Dieterich, 1927, pp. 121, 15 tab ). An English edition was published last year by Professor D. M. Robinson of the Johns Hopkins University (American Journal of Philology, XLVII. 1).

A quarter of a century after completion of his definitive edition of Dio Cassius, Boissevain offers as vol. IV., an Index Historicus to that historian's works, prepared with great exactness by Heinrich Smilda (Weidmann, Berlin, 1926, pp. 706).

Hitherto, the religion of the Roman hearth before the imperial period has been inadequately known. The Delos discoveries make it possible to go back a full century toward the origin of beliefs, later profoundly changed. They are described by Marcel Bulard in La Religion Domestique dans la Colonie Italienne de Délos d'après les Peintures Murales et les Autels, fasc. 131 of the Bibliothèque des Ecoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome (Paris, Boccard, 1927, pp. viii, 548).

Based on the rich store of inscriptions brought by E. Glaser from inner Arabia in the latter part of the last century, Dr. Ditlef Nielsen of Copenhagen is projecting a three-volume Handbuch der Altarabischen Altertumskunde. Vol. I., Der Altarabische Kultur, has now appeared, containing articles on the history, life, archaeology, and religion of southern Arabia by Professors Fr. Hommel of Munich, N. Rhodokanakis of Graz, Adolf Grohmann of Prague, and Dr. Nielsen respectively (Copenhagen, Busck; Paris, Geuthner; Leipzig, Harrassowitz, 1927, pp. viii, 272).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: W. C. MacLeod, Trade Restrictions in Early Society (American Anthropologist, April-June); G. Vinaccia, Alcune Considerazioni sull' Arte Paleolitica Europea (Nuova Antologia, April 1); D. M. Robinson, The Discovery of a Prehistoric Site at Sizma [Asia Minor] (American Journal of Archaeology, second ser., XXXI. 1); Kurt Sethe, Die Jahresrechnung unter Ramses II. und der Namenswechsel dieses Königs (Zeitschrift für Aegyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, LXII. 2); Theodor Dombart, Der Stand des Babelturmproblems (Klio, XXI. 2); Luigi Pareti, Nuovi Orientamenti circa l'Importanza Storica e la Missione Culturale degli Etruschi (Nuova Antologia, February 16); Ettore Païs, Lo Svolgersi della Costituzione e delle Attività Politiche a Cartagine ed in Roma (ibid., March 1); Walter Judeich, Cannae (Historische Zeitschrift, CXXXVI. 1); James Wall, The Mystery Religions (Quarterly Review, April); M. Ites, Zur Bewertung des Agathias (Byzantinische Zeitschrift, XXVI. 3-4).

EARLY CHURCH HISTORY

Professor George F. Moore of the Harvard Divinity School has summarized the results of thirty years' study in a work entitled, Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era: the Age of the Tannaim, to be published in two volumes by the Harvard University Press.

The announcements of the S. P. C. K. include another edition of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, translated with introduction and notes by Dean H. J. Lawlor and J. E. L. Oulton.

The late Monseigneur Louis Duchesne left at his death, nearly completed, the manuscript of an important volume on L'Église au VIe Siècle (Paris, Fontemoing, pp. viii, 668), edited for publication by Dom H. Quentin, which forms in a way a fourth or additional volume to the author's celebrated Histoire Ancienne de l'Église.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: Maximin Deloche, Le Christianisme en Poitou au IIe Siècle (Revue des Questions Historiques, April); Paul Monceaux, Paul de Samosate (Journal des Savants, February); E. Tobac, L'Edition Critique de la Vulgate (Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, April); H. Delehaye, Hagiographie et Archéologie Romaines, I. (Analecta Bollandiana, XLIV. 3-4).

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Speculum for April has an important historical article by Professor Lynn Thorndike on the Survival of Medieval Intellectual Interests into Early Modern Times, based upon the interesting paper which he read at the Rochester meeting of the American Historical Association.

The second volume of N. Iorga's Essai de Synthèse de l'Histoire de l'Humanité, dealing with the Histoire du Moyen Age, has now appeared (Paris, Gamber, 1927, pp. 572). The two remaining volumes are promised early in the current year.

We have mentioned on a previous occasion the expectation that the French version of Professor Pirenne's little book on Medieval Cities: their Origins and the Revival of Trade, published in English by the Princeton University Press, would be forthcoming. It has now been published: Les Villes du Moyen Age: Essai d'Histoire Économique et Sociale (Brussels, Lamertin, pp. 206).

After an intermission of nine years the Monumenta Palaeographica, which Anton Chroust began to publish in 1897, are to be resumed and completed. The work, which embraces specimens of the medieval art of writing, both in Latin and in German, is to receive a third series, including three volumes of eight fascicles each. During the current year three fascicles will appear, containing especially examples of the north German schools (Leipzig, Harrassowitz).

The second of the Benedictine Historical Monographs published by St. Anselm's Priory at Washington is a pamphlet of 76 pages on St. Boniface and St. Virgil, by Rev. Francis S. Betten, S.J., dealing with the question of the knowledge of the sphericity of the earth in the time of St. Boniface and the attitude toward that subject of the saint, of Pope Zachary, and of other authorities of the time.

The Oxford University Press has published this spring Dr. Reginald Lane Poole's edition of the Historia Pontificalis of John of Salisbury.

The Belgian Historical Institute in Rome has nearly ready for publication vol. I. of the Lettres d'Urbain V., a volume of more than 1000 pages, comprising nearly 2000 letters of the first four years of this pontificate, 1362-1366.

In La Grande-Bretagne devant l'Opinion Française depuis la Guerre de Cent Ans jusqu'à la Fin du XVIe Siècle, Georges Ascoli essays the interesting task of extracting from contemporary writings a body of opinion on their neighbor across the narrow seas. The book forms part of the Travaux et Mémoires de l'Université de Lille (Paris, Gamber, 1927, pp. 356).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: G. G. Coulton, The Inquisition Once More (Edinburgh Review, April); W. Holtzmann, Papst Alexander III. und Ungarn (Ungarische Jahrbücher, December); H. Delehaye, Les Lettres d'Indulgence Collectives, I. (Analecta Bollandiana, XLIV. 3-4); Roger Doucet, Les Finances Anglaises en France à la Fin de la Guerre de Cent Ans, 1413-1435 (Le Moyen Age, XXVII.).

MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

By arrangement with the (English) Historical Association the office of this journal has been supplied with a hundred copies of A Short Bibli ography of Modern European History, 1709-1926, by Drs. Harold Temperley and Lillian M. Penson, being no. 68 of the leaflets of that Association. Of this brief bibliography (pp. 16) a copy will be sent to any member of the American Historical Association who applies for it, so long as the stock lasts.

The Macmillan Company has published The Life, Character, and Influence of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, derived from a Study of his Works and Correspondence, in two volumes, by John Joseph Mangan, M.D.

Most historians of Franco-Dutch relations in the seventeenth century have limited themselves to political matters. This can not be said of the excellent work by S. Elzinga, Het Voorspel van den Oorlog van 1672; de Economisch-Politieke Betrekkingen tusschen Frankrijk en Nederland in de Jaaren 1660-1672 (Haarlem, Willing, 1926, pp. xxiv, 311).

The Broadway House (Routledge and Kegan Paul) announces for this spring three new volumes in its series of Broadway Travellers, edited