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La France ct Giiillaunic II. (Paris, Colin, 1907, pp. 315), by Victor Berard, aims at giving a complete idea of the relations between France and the German Emperor. Noteworthy articles in periodicals: J. Miiller, Niinibergs Botschaft nach Spanien zu Kaiser Karl V. ini Jahre i^ip' (Historische Zeitschrift, XCVIII. 2) ; L. Willaert, Ncgociations politico-religieuscs entre I'Angle- terre et les Pays-Bas Catholiques (1598-1625), 2. Intervention des Archiducs en faveur dti Catholicisme en Anglcterre, V. (Revue d'His- toire Ecclesiastique, January) ; de Freville, Lally ct Bussy aux hides, Avril, i/^S-Mars, 1/61 (Revue des Questions Historiques, January) ; G. Servieres, Un Episode dc I' Expedition d'Irlande: U Extradition et la Mise en Liberte de Napper Tandy (1798-1802) (Revue Historique, January-February) ; J. E. Driault, Napoleon et la Paix en 181^, a propos du dernier Volume d' Albert Sorcl (Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Con- temporaine, December). GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND The second volume of Professor J. Hatschek's important work, Englischcs Staatsrccht (Tiibingen, Mohr, pp. 710), deals with the Con- stitution. In Tin- Origin of the English Nation (pp. 351), by H. Munro Chad- wick, the author " has sought to make use of all branches of ethnological study — history, tradition, language, custom, religion, and antiquities." The book is published by the Cambridge University Press in the Cam- bridge Archeological and Ethnological Series. An attempt to examine and arrange scientifically the legends of St. Edmund, king and martyr, is made in the volume entitled Corolla Sancti Eadmundi (London, Murray), which will include much from hitherto unpublished manuscripts, and a preface by Lord Francis Hervey. His Grace the Stcu'ard and the Trial of Peers, by Mr. L. W. Vernon Harcourt, is a history of the origin and development of the Steward- ship of England, announced for publication by Messrs. Longman. The work is based on original documents, many of which are unprinted. The Domesday Inquest, by Adolphus Ballard, issued in the series of Antiquary's Books (Methuen), contains some new views on the ques- tion of the sokemen. The Rev. S. Baring Gould and the Rev. John Fisher will publish, under the auspices of the Cymmrodorion Society, a work in four volumes on the Lives of the British Saints, containing unpublished pedigrees, original texts, and illustrations. In C. G. Chamberlayne's dissertation on Die Heirat Richards II. von England mit Anna von Luxemburg (Halle, Kaemmerer, 1906, pp. 82), the author treats of the marriage and of its results, especially with refer-
ence to England's relations with Germany.