The English Historical Review for January, the first number to
appear under the editorship of Mr. G. N. Clark, contains a well-deserved tribute to the late editor, Mr. R. L. Poole, who has been connected with the famous review from its appearance in January, 1886. Mr. Poole recalls the fact that Lord Bryce was asked to be the first editor and that he declined and recom- mended Dr. Creighton for the post. Mr. Godfrey Davies con- tributes an interesting study of " The Battle of Edgehill," with the help of some new material which he has found and printed. Thus Lord Bernard Stuart, in a letter preserved in the British Museum, says that the King had 12,000 foot and lost about 2,500 of them by casualties or desertions. Mr. Davies thinks that the Parliamentary losses were smaller. Miss Alice Ashley's paper on " The Alimenta ' of Nerve. and his Successors " describes the system of maintenance grants for poor children established by the Emperor Nerve throughout Italy, and developed by Trojan. These were supplementary to the regular doles of corn, wine, oil, and money which the Emperors dis- tributed to the Roman populace, whose " right to maintenance " in idleness was recognized, to the ultimate ruin of the Empire.
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