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 1 88 Notes and Neius An index to the reports of the meetings of the Academy of Inscrip- tions and Belles-Lettres has been compiled by M. A. G. Ledos and pub- lished under the title : Academic dcs Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Comptcs-rendus des Seances. Table dcs Annecs i8j/-ipoo (Paris, Picard, 1906, pp. xix, 232). The fourth fascicle of the twenty-fourth volume of the Thcologischcr Jahreshcricht (1904) contains 508 pages devoted to ecclesiastical history (Berlin, Schwetschke, 1906). The sixteenth fascicle of the series of Studi e Testi (Rome, Imp. Vaticane, 1906, pp. x, 695) is entitled Initia Patruni Aliorumque Scrip- toriim Ecclesiasticormn Latinormn ex Mignei Patrologia et ex compluri- hus aliis Lihris, part I., embracing the first half of the alphabet, by M. Vattasso. Professor H. M. Gwatkin's work on The Knoidcdge of God and its Historical Development (Edinburgh, T. Clark, 1906) represents the Gif- ford lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1904 and 1905. The second volume contains historical chapters on The Early Church ; The Nicene Age; Rome Pagan; Rome Christian; the Reformation; and Modern Thought. Dr. Charles Bigg, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, has published through Longmans a volume entitled Wayside Sketches in Ecclesiastical History (1906, pp. ix, 230), com- prising nine lectures dealing with the making of the medieval system. the decay of the medieval system, and the beginning of modern Chris- tianity. The lectures bear the following titles : Prudentius, Paulinus of Nola, Sidonius Apollinaris, Grosseteste, Wycliffe, A Kempis, and the English Reformation (three lectures on this last subject). The new manual of canon law by M. Andre Mater, entitled L'Sglise Catholiquc, sa Constitution, son Adniinistration (Paris, Colin, 1906, pp. 461) contains an account of the formation and history of the canon law with a bibliography of sources. Not many books are addressed to both the historian and the astrono- mer, but students of both sciences will be interested in Professor F. K. Ginzel's enormously learned work entitled Handhuch der Mathematischen und Technischen Chronologic. Das Zeitrechnungszvesen der Vblker (Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1906, I., pp. xii, 584). The first volume, recently published, deals with the methods of reckoning time employed by the Babylonians, Egyptians, Mohammedans, Persians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and the peoples of southeast Asia and Central America. Two later volumes will treat of all other peoples concerning whose systems of chronology there is attainable evidence. Christlichc und Jiidische Ostcrtafcln (Berlin, Weidmann, pp. 197) is the title of a work by E. Schwartz, which also appeared in the Abhand- lungen der koniglichcn GcscUschaft der ll'isscnschaftcn sit Gottingen, Philol.-histor. Klasse, new series, VIII. 6. The results arrived at are