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Great Britain 871 American envoy in Korea. The book contains lists of Korean treaties and agreements, and also of officials in the diplomatic and civil service. GREAT BRITAIN. Considerations of health have moved Dr. Samuel Rawson Gardiner to resign the charge of the English Historical Review into the able hands of Dr. Reginald Lane Poole, to whose service as assistant editor under Dr. Creighton and Dr. Gardiner that journal has owed so much. The April number, in which this announcement is made, contains an appre- ciative article by Dr. Richard Garnett of the British Museum on the late bishop of London, who edited the Review from its origin in 1SS6 until his consecration as bishop of Peterborough in 1891. The British Government has published List of Early Chancery Pro- ceedings preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol. I.; Acts of the Privy Council of England (New Series) Vol. XXIIL, 1592; Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIIL, 1543, Part L; List of Pro- ceedings in the Court of Star Chamber, Vol. I., 1485-1558 ; and a re- port of the Historical Manuscripts Commission on the manuscripts of Mrs. Frankland-Russell-Astley, of Chequers Court, Bucks. The Selden Society's annual report calls attention to its publication of Vol. XIV., Beverly Town Records, in November, 1900. Vol. XI IL, Select Pleas of the Forests, by Mr. S. J. Turner, is still in arrear. Vol. XV., the first volume o{ Select Proceedings in the Star Chamber, may be expected to appear during the summer of 190 1. The library and offices of the Royal Historical Society have been transferred from St. Martin's Lane to No. 3 Old Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane, where the meetings of the council will henceforward be held. The Catalogue of the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library has been completed by the addition of two more volumes of entries and one of index. Of special collections, those of Thomas Hearne, Sir Thomas Browne, and the Rawlinson family are most extensive. There are a large number of Italian historical tracts, and instructions to papal ambassadors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Papers relating to America are numerous. The manuscript of John Dunton's American narrative (1685-1686) first printed in 1867 by the Prince Society, is one of these. There are letters from George Fox and other Quakers, papers relating to the affairs of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and also to various epochs of the colonial administration in New York. Messrs. Macmillan announce the first volume of Early English Printed Books in the University Library, Cambridge, 141^-1640, cover- ing the issues from Caxton to F. Kingston. Professor Earle's essay on The Alfred Jewel, with illustrations and map, is on the point of publication, or already published, by the Oxford University Press.