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 1920 SHORT NOTICES 307 No apology is needed for the reprint of John Blacman's Henry the Sixth (Cambridge : University Press, 1919), which we owe to the pious care of Dr. M. R. James, the provost of Eton College. Its rarity, even in Hearne's edition, makes it almost inaccessible, and, apart from some useful historical material, Blacman's little book has a certain literary quality in his recognition of personality as an element in biography. Hearne depended on a printed edition issued by Robert Coplande of London in 1510, After the text had been set up in type as given with modernized spelling by Hearne, Dr. James obtained access to one of the only two copies of Coplande's edition which are known to exist, and was thus able to make a collation of the two texts. In his preface he gives an interesting bibliographical account of this rare volume, and some notes on the Memoriae for Henry VI, A translation of the Latin text is appended, with explanatory notes. Commenting on ' Episcopos Wur- cestriae et Cestriae ', Dr. James writes : ' Chester had no bishop till 1521. Chichester must be meant.' But the medieval bishops of Lichfield and Coventry are often described as bishops of Chester, and the reference is probably to William Booth, who was bishop of Lichfield from 1447 to 1452 and chancellor to Queen Margaret. At the end Dr. James gives a prayer to Henry VI in English verse, a note on the manuscript miracles of Henry VI, and an account of John Blacman's books from the Laud. MS. Misc. 154. C. L. K. The third volume of Dr. Giuseppe Gerola's fine work upon the Monumenti Veneti neW Isola di Greta (Venezia : R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1917), the previous instalments of which were reviewed in these pages in 1906 and 1908,^ has been delayed by the war, by the difficulty of exporting the copies from Venice even after the war was over, and by the author's similar studies ^ in the thirteen islands of the lower Aegean occupied by the Italians since 1912. Even now the book is not complete, for a final volume will be needed for the hydraulic works, the heraldry, and the inscriptions of Venetian Crete, which the author has twice revisited since his last publication. The present volume contains three sections : (1) the public buildings, (2) the Latin and Greek monasteries, and (3) the private buildings, urban and rural, of the Venetian period. Like other Latin rulers of the Levant, the Venetians used the remains of 'Greek and Roman buildings for the ducal palace at Candia, where the famous loggia, erected by Francesco Morosini, provveditore generate from 1625 to 1628, used by the Turks as an arsenal, and reproduced in the Venetian pavilion of the Rome exhibition of was the most notable monument of their long rule. All the upper part was unfortunately destroyed in 1904 during the autonomous period, but since the union with Greece the Greek government has allowed the restora- tion of the building by an Italian architect. Dr. Gerola mentions that the oldest memorial of any single Venetian in Crete is the nameless inscription, still preserved at Canea, and intended to be explanatory of the statue of Pasquale Cicogna, provveditore in 1574 and subsequently Doge, which he would not allow to be erected. He thinks that Cicogna's portrait in the » ArUe, xxi. 370; xxiii. 772. ^ Ante, xxxi. 309. X 2