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Minor Notices 9 1 5 (only 30,000 pesos yearly of Philippine products being sent to Acapulco about 1720), the question of the sitiiado, or subsidy from Mexico, etc. Still we do not get exact details on the system of government book- keeping as between Mexico and the Philippines, ^'e do learn that the net payments in cash from the Mexican treasury to the Philippine treasury ranged from 73,000 to 93,000 pesos annually during the years 1 723-1 73 1. The appendix on " Education in the Philippines ", occupying most of volumes XLV. and XLVL, forms, together with documents previously published in this same series, and with its very carefully prepared bibliograpbical data and annotations, by far the best treatment of that subject available in any work. In fact, there is no other comprehensive treatment of this subject to compare with it. It is a most praise- worthy piece of editorial work. James A. LeRoy. ]IiNOR Notices Mr. Garret Chatfield Pier has issued the first part (University of Chicago Press, 1906, pp. 23, 21 plates) of a catalogue of his collection of Egyptian antiquities. The catalogue will extend through several volumes. The antiquities catalogued in this part have been acquired by the author since 1897. They consist chiefly of domestic implements and ornaments, and notably of seals, the development of which, in their various forms and materials, is here traced and illustrated. In the plates the most remarkable pieces of glazeware are colored, and the attempt is made to reproduce the softened tones of their present condi- tion. The stone implements figured in the catalogue are representative specimens from a large collection, the majority of which are Fayum surface finds. A specimen of every common Fayum type, and a few of the more unusual forms, are given. The provenance of some of the antiquities is unknown, and in the case of many others, information on this point is confined to the statements of dealers and Arabs. The Roman System of Provincial Administration to tlie Accession of Constantine the Great. By W. T. Arnold, M.A. New edition, revised from the author's notes by E. S. Shuckburgh, Litt.D. (Oxford, B. H. Blackwell, 1906, pp. xviii, 288.) The merits of this work are too well known to need mention here. No one has described in so concise, at- tractive and trustworthy a fashion as Arnold has done the functions of the general and local governments in the provinces, the strong and the weak points of Roman rule, the development of imperial policy, and the influence of expansion upon domestic politics. It remains ior us here merely to note the changes which have been made in the book for the new edition, and to consider whether it reflects our present knowledge of the subject. So far as the body of the text is concerned it is essen-