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 NOTES AND NEWS As heretofore announced, Professor Andrew C. McLaughlin, of the University of Michigan, will hereafter be the managing editor of this journal. He may be addressed at S36 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Right Reverend Dr. A'illiam Stubbs, bishop of Oxford and chancellor of the Order of the Garter, who by universal consent was deemed the most eminent of living English historians, died on April 22. He was born on June 21, 1825, at Knaresborough, and was wont sportively to attribute much of his interest in constitutional antiquities to the fact that he was born in an ancient forest-jurisdiction. He took high honors at Christ Church in 1S4S, became a fellow of Trinity, and in 1S50 vicar of Navestock. The first edition of his Registrum Sacrum Anglicaniim was issued in 1858. In 1862 he was made librarian to the archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth. There he began that series of contributions to the Rolls Series which, down to the publication of the Constitutional History, constituted his chief title to eminence — the Oironicles and Memorials of Richard I., "Benedict of Peterborough," Roger Hoveden, Walter of Coventry, the Memorials of St. Dunstan, Ralph de Diceto, Gervase of Canterbury, Chronicles of the Reigns of Ed'coard I. and 11. , and the Gesta Regum and Historia Novella of William of Malmesbury, — editions which, issued during the years from 1S64 to i88g, were marked by the highest scholarship, and the intro- ductions to which contributed immeasurably to sound knowledge of the English Middle Ages. In 1866 Dr. Stubbs became regius professor of modern history at the University of Oxford. That as professor he sen- sibly affected the minds of the rank and file of undergraduates cannot be affirmed ; and how he chafed under the statutory requirement of public lectures he made amusingly manifest in various passages of his Seventeen Lectures. Yet he exerted a strong influence on English superior instruc- tion in history. The direction in which he sought to do this was shown by the publication in 1S70 of his Select Charters and other Illus- trations of English Constitutional History. That book has introduced hundreds of young students to the study of English medieval documents. The introductions interspersed by the compiler formed a preliminary sketch for his great work on the Constitutional Histoiy of England in its Origin and Development, of which the first edition appeared in 1S74, 1875 and 1878, and the sixth a year or two ago. It would be super- fluous now to praise this well-known and masterly treatise, marked equally by learning, sense of proportion, soundness of judgment and (867)