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 320 SHORT NOTICES April 1921 Professor Erik Arup deals similarly with the relations of Bernstorff and Holstein in 1766-7. Professor Friis also writes on Niels Neergaard and his 1 Political History of the Danish People in 1848-66 ', and on recent German historical studies relating to Slesvig and Holstein, besides com- municating a long letter from Moltke on the war of 1864. An article of great literary as well as historical value is that by Professor Johannes Steenstrup on the origin and early history of the Danish ballads. There are two interesting topographical articles : one on the Danish name for the North Sea (Vestersoen), by Dr. V. Christensen, and the other on the Dutch origin of names in the Danish waters, by Dr. Joh. Knudsen (but based upon researches by a Dutch scholar). A supplementary part contains the biblio- graphy of historical literature relating to Denmark for 1916, together with a considerable number of reviews. W. A. C. In the last volume of the Bijdragen voor Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde (5th ser., vii) is an article by Dr. P. J. Blok on the dis- puted question of William the Silent's relation to the Union of Utrecht. Mr. Johan E. Elias resumes his series of ' sketches ' of Dutch naval history ; 1 Dr. A. C. Bouman discusses the earliest charters of the abbey of Marien- weerd, which were published in 1890; and, besides other articles, there are Dr. Japikse's usual reviews of Dutch historical literature. The letters from Bishop Kennett to Benjamin Colman, printed in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. liii, 1920, should be noted by those interested in the question of the proposed estab- lishment of an episcopacy on the American continent. Kennett was a strong whig and bitterly opposed to high church tendencies in matters of church and state, yet we find him recognizing the expediency ' of having bishops settled in those foreign parts committed to our care that they may judge better of things and persons within their own view '. At the same time he recognized that ' alas, there is so much of an ecclesiastical and of a civil nature in this affair, and such a concurrency required here at home and abroad, that what issue it may come to, we are yet uncertain '. In the same volume the log-book kept by John Boit, of the voyage to the north- west coast of the ship Columbia, is published in full. This journal contains the fullest account of the expedition which entered and named the Columbia river. H. E. E. 1 See ante, xxxii. 622, and p. 307 above. CORRECTIONS FOR THE JANUARY NUMBER P. 24, line 14. For Willelmus read Walt eras. P. 41. Mr. James Tait writes that there seems reason to believe that the Cheshire royalist, signing 'M. S.', who wrote the letter describing the battle of Edgehill, was Matthew Smallwood, probably a member of a well-known Cheshire family. Small- wood, like M. S., was closely associated with Sir Edward Fitton of Gawsworth, and was with him at the siege of Bristol in July 1643, witnessing his will on 16 August as Matthew Smallwood, clerk (Earwal er, East Cheshire, ii. 561, n. ). After the Restoration he was rector of Gawsworth and of Halsall, Lanes., prebendary of St. Paul's, and from 1671 to his death in 1683 dean of Lichfield {ibid. p. 591). P. 139, line 25. For Friiscom read Friis.