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 Medieval History 183 Mr. William Henry Whitmore died on June 14. He was at one time an editor of the Neio Englaiul Historical and Gcnealogiial Register, founded the Heraldic Journal, and was one of the founders of the His- torical Magazine, as also of the Prince Society and the Boston Antiquar- ian Society. He was a genealogist of note, and published a well-known, catalogue, entitled the American Genealogist. He also wrote The Cava- lier Dismounted ; Elements of Heraldry ; and a History of the Old State- House, Boston. John C. Ridpath, author of a Popular Histoiy of the United States; 1S81, and of many popular histories and text-books, died on July 31, aged 59. He was for a time professor of history at Asbury (now De- Pauw) University. Professor Turner of the University of Wisconsin has gone abroad for a year ; during his absence a portion of his work will be performed by Dr. Carl Russell Fish. Dr. Herbert Friedenwald has resigned his position as chief of the manuscript department in the Library of Congress, and has been suc- ceeded by Professor Faulkner of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. William E. Dodd, of North Carolina, has been called to the new chair of history and economics in Randolph-Macon College. Dr. N. M. Trenholme has been elected professor of history at the Western University, London, Ontario. The Macmillan Company have in press a work on Historical Juris- prudence by Guy Carleton Lee, of the historical department of Johns Hopkins University. It is intended to serve as an introduction to the systematic study of the growth of law, tracing the contributions made by each race to the science of jurisprudence. One of Putnam's recent publications (London : T. Fisher Unwin), is A Brief History of Eastern Asia, by L C. Hannah, the material for which was collected while the author was master of the English school at Tien- Tsin. Mr. Hannah begins with prehistoric times and, with great brevity, traces the history of the Asiatic civilizations to the present day. ANCIENT HISTORY. A new fascicule of the Corpus Inscriptionum Sciniticarum has ap- peared, devoted to Himyaritic and Sabaean inscriptions. To the May number of the Classical Revievj Mr. Thomas Ashby contributes a general account of the results of all the latest excavations at Rome. MEDIEVAL HISTORY. In the Abhandlungen of the Royal Society of Gottingen, phil.-hist. CI., III. 3, Dr. H. Achelis has a treatise of 247 pp. on the martyrolo- gies, their history and their historical value, and the relation of the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum to the Martyrologium Hieronymianum.