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 150 SHORT NOTICES January children were deported from England as early as 1609, and according to the Calendar of State Progress their destination was the East Indies rather than America '. The quotation which follows proves that the 1,500 children mentioned came from Portugal, not from England. These are extreme cases, but throughout authorities are employed too uncritically. C. H. F. Dr. Rendel Harris, whose authority as an expert on the subject is so well known, has reached in The Finding of the Mayflower (Manchester : University Press, 1920) ' the culmination and crown ' of his researches into the story of the Pilgrim Fathers. The new conclusion reached is that a barn still existing at Jordans in Buckinghamshire was built out of the wood of the original Mayflower. It is impossible to summarize the steps by which this conclusion is reached. It is enough to say that, whether or not they would be conclusive in a court of law, the arguments adduced seem very strong. Incidentally it should be noted that this theory involves the abandonment of Dr. Harris's previous opinion that the Mayflower may have been in existence until 1655. She must have been ' broken up ' in 1624 (as maintained by Mr. Marsden), about which date the barn was erected. H. E. E. In his little book, Le Secret de Barnave : Barnave et Marie- Antoinette (Paris : Boccard, 1920), M. E. Wei vert treats of the secret relations between Barnave and Marie-Antoinette. M. Welvert's writings are always interesting, always agreeable to read, and he uses his exceptional knowledge in attempting to find out the truth. It is a pity that here lie accepts the much-disputed ■ Heidenstam Letters ' without discussing the arguments raised against their authenticity both from internal evidence and from the strange tricks that have been played with the text. He thinks that the verdict in their favour of two ' experts ', chosen by M. Heidenstam, settles the question. Probably few of those who have read the report of the experts and Dr. Glagau's reply, as reprinted in vol. vii of the Annates Revolutionnaires, will be disposed to agree with him. E. D. B. With the title Memoirs of the Count of Rochechouart (London : Murray, 1920) there appears a translation of the Souvenirs sur la Revolution pub- lished in Paris in 1889. Unfortunately the omission of many documents and some passages of the memoirs, indicated by the translator in locis, seriously diminishes the value of the English version for the historian. Whereas the original occupied 532 pages, the translation is compressed into 318, chiefly by the suppression of letters. The welcome addition of an index is a partial compensation for the loss of a quarter of the text. G. D. Only one hundred and fifty copies of the first edition x having been printed, Dr. Arnold Chaplin has published a corrected and enlarged edition of his St. Helena Who's Who (London : Humphreys, 1919), to satisfy a wider demand. . A. 1 See ante, xxx. 186.