The July number of the American Historical Review is an unusually large one, containing 250 pages plus an index to Volume VI, of which this is the last number. Of the leading articles two relate to European history. The Republic of San Marino, by William Miller, is a brief sketch of the history of the only survivor of the mediæval Italian republics. The Risings in the English Monastic Towns in 1327, by Norman M. Trenholme, is a study of the struggles of the mediæval monastic towns to obtain franchises from their lords, the monks. Two leading papers are on American history. H. P. Biggar contributes The French Hakluyt; Marc Lescarbot of Vervins, in which he describes and critically discusses the writings of Lescarbot, whom he calls “the first historian of New France.” The Transition from Dutch to English Rule in New York, by Albert E. McKinley, is a study in institutional history. Three sets of documents are printed, namely: Letters of Dr. Thomas Cooper, 1825-1832; Letters on the Nullification Movement in South Carolina, 1830-1834, I; and A Ministerial Crisis in France, 1876. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart contributes A Trial Bibliography of American Diplomacy, that will no doubt prove very useful to students.

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"the American Historical Review", Volume 005, Number 2, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 161 - 162. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v005/n2/review_12.html
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