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 1921 SHORT NOTICES 319 was a certain tendency towards widening borough constituencies in the period 1603-60, and that it was favoured by parliament, but not by the returning officers. T. F. T. We are glad to notice the reappearance of the Revue 'd'Hisioire Eccle- siastique, a publication which has long acquired a distinguished position. We need not now draw attention to the high level of excellence maintained in the articles and reviews which it has published ; and students are well aware of the comprehensiveness of the bibliography which concludes each number. But the issue of no. 3 of volume xv has a special interest, because, as stated on the wrapper, it ' reproduit litteralement le numero de juillet 1914, qui a peri lors de l'incendie de Louvain par l'armee alle- mande '. S. In the single number of the Archivio Storico per le Province Napoletane for 1919 and the first number for 1920 (Naples, 1920), Signor A. Gallo begins a valuable paper on the history of the curia of Naples, one of the not many institutions which lasted without a break from late Roman times to the fourteenth century. In mediaeval times the curia is a corpora- tion of notaries, in which were fused in the ninth century the ancient notaries of the city (i. e. the curiales, strictly so called, recruited among, but not coincident with, the lesser possessores) and those of the bishop (notarii S. Neapolitanae ecclesiae, later scriniarii). T. After a long interval the indefatigable Professor Jorga (who in the meantime has been speaker of the Roumanian chamber) has continued the publication of the Roumanian Academy's Bulletin de la Section Historique} of which the last two numbers of the third and fourth year (1916) and the first number of the fifth and eighth year (1920) have reached us. These three parts contain, among other essays, articles by the editor upon 1 Bulgars and Roumanians in the Balkan Peninsula in the Middle Ages ', 1 Relations of the Roumanians with the " Ukraine " ', and ' The Best French Book upon the Roumanians at the time of the Union of the Princi- palities ' — an economic and diplomatic treatise by Thibault-Lefevre. M. Ciobanu has a topical article on 'The Roumanian Continuity in Bess- arabia ' since its annexation by Russia in 1812. W. M. The first volume of the ninth series of the Danish Historisk Tidsshrift (Copenhagen : Hagerup, 1918-20) is mainly occupied with articles of some length on special points in the history of Denmark from the sixteenth century to the present time. Dr. T. B. Bang writes at length on the exchange of Crown lands for other landed property in the time of Frederick II. The older commercial treaties between Denmark and Spain, from the seventeenth century onwards, are discussed by Dr. F. le Sage de Fontenay, while that of 4 July 1893 is the subject of a long communication by J. H. Hegermann-Lindencrone. Cattle-dealing in the seventeenth century is illustrated from the account-books (1637-50) of Steffen Rode, in an article by Albert Olsen. Professor Aage Friis contributes a study of the relations between Bernstorff and Moltke during the crisis of 1762, and J Ante, xxix. 618 ; xxx. 758 ; xxxi. 528.