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 480 SHORT NOTICES July 1922 and xxxv of the Analecta Bollandiana form a single volume of 352 pages ; they bear the date ' 1915, 1916 ', but were actually issued in 1921. The greater part of the volume is taken up by a collection of documents relative to St. Jean Berchmans, who died in 1621 and was canonized in 1888. This is the work of Father Poucelet, whose sudden and premature death occurred in 1912. Father H. Moretus gives a catalogue of the hagio- logical manuscripts in the library of the school of medicine at Mont- pellier. This includes six out of the eight volumes of the important twelfth-century legendarium which once belonged to Clairvaux ; books of the eighth and nine centuries from St. Stephen's at Autun ; of the tenth century from Pontigny, and of the twelfth from St. Benignus at Dijon. Extracts are added. The late ' Life of St. Lebuin ' (d. c. 775), edited by Father M. Coens from two fifteenth-century manuscripts, is of minor interest. B. Professor Jorga and his collaborators continue the publication of their valuable Bulletin de VInstitut pour I'Stude de I'Europe Sud-Orientale, 1 of which the last quarter of 1921, the first quarter of 1922, and the index for the years 1916-21 are before us. To all students of Balkan history this publication is of great value, containing reviews and notices of practically everything published on the subject. W. M. > In the second part, dated 1920, of vol. xxiii, of which the first part was published in August 1914, we welcome the reappearance of the Byzantinische Zeitschrift. It contains an article by Mr. J. R. Crawford, De Bruma et Brumalibus Festis, in which these Roman and Byzantine festivals are discussed, although several of their peculiar features remain unexplained. In particular he quotes Pliny's Natural History for the opinion that the weather at the time of this feast gave indications of the character of the coming winter, and the same at the solstice for the summer, but does not notice that the same idea is held in modern Greece about the first, generally the first six, days of August, from which it is held that omens may be drawn for the weather of the coming twelve months. These days are called Spt/At9, a word of unknown derivation, unless it may have some connexion with Bruma. This is followed by A. Maiuri's publication from a Vatican manuscript of a newly discovered poem of sixty-six verses by Prodromos : it is a begging epistle addressed to the emperor Manuel Comnenos, and belongs to the same class as the other Prodromic poems published by Hesseling and Pernot. A list of the Turkish names of the gates of Constantinople from a Sinai manuscript closes this part of the volume. Then, as formerly, we have reviews, and lastly a long bibliographical section which for the present includes nothing later than 1916 : further arrears are to be made up in the next number. Naturally shorter than before the war, this half-volume is in interest well up to its predecessors. R. M. D. CORRECTION FOR THE APRIL NUMBER P. 286, 1. 31. Insert ' and ' after ' John ' and before ' Samuel Adams '. 1 See p. 159 above.