The leading article in the January number of the Iowa Journal of History and Politics is an essay by Clifford Powell entitled "The Contributions of Albert Miller Lea to the Literature of Iowa History". "Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz" is by General John Howard Stibbs, who was a member of the court that tried Wirz.

Professor F. I. Herriott writes for the July-October issue of the Annals of Iowa an account of the Republican state convention which met in Des Moines in January, 1860, liberally quoting contemporary comments on the conclusions of the convention. Under the caption "Across the Plains in 1850" are printed the journal and letters of Jerome Dutton, written during an overland journey from Iowa to California.

Judge John F. Philips contributes to the October number of the Missouri Historical Review an article on "Hamilton Rowan Gamble and the Provisional Government of Missouri". In the same issue is printed a list of newspaper files in the library of the State Historical Society of Missouri.

The third volume of the Publications of the Arkansas Historical

Association is expected soon to appear. It will contain a study of the constitutional convention of 1836, by Jesse Turner, and a history of the regulation of transportation in Arkansas, by Samuel W. Moore. Measures pending before the state legislature provide for the maintenance of the Arkansas History Commission, for the support of its publications, and for the control of archaeological remains by the commission.

Volume XI. of the Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka, pp. xxii, 742) contains articles on the Swedish and GermanRussian settlements, the Wyandotte constitution, etc.

Mr. T. C. Elliott contributes to the September issue of the Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society a paper on "Peter Skene Ogden, Fur Trader". Professor F. G. Young's article on the financial history of Oregon relates to public expenditures.

Mr. Frederick V. Holman delivered before the Oregon Bar Association on November 15, 1910, an address in which he discussed certain amendments to the state constitution through the initiative and referendum and reviewed the course of court decisions relating to them. The address has been printed with the title Some Instances of Unsatisfactory Results under Initiative Amendments of the Oregon Constitution (Portland, 1910, pp. 46).

Mr. Irving B. Richman's California under Spain and Mexico will soon be published by the Houghton Mifflin Company.

By Ox Team to California: a Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860 (pp. xi, 139), by Lavinia Honeyman Porter, is published in an edition of fifty copies by the Oakland Enquirer Publishing Company, Oakland, California. The narrative is in large measure drawn from a journal kept by the author.

A Senator of the Fifties: David C. Broderick of California, by Jeremiah Lynch (San Francisco, A. M. Robertson), possesses its chief interest in the history which it gives of the early days in California, particularly of the vigilance committees. Broderick was a member of the constitutional convention of 1849, entered the Senate of the United States in 1857, and was killed in a duel by D. S. Terry in 1859.

The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California, by Theodore H. Hittell, was published in Boston and San Francisco in 1860 but has long been out of print. A new edition, which Charles Scribner's Sons have just issued, is identical in form and illustrations with the old, except that the author has furnished an introduction and a postscript. Although the book contains reflections that must be attributed to the writer rather than to the hunter these adventures give a good picture of the woodcraft of the region in the fifties and are interesting in themselves.

Recent accessions to the Canadian archives embrace, besides the Durham papers, Lady Durham's journal of 1838; Buller's account of the Durham mission; a body of copies of the letters written by various statesmen to Queen Victoria on Canadian affairs from 1837 to 1866; the Russian and the American correspondence of Sir Charles Bagot; the journals and letters of Charles Grey at the time of his mission to Washington, 1838-1839; ten additional volumes of Selkirk papers; and some two hundred original maps. Of transcripts, the Dominion archives have also acquired twelve books of the Hudson's Bay Company, 16931707; four volumes of Nova Scotia papers; two volumes of Shelburne manuscripts; and several volumes from the archives of Paris.

Mr. Hector Garneau, grandson of François Xavier Garneau, is preparing for publication a new edition of the latter's Histoire du Canada (first ed., 1845-1852, fourth, 1882-1883), of which the first volume will appear in the present year.

Heft 14 of Lamprecht's Beiträge zur Kultur- und Universalgeschichte is entitled Beiträge zur Charakteristik der älteren Geschichtsschreiber über Spanisch-Amerika: Eine biographisch-bibliographische Skizze (Leipzig, R. Voigtländer, 1911, pp. xii, 338).

Diaz: Master of Mexico, by James Creelman (New York, Appleton, pp. ix, 442), is an effort to co-ordinate the life of Diaz with the history of Mexico as a whole. The author has had many facilities for the performance of the task which he assumed, including access to the private memoirs of Diaz. The result is at least a picturesque view of Mexican history during three quarters of a century.

The Argentine Republic; its Physical Features, History, Fauna, Flora, Geology, Literature, and Commerce, by A. Stuart Pennington (London, Stanley Paul), contains a comprehensive history of Argentina, comprising about half the contents of the volume.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: W. H. Holmes, Some Problems of the American Race (American Anthropologist, n. s., XII. 149–182); E. Vejera, Cristóbal Colon, Genovés, no Judío-Gallego (Ateneo, and Revista Bimestre Cubana, July-October); G. B. Hertz, Bishop Seabury (English Historical Review, January); B. W. Bond, jr., A Colonial Sidelight (Sewanee Review, January); W. C. Ford, Washington at the Crisis of the Revolutionary War (Century, March); Mrs. J. Van Vorst, American Society in 1783 as seen by two French Noblemen (Lippincot.'s, February); H. E. Hoagland, Early Transportation on the Mississippi (Journal of Political Economy, February); H. F. Griffin, The Gerrymander (Outlook, February); C. O. Paullin, Early Voyages of American Naval Vessels to the Orient, IX. (United States Naval Institute Proceedings, December); E. V. O'Hara, Francis Norbert Blanchet, the Apostle of Oregon (Catholic University Bulletin, December); J. S. Bassett, James Knox Polk, President (South Atlantic Quarterly, January); C. W. Moores, The Career of a Country Lawyer: Abraham Lincoln (American Law Review, November-D cember, January February); General Nelson A. Miles, The Last Days of Rebellion (Cosmopolitan, March); P. A. Bruce, The National Spirit of General Lee (South Atlantic Quarterly, January); Gamaliel Bradford, Lee and the Confederate Government (Atlantic Monthly, February); A. R. H. Ranson, General Lee as I knew him (Harper's, February); G. H. Putnam, The Civil War Fifty Years After (Review of Reviews, March); W. P. Few, The College in Southern Development (South Atlantic Quarterly, January); H. J. Ford, The Cause of Political Corruption (Scribner's, January); Frederick McCormick, How America got into China (Century, January); Mrs. Burton Harrison, Recollections Grave and Gay (Scribner's, March); Hector Garneau, François Xavier Garneau (Bulletin du Parler Français au Canada, February); Abbé A. Gosselin, La Mission au Canada avant Mgr. de Laval (Revue Catholique de Normandie, 1909); L.-A. Prud'homme, Les Compagnies de la Baie d'Hudson et du Nord-Ouest, cont. (La Nouvelle France, January); P. Miguélez, La Independencia de México, VI., VII. (La Ciudad de Dios, January 5, 20).

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