The American Historical Review for July (Vol. VIII, No. 4), contains, besides documents, book reviews, communications, and an index, four contributed articles, namely: The Early Norman Jury, by Charles H. Haskins; Some French Communes, in the Light of Their Charters, by Earle Wilbur Dow; The Youth of Mirabeau, by Fred Morrow Fling; and St. Eustatius in the American Revolution, by J. Franklin Jameson. The first two articles are interesting studies in mediœval institutional history. Professor Haskins throws light on “the obscure stage in the growth of the jury” between the close of the ninth century and the reign of Henry II. His article is based primarily upon the “Old Cartulary” or Livre Noir, of the chapter of Bayeux. Professor Dow claims to show, by a new interpretation, but without using any new material, that the mediœval communal charters are not the unsystematized compositions they have usually been considered, “deformed, disordered enumerations where the most diverse subjects are begun but not completed, and where obscurities, omissions, and sometimes contradictions abound,” but that, on the contrary, they are relatively systematic and logical. The documents printed are: Correspondence of Comte de Moustier with Comte de Montmorin, 1787-1789.

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"The American Historical Review", Volume 007, Number 2, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 169 - 170. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v007/n2/review_6.html
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