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Great Britain and Ireland 45 1 (1485-1547), by Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, and volume VII. (1603-1660), by Professor F. C. Montague, will appear shortly. Richard III: his Life and Character Revicu'ed in the Light of Recent Research, by Sir Clements R. Markham, is announced for immediate publication by Smith Elder and Company. Two volumes in preparation by Professor Feuillerat of the Uni- versity of Rennes for Professor Bang's Materialien sur Kunde des dltercn Englischen Dramas comprise, respectively, documents on the revels at court in the time of Elizabeth and the accounts of the Office of Revels in the time of Edward VI. and Mary (the latter preserved at Loseby Hall). English Patents of Monopoly, by W. H. Price, forms volume I. of the Harvard Economic Studies. Professor Wolfgang Michael's Cromivcll, in two small volumes, has been published at Berlin by E. Hofmann. Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, Plates XLI.-L., published by the British Museum, represent the earlier years of the reign of Charles II. The life of the great Duke of Ormonde, which is in preparation by Lady Burghclere and is expected to appear soon, is based largely on the unpublished Carte Papers. Mr. Murray announces for forthcoming publication Charles lames Fox: A Commentary on his Life and Character, by Walter Savage Landor, edited by Stephen Whegler. This commentary, written in 181 1 and suppressed before publication, will now be printed for the first time in full. Volume IV. of A History of the British Army, by the Honorable J- W. Fortescue, is complete in two parts, covering the period from 1789 to 1801, with a separate volume of maps (London, Macmillan). The Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham, 1792-1849, by Mr. Stuart J. Reid (London, Longmans), is based on the family and political papers preserved at Lambton Castle. In A Short History of the Oxford Movement, by Sir Samuel Hall (Longmans, pp. 278), the author aims at tracing the origin, leadership, and progress of the movement without discussing the theological ques- tions involved. The Letters of William Stubbs, published in 1904, have been succeeded by a volume entitled William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901; From the Letters of William Stubbs, by W. H. Hutton (Constable, pp. 272) ; some new information has been added and some of the letters have been omitted. Recent additions to the Victoria History of the Counties of England are Nottinghamshire, vol. I.; Cornwall, vol. I.; Devon, vol. I. ; and Somerset, vol. I.