Page:American Historical Review, Volume 12.djvu/206

 196 Notes and Neivs company ; its relations to the Merchant Adventurers and the govern- ment ; and the provincial courts. The Oxford University Press is issuing a second edition of C. P. Lucas's Historical Geography of the British Colonies, revised and brought up to date by Mr. R. E. Stubbs. The first volume, dealing with The Mediterranean and Eastern Colonies, has already appeared. The Clarendon Press has published an Illustrated Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages who died between 1/14 and iSjy, exhibited at Oxford in the spring of this year (pp. 106). A detailed account of the similar publication of last year will be found in this Review, XL 209. The June Bulletin of the New York Public Library contains some twenty-five pages of " Correspondence between the Duke of Newcastle and Admiral Lestock and General St. Clair, relating to the expedition against L'Orient in 1746." A series of Selections from the Despatches, Minutes, and Correspond- ence of the Governors-General and Viceroys of India edited by Mr. G. W. Forrest with introductions, maps and plans will be published by Mr. B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. The first volume, Warren Hastings (1772- 1785), is announced for immediate publication. The first volume of Professor Felix Salomon's exhaustive biography, William Pitt der JUngerc, of which a part, pp. 1-208, was issued in 1901, has recently been published in its entirety by Teubner (Leipzig, pp. xiv, 208, 600) and comes down to the year 1793. The work will be com- pleted in a second volume. Mr. E. Eraser has made an important contribution to the literature of the Trafalgar campaign in his volume The Enemy at Trafalgar (Hod- der and Houghton, 1906, pp. 456), which is an account of the battle from eye-witnesses' narratives and letters and despatches from the French and Spanish fleets. We should have noted earlier the interesting monograph Die Jl'irt- schaftlichen tmd Politischen Motive fiir die Abschaffung des Britischen Sklavenhandels im lahre i8o6-i8oy (1905, pp. x, 120) contributed by Dr. Franz Hochstetter to Schmoller and Sering's Staats- und Sosialwissen- schaftliche Forschungcn (Leipzig, Duncker and Humblot). The author tries to show that ethical motives did not suffice to bring about the aboli- tion of the British slave-trade, but that it was abolished when England found it to be unprofitable. Among Mr. Murray's autumn announcements are Nelson and other Naval Studies by James R. Thursfield, and The Life and Letters of Sir James Graham, lygz-iSdi, first Lord of the Admiralty in the Ministries of Lord Grey and Lord Aberdeen, and Home Secretary in the administra- tion of Sir Robert Peel, edited by C. S. Parker. Messrs. Longman announce for immediate publication a work by