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Fred Hacker, Mexican War Veteran, in the Waterloo Courier, May 29, 1914.

Some Old Landmarks in Nashua, in the Nashua Reporter, June 4, 1914.

Sketch of the life of John Nollen, Pioneer of Pella, in the Pella Chronicle, June 4, 1914.

Sketch of the life of Jedediah Lake, in the Mason City Times, June 9, 1914.

Mill History of Hamilton County, in the Webster City FreemanTribune, June 9, 1914.

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

PUBLICATIONS

Bulletin No. 3 issued by the Michigan Historical Commission contains A Sketch of Historical Societies in Michigan, prepared by George Newman Fuller.

An index to the collection called the Kie Oldham Papers has been issued by the Arkansas History Commission as Bulletin of Information, No. 5.

The most recent number in the series of Original Narratives of Early American History, reproduced under the auspices of the American Historical Association and published by Charles Scribner's Sons, contains Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706, edited by George Lincoln Burr.

Moses W. Mann writes on Medford Artillery, and there is a brief sketch of the Medford Branch Railroad in the April number of The Medford Historical Register.

The first fifty pages in the April number of the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute are occupied with the Journal Kept in Quebec in 1775 by James Jeffry, annotated by William Smith. Sidney Perley is the writer of an article on The West Field, Salem, in 1700.

The First Annual Report of the Michigan Historical Commission contains an account of the work of the Commission for the period from May 28, 1913, to December 31, 1913.

Among the contents of The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography for April, in addition to continuations, may be mentioned a Letter from John Rolfe to Sir Thos. Dale and a biographical sketch of Captain John Harris of the Virginia Navy, by Walter Drew McCaw.

Dunbar Rowland is the editor of The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi for the year 1912, which has been issued by the Department of Archives and History of Mississippi.

The eleventh in the series of articles on The Baronies of South Carolina, by Henry A. M. Smith, dealing with the Raphoe Barony, appears in the January number of The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Here may also be found a paper on Wilton's Statue of Pitt, by D. E. Huger Smith; and a continuation of the Order Book of John Faucheraud Grimké.

An illustrated account of a Prehistoric Shell Necklace from Nebraska, written by Robert F. Gilder, opens the March-April number of the Records of the Past. Louise Phelps Kellogg contributes a brief appreciation of the late Reuben Gold Thwaites. Other articles are: Cayuga Indemnity, by Grace Ellis Taft; An Onondaga Festival, by the same writer; and Man and the Mammoth in America, by George Frederick Wright.

A Grave in the Wilderness, by Byron R. Long; The Birthplace of Little Turtle, by Calvin Young; Robert Yost His Book, consisting of a diary of the War of 1812; and Rev. Paul Henkel's Journal: His Missionary Journey to the State of Ohio in 1806, edited by Clement L. Martzolff, are contributions in the April number of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly.

Besides the usual proceedings of meetings and lists of officers and members, the Year Book of the Holland Society of New York for 1914 contains an account of The Founding of Jersey City to and Including the Incorporation of the Village of Bergen, by Dingman Versteeg; a brief description of The Peter Stuyvesant Statue at Bergen; and a list of Marriages in the Village of Bergen in New Jersey Beginning 1665.

Herbert E. Bolton is the writer of a carefully prepared monograph on The Founding of the Missions on the San Gabriel River, 1745-1749, which is published in the April number of The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. William Edward Dunn presents a

scholarly study of The Apache Mission on the San Saba River; its Founding and Failure; and there is a tenth installment of Correspondence from the British Archives Concerning Texas, 18371846, edited by Ephraim Douglass Adams.

An interesting and valuable article on Fort Orleans, the First French Post on the Missouri, by M. F. Stipes, opens the Missouri Historical Review for April. L. T. Collier relates a few Recollections of Thomas H. Benton. There is a second paper by David W. Eaton under the heading Echoes of Indian Emigration; and W. O. L. Jewett is the writer of an Historical Sketch of Shelby County, Missouri.

The Journal of John Work, June-October, 1825, edited with introduction and notes by T. C. Elliott, occupies the leading position in The Washington Historical Quarterly for April. Anna Sloan Walker presents, in brief outline form, the History of the Liquor Laws of the State of Washington; while Ralph R. Knapp treats in a similar manner of Divorce in Washington. Under the heading of documents there is printed A New Vancouver Journal, with introduction and notes by Edmond S. Meany.

Rear Admiral James E. Jouett, a Distinguished Kentuckian and a Heroic Naval Officer, by George Baber; an account of the Unveiling of a Monument to commemorate the founding of the city of Louisville, Kentucky, by Ella Hutchinson Ellwanger; and Coal Mining and its Bearing on Local History, by Otto A. Rothert, are among the contents of the May number of The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

Among the contents of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register for April are: a biographical sketch of William Theophilus Rogers Marvin, by Mrs. Elizabeth E. M. Wood; and some Records of the Society of Friends at Vassalborough, Me., communicated by Henry Sewall Webster. A supplement contains the Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the annual meeting on February 4, 1914, together with the exercises at the dedication of the new building of the Society on March 18, 1913.

The Explanatory Element in the Folk-Tales of the North American Indians, by T. T. Waterman, is the subject of a paper which opens the January-March number of The Journal of American Folk-Lore. Reed Smith writes on The Traditional Ballad in the South. Two other contributions are: The Crow Sun Dance, by Robert H. Lowie; and Some Aspects of the Folk-Lore of the Central Algonkin, by Alanson Skinner.

An interesting paper on Andrew Craigie and the Scioto Associ ates, by Archer B. Hulbert; an account and list of The Papers of the Johnson Family of Connecticut, by Max Farrand; and an extensive and valuable Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690– 1820, compiled by Clarence S. Brigham, are contributions in volume twenty-three, part two of the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society.

An extended account of The Meeting of the American Historical Association at Charleston and Columbia occupies the opening pages in the April number of The American Historical Review. Then follows an article on The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism, by Henri Pirenne. The Children's Crusade is discussed by Dana C. Munro. Inna Lubimenko describes The Correspondence of Queen Elizabeth with the Russian Czars; and Ulrich B. Phillips presents a paper on A Jamaica Slave Plantation. Under the head of Documents may be found A New Plan to Govern Virginia, 1623, contributed by Arthur Percival Newton.

The greater part of volume fourteen of the Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, edited by Franklin L. Riley, is taken up with an extensive monograph on Mississippi and the Compromise of 1850, by Cleo Hearon. Two shorter papers are: Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade at Gettysburg, by J. S. McNeily; and County Seats and Early Railroads of Washington County, by Henry T. Ireys.

Much valuable material is to be found in volume eight of the Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society. Among the papers are: Connecticut in Pennsylvania, by Simeon E. Baldwin; Eli Whitney Blake, Scientist and Inventor, by Henry T. Blake;

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