Early History of Lynnville, in the Oskaloosa Herald, March 21,

1914.

Governor's Greys: Military Organization that Dates Back to 1859, in the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, March 22, 1914.

First Kindergarten in Iowa, in the Davenport Democrat, March 22,

1914.

Reminiscences of the Early Days in Liberty Township, in the Mt.

Ayr Register-News, March 24, 31, 1914.

Sketch of life of Henry Clay Caldwell, in the Ottumwa Courier, March 24, 1914.

More About the Early Lawyers, in the Webster City FreemanTribune, March 25, 1914.

Winter of 1846, in the Creston Advertiser-Gazette, March 25, 1914. The Old Buffalo Mill, by W. S. Wilkinson, in the Winterset Madi

sonian, March 25, 1914.

Iowa's First Governor, in the Mason City Times, March 30, 1914.

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

PUBLICATIONS

The September-December number of the Records of the Past contains a table of contents and an index of volumes one to twelve, inclusive.

A Plea for Indian Place Names is made in the January number of Historia published by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

In November, 1913, there appeared the first number of El Palacio, a monthly periodical published at Santa Fé by the Archaeological Society of New Mexico.

Bulletin No. 2 issued by the Michigan Historical Commission is devoted to Suggestions for Local Historical Societies and Writers in Michigan, prepared by George Newman Fuller.

The October-December, 1913, number of The Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio contains the annual report of the Society for the year ending December 15, 1913.

A biographical sketch of Henry Fitzgilbert Waters, A. M., by James Kendall Hosmer, appears in the January number of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.

Safeguards of American Democracy is the title of an address delivered by Charles Alexander Richmond in November, 1913, before the New York Historical Society. The address has been published in pamphlet form.

The January number of The Washington Historical Quarterly opens with a sketch of the life of George Wilkes, a reprint of whose history of Oregon has been running in the Quarterly. Clarence B. Bagley is the writer of the sketch. The Present Status and Probable Future of the Indians of Puget Sound is the subject of a brief VOL. XII-20

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but interesting article by Lewis H. St. John. Thomas W. Prosch presents some biographical data relative to The Pioneer Dead of 1913; and there is a discussion of American and British Treatment of the Indians in the Pacific Northwest, by W. J. Trimble.

The installments of Isaac Joslin Cox's monograph on The Louisiana-Texas Frontier which appeared in the July and October, 1913, numbers of The Southwestern Historical Quarterly have been reprinted in pamphlet form.

The Manual of the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1913, contains the charter and by-laws of the Society, an historical account of the Society, a description of the splendid new building, and lists of officers and members.

The September-December number of the German American Annals is largely taken up with The Graffenried Manuscripts, with an introduction by Albert B. Faust. An article on Cooper in Germany, by Preston A. Barba, occupies the January-February number.

Volume thirty-three of the Archives of Maryland, published by the Maryland Historical Society, contains the Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, May, 1717-April, 1720, edited by Clayton Colman Hall.

Among the articles in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society for January are: Kentucky Regulars in the War of 1812, by A. C. Quisenberry; Old Graham Springs, by Miss Martha Stephenson; and The Three Woolleys, by George Baber.

An article on Some Forgotten Towns in Lower South Carolina, by Henry A. M. Smith; and a continuation of the Order Book of John Faucheraud Grimké, are to be found in the October, 1913, number of The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine.

Texas and the Boundary Issue, 1822-1829, is the subject discussed by William R. Manning in the January number of The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. James E. Winston writes on Pennsylvania and the Independence of Texas. The experiences of a minister in Texas in the early days, edited by William S. Red, appear

under the heading of Allen's Reminiscences of Texas, 1838-1842. In conclusion, there is the ninth installment of Correspondence from the British Archives Concerning Texas, 1837-1846, edited by Ephraim Douglass Adams.

Volume thirteen, number one of The James Sprunt Historical Publications, published under the direction of the North Carolina Historical Society, contains two articles: The North Carolina Colonial Bar, by Ernest H. Alderman; and The Granville District, by E. Merton Coulter.

Among the continuations in the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute for January are the following: Youthful Recollections of Salem, by Benjamin F. Browne; A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of Andover, Mass., in the Year 1863, by Alfred Poore; and Northfields, Salem, in 1700, by Sidney Perley.

Two contributions of interest in the Maryland Historical Magazine for December are: Taney's Correspondence with Van Buren, by Bernard C. Steiner; and An Historical Identification: John Wilkes Booth-What Became of Him?, by William M. Pegram

In a Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico, compiled by Herbert E. Bolton, and published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, there are listed a large number of documents which bear upon the history of the Spanish period in the lower Mississippi Valley.

The Value and the Sale of the Missouri Slave is the subject of an interesting article by Harrison A. Tresler which opens the January number of the Missouri Historical Review. Other brief contributions are: The Old Town of Elizabeth, by Ovid Bell; Early Missouri Roads, by G. C. Broadhead; and Echoes of Indian Emigration, by David W. Eaton.

Number fourteen of the Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission contains a brief article on The North Carolina State Flag, by W. R. Edmonds. Number fifteen is devoted to the Proceedings and Addresses of the Fourteenth Annual Session of the State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina.

Among the papers and addresses are: A New Method of Historical Investigation, by Herman H. Horne; Relations Between the Confederate States Government and the Government of North Carolina, by Walter A. Montgomery; and Rochambeau and the French in America: Why They Came and What They Did, by J. J. Jusserand.

Tract No. 92 published by The Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland, Ohio, is largely taken up with a number of letters and papers relative to Northern Ohio During the War of 1812, with an introduction by Elbert Jay Benton. The effect of General Hull's surrender upon the people of the West is especially well brought out in these letters.

The March number of the Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society contains, among other things, The Annual Report of the Executive Council of the Presbyterian Historical Society; an account of the annual meeting of the Society, January 8 and 15, 1914; and the fifth installment of the History of the Presbytery of New Brunswick, by George H. Ingram.

The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society for October, 1913, opens with an article on The Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1818, followed by the journal of the convention; Josephine E. Burns is the writer of a biographical sketch of Daniel P. Cook; and a list of Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois is presented by Mrs. Edwin S. Walker.

Volume five, number three of the Indiana Historical Society Publications contains an article on The Sultana Disaster, by Joseph Taylor Elliott. It is estimated that over two thousand men who had just been released from southern prisons lost their lives in this steamboat explosion; but since the disaster occurred in war times it failed to make a very profound impression.

Truth in History is the title of the presidential address delivered before the last annual meeting of the American Historical Association by William A. Dunning. The address occupies the opening pages of The American Historical Review for January. The Early History of Caste, by A. A. Macdonell; The Effects of Norman Rule