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 NOTES AND NEWS GENERAL The volume of General Index to the first ten volumes of the Ameri- can Historical Review, prepared by Mr. David M. Matteson, may be expected from the press about the end of October, and may be obtained from the publishers, The Macmillan Company, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York City. M. Albert Sorel, one of the most distinguished of French historians, member of the French Academy and Professor at the £cole Libre des Sciences Politiques, died on June 29, at the age of sixty-four. During the Franco-German war he was chief secretary of the Ministry of For- eign Affairs to the Government of National Defense, and in 1875 pub- lished his Histoire Diplomatique de la Guerre Franco- Allemande. His monumental work, remarkable alike for erudition and brilliancy, L'Eu- rope et la Revolution Francaise, was published in eight volumes during the twenty years 1885-1904. Among his minor writings are The Eastern Question in the Eighteenth Century (1877), which was translated into English (1898) ; Essais d'Histoire et de Critique (1883) ; Bonaparte et Hoche en i/p/ (1898); and biographies of Montesquieu (1887) and Madame de Stael (1891). Dr. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, librarian and late fellow and assistant tutor of Emmanuel College, died suddenly on July 10 in the sixty-third year of his age. He was the author of a life of Augustus (1903) and of histories of Greece and Rome, all of which were addressed to the general reader rather than to the specialist. He also edited and translated a con- siderable number of Greek and Latin works, and wrote a history of his college. Professor Giuseppe Mazzatinti, editor of the serial publication Gli Archivi della Storia d'ltalia (1897 — ) and compiler of the Inventari dei Manoscritti delle Bihliotcche d'ltalia (1890 — ), died on April 18 at the age of forty years. He edited a number of chronicles and other writings, among which was a volume of letters of Giuseppe Mazzini. Professor Charles M. Andrews has been appointed professor of his- tory in Johns Hopkins University. He will not assume the duties of his new position until the fall of 1907. Professor Franklin H. Giddings has been appointed to the chair of the History of Civilization in Columbia University, founded by Mrs. Maria H. Williamson. Professor Henry Ferguson, D. D., has resigned from the professor- ship of history in Trinity College (Hartford) and has been elected to the rectorship of St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. (186)