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 Dunnuay : freedom of Press in IIassachuselts 145 volume is enlarged to accommodate 25 documents of early Spanish- Philippine history (1565-1605) just obtained from the archives (nearly all from Seville). Of these, the royal instructions on slavery and other matters addressed to Governor Legaspi are the most notable. Place is made, too, for an extract from the Chinese geographer Chao- Yu-Kua {ca. 1280), a brief chapter describing Luzon (and vaguely the Bisayas) as the Chinese traders had come to know them in the voyages of their junks. This is the earliest (plain) reference to the Philip- pines yet brought to light in any writings. It shows the Filipinos of the thirteenth century weaving fabrics and gathering raw materials for trade, using silks and some iron implements and living in villages of some size (on the sea-coasts at least). There is a brief account of Corcuera's 1638 campaign in J0I6 in volume XXVIII., and 100 pages in volume XXX. are occupied with the account of Phihppine commerce up to 1640 that was given in Alvarez de Abreu's Extracto Historial (Madrid, 1736) — which sum- mary of the early galleon-trade was gleaned mainly from documents of Grau y Monfalcon and is a well-nigh indispensable part of the literature of the subject. The chronology of seventeenth-century history in the Philippines is picked up again in volume XXXV. and in the remaining four volumes is carried forward, in a miscellaneous array of documents, from 1638 to 1683. The compilation of extracts from various early chroniclers regarding Philippine revolts of the seventeenth century, which fills half of volume XXXVIII., is well done and useful. The passages from Dampier's voyages bearing on the Philippine Islands, begun in this volume, are to be concluded in the next. We note, besides, only the extract from Sinibaldo de Mas on judicial conditions in 1842, appended to volume XXXVI. Despite the appendixes of this sort, covering in part the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one cannot but remark again, in connection with the comments made above as to the value of the friar-chronicles, that almost two-thirds of the volumes to be published in this series have been devoted to practically a single century of Spanish-Philippine history. T.MES A. LeRoy. The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massaehusetts. By Clyde Augustus Duniw.w, Associate Professor of History in Leland Stanford Junior University. [Harvard Historical Studies, Volume XII.] (New York and London: Longmans, Green and Company. 1906.) The subject discussed by Professor Duniway in this volume includes not only the history of the censorship or supervision of the publications of the Massachusetts press from its first establishment in 1638 down to the present time, but it also involves an examination of the restraints imposed in colonial days upon the importation and distribution of works .M. HIST. REV., VOL. XU. — lO.