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[90 Notes afid News The British Museum has published a Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Phrygia (pp. 491, plates 53) compiled by Dr. B. V. Head, keeper of the department of coins and medals. G. Colin's work, Rome et la Grcce de 200 a 146 avant Jesus-Christ (Paris, Fontemoing, 1905, pp. 683), which forms the ninety-fourth fas- cicle of the Bibliotheqne des Scales Frangaises d'Athenes et de Rome, has been crowned by the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. A detailed statement regarding the fascicles of this series which have ap- peared from 1904 to 1906 is given in Le Moyen Age, May-June, pp. 182-183. The third volume of P. Groebe's revised edition of W. Drumann's Geschichte Rams in seinem Uhergange von dcr repuhlikanischen ziir monarchischen Verfassung (Berlin, Borntraeger, 1906, pp. xii, 829) com- prises the sections relating to the families Domitii-Julii. The portion dealing with the Roman calendar in the years 45-43 B. C. is published separately by the same house. Studies of Roman Imperialism by Mr. W. T. Arnold, edited by Mr. E. Fiddes with a memoir of the author by Mrs. Humphrey Ward and Mr. C. E. Montague, forms the fourth number in the Historical Series published by the University of Manchester (University Press, 1906, pp. cxxiii, 281). The volume contains seven chapters, of which two deal with the constitution and the rest mainly with the several provinces of the Empire, not including Roman Britain or Africa. Professor E. Kornemann's critical study Kaiser Hadrian und der letzte grosse Historiker von Rom treats of various questions connected with the life of the Emperor and with the historical work of the Anony- mous of the time of Alexander Severus. (Leipzig, Dieterich, pp. viii, 136.) Dr. E. C. Clark, Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge, has published through the University Press the first part of a History of Roman Private Law (1906, pp. 168) dealing with its sources, and including a chronological sketch. The work aims at a systematic treatment of Roman Private Law as a matter of historical development. A Short History of Roman Lazv (Toronto, Canada Law Book Com- pany, 1906, pp. 220) is the title under which Professors A. H. F. Lefroy and J. H. Cameron, both of Toronto, have published a translation of the first part of Professor P. F. Girard's Manuel Slementaire de Droit Romaine. Die Vcrfassungsgeschichte der Germanen und Keltcn (Berlin, K. Siegismund, 1906, pp. viii, 208) is a contribution by Julius Cramer to the comparative study of antiquity, based largely upon the information fur- nished by Caesar and Tacitus regarding the two peoples. Die Germanen im Romischen Dienst bis sum Regiernngsantritt Con- stantins I. is the subject of a work by M. Bang, published by W'eidmann (Berlin, 1906, pp. viii, 112).