causes obviously beyond the writer's control, the narrative is once or twice cut very short. For example, the years 44-31 B.C. require a fuller treatment than is accorded them; and the same is true of the Empire, in particular of the later Empire. But the article, as a whole, is so able that historical students will do well not to rest till they have worried Mr. Pelham into completing and publishing it. One feeling will certainly rise in the minds of all who read the article,―that the large History of the Empire on which Mr. Pelham is now engaged, will be a great work.

Being critics, and not wishing to belie our office, we venture to add a couple of small criticisms. The division of Italy into regiones by Augustus is hardly worth mentioning. As Marquardt says, it was of very uncertain importance, though it may have paved the way for the later provincial isation of Italy. And it is a little misleading to speak of Augustus "instituting" the provincial concilia. What he did was to develop them. Otto Hirschfeld's Verwaltungsgeschichte ought to have been mentioned among the best books on the Roman officials, F. H.

OXFORD BOOKS OF 1883.

(A rough bibliography, omitting fly-sheets of less than five pages, of the chief books and pamphlets interesting to Oxford residents issued in the first year of the existence of the Magazine.)

Can English Law be taught at the Universities? An inaugural lecture delivered at All Souls College, 21st April, 1883, by A. V. Dicey... Vinerian Professor of English Law... Pp. [iv] + 32. Lond. (Macmillan), 8vo.

Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Bodleianae pars nona, codices a... Kenelm Digby... anno 1624 donatos complectens: adiecto indice nominum et rerum. Confecit Gulielmus D. Macray, A.M. Pp. 288. Oxford (Clar. Press), 1883, 4to. The Church and the Universities. By Rev. J. Wordsworth. A paper read at the Reading Church Congress, October, 1883. Pp. 6. Lond. (Bemrose), (1883), 8vo.

A reprint from the official Report of the Church Congress. The Guide to the Church Congress at Reading contains an account of the leaders of the Oxford Tractarian movement. (Correspondence, &c. between the Syndics of the Pitt Press, Cambridge,

and the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, Oxford, relative to certain features in the sale of the Revised Version of the Bible in America.) Pp. 32. Cambridge [1883], 8vo.

"Private and confidential."

Curious Caps for Curious Customers. A catalogue of flowering shrubs, choice exotics, curious plants, now on view at the Oxford University Bear Gardens. Sole proprietor, John Bull, Esq., S. Albion Hall. Pp. 24 (but the title is only on the cover). Oxford (Vincent), [May 1883], 8vo.

A skit on particular persons and characters in the University.

David Easterbrook: an Oxford Story. By Tregelles Polkinghorne.
Pp. x +386. London (Hodder), 1883, 8vo.
Dr. Pusey: an Historic Sketch: with some account of the Oxford
Movement during the 19th Century. By the Rev. Bourchier Wrey
Savile, M.A.. Pp. 160. Lond. (Longmans), 1883, 8vo.
Against Dr. Pusey's distinctive teaching and Ritualism.
Drink Map of Oxford. August, 1883. S. sh. [Oxford], 1883, fol.
Plan showing the number and position of places in Oxford
licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors. Size about 1 ft. 8 in.
by 2 ft. On the back is letterpress on "the Drink traffic in Oxford."
The floods around Oxford: their causes; their effects; and the means
of mitigating them. A lecture delivered before the Ashmolean
Society, Feb. 17, 1883, by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt,
M.A.... Pp. 22. Oxford (Clar. Press), 1883, 8vo.
With a plan and sections.
Handbook of the Clarendon Press, Oxford, with some account of the
Authorised Version of the Bible. By Edw. Pickard Hall, M.A....
Senior Managing Partner of the Clarendon Press. Pp. 32. Oxford,
1883, 8vo.

The Indian Institute in the University of Oxford: the circumstances which have led to its establishment and the objects it is intended to effect, with a list of its supporters, a statement of receipts and expenditure, and an appeal for further aid. By Monier Williams,... Boden Professor of Sanskrit.... Third edition. Pp. 16, Oxford, 1883, 4to.

With a view and plan. Not published. 1st and 2nd edd., 1882. There are also pamphlets connected with the ceremony of laying the Memorial Stone, May 2, 1883.

Lays of Modern Oxford (new edition). By Adon. Pp. viii+136. (Lond.) 1883, 8vo.

(Letter from T. W. Jackson, M.A., to the Vice-Chancellor about the character of the paper on International Law in the Modern History Honour Examination, Mich. T., 1882: dated March 30, 1883.) Pp. 12. Oxford [1883], 8vo.

First edition, 1874. Author known.

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Privately printed.

Narrative of events connected with the publication of the Tracts for the Times, with an Introduction and Supplement extending to the Present Time. By [the Rev. Sir] William Palmer... Pp. viii + 294, Lond. (Rivingtons), 1883, 8vo.

Partly a reprint of a pamphlet published in 1843 with a similar title. New Road Chapel, Oxford. Proceedings at the centenary of the reconstitution of the Church... April 9, 1883. [Reprinted from the "Oxford Weekly Record."] Pp. 36, Oxford (Alden), 1853, 16mo. Plan of Oxford Local Board district, 1883. W. H. White... Surveyor

to Oxford Local Board. S. sh., London (Causton), [1883], la. fol. Scale, one foot to the mile; size about 4 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft. Most useful for the outlying suburbs, as well as the city, since it extends from Wolvercote and Summertown to the Isis tavern, and from Headington Hill to North Hincksey. The Parliamentary and Municipal boundaries are also marked.

Prayers for use in College. Collected and arranged by a College Chaplain. Pp. 48, Oxford (Parker), 1883, 16mo.

Edited and partly written by Dr. John Wordsworth, now Bp. of Salisbury: an expanded form of a small volume printed in 1879. Record of the University Boat Race 1829-1880, and of the Commemoration Dinner, 1881. Compiled by the Hon. Secs. Geo. G. T. Treherne, O.U.B.C., and J. H. D. Goldie, C.U.B.C........ with illustrations. Pp. [xii] + 208. Lond. (Bickers), 1883, 4to. See 1884.

Report on the Botanic Garden for 1883. [Signed "Edward Chapman,” dated 13 Dec., 1883.] Pp. 12 ["10"], 1883, 8vo.

Privately printed.

Some account of the MSS. and printed books in the Library of St. Mary
Magdalen College, Oxford. By W. A. B. Coolidge, M.A., Fellow
and Tutor, formerly Librarian. Reprinted from "Notes and
Queries," Sixth Series, vol. vii. Pp. 24, (Lond.) 1883, 8vo.
One hundred copies privately reprinted.

The

Student's Handbook to the University and Colleges of Oxford.
Seventh edition revised to April, 1883. Pp. viii + 222, Oxford
(Clar. Press), 8vo.
F. MADAN.

A new edition is now in preparation.
(To be continued.)

LATE NEWS.

CONGREGATION.

THERE had been a rumour that the Non-Placet Society had lately broken up, owing to the public attack on Mods. by a prominent member, which led to the late serious indisposition of the President of the Society. All such fears must Speaker after speaker got up to denounce the proposed have been dispelled by the result of Tuesday's voting. augmentation of the Professorship of Poetry, which was to end in its destruction, The Warden of Wadham set the ball rolling, the indefatigable Professor of Modern History put the matter in a nutshell, the Rector of Lincoln wanted to know if the new Professor could make a Latin speech, and the Provost of Oriel explained that Merton were responsible for the form, but not for all the expressions, of the cumbrous preamble. Then came the big gun in the person of Mr. Wm. Sidgwick, who, having no direct antagonist to grapple with, proceeded to scatter his barbed arrows at random. He had a dig at Professors, a hit at Convocation, and a kick for anything or anybody he could at the moment think of. Dr. Markby, who might have spoken earlier, rose to pour oil on the waves of opposition, and did not empty the House so quickly as he claims to have done on a previous occasion. Professor Dicey spoke too much for the gods at his end of the House. Far too much of Congregation oratory is inaudible, so our correspondent went to sleep, and awoke to find the President of Magdalen resuming his seat, and the Voting begun.

Placets, 25. Non-Placets, 94.