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 1921 REVIEWS OF BOOKS 139 being forthcoming. The army of the Alps, like every other army, had complained of the impossibility of negotiating the assignats of 10,000 livres except at a very great loss. The reaction of the Quiberon expedition was least felt by the armies of the Pyrenees, though their sea communications, like those of all the armies operating near the coast, were interrupted by the British fleet. Moncey's army overran the province of Avala, took Vittoria, and pressed back the Spanish troops to Bilbao and beyond. These successes strengthened Barthelemy's hand in his negotiations with Yriarte at Bale. In addition, the committee, finding that the Marquis d'Iranda had full powers to negotiate on the frontier, decided to send Servan, under the guise of inspector-general of the armies of the Pyrenees, to treat with him at Bayonne. The peace was in fact signed at Bale on 22 July, nearly a week before Servan reached Bayonne, but as the news did not reach the committee till 29 July no reference to it appears in the present volume. Cheered, no doubt, by the imminence of the harvest, the civil population, except in the south, appears to have been moderately peaceable and contented during July. But in what was formerly Provence, the white terror was by no means at an end. Four deputies were sent on mission to the departments of Vaucluse, Var, and Bouches- du-Rhone, and Boursault reported from Avignon that ' la Revolution n'a dans le Midi enfante que des crimes '. M. A. Pickford. Andreas Frederik Kriegers Dagbeger 1848-80. I Bind, 1-10 Bog, 1 January 1848-31 December 1858. Udg. af Elise Koppel, Aage Feiiscom, P. Munch. (Copenhagen and Christiania : Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1920.) Andreas Frederik Krieger (1817-93), son of a Danish noble and his Norwegian wife, professor of law and holder of many portfolios, was one of those grave, sincere, and public-spirited nineteenth-century Scandinavians whom it is a privilege to know through their works. In this case the privilege is one of doubtful legality, for when Krieger entrusted to his friend A. D. J0rgensen the historical materials which were the fruit of many years' labour, it was with the petition that they should be read by him and then destroyed. This last was perhaps too much to ask of the national archivist, and we must be grateful for the series of argu- ments and decisions which has now resulted in the publication, at the expense of the Carlsberg Trust, of the first of some seven volumes of excerpts from an historical source of unquestionable value. Madame Koppel represents the heirs of Dr. Jorgensen ; her colleagues stand for what is best in Danish historical science ; and the work, when complete, will doubtless be prized as a notable contribution to the history of a generation. For the present, we have an instalment of the so-called diaries in which 355 printed pages cover eleven years, and the only notes are those which Krieger himself thought it necessary to add. Book i, for example, deals with the preliminaries to the new constitution of 1848, and was in great part compiled from the archives at an undetermined later date. It embraces