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 6i6 Notes and News Jacques Victor Albert, Due de Broglie, died on January 19, aged nearly eighty. Born in 182 1, he was already a member of the French Academy in 1863, having published in 1856 a remarkable work on L' Ei^^/ise et /'Empire Romain au IV' Steele, which he continued by works on Julian and Theodosius. As a member of the National Assembly and a leader of the Right Centre he did much to procure the downfall of M. Thiers in 1873, and he was prime minister under President MacMahon from 1873 to 1874 and in 1877. For nine years he was a senator. After the close of his political career he occupied himself again with history. The most noted of his books was Le Secret du Roi (1878), dealing with the private diplomacy of Louis XV. Later works were Frederic II. et Marie Therese, 1882, Frederic II. et Louis XV., 1884, Marie-Therese Imperatrice, 1888, Maurice de Saxe et le Marquis d' A)-ge?ison, 1893. He also edited the memoirs of Talleyrand published in 1891. We have also to announce, with much regret, the recent death of William Wirt Henry, LL.D., of Richmond. He was born in 3831, the grandson of Patrick Henry and of William Wirt, and worthily maintained the best traditions of Virginia gentlemen of the old school. He was once president of the American Historical Association, and for several years was president of the Virginia Historical Society. In 1891 he published Patrick Henry ; Life, Correspondence and Speeches, an elab- orate biography in three volumes, which also forms by far the best history of Virginia for the period involved. When Professor E. A. Ross of Leland Stanford University was dis- missed in November last under circumstances well known to the public, Dr. George E. Howard, principal professor of history and senior mem- ber of the faculty, made a vigorous public protest. In January Presi- dent Jordan demanded that he should either apologize or resign. He of course resigned, and has been followed by Professor David E. Spencer, and by others not of the historical department. Dr. Gaillard T. Lapsley of Cambridge and Mr. Joseph P. Warren of Boston have ac- cepted temporary positions in that department, caused by these resigna- tions. Professor Charles Henry Hull, hitherto of the department of eco- nomics and finance in Cornell University, has been elected professor of American history to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Professor Moses Coit Tyler. Professor Herbert B. Adams, after twenty-five years of energetic and fruitful work for the Johns Hopkins University, has resigned its chair of history on account of ill health. We are sure that he is attended into his retirement by the best wishes of the profession, of which he has been so conspicuously useful a member. It is expected that, after the completion of the present volume of this Review, the position of managing editor will be assumed by Pro- fessor Andrew C. McLaughlin of the University of Michigan.