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A FORM OF PRAYER | ISSUED | BY SPECIAL COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY GEORGE III | London | 1776 | Imploring Divine assistance against the King's | unhappy deluded Subjects in America now in open rebellion against the Crown.

A copy of this "Form of Prayer," recently found in the collection of the American Philosophical Society of this city, of great interest to churchmen and others, has been reproduced in fac-simile by photomechanical process by Julius F. Sachse, printed on fine hand-made, deckel-edge paper, and neatly bound in art canvas with gilt top and uncut edges. The edition is limited to one hundred and fifty copies, and will be sold by subscription only. Price, $2 per copy, post-paid. Address 4428 Pine Street, Philadelphia.

LIFE OF CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL. By William M. Meigs. Large 12mo, bound in cloth, gilt top, illustrated. J. B. Lippincott Company, publishers.

This contribution of Mr. Meigs to American biography and history is most timely in these days when we hear so much of the Monroe Doctrine, for Mr. Ingersoll was one of the strongest advocates of American rights upon this continent. He was an earnest supporter of the declaration of war in 1812, and a member of Congress from 1813 to 1815, as well as from 1841 to 1849. The historian of that war and the author of numerous political pamphlets, he was intimately associated with all matters of public history and men of the first half of the present century. Price, $1.50.

PUSEY'S "PROTEUS ECCLESIASTICUS." A copy of this rare little book has recently been acquired by the Lenox Library of New York City. It was published at Philadelphia by Reynier Jansen in 1703, the full title of which may be found in Hildeburn's "Issues of the Pennsylvania Press." The only other copy of the rarity heretofore found in American libraries is the one in the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

GENEALOGY of the Hord FAMILY. By Rev. Arnold Harris Hord. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. 8vo, 199 pp. Price, $3.

The Hord family traces its ancestry back to the year 1215. It is Scandinavian in origin, and its settlement in England probably took place at the time of the incursions of the Norsemen into that country. Descendants resided in the counties of Salop, Oxford, and Surrey, where for centuries they held distinguished rank. John Hord, the first ancestor of the family who came to America, in 1685 settled in Caroline County, Virginia, where he purchased a large estate and named it "Shady Grove." In the compilation of this branch of the family, the Rev. Dr. Hord was fortunate in having access to a manuscript genealogy prepared by Robert Hord in the year 1838, which he has enlarged. The book is well printed, liberally illustrated, and contains a full index of names.

THE RECORDS OF NEW AMSTERDAM FROM 1653 TO 1674 ANNO DOMINI.

Edited by Berthold Fernow. New York, 1897. 8vo. Six volumes. The city of New York, under the above title, has recently issued in six octavo volumes the "Court Minutes of New Amsterdam." This mine of historical, genealogical, and biographical information has lain unworked and practically unknown until, by the laborious skill of its editor and translator, it is now made free to all. Mr. Fernow has ren

dered many other services to American history, but this work is far from being his least. The historian will find it full of the material he most needs,-facts in detail from which he can generalize. To the novelist these records afford suggestions for many a plot, and the preacher can, if he will, draw an unlimited amount of moral illustrations for his Sunday exhortations. To the genealogist it will be indispensable, and even the lawyer may occasionally find it profitable reading. New York has done well; Philadelphia should not be slow to imitate her. We are loath to dismiss such a valuable work so briefly, but cannot refrain from saying to the Councils of the city of Philadelphia, "Go thou and do likewise." THE HISTORY OF THE WAGENSELLER FAMILY IN AMERICA. We have received a broadside history of this family, compiled by George W. Wagenseller, of Middleburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, who desires to correspond with all persons connected with the family, with a view to the publication of the data in book form. The first American ancestor of the family settled, prior to 1734, in what was then Hanover Township, Philadelphia County, since which time the ramifications of the family have extended to all sections of the country. Mr. Wagenseller should meet with the encouragement his labor of love deserves.

THE DESCENT OF SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER FROM THE ANCIENT COUNTS OF HOLLAND, WITH AUTHORITIES IN PROOF. Philadelphia, 1898. 25 pp. Forty copies printed.

This sumptuous little book gives the descent of the Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, President Judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, from Dierck, son of the Hertog Sigisbert, and a descendant of the Dukes of Aquitaine, who in the year 863 became the first Count of Holland, Zealand, and Friesland. His wife was a daughter of the King of Italy. It is printed in red and black letters, on heavy handmade paper, and is embellished with a portrait of the count in full regalia. Two lines of descent are given.

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