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 THE GARY COLLECTION repository of mediaeval charters; Meyer's Esprit des Institutions Judiciaires (1823); Carrere and Roll's account of Senegambian Customs (1853); Mignot's Memoir on the Phenicians (1770); Clot-Bejs Memoir on Egypt (1842); Olon's Memoir on Moroccan Customs (1695); Spiegel's translation of the Persian Avesta (1852), and his treatise on Iranic Antiquities (1871); Baluzius' edition of the Prankish Capitularies (1780). The collection also includes two of the leading repositories of French mediaeval cus tomary law — Philippe de Beaumanoir's Coutumes de Beauvoisis, and Loisel's Insti tutes Coutumiaires; together with a very full set of the books of the charters and privileges of the French mediaeval towns. Another interesting title is Kukuljevitch's edition of the Slavic sources, Jura Regni Croatiae, Dalmatiae, et Slavonias, printed in 1 86 1; and this is fitly complemented by the great collaborative work, recently furnished after twenty years' gradual publication, of Bogisith, Jirechek, and other notable Slavic scholars, the Monumenta historica-juridica Slavorum Meridionalium, in nine volumes; covering the early sources of all the South Slavic communities, — Servia, Bulgaria, etc. The complementary volumes, by Jirechek, on Bohemian, Moravian, and Polish sources of the West Slavs, is already in the Gary collection; and the remaining set, comprising Russian sources, is yet to be acquired. A specially interesting title is the recent fresh edition (by Karst) of an early Arme

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nian code made by the sage Mekhitar for Prince Vakhtang, dating back to 1184 A.D. This code has long engaged the attention of European scholars, and has been described by such eminent writers as Kohler and de Hube, in legal periodicals, and by Dareste, in his Studies in Legal History. It first included only Armenian customs; was then enlarged by the Constable Sempad, who added in translation a part of the Germanic law of the Crusaders' Kingdom of Antioch, in 1265, the original of which has never been found elsewhere. Then in the 1700*8, other additions were made from the Jewish Byzan tine and Syriac laws. Portions of the whole were printed in 1876, in 1880, and in 1886, separately in Armenian, in Russian, and in French. Now finally the entire wonderful mosaic has been edited from the original sources and translated. These are merely examples of the wide range of possibilities in such a library. The value of such a collec tion, when fairly completed, to students of comparative law, and to researchers in all branches of history' and politics, it is hardly necessary to point out. d. American International Law. The work of selecting and acquiring this collection has but just commenced. When completed it is proposed to include all printed material relating to American Inter national Law and Diplomacy not now available in the West. CHICAGO, ILL., February. 1906.