exclusively with the ideas of Vladimir Solovieff. Of special value is a review by André Mazon of the works by Russian historians relating to the campaign of 1812; and an article by Louis Réau on Russian art, followed by a careful topical bibliography. A special insert in the advertising pages lists the important works on Russia now carried by the various Parisian publishers.

Élie Barbulesco, professor of Slavic at the University of Jassy, combines much historical material to support the theories which he advocates concerning the relation of Roumania to the various peoples of the Balkans, in Relations des Roumains avec les Serbes, les Bulgares, les Grecs, et la Croatie en Liaison avec la Question Macédo-Romaine (Jassy, 1912, pp. 366). The volume is admirably summarized and reviewed by Profesor Xénopol in the July number of the Revue Historique.

Volume V. of Islandica, an annual issued by Cornell University Library under the editorship of Mr. George William Harris, the librarian, is a Bibliography of the Mythical-Heroic Sagas by Halldór Her

mannsson.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: V. Olszewicz, L'Evolution de la Constitution Polonaise (Revue des Sciences Politiques, May-June); J. F. Chance, Northern Affairs in 1724 (English Historical Review, July).

THE FAR EAST AND INDIA

M. Gaston-Samuel Cahen has recently presented as his thesis at the Sorbonne a Histoire des Relations de la Russie avec la Chine sous Pierre le Grand, 1689–1730.

Professor Joseph Dautremer of the École des Langues Orientales has written an account of Burmah under British rule entitled, Une Colonie Modèle (Paris, Guilmoto).

AMERICA

GENERAL ITEMS

The Director of the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington spent the summer in Europe, occupied with researches in Swiss archives and in England. Professor Charles M. Andrews completed in London the manuscript of volume II. of his Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783, in the Public Record Office. Volume I. will soon be published. Professor Bolton's Guide to the Materials for United States History in the Mexican Archives is in page-proof; Mr. David W. Parker's Canadian guide in galley-proof.

The danger to which the archives of the federal government are exposed through the operation of the act of February 16, 1889, relating to the destruction of "useless papers ", has been minimized by a recent

executive order which requires heads of departments to submit all lists of "useless papers" to the Librarian of Congress, before reporting them to Congress.

Students will be interested to learn that by an executive order of July 19, 1912, the heads of the executive departments are instructed to secure reports showing the condition, extent, and character of the archives in the respective offices under their control outside the District of Columbia. The information thus secured should form the basis of more extended reports on the archives of the federal offices not located at the seat of government, which would constitute the natural complement of Van Tyne and Leland's Guide.

The Abbé D. M. A. Magnan has written a Histoire de la Race Française aux Etats-Unis (Paris, Amat, 1912, pp. xvi, 361).

The Macmillan Company announces a new pocket edition of the works of Francis Parkman in twelve volumes.

The Department of Archaeology of Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts, has issued as Bulletin VI., Hematite Implements of the United States, together with Chemical Analysis of various Hematites, by Warren K. Moorehead, curator. The monograph contains numerous good illustrations of hematite implements and also a map of the hematite area of the United States (Andover, Andover Press, pp. 99).

The Magazine of History for February, 1912, contains a further installment of extracts from the Providence Gazette (1778-1780); articles on William Brewster, the Pilgrim Printer, by George W. Chamberlain; and the Fort Dearborn Massacre, by Clarence M. Burton; and documents relating to the appointment of W. L. Marcy as Secretary of State.

The Houghton Mifflin Company has issued a volume of Readings in American Constitutional History, edited by Professor Allen Johnson of Yale University, composed of documents so selected that the student can deduce from them the leading principles of American constitutional development.

It is announced that Mr. H. Addington Bruce is engaged upon a book to be entitled Woman in the Making of America, which Little, Brown, and Company will publish.

In the May-August issue of the German American Annals the paper by Charles F. Brede on the German Drama in English on the Philadelphia Stage, and that by John C. Andressohn entitled "Die Literarische Geschichte des Milwaukeer Deutschen Bühnenwesens, 18501911", are continued.

Early Chapters in the Development of the Patomac Route to the West, by Mrs. Cora Bacon-Foster, has been published at Washington by the Columbia Historical Society.

The New England History Teachers' Association has brought out an enlarged and revised edition of its Catalogue of the Collection of Historical Material at Simmons College, Boston (pp. 33), prepared by the committee on historical material (Houghton Mifflin Company).

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Mr. Filson Young has brought out through Henry Holt and Company a third edition of his Christopher Columbus and the New World of his Discovery, the first edition of which was published in 1906. The book has been carefully revised and partly rewritten, the first part of the narrative being considerably condensed. Mr. Henry Vignaud writes for the book an appreciative introduction.

The Black Watch at Ticonderoga, by F. B. Richards (Glens Falls, New York) is an account of the 42d Regiment of Foot, the Royal Highlanders, in 1756-1759. It is mainly based upon researches in English archives.

The Naval Historical Society has brought out at the De Vinne press a complete edition of the earliest known autobiography of a man who served with John Paul Jones, Fanning's Narrative: being the Memoirs of Nathaniel Fanning, an Officer of the Revolutionary Navy, 1778-1783, edited by J. S. Barnes.

Henry Holt and Company announce for autumn publication Village Life in America, 1852-1872, by Caroline Cowles Richards.

George W. Jacobs and Company have included in their series American Crisis Biographies a volume on Robert Toombs, by Professor Ulrich B. Phillips, and one on Ulysses S. Grant, by Dr. Franklin S. Edmonds.

A Prisoner of War in Virginia, 1864–1865, by George Haven Putnam (Putnam's Sons) is an interesting and vivid account of one phase of the Civil War.

Reconstruction and Union, 1865-1912 (pp. 255), by Paul Leland Haworth, Ph.D., is one of the latest issues in Messrs. Henry Holt and Company's Home University Library series. The author has been successful upon the whole in seizing upon the essential forces in our political history since the Civil War and has presented the facts in an attractive manner. He seems to have little hesitancy in reaching his conclusions or in expressing them. His estimates of men and events are generally fair, although he will be thought by many to show considerable bias at times. This criticism will apply more particularly to his chapters on reconstruction and to the last chapter in the book, the Revolt against Plutocracy.

The issues of the political campaign now being waged have called forth a number of books, which, while dealing primarily with subjects within the field of political science, are nevertheless not without interest

for the student of contemporary history. Among them may be mentioned: Government by all the People, or the Initiative, the Referendum, and the Recall (new edition), by Delos F. Wilcox (Macmillan); The Initiative, Referendum, and Recall, edited by W. B. Munro (Appleton's); Direct Elections and Law Making by Popular Vote, by E. M. Bacon and Morrill Wyman (Houghton); The Supreme Court and the Constitution, by Charles A. Beard (Macmillan); Power of Federal Judiciary over Legislation, by J. Hampden Dougherty (Putnams); and The Courts, the Constitution, and Parties, by A. C. McLaughlin (University of Chicago Press).

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The Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for MayJune contain, among other contributions, an article by Justin H. Smith on the Biglow Papers as an argument against the Mexican War, and a paper by Frank Sanborn on Edward Gove and his Confiscated Estate, being an account of the trial and sentence of a colonial for high treason. Numerous documents are also printed in this number relating to Morton of Merry Mount, the London partners in New Plymouth, 1641, the Massachusetts patent, 1677, the Massachusetts agency, 1690, and the "Case of Sims ", 1851.

The monumental edition of Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, which the Massachusetts Historical Society has for some years been preparing under the editorial care of Mr. Worthington C. Ford, is now expected to be issued from the press of the Houghton Mifflin Company, in two volumes, in the present November. The volumes will be handsomely made, with elaborate illustrations as well as with great fulness of annotation.

The Bulletin, for July, of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities contains the second annual report of the society. The admirable work that this society is attempting, especially in the acquisition of historic houses, should make a strong appeal to all who are interested in New England history.

The Lexington Historical Society is preparing a History of Lexington, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town (March 31, 1913). The work is to consist of two volumes, volume I. being Hudson's History of Lexington brought down to date by revision, annotations, and additions, and volume II. a genealogy of Lexington based on the work of Hudson but brought to date in its materials and put in more approved form. The work will be issued in a limited edition (Houghton Mifflin Company).

A History of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711-1911, by G. K. Clarke, has been brought out by G. E. Littlefield. The history includes West Needham, now Wellesley, to its separation from Needham in 1881.

The New London County Historical Society publishes part 2, vol. III. of its Records and Papers, containing the proceedings of the society since 1905. A number of papers of historical importance are here given: Fisher's Island, its History and Development, by F. E. Hine; the Study of Genealogy, by C. D. Parkhurst; and a Forgotten Son of Liberty, Major John Durkee, by Amos A. Browning.

The federal Bureau of Education has published as Bulletin 483. Dutch Schools of New Netherland and Colonial New York, by William J. Kilpatrick.

The Year Book of the Schenectady County (N. Y.) Historical Society for 1912 marks the beginning of a period of increased activity on the part of the society. Two brief articles of historical interest are: the van Curler Tablet at Nijkerk, by W. E. Griffis, and the Battle of the Beukendal, by Charles C. Duryee. A list of the society's acquisitions since 1909 includes a number of manuscripts, especially church records.

Among recent acquisitions by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania are manuscripts of Sir William Penn and Samuel Pepys, and the military and scientific papers of Major-General Andrew A. Humphreys, U. S. A.

The Maryland Historical Magazine for September opens with a paper. read before the Maryland Historical Society on May 9, 1844, by Robert Gilmor, entitled Recollections of Baltimore. The study of Maryland's Share in the last Intercolonial War by Arthur M. Schlesinger is continued, the present installment dealing with Governor Sharpe and the Braddock Campaign. In the same number Bernard C. Steiner prints a useful list of the chief executive officers of Maryland during the provincial period, commencing with William Claiborne, 1631, and ending with Richard Lee, 1776. Documentary contributions are: the Vestry Proceedings of St. Ann's Parish, Annapolis (continued), 1724-1727; letters of Rev. Jonathan Boucher (continued), to his fellow-clergymen, Mr. James and Mr. Tickell, of 1764–1766; notes from the Land Office records (continued), 1648-1649; and a few letters and papers from the executive archives of 1781, 1783, and 1788.

The Virginia State Library has issued as vol. V., no. 2, of its bulletins A Finding List of Books relating to Printing, Book Industries. Libraries, and Bibliography in the Virginia State Library (pp. 155-233).

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography for July prints (from the Randolph Manuscript) the commission of Governor Nicholson, August 4, 1702, and the recall of Nicholson in 1705. Under the caption "Virginia in 1673–1676” appear a letter from Governor Berkeley to Secretary Williams, April 1, 1676, one from Berkeley to Thomas. Ludwell of the same date, and a communication to Berkeley from the Board of Trade and Plantations, dated April 6, 1676. This issue of the Magazine contains also an interesting series of letters from G. W. P.