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 448 Notes a7id News evidences which illustrate the origin and development of the legends of Trajan. Noteworthy articles in periodicals: E. Fabricius, Das roinischc Heer in Obcrgcnnanicn und Rdticn (Historische Zeitschrift, XCVIII. i) ; P. Lacombe, U Appropriation Privce du Sol dans I'Antiquite. — II. Athcnes (Revue de Synthese Historique, August) ; E. Revillout, Amasis et la Chute de I' Empire £gypticn, III. (Revue des Questions Historiques, October). EARLY CHURCH HISTORY With the object of setting forth the present state of knowledge on the subject of the early history of the Christian religion M. Charles Guignebert, of the University of Paris, is writing a Manuel d'Histoirc Ancienne du Christianismc. In a first volume he deals with the origins, and arrives at the end of the first century (Paris, Picard). Mrs. Geraldine Hodgson, professor of the history of education in University College, Bristol, England, has published under the title Pritnitive Christian Education (Edinburg, T. and T. Clark, pp. 287) a series of useful essays dealing with aspects of Christian education down to the time of Jerome. MEDIEVAL HISTORY A publication has just begun that marks the accomplishing of a great part of the preparatory work for the general collection of papal bulls down to the pontificate of Innocent III. which was undertaken some ten years ago by the Royal Academy of Gottingen. It does again on a large scale what Jaffe, Kaltenbrunner, Ewald, and Loewenfeld at- tempted in their Rcgcsta PontHicnm Romanoruni. The new repertory rejects the purely chronological arrangement of the older work, and disposes its matter primarily according to the destination of the docu- ments in question. Its first division relates to Italy: Rcgcsta PontiUcum Romanoruni: Italia Pontificia, sii'c Repcrtorium Privilegiorum ct titter- arum a Romanis Pontificibus ante Annum MCLXXXXVIII Italiae Ecclesiis, Monasteriis, Civitatibus Singulisque Personis Conccssorum; and the first volume of this division — the one now published, edited by Professor P. Kehr, director of the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome — relates to that city. It will require several volumes to cover the several regions of Italy, and it is expected that they will appear at the rate of about two each year (Berlin, Weidmann). A. Galante has published (Innsbruck, 1906) a Qucllenbuch for the history of the canon law under the title Pontes Juris Canonici Sclecti. This is arranged under the heads : Ecclcsia antiquissima ; Potestas eccles- iastica et imperium civile; Ordinatio; Hierarchia ordinis et hierarchia jurisdictionis; Pontifex Romanus ; Cardinales; Curia Roniana ; Legati Pontificii; Mctropolitae : Episcopi ; Capituli; Vicarii et coadjutores epis- •coporuni ; Parochi ; Ordincs et congregationcs.