de Napoleon Ier (Revue Historique, March, May) ; G. Caudrillier, Le Complot de l' An XII., I. (Revue Historique, March).
ITALY, SPAIN.
The second volume of Professor Giuseppe Mazzatinti's Gli Archivi della Storia d' Italia, recently published, contains inventories or descriptions of thirty-odd archives, chiefly municipal, and largely described by Mazzatinti himself upon the basis of personal researches.
In the Archivio della R. Socicta Romana di Storia Patria, XXIII. 3-4, the principal contents, beside continuations of writings which we have already mentioned, are a long article by Signore Pietro Egidi of Girgenti on the "Fraternità dei Disciplinati " at Viterbo, and one by Signor V. Federici on Santa Maria Antiqua and the latest excavations of the Forum Romanum.
Dr. Vito La Mantia has lately published (Palermo, Alberto Reber, pp. ccciv, 356) his critical edition of the Antiche Consuetudini della Città di Sicilia, important for the medieval history of the island. A newly founded Asociacion de la Libreria at Madrid, apparently modelled after the Cercle Français de la Librairie, will publish fortnightly a general Bibliografia Español, which may be had through Messrs. Lemcke and Buechner, New York.
We are indebted to Seilor Enrique Serrano Fatigati, president of the Sociedad Espanola de Excursiones, for several issues of the Boletin of that society, containing interesting archaeological articles by him, which he has finally combined into a monograph, illustrated by excellent phototypes and photogravures, on Escultura Romanica en España (Madrid, Imprenta de San Francisco de Sales, pp. 65). It is a common opinion that the sculpture accompanying Spanish medieval architecture is all symbolic. This Senor Fatigati controverts, showing, in this monograph and in another on two ancient churches, Sepúlveda y Santa Maria de Nieva, many interesting examples of Romanesque capitals, of grotesques and of representations of the forms of nature.
The Spanish People, by Major Martin A. S. Hume (New York, D. Appleton and Co.), is the first volume in the " Great Peoples" series, edited by Professor York Powell. Mr. Hume describes the racial elements which have entered into the Spanish people, their development in the history of the Spanish peninsula, and their influence upon European civilization.
In the Boletin of the Royal Spanish Academy of History, XXXVII. 6, Senor R. Ramirez de Arellano brings forward new facts and documents relating to Beatriz Enriquez de Arana, tending to show that she was neither noble nor rich, but a poor orphan seduced by Columbus.
GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND.
The German historical congress ("Versammlung deutscher Historiker") is announced as to hold its next meeting at Heidelberg at Easter of 1902.
