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 836 Reviews of Books A. W. Ward. Mr. C. H. Firth essays a new account of the battle of Dun- bar. A careful study of the old evidence, combined with the new evi- dence afforded by a contemporary picture-plan of the battle, which he has recently found in the Bodleian Library, and which he attributes to Payne Fisher, has led him to believe that the two armies were posted in a somewhat different position, and that the battle was fought in a some- what different way, from what is generally supposed. Miss Kate Norgate discusses the evidence for the alleged condemnation of King John by the Court of France in 1202. She has adopted M. Bemont's conclusion that the condemnation of 1203 is fictitious, and believes that the con- demnation of 1202 rests solely on Ralph Coggeshall and is likewise fic- titious. Mr. Walter Frewen Lord, in an acute and learned essay, which won the Alexander prize for 1S99, sets forth minutely the developnient of political parties during the reign of Queen Anne. He takes, without fully supporting it by positive evidence, a higher view of the queen's capacity and character than is usually assumed. Miss Frances G. Daven- port illustrates the Decay of Villeinage in East Anglia, by a careful study of the unpublished records of the manor of Forncett, co. Norfolk. Mrs. D'Arcy Collyer contributes Notes on the Diplomatic Correspondence between England and Russia, in the first half of the eighteenth century, which have a close relation to her volume of the papers of Lord Buck- inghamshire, noticed on a previous page of the present volume (p. 587). Mr. C. Raymond Beazley discourses on the Pilgrimage of the Archi- mandrite Daniel of Kiev to the Holy Land about A.D. 1106-1107. Mr. W. J. Corbett discusses elaborately and in a very interesting manner the Tribal Hidage, printed in Birch's Cartularium, L 414, and discussed of late by Professor Maitland in his Domesday Book and Beyond. The re- mainder of the volume is occupied with criticisms of L S. Leadam's papers on the inquisitions of depopulation in 15 17 and the Domesday of Inclosures. Mr. Edwin F. Gay criticizes Mr. Leadam's arguments as based on insufficient evidence ; and Mr. Leadam replies. Mr. A. J. Grant contributes two new volumes to the Cambridge Historical Series edited by Mr. G. W. Prothero on The French Mon- archy, I483-Ij8g (Cambridge LTniversity Press, 1900, pp. 311, 314)- He has succeeded in his purpose of giving "a fair and impartial account of the chief events of French history both domestic and foreign, during the period covered by these volumes." The wars foreign and civil fill at least half of the work, a proportion amply supported by tradition. The writer neither claims nor exhibits any originality, and contents him- self in the main with a very clear and pertinent summary of what is to be found in the standard general treatises, French and English. He has neglected the technical contributions to the subject, which might have leavened the more discursive and popular treatises. There is no men- tion in his bibliography of Clamageran, Gomel or Babeau. The elder De Tocqueville's antiquated Histoire Philosophique de Louis XV. finds a place, but nothing is said of Jobez, who has used the archives to good