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160 SHORT NOTICES January 1922 the omission in 1920 of the further words in its title Land- en Volkenkunde. It now deals with history alone, but with all periods and aspects of history. Professor Otto Cartellieri describes in the German language the knightly games at the Burgundian court in 1468 ; Dr. J. J. Salverda de Grave has an article on Dante, and Dr. M. Engers on Egypt under the Ptolemies. The most important contribution to Dutch history is Dr. W. S. Unger's article on the medieval government of the town of Middelburg. There are a number of je views of books and of articles in periodicals. Some of the latter take the form of summaries of such length that they appear to us likely to be of use mainly to those who are unable to read the languages in which the articles originally .appeared. K. It is with pleasure that we welcome the first number of Historische Blatter, the conjoint venture of the learned officials of the Viennese Staatsarchiv and of the enterprising Rikola Verlag. Amongst the con- tents of this number, sixth in order of the nine articles but first in interest, is a survey of European politics from 1812 to the first peace of Paris (part of the introduction to his projected history of the congress of Vienna), by the lamented Professor Fournier, a masterly survey, composed with his wonted grace and dignity of style. Noteworthy letters from the Arch- duke John on Austria and the Sonderbund are printed by Dr. Winkler, while (again from the Staatsarchiv) Professor Stern throws light on Wit von Dorring's headship of Rechberg's press bureau. The middle ages, too, are not ignored with Dr. Otto Cartellieri's pleasing ' Ritterspiele am Hofe Karls des Kiihnen von Burgund ' l and Dr. Schneider's note on the right interpretation of the Dantean tedeschi lurchi, while with v. Below's ' Das Verhaltnis der deutschen Geschichtschreibung zur Romantik und zu Hegels Philosophic ' we enter on another sphere. Here one might perhaps observe that the new publication may prove to have too wide an arc of fire : it is doubtful what good is served by reprinting Steinacker's ' tenden- cious ' address on the historical necessities of German policy or indeed by including Dr. Alexander Cartellieri's careful analysis of Bourdon's L'enigme allemande of 1913. We hope that future issues will contain articles similar to those which form, for example, nos. 15 and 23 of the Mitiheilungen der Koniglich Preussischen Archivverwaltung, different though the scheme of this latter series be. One such contribution the present issue contains in Dr. Szekfu's ' Die ungarische Geschichtsforschung und die Wiener Archive ', in which we learn with interest of the recent establishment of the Hungarian Historical Institute in Vienna, and in which (at pp. 160-1) the writer might have found a parallel in the archival relations of Ireland with the English seat of government. C. S. B. B. 1 This is distinct from the same author's article in the Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis noticed above, though the titles, as given in the tables of contents, are the same.