成吉思汗去世地點與祭祀

《元史》載成吉思汗1227年攻打西夏,七月壬午病重,己丑逝於薩里川哈老徒行宫。薩里川哈老徒行宫在漠北,他不可能在八天之内從西夏趕到漠北。較爲符合邏輯的觀點是,行宫可以隨着守斡耳朵的皇后遷徙至西夏,所以成吉思汗去世地點仍是西夏境內。元代漠北的成吉思汗祭祀在他的四大斡耳朵舉行,由此出現了"斡耳朵思"一詞,它是後世"鄂爾多斯"一詞的來源。元之後的成吉思汗祭祀地點轉移到了漠南的鄂爾多斯,其轉移的原因,是因爲蒙古人深信成吉思汗曾表示願在鄂爾多斯安度晚年的傳説故事。     

南京保卫战第六十六军阵亡将士殉国事略

1939年1月,陆军第六十六军在江西省信丰县举行抗战以来该军阵亡将士追悼大会,隆重纪念所辖陆军第一五九师、一六○师等参加淞沪会战、南京保卫战及南浔诸役阵亡将士。现从《陆军第六十六军抗战阵亡将士荣哀录》中,选辑出第一五九师罗策群副师长等54位在南京保卫战中阵亡将士的殉国事略公布,纪念南京保卫战70周年。[文档记录形式]铅印件     

日军常德细菌战致死城区居民人数的研究

常德细菌战造成常德城区和平居民死亡的人数,日本学者据历史的防疫档案记录认为可以确定的是36人;据常德细菌战受害调查会近七年来的调查是334人;而据当年曾参与常德防疫工作的人士估计:有400人以上、500人以上、600人以上三种说法。本文依据各种史实研究分析,认为:死亡600人以上的说法是可信的,但仍估计不足,实际死亡数字应在1000人左右。     

呵护我们的过去就是保护我们的未来

天灾和人祸,如影子一样一直伴随着人类短暂的明史。劫后余存不多的化遗产,作为人类之所以为人的历史印迹,我们应该珍之、宝之、爱之,永远爱惜它、保护它。然而,现实中不时发生的损毁、糟蹋物古迹的事件,总让我们这些明的后代羞愧难当,无颜再见列祖列宗。     

Descartes our contemporary

Descartes: An Intellectual Biography. By Stephen Gaukroger (Oxford University Press, 1995), xviii + 499 pp. £25.00 cloth.

Descartes and his Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections, and Replies. Edited by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene (University Of Chicago Press, 1995), vii + 261 pp. $17.95 paper.     

In Memoriam William Wells Newell,Died at Wayland,Massachusetts, 21st January, 1907

CELTIC MYTH AND ARTHURIAN ROMANCE. By ROGER SHERMAN LOOMIS. New York: Columbia University Press, 1927. 9″x5?″. Pp. xii+371. 30s. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

BÉALOIDEAS : The Journal of the Folk-Lore of Ireland Society. Published by the Society at Room 78, University College, Dublin, 1927. Volume I, Parts i and ii. Pp. 205. 8vo. Ann. sub. 7s. 6d. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

LIA FÁIL. Dublin: 89 Talbot Street. Large 8vo. 5s. per vol. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

“THE PACK OF AUTOLYCUS,” or Strange and terrible news of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and other Prodigious and Fearful happenings as told in Broadside Ballads of the years 1624–1693. Edited by HYDER EDWARD ROLLINS. Cambridge (Harvard) University Press, 1927. 4to. Pp. xvii+270. Ill. 2is. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

DIE HELLENISTISCHEN MYSTERIENRELIGIONEN nach ihren Grundgedanken und Wirkungen. By R. REITZENSTEIN. 3rd ed. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1927. 8vo. Pp. viii+438. 16s. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

THE NEGRO AND HIS SONGS. A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South. By HOWARD W. ODUM and GUY B. JOHNSON. Chapel Hill, Carolina, U.S.A.: Univ. of North Carolina Press (Oxford Univ. Press), 1925. 9″ x 5?″. Pp. xii. + 306. 18s. 6d. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.

FOLK BELIEFS OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO. By NEWBELL NILES PUCKETT. Chapel Hill, Carolina, U.S.A.: Univ. of North Carolina Press (Oxford Univ. Press), 1926. 9″x5?″. 9 ill. Pp. xvi+644. 22s. 6d. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.     

Sins of memory: reflections on the lack of an Italian Nuremberg and the administration of international justice after 1945

This article reconstructs the history of the major trial that the Allies planned to institute against the entire military command of the Nazi armies operating in Italy from 1943 to 1945. The trial was prepared on the same juridical and technical bases as the Nuremberg Tribunal, but it never took place. The reason was that it would have jeopardized the re-integration of the Federal Republic in the European community, and would also have risked placing the Italian government in the embarrassing position of having the Italian army prosecuted for crimes committed in the countries occupied by the Rome?–?Berlin axis. For those reasons, the trial was abandoned and instead only legal proceedings were taken only for some marginal cases, creating the impression that these were simply isolated cases of individual responsibility. The enigma of this missing trial and an explanation of the limits of international justice can only be understood in terms of the political situation in post-war Europe, the relations between Italy and the Allies and the double game played by the Italian government. These events served, however, to give rise to highly selective memories of totalitarianism and the war.