400 Notes and Neivs the investigation of historical materials. The curriculum suggested would provide courses in methodology, palaeography and diplomatics, the bibliography of printed and manuscript sources, and would also include archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics. The council proposes the formation of a general committee to consider the project. The British Government has published Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III., 1337-1339 ; Calendar of State Papers {Venetian), Vol. X., 1603-1607 ; Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, 1735-1738; a report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, on the Manuscripts of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, and Vol. 88 (1895-1896) of the British and Foreign State Papers. The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts has published a third volume (pp. li, 710) of its calendar of the papers of Mr. J. B. Fortescue of Dropmore, edited by Mr. Walter FitzPatrick, with a preface for both Vol. H. and Vol. HI. The main text of the volume covers the years 1795, 1796 and 1797. But many earlier papers, 1 787-1 796, have been discovered at Dropmore since Vol. H. was printed, and these are now incorporated in an appendix. Taken as a whole the book is a highly important contribution to the history of the diplomacy of Eng- land under Grenville. Messrs. Longmans announce for early publication Vol. HL (1654- 1656) of Dr. S. R. Gardiner's History of the Commonwealth and the Pro- tectorate; and The Sources and Literature of English History, to 1485, by Professor Charles Gross, of Harvard ; and A Critical E.xamination of Irish History, by T. Dunbar Ingram. The Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, of which the first volume was published in 1890, has now reached its third (Eyre and Spottiswoode, Rolls Series), which, beside continuing those in the treasury of the receipt of the exchequer, court of augmenta- tions and court of chancery, gives others from the queen's remembrancer's department of the exchequer. Fifteen thousand deeds have now been catalogued. The Pipe Roll Society has published The Feet of Fines of the Tenth Year of the Reign of Richard I., and, announcing that its funds are ex- hausted, and that it will publish nothing more, has dissolved. Messrs. Archibald Constable and Co. will publish a new edition of The Paston letters, 1422-i^op, in which the separate prefaces and intro- ductions to the three volumes by the editor, Mr. James Gairdner, will be superseded by a general preface and a general introduction in a vol- ume by itself. This volume will also contain a supplement, in which the Roydon Hall letters will be printed from the original MSS. now in the British Museum, with a few other originals hitherto unedited. Students of the history of the Pilgrim Fathers will be glad to know of the publication (London, J. Clarke) of Mr. F. J. Powicke's Henry
