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 * andoneof them the author of the whole of 'The

.Famous Victories.' Next he finds this same hand in the additions to * Doctor Faustus ' and a note in Henslowe's ' Diary ' leads him on to the dis- covery of its identity. It appears that in 1602 Henslowe paid 4 to William Birde and Samuel Rowley for their additions to ' Doctor Faustus, ' and what is known of Rowley justifies the pre- sumption that he is the playwright sought for. This is a satisfactory discovery which, we believe will maintain itself and on which Mr. Dugdale Sykes is much to he congratulated.

Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plan- tations 'from April, 1704, to February, 1708-9. (H.M. Stationery Office.)

THE Journals of the 'Commissioners for Trade and Plantations' form a series apart in the mass of State Papers Colonial, running to the year 1782, when the Board was dissolved. It has been decided to publish so much of them as has not been already included in the volumes of the Calendar of State Papers Colonial, in a separate set of volumes which may be completed within a relatively short time.

The volume before us contains the Journals marked I., K., L., and M., running to February, '1708-9. A full list of the members of the Board might have been supplied. It sat every two or three days sometimes oftener and the average attendance would appear to have been four or five members.

The work done embraced decisions upon all the affairs of the Colonies administrative, commercial, military, financial, and personal as well as the settling of Church matters ; and includes, of course, some considerations and many particulars of the relations of the Colonies with the Indians, and details as to the importation of negroes, and their character and treatment.

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