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 1921 SHORT NOTICES 305 but he knows his texts and has mastered all the books, monographs, and essays on the period. The narrative is full and clear, chronologically- arranged, with careful and adequate references. The chief criticism which is suggested by Father Michael's narrative is that he regards German history too much from the point of view of the papal curia. This preoccupation has led him to investigate with special care the negotiations between Innocent III and the candidates for imperial power, and the numerous appendices to this volume which deal with this aspect of German politics, notably the long criticism (App. vii) of Ficker's view of the undertakings given by Otto of Brunswick in 1209, deserve serious consideration. Against Ficker Father Michael holds that Otto gave precise promises to return the papal territories in Italy, but, after gaining his end, his coronation as emperor, he deliberately broke his word. Another episode in the period which Father Michael treats with enthusiasm is the rule of Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne as regent and governor of the young king Henry VII. He is able to bring out the share which Engelbert had in the movement of ecclesiastical reform in Germany, a personal aspect which Hauck, for example, hardly touches in his great history of the church in Germany. F. M. P. The second volume of Dr. Heinrich Kretschmayr's Geschichte von Venedig (Gotha : Perthes, 1920), which embraces the period from the Fourth Crusade to 1516, and has the sub-title Die Bliite, appears fifteen years after the first, and forms with it the thirty-fifth work of the well- known collection, Geschichte der Europaischen Staaten. It deals with the Venetian colonies in the Levant and with Venetian rule over the Dalmatian coast-towns as well as with the capital and its Italian territory ; it describes the machinery of government, the history of science, art, and trade, the state of society, the decline of morals and the growth of luxury, as well as the political and military events of these three centuries. But this bulky volume, which is admittedly based in great measure upon second-hand information, adds little to our knowledge, is written in a dry style, and given to the world in a manner reflecting little credit on the publisher, for the paper is poor and the book falls to pieces as soon as it is cut. The bibliography of the Latin Orient shows that the author has not kept pace with modern research into that subject in other languages than German. A notable example of this is the omission of the indispensable works of the eminent Catalan scholar, Don Antonio Kubio y Lluch, upon the Catalan period in Greece, which have been further supplemented since their last mention in this Keview x by his valuable monograph on La Grecia Catalana desde 1370 a 1377, published in the Anuari de VInstitut d'Estudis Catalans at Barcelona (1914), and by his Contribucio a la Biografia de Vlnfant Ferrdn de Mallorca, published in the Estudis Universitaris Catalans at Barcelona (1915). The copious list of books omits the further instalment of Jirecek's Geschichte der Serben and recent accounts of the Gattilusj of Lesbos. Monemvasia, as I have elsewhere shown from docu- ments, 2 was not Venetian, as the present author asserts after Hopf, in 1419 (p. 273). Several important works upon the Venetians in Greece, 1 Ante, xxviii. 607. 2 Journal of Hellenic Studies, xxvii. 300. VOL. XXXVI. — NO. CXLII. X