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 France 197 Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb on English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act — The Parish and the County; and Major-general J. Ruggles's Recollections of a Lncknow Veteran, 1 845-1 876. Two parts of the first volume of the History of the IVar in South Africa, i8pp-ipo2, compiled under the direction of the British Govern- ment by Major-general Sir .Frederick Maurice with a staff of officers, have been published through Hurst (1906, pp. 546 and maps). Four volumes are intended. British government publications: Early Chancery Proceedings, vol. III., Lists and Indexes, no. xx. ; Proceedings in the Court of Requests, vol. I., Lists and Indexes, no. xxi.; Feudal_Aids, 1284-1431, vol. IV., Northampton-Somerset; Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scot- land, vol. VI.. 1531-1538; Calendar of Justiciary Rolls (Irish), 1295- 1303; Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission on the Manu- scripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq., preserved at Dropmore. vol. V., and on Franciscan Manuscripts preserved at the Convent, Marchants' Quay, Dublin. Other documentary publications: Mary Bateson, Borough Customs, vol. II. [Selden Society Publications, vol. XXL] (London, Quaritch, 1906, pp. clvi, 242) ; H. Maxwell, The Reign of Edivard H. as recorded in the ' Scalacronica' of Sir Thomas Gray [trans.] (Scottish Historical Review, July). Noteworthy articles in periodicals: J. Nisbet. The History of the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire (English Historical Review, July) ; B. H. Putnam, The Justices of Labourers in the Fourteenth Century (English Historical Review, July) ; Memoirs of the Whig Party (Edin- burgh Review, July) ; A. Lawrence Lowell, Lord Randolph Churchill (Atlantic Monthly, August) ; A. W. Moore, The Connexion between Scotland and Man (Scottish Historical Review, July) ; R. S. Rait, John Knox and the Scottish Reformation (Quarterly Review, July) ; H. Bing- ham, The Early History of the Scots Darien Company: Investigation by the English Parliament (Scottish Historical Review, July) ; R. Dunlop, Origins of the Irish Race (Quarterly Review. July). FRANCE A French Society of Bibliography has been organized at Paris under the honorary presidency of MM. L. Delisle and G. Darboux and the active presidency of M. M. Tourneux. Among its objects are the per- fecting of the bibliographical apparatus of France, the re-establishing of the repertory of French reviews formerly published by Jordell and the compiling of a bibliography of official publications since 1815. M. Georges Bourgin has compiled tw^o important guides to the ma- terial for French history in foreign archives. Inventairc Analytique et Extraits dcs Manuscrits du ' Fondo Gesuitico ' dc la Bibliotbcca Nasionale