870 Notes and Ncivs An authorized translation of Dr. G. Adolf Deissmann's Bible Studies, by Alexander Grieve, is announced (New York, Scribners). Almost all the passages to be found in classical literature bearing di- rectly upon the subject of education and school life are brought together and connected by brief discussions and interpretations in a Source-Book in the History of Education for the Greek and Roman Period, by Dr. Paul Monroe, Professor of the History of Education in the Teachers College of Columbia University. Noteworthy articles in periodicals: V. Berard, U Etude des Origines Grecques, I. (Revue Historique, May) ; J. L. Strachan-Davidson, Momm- sen's Roman Criminal Law (English Historical Review, April) ; Dom Chamard, Les Origines du Symbole des Apotres (Revue des Questions Historiques, April) ; P. Allard, L' Expedition de Julien centre Constance (Revue des Questions Historiques, April) ; T. Mommsen, Das theodo- sische Gesetzbuch (Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung, Roman. Abt., XXI.). MEDIEVAL HISTORY. Wx. Henry C. Lea's History of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages is to appear in a German translation by Professor Joseph Hansen, director of archives at Cologne. The sixth and concluding volume of Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie's History of Egypt s published by the Messrs. Scribner under the title, A History of Egypt in the Middle Ages, by Dr. Stanley Lane-Poole. Messrs. Rivington have issued Volume 111. of their " Periods of European History," entitled The Close of the Middle Ages, A. D. J2jj- J4g4, by Professor R. Lodge, of the LTniversity of Edinburgh (New York, Macmillan). MODERN HISTORY. The Lane lectures delivered by Sir Michael Foster, ALP., at the Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, are to be published by the Cambridge University Press as Lectures on the History of Physiology dur- ing the Sixtee)ith, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. In a privately printed pamphlet on Smeerenburg, Spitsbergen, Sir Martin Conway relates the history of this seventeenth-century settlement, and discusses the legends that have gathered about the story of its rise and fall. Mr. J. Taylor Hamilton has written A History of the Church known as the Moravian Church, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Bethlehem, Pa., Times Publishing Co.). The Fleming H. Revell Co. will shortly publish The Convulsion i?i China at the End of the Century, by Dr. Arthur H. Smith, whose previous books on China have been so highly regarded. A Chronological Index of the Chief Events in the Foreign Intercourse of Korea is the title of a pamphlet compiled by Dr. Horace N. Allen, the