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 Mino7'- Notices 699 two distinguished Italian exiles, Giuseppe Avezzana and Eleutario Felice Foresti, both highly honored in America. Causa Mandada Fonnar a D. Leonardo Marque:: por Desobediencia e Insubordinacion coma General en Jefe del Primer Cuerpo del Ejercito de Operaciones. [Documentos Ineditos 6 muy Raros para la Historia de Mexico, publicados por Genaro Garcia y Carlos Pereyra, Tomo VIII.] (Mexico, 1906, pp. viii, 288.) The alleged acts of disobedience and insubordination of General Marquez to which relates the series of documents published under this title — some of them given in full, and some merely calendared — were committed during the year 1859 in the course of the War of Reform in Mexico. The charges were based upon Marquez's failure, in several instances, to direct his movements or handle his troops as ordered by the Miramon government, and on the tone of his letters to the minister of war, which were characterized as breathing insubordination and even inciting rebellion. The manuscript followed in printing this series of documents (ex- cept for the list in the appendix) is said to have belonged originally to J. F. Ramirez, then to J. M. Andrade, and finally to the nephew of the latter, V. de P. Andrade, from whom Seiior Garcia obtained it. To the documents contained in the manuscript Senor Garcia has appended many others relating to Marquez and his operations in the latter part of 1859, several of them being taken from the Diario Oficial del Supremo Gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Some that would naturally belong to the record of the case are not given at all, e. g., the " excepcion declinatoria " of Marquez denying the jurisdiction of the council of war to which the military code as- signed such cases. The argument of this " excepcion " can be judged only by the summary of it given in the opinion of the assessor (p. 61). The printing of this volume bears evidence of a certain degree of carelessness. Among the errors which must be charged to proof-reader and printer are " ofecio " for ofrccio (p. 76, 1. 3), " ui " for ni (p. 90, 1. 18), "ey" for ley (p. 256, 1. 14), and " conideradas " apparently for considerada (p. 244, 11. 3, 4). The italicized passage on page 118 ought to be precisely the same as the corresponding passage on page 48, since both are from the same original ; but the change in position of a semi- colon, transferring the word " despues " from one clause to another, has made an essential variation in the meaning. This may be the fault of the manuscript used by the editor ; but the few annotations he has made refer to just such points, and a foot-note dealing with this, if it be in fact due to the manuscript, might fairly have been expected. While this series of " Documentos Ineditos 6 muy Raros " hardly affords the same abundant proof of Senor Garcia's ability and erudition as some other works of his, notably his Cardctcr dc la Conquista Es- panola, he is doing historical science in America a real service in the publication of the series, and his enterprise certainly deserves sympathy and support. George P. Garrison.