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Block : Cahiers de Doleances American affairs. Again, he should have been more careful in his copying and in his proof-reading. A list of errata would include the following: "mine" for my, " Vandreuil " for Vaudreuil, " Fitsch " for Fitch, "stakes" for strikes, " Torysm ", "an" for and, "£15.000" for £150,000, "Grag" for Gray, "engage" for enrage, " Jes " for Yes, " Bonawen " and " Boscaven " for Boscawen, " was " for what, " Gentleman Magazine". " breathing in " for breaking in, " Thankerville " for Tankerville. Note 2 on page 422, volume I., and note 3 on page 332, volume II., are full of misprints, and the latter is unintelligible. The translation of " all Tuesday " by jeden Dienstag completely changes the meaning of the original. There is no Berwickshire; the grandfather of Pitt looks very much like an interloper in spite of von Ruville's arguments to the contrary; the date of Pitt's baptism is given in the Dictionary of National Biography; finally the dreadful mixture of foreign words injected into the text is inexcusable.

An account has already appeared in this (XI. 534-537) of the historical commission established by the French government three years ago for the publication of documentary material relating to the economic history of the French Revolution. This commission, which takes its place beside that originally established by Guizot—long so well-known for the many important volumes which have appeared under its auspices in the vast series of Documents Inédits—owes its existence first and foremost to the enlightened socialist, Jaurès, who properly urged that the political phases of the revolutionary movement had received far more attention than the perhaps more fundamental and essential economic changes, which are still the subject of the most bitter differences of opinion. The commission is made up of well-known scholars under the chairmanship of Jaurès himself—Aulard, Brette, Bloch, Caron, Esmein, Gide, Glasson, Lavisse, Levasseur, Sagnac, Sée, Seignobos, and others, most of whom are distinguished for their researches in the field in question. The first great undertaking decided upon was the publication of the local cahiers and, second, of the inventories and other material having to do with the assumption and