The forthcoming volume of the Reports of the Canadian Archives will contain a complete set of official proclamations, public notices, etc., of the military government (1760-1764) for the districts of Montreal and Three Rivers, and as many as possible for the district of Quebec, the public proclamations issued in Canada, 1764-1791, and the remaining portion, 1824-1847, of the calendar of the Neilson papers.

The Oxford University Press is to publish two volumes of the letters of the late Sir John A. Macdonald, edited by Sir Joseph Pope.

An elaborate biography of the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in two volumes, embracing also a collection of speeches, is being prepared by his friend Senator Laurent O. David. Another life is being prepared by Professor O. D. Skelton of Queen's University; installments of it are appearing in the Century Magazine.

We understand that the Canadian official series of Proclamations. Orders in Council and Documents relating to the European War is not to be continued after the completion of the fifth volume, which ends with October 1, 1916. Another official Canadian publication of importance is Sir Edward Kemp's Report on the Overseas Military Forces of Canada, 1918. In the co-operative history, Canada in the Great War, vol. II. deals with Canada's preparation for the war; vols. III. and IV., issued at about the present time, are devoted respectively to Canada's share in the maritime warfare and in the first stages of the warfare on land. Two more volumes will complete the work.

The fourteenth Report of the Bureau of Archives of the province of Ontario contains a first installment, 1789-1794, of the records of the early courts of Upper Canada.

AMERICA SOUTH OF THE UNITED STATES

The Hispanic-American Historical Review for August opens with an article in Spanish by Professor Rafael Altamira, accompanied by a translation, on the place given to the study of American institutions in the public educational system of Spain. This is followed by a paper on the Indian of the Southwest in the Diplomacy of the United States and Mexico, 1848-1853, by Mr. J. F. Rippy of the University of California, and by some fifty pages of discussion of the teaching of HispanicAmerican history in the United States and of syllabi drawn up for such purposes.

In no. 28-29 of the Boletín del Centro de Estudios Americanistas de Sevilla Don Pedro Torres Lanzas begins a catalogue by legajos of that section of the Archives of the Indies called "Contaduria General del Consejo de Indias".

An interesting contribution to the history of South American public. opinion during the Great War has been made by Señor Francisco Contreras, the Chilean poet, in a volume entitled Les Écrivains HispanoAméricains et la Guerre Européenne (Paris, Bossard).

Students of the most recent period of Mexican history will find useful material in Mexico Revolucionario: Colección de Documentos relativos á las últimas Revoluciones Mexicanas (Havana, Espinosa Ferré y Compañía).

A History of Banking in Mexico, by Dr. Walter F. McCaleb, formerly a director of the Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas, is expected to be published by Harper and Brothers in January.

In the May-June number of the Boletín del Archivo Nacional (Cuba), besides a continuation of the documents pertaining to the conspiracy entitled "Gran Legión del Aguila Negra" (1830), there are two considerable documents: "Sentencia de la Causa por Conspiración conocida por la de la Vuelta de Abajo" (1853), and "Sobre el Escándalo ocurrido en el Teatro de Tacón, hoy Nacional, la Noche del 19 de Abril de 1866". There is also an installment of an "Indice del Libro Sexto de Reales Órdenes" (1776), and a continuation of the inventory of the archives of the Cuban revolutionary delegation in New York, 1892-1898.

The Cuban Academy of History has inaugurated a series of Anales de la Academía de la Historia, intended to be bimonthly, by a handsome quarto number for July-August, in which the matter most interesting to readers in the United States will be a biographical study of Gen. Manuel de Quesada y Loynaz, an important figure in the revolutionary movements of 1868-1870.

The trustees of the Hispanic Society of America have lately opened an exhibition at their building in New York, 156th street west of Broadway, of historical documents illustrating South American independence, derived from the collection of Señor George M. Corbacho, member of the Peruvian Parliament.

Father Froylan Rionegro makes an important contribution to the colonial history of northern South America by his two volumes of Relaciones de las Misiones de las PP. Capuchinos en las Antiguas Provincias Españolas hoy República de Venezuela, 1650-1817 (Seville, tip. La Exposición).

The government of Chile and the University of California have arranged for a system of exchanges of university professors and other teachers, the details of which in the United States are to be managed by a Committee on Hispanic-American Relations in the University of California. Professor Charles E. Chapman of that university is to spend the calendar year 1920 as exchange professor in Chile under this arrangement. The subsequent appointments of Spanish-speaking professors in the United States, most commonly of professors of history, economics, political science or law, are to be made from various universities. The plan includes also a small number of school-teachers, Chilean and of the United States.

Out of articles originally published in the Revista Chilena de Historia y Geografía Señor Alberto Lara has made a substantial and authoritative volume on one of the most important battles of the wars of independence, La Batalla de Chacabuco (Santiago de Chile, Imp. Universitaria, pp. 263).

The history of the controversy between Peru and Chile over the provinces of Arica and Tacna is presented in Nuestra Cuestion con Chile (Lima, Mercurio Peruano) by Don Victor Andrés Belaunde, under commission from the Peruvian government.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: Baron A. de Maricourt, Un Colon Français au Brésil: le Sire de Villegagnon (Revue Hebdomadaire, October 18); J. W. Howay, ed., The Voyage of the Hope, 1790-1792 (Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, May); M. Bien, Le Domaine Public des États-Unis (Journal des Économistes, August); W. R. Riddell, ed., A Contemporary Account of the Navy Island Episode, 1837 [the Caroline] (Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, May); J. Hashagen, Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Ausserpolitischen Beziehungen zwischen England und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, July, 1917); E. Staehelin, Schweizer Theologen im Dienste der Reformierten Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten (Schweizerische Theologische Zeitschrift, XXXVI. 4); Elihu Root, Theodore Roosevelt (North American Review, December); J. B. Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and his Time, shown in his own Letters, I., II., III. (Scribner's Magazine, September, October, November); F. M. Fling, The Fourteen Points and the Peace Conference (The New World, August); F. H. Dixon, Federal Operation of Railroads during the War (Quarterly Journal of Economics, August); G. MacAdam, Life of General Pershing [cont.] (World's Work, September, October, November, December); E. W. Knight, Reconstruction and Education in South Carolina (South Atlantic Quarterly, October); W. L. Jenks, The Judicial System of Michigan under Governors and Judges (Michigan Law Review, November); L. T. Bowes, Rupert's House: the Oldest British Settlement in Canada (Canadian Magazine, August); A. R. Hassard, Great Canadian Orators: I. D'Arcy McGee; II. Joseph Howe; III. Nicholas Flood Davin; IV. Louis Joseph Papineau (ibid., August, September, October, November); W. R. Riddell, The Slave in Upper Canada (Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, May); O. D. Skelton, Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, I. (Century Magazine, October); C. Kernisan, Haïti depuis 1915, la Convention AméricanoHaïtienne: la Doctrine de Monroë et les Principes Wilsoniens (Revue des Sciences Politiques, August 15); R. Blanco-Fombona, The Struggle for Independence in Argentina (Inter-America, English, October); P. Groussac, El Congreso de Tucumán (Revista de Derecho, Historia, y Letras, January); Heitor Lyra, Pan Americanism in Brazil prior to the Statement of the Monroe Doctrine (Inter-America, English, December); J. de Armas, Rosas and Doctor Francia (ibid., October).

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THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION AT CLEVELAND

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HE meeting of the American Historical Association at Cleveland, December 29-31, 1919, was designated on the programme as the "34th-35th Annual Meeting", presumably because a local epidemic of influenza made it inexpedient to hold the meeting planned for December, 1918, as the thirty-fourth, and therefore the meeting was postponed for a year. But the annual meetings of the Association have not taken place with perfect regularity1-there was, for instance, no meeting in 1892—and the meeting of December, 1919, was properly the thirty-fourth. So many annual meetings have now been held that henceforth many a city must enjoy or suffer its second meeting rather than its first.

This was the second time the Association had met in Cleveland. It had held a meeting there in 1897, when the presidential address was delivered by Dr. James Schouler, happily still with us, the oldest of our ex-presidents. That meeting2 was a notable one, held west of the Alleghanies as a consequence of that mild revolution, or infusion of new life, which had marked the New York meeting of 1896, and typifying in many ways the new spirit then evoked. It was the first meeting in which the discussion of practical professional problems, chiefly educational, as distinguished from the mere reading of substantive historical papers, took the chief place. The report of the Committee of Seven on the teaching of history in schools, presented in a provisional form, was made the subject of consideration at one of the sessions, at others the teaching of economic history, the use of sources in teaching, the opportunities for historical study in Europe, and the functions of state and local historical societies. The Annual Report for 1896, published at about

1 See American Historical Review, XV. 10-11.

2 Ibid., III. 405-417.

AM. HIST. REV., VOL. XXV.-25. (369)

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I was noticeable that an moscal amber of the younger my Association were present. The Mississippi Valley Hocal Nation, the Agricultural History Society, the Amerkat Peptical befence Association, the National Municipal League. whée Naerican Awociation of University Professors met at the same time and place. A joint session was held with each of the first her, and at one of the luncheons the work of the American Assocation of University Professors was explained by its president. Profesor Arthur O. Lovejoy, of the Johns Hopkins University.

The general opinion seems to have been that the meeting was *xceptionally pleasant and successful. That it was so, was mainly dise to the interesting programme provided by a committee of which Professor Elbert J. Benton, of the Western Reserve University, was chairman, and to the excellent arrangements made for all these societies by a committee of local arrangements of which the secretary was his colleague Professor Samuel B. Platner. All the sessions of the Association were held under one roof, that of the Hollenden Hotel

which makes it unnecessary this year to say a word on the banal theme of December weather-and indeed on one floor of that hotel. Even the excellent luncheons to which with generous hospitality the trustees of the Western Reserve Historical Society and of the Western Reserve University, on successive days, invited the members of the Association, were served in the ball-room of the hotel. The