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 Great Britain and Ireland g^y Rev. Thomas Woodcock, a nonconformist of the seventeenth century, edited by Professor G. C. JNIoore Smith; (3) memoirs of Sir George Courthop (1616-1685), edited by Mrs. S. C. Lonias; (4) the Common- wealth charter of the city of Salisbury. September, 1656, edited by Mr. Hubert Hall. A translation of Dr. A. von Ruville's History of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham is announced for publication by Mr. William Heinemann. The German edition was reviewed in the January number of this journal. Dr. William Hunt, President of the Royal Historical Society, has edited from an official and contemporary manuscript a confidential document on The Irish Parliament, ijj^ (Longmans, 1907, pp. 92), probably drawn up by Sir John Blaquiere, the chief secretary during the viceroyalty of Lord Harcourt, which states under the name of each member the various offices, sinecures, perquisites, etc., given to the member or his friends, either by the late lord lieutenant, Townshend, or by Harcourt himself. This list is followed by a table of borough- owners ; a general index of the members with the character of their voting; a list of the House of Lords with comments very similar to those on the Commons ; a note on revenue salaries ; and an appendix added by Dr. Hunt, containing some important correspondence with Lord North and the secretary to the treasury relating to the withdrawal of troops from Ireland for the American War, now printed for the first time from the state papers in the Irish Record Office, with comments by the editor. Mr. Murray is about to publish in two volumes Mr. Charles Stuart Parker's Life and Letters of Sir James Graham, i/0^-i86i, which is based on all the family papers and documents. The correspondence includes letters from and to Queen 'ictoria and Prince Albert, Lord Derby, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, Disraeli, and John Bright. Mr. Murray will publish, probably in October, The Letters of Queen Victoria in three volumes. The selection, which terminates with the Prince Consort's life, has been made throughout " to show the person- ality of the 'Queen, her method of approaching and deciding questions, her outlook, her sympathies, her shrewdness, her perseverance, her diligence ". A History of the County Dublin (Dublin, Thom) by Mr. F. Elrington Ball is based upon a thorough examination of great 'numbers of manu- script records. The fourth part, which is the last published, deals with the part of the county bordering upon County Kildare. British government publications: Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts relating to English Affairs, existing in the Archii'cs and Collections of J'enice, and in the other Libraries of Northern. Italy, vol. XIII., 1613-1615: Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth. 1381-138^, preserved in the Public Record Office.