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 1920 SHORT NOTICES 479 distinction. The Methodist revival invigorated the Baptists, and in 1773 their ministers had increased to 373. An anonymous article on South Wales till 1753 enumerates ten Baptists as having held benefices in that district under the Commonwealth. Another careful article by Mr. Langley on seventeenth-century Baptist disputations collects notices of no fewer than 105 between 1641 and 1688, with a solitary instance in 1717. In these public debates the Baptists faced adversaries of many schools, as when John Griffin argued against Biddle, the founder of Unitarianism, in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1655 ; but Quakers were the usual opponents. There are some good notes about Baptist emigration to America before and after 1700. E. W. W. The difl&culties of the historians of the present to whom we owe the Annual Register (London : Longmans, 1920) have scarcely diminished with the partial restoration of peace, but they have been met, in the issue which deals with 1919, as successfully as ever. Nearly a hundred pages are devoted to documents, the treaties being given in summary and the covenant of the League of Nations (in the table of contents less accurately and less impressively called ' convention ') in full. Part 3 of vol. xxxiii of the Analecta Bollandiana made its appearance with customary punctuality on 22 July 1914. The next part, which was due in the following October, was issued on 6 December 1919. These dates need no commentary. Three pages of preface reveal something of the tragedy of the intervening years. But with characteristic fortitude the Bollandist fathers refuse to obliterate that time. On 15 May 1920 they published two parts of vol. xxxviii, and hope by degrees to make good the arrears and to issue the four omitted volumes. These two parts include an important article by Father Delehaye on St. Mart'n and Sulpicius Severus : (1) the manuscripts of the Life ; (2) the chronology (placing St. Martin's death in 397, perhaps on 8 November) ; (3) the sources of Sulpicius Severus ; (4) Sulpicius Severus as a biographer ; (5) the history of St. Martin ; (6) the cultus and renown of the saint. There is much criticism of the work of the late M. Babut, to whose memory (he fell in the war at Boesinghe in 1916) the writer pays respectful homage. Another paper in the same number discusses an Arabic version of the narrative of the capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 attributed to Antiochus Strategos. It might have been mentioned that a translation of the Georgian version with some omissions was printed in this Review in 1910 (xxv. 502-17). ■ The most substantial contribution to the last four numbers of the Bijdragen en Mededeelingen van het Historisch Genootschap (Amsterdam : Miiller, 1916-19) is the series of resolutions of the municipality of Gouda relating to proceedings of the states-general and the states of Holland from 1501 to 1572 (nos. 37-9). The earlier resolutions contain more than the later of matter which is not known from other sources, and the subjects are often only of narrowly local importance, but, until the appearance of the expected official publications of the states' proceedings, these resolu-