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 1920 465 Short Notices We have several times been glad to express our appreciation of the enterprise of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in bringing out their series of Helfs for Students of History and Texts for Students at an extremely cheap price, and almost all of them the work of well-qualified scholars. Both series have now been largely extended, and we are sorry that the limits of our space preclude us from noticing them except very briefly. In the Helps, the Reports of the Historical MSS. Commission are described by Mr. R. A. Roberts, who writes with the intimate knowledge of a former secretary to the commission. He furnishes a guide, which will be very useful to the beginner, to help him to find his way through the labyrinth of the Reports, and then surveys their principal contents of interest to students of English history, omitting those on ecclesiastical, collegiate, and municipal collections. The Guide to the History of Education by Professor J. W. Adamson contains good matter, but is carelessly written. In so small a work repetitions should have been avoided. The list of books at the end is wanting in proportion, and some titles look as though they were merely copied from library catalogues. Mr W. F. Reddaway's Introduction to the Study of Russian History is the work of a competent scholar, but it is necessarily a mere sketch. Its arrangement might be improved, for the later sections often overlap one another. The Texts for Students include The Code of Hammurabi and Selections from the Tell el-Amarna Letters, by Mr. P. Handcock, the one based on the translation by R. F. Harper, the other on that by J. A. Knudtzon ; the Greek text of The Epistle of Barnabas and of The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, from Lightfoot's edition, by Dr. T. W. Crafer ; Selections from the Historia Rerum Anglicarum of William of Neivburgh, by Mr. C. Johnson ; and Select Passages illustrating commercial and diploraatic Relations between England and Russia, by Mr. A. Weiner. This last work contains a list of books for reference, many of which are not worth recommending. Q, A careful study of a very interesting subject, submitted for the degree of doctor in philosophy at the university of Wisconsin, is Dr. Richard Orlando Jolliffe's Phases of Corruption in Romun Administration in the Last Half-century of the Roman Republic (Menasha, Wisconsin : Banta, 1919). It covers only that short period at the end of the republic in which we have sufficient evidence to feel sure of our footing. Even there, as any one knows who has become really familiar with Cicero, sureness of foot is not inevitable ; and the fact that Dr. JoUifEe is conscious of this and declares it VOL. XXXV. — NO, CXXXIX. H h