CLASS OF 1896

At a meeting of the Chicago Historical Society, on March 28, Isaac J. Cox of the University of Cincinnati, deilvered an address on "The Diplomacy and Intrigue of the Old Northwest. "

Another important contribution to Arthurian study has appeared in "The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles, especially those of Great Britain and France," by Robert Huntington Fletcher, which constitutes Vol. X. of the Harvard " Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature" (Ginn and Co.). The author traces accurately and with a completeness never attempted before the Arthurian tradition as it developed in the chronicles from Gildas to the end of the sixteenth century. It is not his fault if his researches have not brought to light any considerable new material. Perhaps the most interesting find of this nature noted in the work is the account of Arthur's end in the "Chronicle of the Monastery of Hales" which the author had already called attention to in Yol. XVIII. of the Publications of the Modern Language Association. Mr. Fletcher has earned the gratitude of all Arthurian students by the thoroughness of his investigations in this voluminous and irksome material.

Secretary, Carl H. Richardson, Esq., 27 School St., Boston, Mass.