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 44^ Notes and News The history of theological doctrines, the history of ecclesiastical institutions, and the history of religions are among the subjects on the programme of a new quarterly which announces its first number for January, 1907: Rcvuc des Sciences Philosopliiques et Thcologiques, under the editorship of a group of Dominican professors (address: Le Saul- choir, at Kain, Belgium). The price, outside of Belgium and France, is fourteen francs. The Histoirc de I' Art dcpuis Ics Premiers Temps Chretiens which is being published under the direction of M. Andre Alichel has entered upon the second part of tome II., with the subject " Evolution de I'Art Gothique ". The first part of this volume treated of the formation and expansion of Gothic art (Paris, Colin). The first volume of an Histoirc Economiquc de I'lmprimerie, by Paul Mellottee (Paris, Hachette et Cie.), covers the period from 1439 to 1789. ANCIENT HISTORY The volume entitled The Tomb of Hatshopsitii contains an intro- duction by Mr. Theodore M. Davis, who undertook the excavation of the tomb near Deir-el-Bahari in 1903; an account of the life and monu- ments of this queen of the eighteenth dynasty, by E. Xaville : and a description of the finding and excavation of the tomb, by Howard Carter (Constable, pp. xv. 112). The fourth volume of the Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents, edited and translated by Professor J. H. Breasted (Chicago, University Press, 1906, pp. xxviii, 520), covering the period from the twentieth to the twenty-sixth dynasties, completes the work. An index is to be issued separately. Aramaic Papyri discovered at Assuan, edited by Professor A. H. Sayce and Dr. A. E. Cowley (Moring, 79 pp.), is a collection of docu- ments covering a large part of the fifth century B. C, which are now in the Cairo Museum. In the report of the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania entitled Excavations at Nippur: Plans, etc., of the Build- ings are the plans and measurements made in the excavations by Mr. Joseph Meyer, Mr. P. H. Field, and Mr. Colman d'Erney, successively, with photographs and architectural plans, and a descriptive text by Mr. Clarence S. Fisher, which traces the development of the city until its decline. Adonis, Attis. Osiris: Studies in the History of Oriental Religion. by Dr. J. G. Frazer (Macmillan), is a preliminary publication of ma- terial for the third edition of The Golden Bough. Two recent publications recording the work of the British .School at Athens are its Annual, for the session 1904-1905 (]VJacniillan) and A Catalogue of the Sparta Museum, by M. N. Tod and A. J. B. 'acc (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906), The latter shows the results of the