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 Ancient History 447 preliminary work in the exploration of Laconia undertaken by the School. The section devoted to inscriptions is the work of Mr. Tod; that on sculpture and miscellaneous antiquities was prepared by Mr. Wace. Among the announcements of The Cambridge University Press is the second volume of Professor William Ridgeway's Early Age of Greece, of which the first volume was published in 1901. Eleusis; her Mysteries, Ruins, and Museum is translated by Mr. Hamilton Gatcliffe from the French of M. Demetrios Philios, director of the excavations made in the sacred precinct from 1882 to 1894 (Lon- don, Appleton, 1906). Under the editorship of Dr. Ludwig Mitteis, with contributions from Professor Ulrich Wilcken, a beginning has been made of the publication of Griechischc Urkunden dcr Papyrussammlung cu Leipzig (Teubner). The first volume contains 123 pieces, ranging in date from 107 B. C. to the Arabic period, but chiefly of the third and fourth centuries after Christ. It embraces a wide variety of documents of civil and military administration, and private business and correspondence. Excavations have been begun on the site of the ancient Phoenician city of Motye under the supervision of Professor A. Salinas, the director of the National Museum in Palermo. Motye having been one of the last strongholds of the Phoenician power in Sicily, it is hoped that the excavations will shed light on the history and art of Phoenicia. Systematic excavations of Cumae, northernmost of Greek colonies in Italy, and of the theatre of Verona, are also in progress. Messrs. Teubner of Leipzig are about to bring out part II. of Dr. Hermann Peter's Historicorum Romanoruni Reliquiae. Part I. ap- peared in 1870; the present installment concludes the work. Studies in the History and Art of the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire (Aberdeen, University Press, 1906, 391 pp.), which have been edited for the four-hundredth anniversary of the University of Aberdeen, by Professor W. M. Ramsay, give the results of researches by Aberdeen students in Asia Minor. The volume includes a prelimi- nary report by the editor on exploration in Phrygia and Lycaonia. Among the collection of memoirs entitled Melanges d'Arbois de Jubainville (Paris, Fontemoing, 1906, pp. vii, 287) prepared in honor of the seventy-eighth birthday of M. d'Arbois are to be noted: Les Ele- ments d'Importation £trangere dans le Droit Gallois, by P. Collinet; Les Salyes Celto-ligures, by Camille Jullian ; Un Tabou Guerrier dies les Gaulois du Temps de Cesar, by Salomon Reinach. The director of excavations in the Roman Forum, Giacomo Boni, has published in the Nuova Antologia of November i a most important article upon the " Legends of Trajan ", giving the results of the writer's recent researches in and near the Column of Trajan, and in the tombs of Trajan and Plotina, and also bringing together a great variety of