1 86 N'otes and N'ews Shand. General Jacob's career was a highly eventful one, and is traced from his early years to his death, at Jacobabad, in 1858. Mr. Shand has had access to the papers of General Jacob, in the possession of his niece, Mrs. Jacob, of Tavistock. Under the title of The Third SalisbiDj Administration, 1 895-1 900, Messrs. Vacher and Co. will shortly publish a history of the present gov- ernment, by Mr. H. Whates. Several maps, and appendices containing the text of all important diplomatic documents, will be contained in the work. Sampson Low, Marston and Co. will publish, by arrangement with the London Times, The Times History of the War in South Africa, 1899- 1900. This history will be a joint production of several of the special correspondents of The Times in South Africa, edited by L. S. Amery, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. The work is expected to form five royal octavo volumes of about three hundred pages each. The American Academy of Political and Social Science has published, as a supplement to its Annals, a useful pamphlet of 72 pages containing Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain, edited by Messrs. Hugh Williams and Frederick C. Hicks of the Library of Congress. Here will be found the Convention of 1884, the constitutions of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, the law of the former for the establishment of the Second Volksraad, its franchise law and the alternative proposals of the two governments for its modification, Kruger's ultimatum and England's reply, and the analogous final communications between England and the Orange Free State. A forthcoming book, of much present interest and importance, is Mr. Alexander Michie's The English in China during the Victorian Era, as illustrated in the Life of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K. C. B. , who, it will be remembered, was for many years British minister in China and Japan. Noteworthy articles in periodicals : Miss E. A. McArthur, The Reg- ulation of Wages in the Sixteenth Century (English Historical Review, July); R. S. Rait, The Scottish Parliament before the Union of the Croivns, IL {ibid.); B. Williams, The Foreign Folicy of England under Walpole, IL {ibid.-) FRANCE. ^L Louis Clement, in an interesting thesis, Henri Estienne et son CEuvre Franfaise (Paris, Picard, pp. 538), discourses upon his subject from both the historical and the literary and philological points of view. M. Alexandre Tausserat-Radel has edited for the Inventaire Analyti- que des Archives des Affaires Etrangeres two volumes of the Correspon- dance Politique de Guillaume Pellicier, Ambassadeur de France a Venise (Paris, Alcan, pp. 810), important for the history of the relations of France with Venice and the Orient from 1540 to 1542 and for the history of humanism.
