to be able to report that the proposed volume is now announced for publication during the course of the year 1909, under the title Inventaire Sommaire de la Correspondance Générale de la Louisiane, 1678–1819. The volume, which is prepared by MM. P. Nicolas, chef de Bureau, and O. Wirth, attaché in the Colonial Archives, will be one of considerable size, with a full index. The price to early subscribers is fifteen francs, postpaid; after April 1 it will be advanced to twenty francs. Subscriptions may be sent to M. Augustin Challamel, Éditeur, 17 rue Jacob, Paris VI.

Volume IV. of the Publications of the Louisiana Historical Society (New Orleans, 1908, pp. 200) contains beside the record of the society's transactions a considerable body of French documents relating to the Mississippi Valley and extending in date from 1679 to 1769. Their place of origin is not indicated but they are of great intrinsic interest. The volume also contains a chronological statement, unfortunately not furnished with precise references, of a variety of documents relative to Louisiana to be found in the Archivo Historico Nacional in Madrid.

The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association prints in its July issue the second part (1847-1869) of "The Records of an Early Texas Baptist Church", and the "Recollections of S. F. Sparks", a soldier in the war between Texas and Mexico.

The article of chief interest in The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly for July is "John Armstrong of Kittanning and his Sons", by J. E. Pilcher.

The Department of Archives and History in the Indiana State Library has recently acquired a valuable collection of historical material gathered during a period of more than half a century by the late Charles B. Lasselle of Logansport. The collection embraces, besides many early newspapers, a valuable mass of manuscripts connected with the early history of Vincennes and with other portions of the territorial period of the state's history.

In the Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History for September appear three papers relating to Henry Clay's visit to Richmond, Indiana, in 1842, two of them reprinted from Indiana newspapers. The contributors are C. W. Osborn, C. F. Coffin and W. H. Coffin. Mention may also be made of "Pioneer Transportation on the Ohio River", by S. T. Covington, and an autobiographical sketch of Judge Isaac Naylor, 17901873. The Quarterly reprints the memorial of the inhabitants of what was then (1804) the northern portion of Indiana Territory petitioning Congress to create that region into a new territory.

The Macmillan Company have published History and Civil Government of Indiana, by E. L. Hendricks.

Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons announce for autumn publication Historic Indiana, by Julia H. Levering.

To the September issue of the Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society Col. J. Stoddard Johnston contributes a paper on the Kentucky-Tennessee Boundary Line, Mr. Z. F. Smith a sketch of Transylvania University, and Mr. L. J. Johnson a chapter in his "History of Franklin County" dealing with the period 1800 to 1810. Chronicles of the Old Neighborhood", by Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, is presented as a supplement to Mr. Johnson's history.

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A Financial and Administrative History of Milwaukee, by Laurence. M. Larson, is Bulletin No. 242 of the University of Wisconsin (pp. 182). The work includes some study of administrative methods and changes as well as of municipal finance, and is of especial interest as showing the strivings and economic development of a city from very raw beginnings.

Volume XII. of the Minnesota Historical Society Collections (pp. 830) contains the papers and addresses presented in the society's meetings during the past three years. The society at the same time publishes volume XIII. (pp. 480), The Lives of the Governors of Minnesota, by General James H. Baker, who was secretary of the state of Minnesota from 1860 to 1862, has been personally acquainted with all of the eighteen. governors of the territory and state and has taken an active part in its politics since 1857. Minnesota in Three Centuries, issued to subscribers during November, consists of four volumes: the first, by Dr. Warren Upham, secretary of the society, covers the history of explorations and events to the founding of Fort Snelling in 1820; the second, by Mr. Return I. Holcombe, extends to the end of the territorial period in 1858; the third, by General Lucius F. Hubbard and Mr. Holcombe, proceeds to 1870, and relates chiefly to the Sioux outbreak and to the period of the Civil War; while the fourth volume, by Mr. Frederick R. Holmes, includes the remaining period and the general index.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company have published Minnesota: the North Star State, by W. W. Folwell, in the American Commonwealth series.

The Missouri Historical Society has recently acquired an interesting and valuable collection of French and Spanish papers, containing marriage contracts, sales, wills, etc., filed at the town of St. Charles when it was a Spanish post prior to the acquisition by the United States. The society has also had placed with it for safe keeping volumes I.-VI., each containing 52 numbers of The Brunswicker, published at Brunswick, Missouri, 1847-1853. It also has volumes III. and IV., containing 52 numbers each, of the Glasgow News, published at Glasgow, Missouri, in 1845-1847.

The Missouri Historical Society Collections continues in the April issue the "Journal of Stephen Watts Kearney". The portion here printed begins with July 22, 1820, and closes with August 19, when the party reached St. Louis. Another document of interest is printed under the general title "The Beginning of Spanish Missouri". It is the instruc

tions given by Ulloa to Captain Francisco Rui for an expedition from New Orleans to the Illinois country. The instructions (25 pages in extent) are dated Balize, March 14, 1767. In the next issue of the Collections will be printed a document describing the manner in which Rui carried out his instructions. Still another document is a list of the landowners of St. Louis in 1805, together with the valuations of their holdings.

In the Missouri Historical Review for October Mr. W. G. Bek of the University of Missouri gives the history of "A German Communistic Society in Missouri ", a society which existed from 1844 to 1879 under the leadership of Dr. William Keil and had its seat near the present town of Bethel. A paper by Judge John L. Thomas entitled "Some Historical Lives in Missouri" is mainly a rehearsal of events centring about the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Thomas J. Bryant, writing of "Bryant's Station and its Founder, William Bryant ", endeavors to correct some errors relative to this noted station and its founder.

The Story of a Border City during the Civil War, by Dr. Galusha Anderson (Little, Brown and Co.), is a war-time chronicle of St. Louis based upon Dr. Anderson's personal observations.

Volume II. of the Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association (pp. 600), edited by Mr. J. H. Reynolds of Fayetteville, has just appeared. It contains a chapter on the History of Taxation in Arkansas, by Professor D. Y. Thomas; one on the battle of Prairie Grove, by C. W. Walker; one on Confederate manufactures in southwest Arkansas, by H. B. McKenzie; and the official orders of Governor Flanagin, the war-governor of Arkansas. On the period of Reconstruction there is a history of the Brooks-Baxter war, by Benjamin S. Johnson; a history of Reconstruction in Arkansas County, by Judge W. H. Halliburton; and accounts of the "Pope County Militia War", and of the history of the Catholic, the Baptist and Presbyterian churches. In December the association brought before the legislature of Arkansas a bill providing for a permanent state history commission with a salaried secretary located at the capital whose duties will be to take charge of the archives of the state, to collect all possible historical material and to publish such original documents as are of historical value. The bill also provides for the continuation of the publications of the Arkansas Historical Association at the expense of the state.

The October issue of the Annals of Iowa contains a number of “Old Letters", edited by William Salter. Those by James W. Grimes and Henry Dodge, of the years 1857-1859, are of chief interest. The Annals prints also a diary kept by William Edmundson, of Oskaloosa, while crossing the Western plains in 1850.

Under the title A Canyon Voyage Messrs. Putnam have issued a narrative by F. S. Dellenbaugh of the second Powell expedition down

the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and of the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872.

In the series of Studien und Forschungen zur Menschen- und Völkerkunde, directed by G. Buschan (Stuttgart, Strecker and Schröder), Dr. H. Eickoff has published a monograph on Die Kultur der Pueblos in Arizona und New Mexico (1908, pp. viii, 78).

The principal article in the Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society for September is by T. W. Davenport, on "The Slavery Question in Oregon". The "Free-State Letter" of Judge George H. Williams is reprinted from the Oregon Statesman of July 28, 1857.

The Champlain Society of Toronto has decided to undertake, with Mr. H. P. Biggar as editor, a translation of the complete works of Champlain, and at the same time to reprint the French text. The whole work will run to four considerable volumes. The publications of the society are in limited editions of 500 copies-250 for members and 250 for subscribing libraries.

The Macmillan Company have published The Tercentenary History of Canada, in three volumes, by Frank B. Tracy.

The Quebec Daily Telegraph will shortly publish The Quebec Tercentenary Commemorative History, compiled and edited by Frank Carrel and Louis Feiczewicz, revised by E. T. D. Chambers, with introduction by Dr. A. G. Doughty.

How Canada was Won, by Captain F. S. Brereton, primarily the story of Wolfe and Quebec, will shortly appear from the press of H. M. Caldwell Company.

The principal paper in the Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, volume XIII. (Halifax, 1908, pp. xi, 188), is "The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wiswall, M. A., a Loyalist Clergyman in New England and Nova Scotia, 1731-1821 ", by Rev. E. M. Saunders. George E. E. Nichols contributes "Notes on Nova Scotian Privateers", relating to the war periods from 1756 to 1815. 'Recollections of Old Halifax" (his own and other people's) is contributed by W. M. Brown.

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Señor V. Salado Álvarez, formerly a secretary of the Mexican embassy in Washington, has prepared from materials in the Washington archives and in those of Mexico a valuable pamphlet entitled La Conjura de Aaron Burr y las Primeras Tentativas de Conquista de México por Americanos del Oeste (Mexico, Museo Nacional, 1908, pp. 64). The pamphlet contains the text of several Spanish documents from the Spanish archives and a reproduction of Burr's Mexican map.

Porfirio Díaz, by Rafael de Zayas Enríquez, is written for the most part from the point of view of an admirer of Díaz. The work is translated by T. Quincy Browne, jr., and is published by D. Appleton and Co.

A recent number in the Münchener Volkswirtschaftliche Studien, edited by L. Brentano and W. Lotz, is Dr. W. Hegemann's Mexikos Übergang zur Goldwährung: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Mexicanischen Geldwesens, 1867-1906 (Stuttgart, Cotta, 1908, pp. xii, 189).

Bibliografía de le Revolucion de Yara: Folletos y Libros Impressos de 1868 á 1908, by Luis M. Pérez (Havana, Imprenta Avisador Comercial, 1908, pp. x, 73) is the initial publication of a comprehensive bibliography of the Cuban Revolution planned by the author, to cover articles in periodicals. fugitive publications and manuscripts as well as books and pamphlets. The present issue contains 368 items. The work abounds. in descriptive notes and cross-references.

Saint Domingue (1629–1789) (Paris, Perrin, 1908), by Pierre de Vaissière, is an account of Creole life and society in that island during the Old Régime.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: E. Griselle, Lettre Inédite d'un Acadien à Richelieu en 1627 (Études, October 5) [the writer of the letter is De la Tour]; D. E. Mowry, Political and Party Aspects of the National Judiciary, II. (American Historical Magazine, September); J. W. Thompson, Anti-Loyalist Legislation during the American Revolution (Illinois Law Review, October); Max Farrand, The Federal Constitution and the Defects of the Confederation (American Political Science Review, November); W. F. Dodd, The First State Constitutional Conventions, 1776-1783 (ibid.); R. S. Rodgers, Closing Events of the War with Tripoli, 1804-1805 (United States Naval Institute Proceedings, September); H. L. Carson, Pennsylvania's Defiance of the United States (Harper's Magazine, October); Captain C. G. Calkins, U.S.N., Decatur and Coleridge (United States Naval Institute Proceedings, September); F. T. Hill, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: Fifty Years After (Century Magazine, November); G. H. Putnam, The London Times and the American Civil War (Putnam's, November); E. R. Shaw, The Assassination of Lincoln; the Hitherto Unpublished Account of an EyeWitness (McClure's Magazine, December); W. L. Fleming, Jefferson Davis, the Negroes and the Negro Problem (Sewanee Review, October); C. F. Smith, Robert E. Lee Once More (South Atlantic Quarterly, October).