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7 1 6 Notes and News liendcn i6. Jahrhundcrt (Mitteilungen des Instituts fur Osterreichische Geschichtsforschung, XXVII. 4). NETHEBLANDS AND BELGIUM The Netherlands government has authorized Professor G. W. Kern- kamp, of Utrecht, to examine the archives of Denmark and the cities of the Baltic for historical material relating to the Netherlands. This is a continuation of Professor Kernkamp's exploration of Scandinavian archives, on which he has already published several reports. Professor F. J. L. Kraemer is publishing through the house of Ny- hoff, at the Hague, a third series of the Archives oil Corycspondance inedite dc la Maison d' Orangc-N assau , which will cover the period from 1688 to 1795. The first volume, which is furnished with an historical introduction and notes (pp. Iviii, 642), contains 500 letters, dating from 1689 to 1697, drawn from the correspondence of William III. with Antonius Heinsius. Dr. H. T. Colenbrander, Secretary of the Dutch Royal Historical Commission, has published the second volume of the Gcdcnkstnkkcn dcr Algemeene Geschiedenis van Nedcrland van 1795 tot 1840 (The Hague, Nyhofif, 1906, pp. cxxx, 1035). The volume contains the text of 842 documents relating to the history of the Batavian revolution, from 1795 to June 12, 1798, and an extended introduction. Noteworthy articles in periodicals: G. Bigwood, Gand et la Circula- tion des Grains en Flandre, du XIV^. an XVIII«. Siccle (Vierteljahr- schrift fiir Social- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, IV. 3). NOBTHEEN AND EASTEBN EUBOPE The Romanes lecture for 1906 was on Stiirla the Historian (Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. 24), by W. M. Ker. Fellow of All Souls College. Sturla was a member of one of the great families of Iceland in the thirteenth century and the author of a large part of the Stiirliniga Saga. U. L. Lehtonen's work on the early relations of the Russian govern- ment to their Polish subjects has been translated from the Finnish by Gustav Schmidt under the title Die polnischcn Provinzcn Russlands miter Katharina II. in den Jahren ijj2-ijS2 (Berlin, Reinicr, 1907, PP- 634). The Russian Academy of Sciences (section of the Russian language and literature) proposes to begin in 1907 the publication of a complete collection of the works of ancient Russian literature from the end of the eleventh century to the time of Peter the Great. Preliminary to this undertaking is the volume by Professor N. Nikolsky, of the eccle- siastical academy of St. Petersburg, on Materials dlia sovreineniiago spiska ritsskil.^h pisatelei i ikli sotchiiieiiii (Materials for the knowledge