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 1920 REVIEWS OF BOOKS 591 tion while reading the treatises printed in the pages already before us. Anselm of Laon several times (pp. 18, 28, 32) quotes his celebrated name- sake of Canterbury, but in two out of these passages only to criticize and reject his views, in the third merely to record them. In this last place the sentence ' Et his consensit epiecopus in " cur deus homo " ' belongs, as the editor notes, to the opinion which follows it in the text, not to that which precedes it. There is an interesting reference (p. 22) to the liber qui intitulatur perijision — ^that is, the De Divisione Naturae of John the Scot — quem crisostomus dicitur fecisse. The editor's note points out that the epithet Chrysostomus is given to John by Honorius of Autun De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis. The following suggestions for the improvement of the text occur to me. P. 6, 11. 4 ff., we should read : nee indiget alicuius forme ut sit, sicut animal sensibilitate, nee alicuius rei extrinsece, sicut substantia pura (ut dicit Augustinus), licet non habeat aliquas partes nee ali- quam formam substantialiter, tamen indiget deo opifice ; et ita non est simplex deus, aut his tribus modis simplex est, etc. The reference to Augustine is perhaps to Enarr. in psalm. 68, v. 3. P. 93, 1. 6 from bottom, nummum, and p. 103, 1. 9 from bottom, permissione (for numerum and permansione respectively), are surely the right readings ; and p. 123, 1. 9 from top, non must be omitted to yield the required sense. In regard to the sentence on p. 63, 1. 6 from top, discussed in the note on p. 159, idem cum ipso, which is printed in the text, seems decidedly a more correct expression of what seems to be the author's meaning than id est eadem cum ipso, which the editor thinks is ' perhaps original '. On p. 152, I. 19 from top, the reference to Plato, Timaeus 51 e, should be given. The same passage is quoted more than once (doubtless from the version of Chalcidius) by John of Salisbury {Metal, iv. 18, Hist. Pontif. c. 14). The mention of the angels in Anselm 's quotation is of course an addition to the original. It is noteworthy that Anselm states expressly (p. 32 ; cp. p. 43) that since the Incarnation good men (not only ' saints ') pass into bliss {beatitude, gloria) sine aliqua dilatione. He is, of course, not exceptional among medieval divines in not holding, as from p. 39 it is plain he did not, the immaculate conception of St. Mary. I have noticed one or two misprints •, p. 38 as having aliquo for aliqua ; p. 39, 1. 12 from top, maculum for nmculam ; p. 108, 1. 12 from bottom, sit for ait. --.-'- . C. C. J. Webb. Select Cases before the King's Council, 1243-1482. Edited for the Selden Society by I. S. Leadam and J. F. Baldwin. (Cambridge, Massa- chusetts : Harvard University Press, 1918.) The preparation of this volume was begun by the late Mr. I. S. Leadam, whose edition of similar select cases from the star chamber and court of requests naturally indicated him as its appropriate editor ; and on his death in 1913 Professor Baldwin's King's Council in the Middle Ages suggested him no less naturally as Mr. Leadam's successor. Eight of these cases were left complete, by Mr. Leadam with texts, translations, foot-notes, and introductions. The remainder of the volume is substantially Professor Baldwin's work, and he is to be congratulated on the efficient performance