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 940 Notes and Neivs Devolittionsrcclit, vornchmlich nach Katliolischcm Kirchenrccht, a prize work on the ecclesiastical heneficium, by Dr. J. Ebers. Rev. J. N. Figgis and Mr. R. V. Laurence will shortly publish through Macmillan two more volumes by the late Lord Acton, one consisting of Lectures and Essays on Liberty, and the other including the hitherto unpublished lecture on the causes of the war of 1870, and papers on Wolsey, Charles IL, Cavour, the Mexican expedition of Maximilian, and the American War of Secession. The first volume of The Research Library to be published by Messrs. Routledge, is The Commercial Relations of England with Portugal (1200- 1807) by Miss V. M. Shillington and Miss A. B. Wallis Chapman. A paper by Miss Shillington on " The Beginnings of the Anglo-Portu- guese Alliance " appeared in the last volume of the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society and the work of which she is joint author is largely based on manuscript authorities in the Public Record Office and the British Museum. An appendix of documents is included. V. S. Gowen treats of the psychological aspects of the black death, the flagellants, the dancing mania, children's crusades, lycanthropy, witchcraft, commercial crazes and religious epidemics in the Journal of Psychology, January, 1907, pp. 1-60. A bibliography of 113 titles is included. A paper on Historical Jottings on Amber in Asia by B. Laufer is included among the Memoirs of the American Anthropological Associa- tion, volume I., part iii. The Oxford University Press has published two volumes of Primi- tive and Medieval Japanese Texts, Romanized and translated into Eng- lish by F. V. Dickins, containing material of the greatest value for the institutional history of Japan. In the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, volume XXXIV., part I. (August, 1906), J. C. Hall publishes a translation of "Go Seibai Shikimoku ", the magisterial code of the Hojo Power-Holders, A. D. 1232, which is the earliest of the feudal enactments of Japan and " the taproot of the whole subsequent growth of Japanese feudal law ". The account of Japanese Rule in Formosa (London. Longmans. 1907, pp. XV. 342) by Yosaburo Takekoshi, member of the Japanese diet, while mostly dealing with events since 1895, contains some fifty pages relating to the earlier history of the country. The (English) Historical Association prints as Leaflet No. 4. an address by the Right Hon. James Bryce on the " Teaching of History in Schools ", delivered at the first annual meeting of the Association on February 8, 1907. Noteworthy articles in periodicals: P. Vinogradoff, Frederic IVilUam Maitland (English Historical Review, April) ; G. W. Prothero, Fred-