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 1922 SHORT NOTICES 141 the volume before us (Vitae Paparum Avenionensium. STEPHANUS BALUZIUS Tutelensis magnam partem nunc primum edidit. Nouvelle edition. Tomes i, iii. Paris : Letouzey & Ane, 1916, 1921) Dr. G. Mollat, well known from his excellent calendar of the Litterae Communes of John XXII, has done very much more than reprint ; he has produced a completely new edition. For this purpose he has rightly used the copy of the book which Baluze himself corrected, now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. Lat. 13730 ; but he has also collated not merely the manu- scripts from which Baluze printed but others which were not at his disposal. More than this, where Baluze made omissions Dr. Mollat prints the text entire ; he presents the Lives in the form they bear in the manuscript or manuscripts, where Baluze at times effected an arbitrary combination of more than one text ; and he has greatly assisted the reader by inserting precise dates throughout. The original book contained in its first volume the multiple sets of Lives and a body of notes more than half as large again, with an index to the whole. The second volume consisted of a most valuable collection of illustrative documents. Dr. Mollat's tome i contains all the Lives with an index to them ; but the notes with their index are reserved for future publication as tome ii. In an appendix he prints a seventh Life of Clement VI : its preservation in four manuscripts should have been mentioned in appendix ii, 1 which contains a full descrip- tion of the manuscripts. A third appendix treats of the coins struck by the popes at Soignes and Avignon. Tome iii comprises nearly half the documents printed in Baluze's second volume, and wherever possible Dr. Mollat has collated the texts with the manuscripts. He has also made important corrections in the dates supplied by Baluze. The pages of the original edition are carefully indicated in the margin, except for nos. Ixxv-lxxvii, documents of Lewis the Bavarian, which Dr. Mollat reprints from Schwalm's edition in the fifth and sixth volumes of the Constitutiones et Acta Publica, included in the Monumenta Germaniae, 1911-1914. These usually but not invariably furnish an improvement on Baluze's text, which is not here collated. The narrative of Henry VII's Italian expedition by Bishop Nicholas of Butrinto, which stands at the end of Baluze's second volume, is conveniently included in tome iii of the new edition. Tome iv will no doubt supply an index as well as the remainder of Baluze's documents. B. The first volume of Professor James Hogan's Ireland in the European System (London : Longmans, 1920) covers the years 1500-57, and is the first of a series ' which will deal with Irish internal affairs ' only ' in so far as they were reactions of or reacted upon those of Europe '. The subject, which in plain words is the intrigues in Ireland of the continental enemies of England and the attempts of certain disaffected Irishmen to obtain foreign aid against England, is one deserving of careful investiga- tion. The separate treatment, however, of these intrigues tends to give them an exaggerated importance, a tendency which Mr. Hogan encourages rather than corrects, and if the intrigues here examined were viewed together with the general history of Ireland, it would be seen that the 1 Vol. i, pp. 576-7, where the Paris MS. Lat. 16553 is misprinted 6553.