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 630 SHORT NOTICES ' October 1920 and it is convenient to have these selections from large blue-books and scarce old pamphlets in a handy volume, but as the book stands at present, it is rather a note-book than a finished work. C. The little pamphlet on The Story of Cambridgeshire as told by Itself, by the late Archdeacon Cunningham (Cambridge : University Press, 1920), would not call for notice in these pages 'were it not that the writer's great learning enabled him to throw a flood of illustration upon his subject very different from what we generally find in popular lectures on local history. On roads and waterways, markets and fairs, the care shown by the Tudors in the supervision of trade and industry — on these and many other points Dr. Cunningham says so much that is informing, so much that perhaps he alone was competent to say, that his work may be taken as a model for other lecturers to follow. * D. The contents of volume ii of the Etudes Lexoviennes (Caen : Jouan, 1919) are of special interest to medieval students. M. Georges Huard's paper on the cathedral of Lisieux in the eleventh and twelfth centuries is an admirable piece of work. He shows that the work of Bishop Arnulf of Lisieux, usually assigned to 1143, can safely be dated thirty or forty years later, at the end of Arnulf's long episcopate. A few un- noticed texts come to the rescue of the experts, ^o have always been rather puzzled to account for the appearance of comparatively advanced work in 1143. M. Lesquier contributes to the same volume a long paper on the administration and finances of Lisieux between 1423 and 1448. During this period Lisieux was under English rule, but the only effect of the conquest appears to have been that the royal administration had a somewhat larger part than usual in the government of the city. Lisieux was an. episcopal city, ruled by episcopal officials and representatives of the chapter, with the aid of a few burgesses. It had no seal or hotel de ville. ' Ses institutions sont celles des .villes franches les moins emanci- p6es.' M. Lesquier's elaborate analysis of official accounts throws light on the details of administrative, social, and economic life under conditions which are of special interest to English scholars. The volume ends with a paper by M. V. Lahaye on the relics and reliquaries of Saint Ursin at Lisieux. P. M. P.