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American affairs. Again, he should have been more careful in his copying and in his proof-reading. A list of errata would include the following: "mine" for my, " Vandreuil for Vaudreuil, " Fitsch " for Fitch, "stakes" for strikes, " Torysm ", "an" for and, "£15.000" for £150,000, "Grag" for Gray, "engage" for enrage, " Jes " for Yes, " Bonawen " and " Boscaven " for Boscawen, " was " for what, " Gentle- man Magazine". " breathing in " for breaking in, " Thankerville " for Tankerville. Note 2 on page 422, volume I., and note 3 on page 332, volume II., are full of misprints, and the latter is unintelligible. The translation of " all Tuesday " by jeden Dienstag completely changes the meaning of the original. There is no Berwickshire ; the grandfather of Pitt looks very much like an interloper in spite of von Ruville's argu- ments to the contrary ; the date of Pitt's baptism is given in the Diction- ary of National Biography; finally the dreadful mixture of foreign words injected into the text is inexcusable. Collection de Docmiients Incdits sur I'Histoire £coiioinique dc la Revolution Franqaise publics par le Ministere de I'lnstruction Publique: Departement du Loiret, Cahiers de Doleances du Bail- liage d'Orleans pour les £.tats Gencraux de 1789. Publics par C.MiiLLE Block, Inspecteur General des Bibliotheques et des Archives, Archiviste Honoraire du Departement du Loiret. Tome I. (Orleans: Imprimerie Orleanaise. 1906. Pp. Ixxvi, 800) ; Departement du Rhone, Documents rclatifs a la I'entc des Biens Naiionaux. Publics par Skb.stien Ch.rlety, Professeur a rUniversite de Lyon. Tome I. (Lyon: R. Schneider. 1906. Pp. xviii, 722.) An account has already appeared in this Review (XI. 534-537) of the historical commission established by the French government three years ago for the publication of documentary material relating to the economic history of the French Revolution. This commission, which takes its place beside that originally established by Guizot — long so well-known for the many important volumes which have appeared under its auspices in the vast series of Documents Incdits — owes its existence first and foremost to the enlightened socialist, Jaures, who properly urged that the political phases of the revolutionary movement had re- ceived far more attention than the perhaps more fundamental and essential economic changes, which are still the subject of the most bitter differences of opinion. The commission is made up of well- known scholars under the chairmanship of Jaures himself — Aulard, Brette, Bloch, Caron, Esmein, Gide, Glasson, Lavisse, Levasseur, Sag- nac. See. Seignobos, and others, most of whom are distinguished for their researches in the field in question. The first great undertaking decided upon was the publication of the local cahiers and, second, of the inventories and other material having to do with the assumption and