The leading articles in the American Historical Review for October are: The Ballot and Other Forms of Voting in the Italian Communes, by Arthur M. Wolfson; Maryland's Adoption of the Federal Constitution, I, by Bernard C. Steiner; Contemporary Opinion of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, I, by Frank M. Anderson; and The Unit Rule in National Nominating Conventions, by Carl Becker. The documents published in the number are: Accounts of Star Chamber Dinners, 1594; and Letters of Bancroft and Buchanan on the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1849, 1850. Many students will be thankful especially for Mr. Steiner's article, which adds materially to what has been generally available in connection with the subject thereof.