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 S3 2 Reviews of Books These and a number of lesser works and articles are carefully noted in the new edition, which shows the qualities of completeness, accuracy, and logical classification which we have come to expect from the author. Not only has the information been brought up to date, but the general arrangement has been considerably modified and much of the text re- written. We have noted exceedingly few slips or omissions. The sec- tions devoted to the United States have been notably improved, thanks to a diligent use of the Guide to the Study of American History and the Library Journal, but the account of the indexes to government publica- tions would be more satisfactory if the author had used and cited Mr. Lane's article in the Publications of the American Statistical Association (Vol. VII., p. 40), and one is hardly prepared to find Professor Hart's Source- Book enumerated among bibliographies. On the European side, the author has overlooked the discontinuance, with the close of 1898, of the excel- lent bibliography of ecclesiastical history contained in the Zeitschrift fiir Kirchengcschichte, and has not called attention to the helpful notes on medieval matters published in ^^^z'N'eues Archiv. Mention might well have been made of the various makeshifts to which one must resort in de- fault of systematic current bibliographies of English and American history ; indeed the lack of such bibliographies might well have given the oppor- tunity for some comparisons not wholly to the credit of Anglo-American scholarship. When the Manuel first appeared, it was announced that the part devoted to the bibliographical tools would be followed by an account of the history and organization of historical studies since the Renaissance. The opening chapter of this second part is included in the present edition, and the remainder is promised shortly. Its eaily pub- lication is highly desirable, both for its own sake and because the ab- sence of an index and a table of contents seriously interferes with the use of the first part. ^^^^^^^ ^_ ^^^^^^^. A New Chapter in the Life of Thutmose LIL By James Henry Breasted. (Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, pp. 31.) Professor Breasted's prac- tically new discovery of a text of forty-nine lines, hitherto lost from sight because Brugsch and Maspero, its earlier translators, had been mis- led into reading it backwards, is a valuable and brilliant contribution to our meagre knowledge regarding the early history of the great conquer- ing king, Thutmose III. The inscription contains an account of his building enterprises and offerings. The introduction, which is published in this monograph with a translation and notes, tends to confirm the much contested conclusions of Sethe presented in his Untersuchungen, Band I. (1896), and furnishes further data for the reconstruction of the early Thutmoside reigns. It establishes the conjecture that Thutmose III. was not of royal blood. In his youth he was a priest in the Anion temple at Karnak and later became a prophet. Apparently his only claim to the throne came through his marriage with Hatshepsut, the in- fluential daughter of the reigning king, Thutmose I. Her father also, it