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 946 Notes and News on The Public Records and the Constitution (London, Frowde, pp. 39) which is now first published with a few sHght alterations and a plan of evolution of the chief courts and departments of the government. Sir James H. Ramsay will shortly publish through Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein and Company the third volume of his history, dealing with the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. and entitled The Dawn of the Constitution. Dr. Wilhelm Busch has almost ready for publication the continuation of his important History of England, the first volume of which dealt with the reign of Henry VH. The second volume will treat of the first half of the reign of Henry YHI. Rev. W. H. Frere and Rev. C. E. Douglas have edited a volume entitled Puritan Manifestoes. A Study of the Origin of the Puritan Revolt (London, S. P. C. K., 1907, pp. .xxxi, 155), which includes the "Admonition to the Parliament", 1572. and other rare kindred docu- ments of Elizabeth's time. Major Martin Hume is writing a book on Elizabeth and Philip; or, the Whole Story of the Spanish Armada, which will contain much new information and will form the first volume of a series, entitled The Romance of History, to be published by Messrs. Methuen, under the general editorship of Major Hume. The series will aim at combining the attraction of romance with the solid value of scholarly history. A History of English Congregationalism by the late Rev. Dr. R. W. Dale of Birmingham, has been completed and edited by his son A. W. W. Dale, vice-chancellor of the university of Liverpool, and published by Hodder and Stoughton, London. The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields (Lon- don, Constable, 1907), by Mr. Gilbert Slater, forms one of the studies edited by the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The author aims at showing that t"he enclosure of the common fields has resulted in the disappearance of small holdings ; and that, in at least certain parts of the country, even in comparatively recent times, enclosure has produced rural depopulation and has converted a villager from " a peasant with a medieval status to an agricultural labourer entirely dependent on a weekly wage ". A History of William Patcrson and the Daricn Company (London, Blackwood, 1907, pp. 284) by J. S. Barbour, formerly accountant of the Bank of Scotland, gives for the first time a connected narrative of the several expeditions to Darien. The book includes 84 pages of ap- pendixes and documents. The eleventh volume of The Camden Miscellany (London, Royal Historical Society, 1907, pp. 210) contains (l) some unpublished news- letters of Gilbert Burnet, the historian, to Lord Halifax, 1679-1680, edited by Miss H. C. Foxcroft; (2) a collection of stories — incidents in English religious life, special providences, etc. — from the papers of the