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The Canadian Archives has now in the press a volume containing copies of the manuscript material relating to the history of the Atlantic. seaboard of Canada from 1497 to 1533. In almost every instance a fresh transcript has been made from the original manuscript. The Latin, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese documents have been translated into English but in the case of the documents in French this was not thought necessary. The volume will be preceded by a short introduction summing up the best-established results of recent inquiry in the same field.

Professor Clarence W. Alvord's excellent monograph on the Genesis of the Proclamation of 1763, originally published in the Canadian Archives Report for 1906, has been issued as a separate. The writer's purpose is "to trace to their sources the elements of the proclamation and, as far as possible, discover the motives and purposes of the men who are responsible for its form ". He believes that most of his conclusions are new and "that the sum total of the points that have been made creates a new interpretation of the Proclamation of 1763".

It is understood that volume III. (The American Revolution, 17601789) of Professor Edward Channing's History of the United States is in active preparation.

The fourth and concluding volume of Professor H. A. Cushing's edition of The Writings of Samuel Adams has come from the press of the Putnams.

In the issue of the Nation of July 23 Mr. Worthington C. Ford gives an account of a little-known incident of the Revolutionary War, namely, the steps taken by the Continental Congress in the summer of 1779 toward making retaliations for destruction committed by the British troops, and prints two hitherto unpublished documents that define the attitude of Congress in the matter.

General Hull's Invasion of Canada in 1812 (reprinted from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1907-1908, pp. 80), by Lieutenant-Colonel E. Cruikshank, not only gives a detailed account of the military operations of the opposing forces, but sets forth with considerable care the disaffections and other difficulties encountered both by the British and by the Americans before and during the campaign. There has been some lack of care in the proof-reading.

Mr. Clarence M. Burton has acquired for his Detroit collection the papers of the late Colonel John Askin of Walkerville, important for the history of the War of 1812.

It is announced that Messrs. George W. Jacobs and Company are to publish in their series of American Crisis Biographies a biography of John Quincy Adams by his grandson, Mr. Brooks Adams. Mr. Adams has been at work upon the biography for two or three years and has made large use of new material in the possession of the family.

The Chicago Historical Society is contemplating the early publication of President James K. Polk's Diary, 1845-1849, under the editorship of Charles W. Mann, professor of history in Lewis Institute. The original manuscript of the Diary, in twenty-four closely written volumes, is in the society's collections.

The Justice of the Mexican War, by Major Charles H. Owen, has been published by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

The Arthur H. Clark Company of Cleveland has lately issued a volume by Professor Perley O. Ray of Pennsylvania State College, entitled The Genesis of the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (pp. 1800), by F. H. Dyer, has been published at Cedar Rapids by the Torch Press.

Jefferson Davis: a Sketch of the Life and Character of the Presi dent of the Confederate States, by Major William T. Walthall, first appeared in the New Orleans Times-Democrat of December 6, 1889, the issue which announced Mr. Davis's death. This sketch has now been reprinted and forms a pamphlet of fifty-three pages. Major Walthall was for a long time secretary to Mr. Davis, and it is understood that this sketch was submitted to Mr. Davis and approved by him.

L. C. Page and Company have just published a volume entitled Famous Cavalry Leaders, by Charles H. L. Johnson. Among the American generals of whom biographical sketches and reminiscences are given are Stuart, Wheeler, Custer and Sheridan.

William McKinley, by Thomas C. Dawson, has been added to the American Statesmen Series published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

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The Macmillan Company will shortly publish The Story of the New England Whalers, by John R. Spears.

Factory Legislation in Maine (Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, volume XXXIII., number 1), by E. S. Whitin, is a well prepared monograph of 145 pages of which 119 are devoted to a history of factory legislation in the state of Maine and the remaining 26 pages to a discussion of the administration of the law at the present time. A chapter is devoted to the early child labor laws, 1847-1855, another to the movement from local to state regulation, 1861-1886, three chapters to the attempts toward regulation of wages and the development of factory legislation from 1887 to 1903, and a chapter to the child labor campaign of 1905-1907.

The second (April) number of the Massachusetts Magazine contains the concluding portion of Dr. Frank M. Gardner's account of Colonel John Glover's Marblehead Regiment. The first of the announced series of articles on Massachusetts pioneers to other states treats of Michigan pioneers, and is by C. A. Flagg. The article is supplemented by the

first portion of a list of Michigan pioneers and by a list of Michigan county histories. The Magazine will shortly publish the diary, 1757– 1776, of Ashley Bowen of Marblehead, who was at Quebec in the French and Indian War. The chief historical article in the number for July is one by Dr. F. A. Gardner on Colonel William Prescott's Regiment.

The Connecticut Historical Society has now in press and will issue early in 1909 the twelfth volume of its series of Collections, to be entitled "Lists and Returns of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, 1775-1783". Besides some additional records of service, the volume will show from what town almost every soldier enlisted, thus aiding materially in identifying the individual.

The administrative minutes of the magistrates of New Amsterdam from February 11, 1661, to May 20, 1664, were not included when the city of New York published, in seven volumes, The Records of New Amsterdam. This valuable portion of the records has lately been found in Maine by Dr. Henry S. Burrage, state historian, among the personal effects of the late Lieutenant B. E. Fernow, and returned by Dr. Burrage to the librarian of the city of New York.

Fifty Years in Wall Street, by Henry Clews, is a revised and enlarged version of the author's Twenty-Eight Years in Wall Street, which was published twenty years ago. The work contains portraits and sketches of many of the great speculators, and concludes with a description of the panic of 1907.

The New York of Yesterday: a Descriptive Narrative of Old Bloomingdale, by H. S. Mott, is published by Messrs. Putnam. The work contains numerous portraits, maps and other illustrations.

Centennial History of Ballston Spa, including the Towns of Ballston and Milton, by E. F. Grose, is published at Ballston Spa, New York, by the author.

One of the important features of the celebration of the 225th anniversary of the founding of the city of Philadelphia, to be held during the week October 4-10 inclusive, will be an "historic industries loan exhibit". "The purpose of this exhibit is to illustrate the economic history and to display specimens of the industries and trades of Philadelphia and its tributary region during colonial and early national periods." The directors of the exhibit are Professor Marion Dexter Learned and Mr. Albert Cook Myers.

By gift of Mrs. Charles Evart Cadwalader the Historical Society of Pennsylvania has recently acquired the military and family papers of General John Cadwalader, embracing his famous correspondence with Joseph Reed and many other manuscripts relative to the American Revolution.

The October (1907) and the January (1908) issues of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography contain a number of

articles of interest and value. Among those in the October number may be mentioned: "The Bishop of London and Penn's Policy", by Charles P. Keith; "The High Water Mark of the British Invasion", by Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker; and " Arctic Expeditions sent from the American Colonies ", by E. C. Balch. Among the letters from the "Penn Papers" which appear in this issue that of chief interest is from James Tilghman to Henry Wilmot, October 2, 1774, discussing Congress and the colonial situation. Under the title "Before and After the Battle of Brandywine" are printed some extracts from the journal of Sergeant Thomas Sullivan of H. M. Forty-ninth Regiment of foot. Some further extracts, giving an account of the battle of Princeton, are printed in the January number. The leading article in the January number is "Benjamin West's Family: the American President of the Royal Academy of Arts Not a Quaker", by Charles H. Hart. Of some interest also is the diary of Clement Humphreys, bearer of the despatches to Gerry in France after the X. Y. Z. affair.

German American Annals for May and June continues Professor Learned's biography of Pastorius with an account of his writings, and contains also an interesting article on Early Music in Philadelphia, with special reference to German music, by Mr. R. R. Drummond. The life of Pastorius is concluded in the July-August number.

The Virginia Magazine of History for July is made up in the main of the several series of documentary publications hitherto noticed in these pages. Among the extracts from the Randolph manuscripts may be mentioned a letter from the Virginia Company to the governor and council of Virginia, August 6, 1623, and a list of titles and landowners in Virginia, 1625. The publication of the Virginia Council Journals has now been brought to May, 1743. The "Virginia Legislative Papers" in this issue are of May and June, 1776; most of them relate to the Revolutionary struggle. In the group of "Miscellaneous Colonial Documents" (1705-1711) there is a request (1707) from Maryland to Virginia for the rendition of a criminal, one of the few recorded examples of colonial requisitions of this sort.

The July Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, a finding list of books on American history, may be useful to historical scholars for its titles on the Civil War and on the general and local history of Virginia.

King and Queen County, Virginia, by Rev. Alfred Bagby, D. D., treats of many phases of the county's history and of the life of its people (Washington, Neale, pp. 402).

The South Atlantic Quarterly for July contains three articles of interest to historical students: "An Englishman's Impressions of Alabama in 1846", by Emma Langdon Roche, recounts the experiences and observations of Sir Charles Lyell, mainly in Alabama, during his second visit to the United States; Professor J. H. Reynolds discusses the Okla

homa Constitution; and Professor W. K. Boyd writes of Some Intellectual Aspects of the Thirteenth Century".

The Beginning of Texas, 1684–1718 (pp. 94), by Dr. Robert C. Clark, appears as Bulletin No. 98 of the University of Texas, and covers with minute care the history of Fort St. Louis, the early explorations and missions and the founding of San Antonio.

The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association prints in its April issue a careful study, by Professor Herbert E. Bolton, of the "Native Tribes about the East Texas Missions". The paper is an outcome of the investigations of the history of the Texas tribes which Professor Bolton has been making for the Bureau of American Ethnology. In the same issue of the Quarterly is a scholarly paper by Mr. Charles W. Ramsdell on "Presidential Reconstruction in Texas". A considerable portion of the paper is devoted to the Con- . stitutional Convention of 1866.

The Story of the Great Lakes, by Edward Channing and Marion F. Lansing, is announced by the Macmillan Company.

Ohio before 1850: a Study of the Early Influence of Pennsylvania and Southern Populations in Ohio (Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, volume XXXI., number 2, pp. 155), by R. E. Chaddock, Ph.D., is a thoughtful examination of the social forces at work in the formative period of one of the first Western states. The author traces the sources of Ohio's population before 1850 (largely from Pennsylvania and the South, and probably the largest single element Scotch-Irish), narrates the triumph of democracy and individualism over Federalist ideas, and shows how anti-slavery ideas finally prevailed over a sentiment largely pro-slavery, or at the least indifferent toward the institution of slavery. There is a chapter on the early religious influences in southern Ohio and one on the early social life and education in the state.

An article entitled "Major Caleb Stark in Ohio", by George H. Twiss, which appears in the April issue of the Ohio Archaeological Quarterly, includes a petition of Major Stark to the general assembly of Ohio relative to lands granted to General John Stark, and is followed by a biographical sketch of Robert Lucas, governor of Ohio from 1832 to 1836, reprinted from an Ohio newspaper of 1834. The Quarterly also reprints in this issue the speech of William Henry Harrison, June 11, 1840, at Fort Meigs, Ohio. The most interesting matter in the issue for July is an article on John Sherman, by Mr. George U. Harn, an intimate local friend. There is also a detailed historical article by the editor, Mr. E. O. Randall, on Tallmadge township, apropos of its centennial celebration. In the October number the society will publish the journal kept by George Washington during his journey down the Ohio in 1770. In the same publication will also appear the begin