Corporation Sole (Law Quarterly Review, October); B. Williams, The Foreign Policy of England under Walpole, IV. (English Historical Review, January).
FRANCE.
An important committee, including such scholars as M. Imbart de la Tour, M. Chatelain, M. Boulay de la Meurthe, M. Fournier, M. Baudrillart, and M. Noël Valois, has been formed for the publication of scholarly documentary publications illustrating the history of the Church in France. Documents of the Vatican archives as well as of those in France will be undertaken. The usual form of publication will be that of the calendar, with full texts of the most important pieces. The general name of the series will be Archives de l'Histoire Religieuse de la France. Among the works proposed are: Registre des Procès-verbaux de la Faculté de Théologie de Paris, ed. Chatelain and Denifle; letters of Cardinal du Bellay; instructions given to the French ambassadors in Germany at the time of the Reformation; and, of especial importance, the reports of the papal nuncios in France.
The first volume of M. Lavisse's co-operative Histoire de France (Hachette) has appeared. It comprises pre-Roman and Roman Gaul, and is written by M. G. Bloch. Part 2 of Vol. II., on the first Capetians, by IVI. Achille Luchaire, has also appeared; Part 1 of that volume, by MM. Bayet and Kleinclausz, on Christianity and the barbarians, the Merovingians and Carolingians, will be somewhat delayed. The whole work will consist of eight volumes, of the same size and price as those of Lavisse and Rambaud's Histoire Générale. Of this latter work, by the way, the twelfth and concluding volume, embracing the years from 1870 to 1900, was lately brought out.
Three important volumes of cartularies have lately been published: Vol. III. of the Cartulaire de l'Église d'Autun, edited by M. de Charmasse (Paris, Pedone), which contains 202 interesting charters bearing dates from 897 to 1399, and an able introduction on the medieval history of landed property in Burgundy; the Cartulaire de l'Église d' Angoulême, edited by the Abbé Nanglard (Angoulême, Chasseignac), consisting of documents of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries; and the second part of M. Lacave-La Plagne-Barris's Cartulaire du Chapitre d' Auch (Paris, Champion).
M. Marcellin Boudet, in his Thomas de la Marche, Bâtard de France, et ses Aventures, 1318-1361 (Paris, Champion) relates the story of a quite extraordinary and romantic career and of an interesting person, a captain in the Hundred Years' War, whom he supposes to have been the son of Philippe de Valois and Blanche of Burgundy, countess of La Marche.
In the "Collection de Textes pour servir," etc. (Paris, Picard) M. Gustave Fagniez has just brought out the second volume (pp. Ixxx, 345) of his Documents relatifs à l'Histoire de l'Industrie et du Commerce en
