184 N'otcs and A'ctvs In the A^eiies Archiv, XXV. 3, J. Schwalm publishes seventeen royal diplomas and Acta Imperii (119S-1338) discovered by him in an Italian journey in 1898; F. Philippi essays to disprove the authenticity of Norbert's Vita Bennonis ; and K. Zeumer reduces from the tenth century to the twelfth the Alemannic code called /«r<7 Curiae in Muiicit- -liiilare published last year by E. Gothein. The Ford lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in Lent term, 1900, by Mr. James Hamilton Wylie, have been published (Long- mans) under the title Tlu- Council of Constance to t/ic Dcatli of Jolin Hus. MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY. It is announced that the first volume of Lord Acton's General His- tory of Modern Times may be expected to appear this autumn, published in this country by The Macmillan Company. Dr. H. Huffer, who is engaged upon an extensive documentary pub- lication of the war of 1799 and 1800, prints in the Mittheilunges des Instituts fiir osterreichische Gcschichtsforschung, XXI. , several essays on Su- vorov's campaign in Switzerland in the autumn of 1799, on which he also had contributions in the Revue Historique for March. It is made plain, among other things, that Suvorov knew perfectly well that the St. Gotthardroad had no continuation beyond the southern end of the Lake of the Four Cantons. Dr. Hervey M. Bowman's monograph on T)ie Preliminary A^egotia- tions of the Peace of Amiens, in the LIniversity of Toronto series, which we expect to review in our next number, is to appear shortly in French, in a translation by Lieutenant Grosjean, of the 2Sth Dragoons in the French army. Messrs. E. P. Dutton and Co. have ready for publication The Cam- paign of 18 Jj — Tigny, Quatre-Bras, Waterloo, by Judge ^^'illiam O'Con- nor Morris, who combines a narrative of the campaign of 181 5 with a running commentary on the military operations. Rand, McNally and Co. (New York and Chicago) have published Twenty Years in Europe ; a Consul-General' s Memories of Noted People, with Letters fro7n General IV. T. Sherman. The time covered by this journal is from 1869 to 1891 ; the author was during that time United States Consul-General to Switzerland and Italy. General Sherman was his intimate friend, and the book contains some fifty of his letters. Noteworthy articles in periodicals : J. Riibsam, Aus der Urzeit der 77iodertien Post, 1425-1562 (Historisches Jahrbuch, XXI. 1). GREAT BRITAIN. The British Government has published Acts of the Privy Council of England, Vol. XX., 1590-91 ; Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III., 1340-1343; Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, Charles I, 1625-1632; Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on the Manuscripts of the Duke
