Dr. David Kinley's work The Independent Treasury of the United States, which was published in 1893, has been revised and brought down to date by the author and is now issued by the National Monetary Commission under the title The Independent Treasury of the United States and its Relations to the Banks of the Country (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1910, 61 Cong., 2 sess., Sen. Doc. No. 587. PP. 370).

The National Monetary Commission has issued State Banks and Trust Companies since the Passage of the National-Bank Act, by Professor George E. Barnett of Johns Hopkins University (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1911, pp. 366). Part 1. of the book treats analytically and historically of state-bank and trust-company legislation. In part II. the author examines in particular the causes of the growth of state banks and trust companies. There are numerous statistical tables throughout the book. A study of "The Insurance of Bank Deposits in the West", two articles written by Thornton Cooke for the Quarterly Journal of Economics (November, 1909, and February, 1910) constitutes an appendix of 90 pages.

The American Book Company sends us Makers and Defenders of America, by Misses Anna E. Foote and Avery W. Skinner, intended to instruct school-children in the history of the period since 1763 by reading-matter chiefly biographical. It is moderately interesting but without distinction, and abounds in errors.

Part I. of Bulletin 30 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, first volume of its Hand-Book of American Indians North of Mexico, edited by Frederick W. Hodge, was published in 1907 and comprises the articles for the letters A to M in what is really an encyclopaedia of matters relating to the American Indians. Part II. (pages 1221) has now been issued and includes besides the articles from N to Z a "synonomy" of names extending to more than 150 pages and an extensive bibliography. The book, as now completed, is doubtless the most comprehensive and authoritative book on American Indians yet published, its articles being written by the best experts and its editing remarkably careful, competent, and scholarly.

Bulletin 45 of the Bureau of American Ethnology is Chippewa Music (pp. xix, 216), by Frances Densmore. Miss Densmore has made a careful study of the music of the Chippewa Indians on several of the reservations in Minnesota and besides presenting a scientific study of the characteristics of the music of the Chippewas has recorded by means of a phonograph two hundred of their songs, which are given in this volume together with explanatory narratives and analyses. Bulletin 37 of the Bureau's series is Antiquities of Central and Southeastern Missouri (pp. vii, 116), by Gerard Fowke. The work recorded in this volume was done under the auspices of the St. Louis Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Mr. Alfred Söderström of Minnesota has brought together a body of material for a history of the Swedish press in America, which he has published under the title Blixtar på Tidningshorisonten. Mr. Söderström has listed Swedish-American newspapers and other periodical publications to the number of 1158.

Mr. Samuel Oppenheim has published a monograph on The Jews and Masonry in the United States before 1810.

The Journal of American History, vol. V., no. 1, contains an account by H. M. Baker of the siege of Louisburg in 1745; a sketch of William Cocke, one of the first senators from Tennessee, by William Goodrich; and a short account of prison ships in the American Revolution, by C. E. West. From the Journals of the Princeton Historical Association is taken the account by an eye-witness of the battle of Princeton, edited by V. L. Collins. The printing of the orderly books of Ensign Samuel Talmadge continues.

In the October number of the Magazine of History is an outline history of "The American Thanksgiving ", by Mary C. Sweet, the second paper on Pennsylvania county names, by George R. Prowell, and the concluding paper of Malcolm G. Sausser entitled "An American Loyalist: Moody of New Jersey". In the November number appears an article on the practical work of the Daughters of the Revolution in North Carolina, by Mary Hilliard Hinton.

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It is expected that the third volume of Rev. Thomas J. Campbell's · Pioneer Priests of North America will shortly come from the press.

The Beginnings of the American Revolution, by Ellen Chase (New York, the Baker and Taylor Company), traces colonial protest through its various forms and degrees to Gage's proclamation of June 12, 1775. The work, which is three volumes in extent and illustrated, draws largely on documentary sources, but concerns itself chiefly with the vicinity of Boston.

Mrs. Danske Dandridge of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, has prepared a general account of the American Prisoners of the Revolution (1911, 500 pp.), published and sold by the author.

New volumes in Small, Maynard, and Company's series The Beacon Biographies are Benjamin Franklin, by Lindsay Swift, and George Washington, by Worthington Chauncey Ford.

The Records of the American Catholic Historical Society for December prints under the caption " Propaganda Documents; Appointment of the First Bishop of Baltimore" translations of the "Documents relative to the Adjustment of the Roman Catholic Organization in the United States to the Conditions of National Independence, 1783-1789",

which appeared in the issue of this journal for July, 1910. Rev. E. I. Devitt, S. J., furnishes an introduction to the translations.

Dr. James A. Robertson has edited a series of documents, hitherto unpublished, which portray the social, economic, and political conditions in the territory represented in the Louisiana purchase, to which he has given the title Louisiana under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States, 1785-1807. Volume I. has already appeared (Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark Company).

Professor Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention has just been published by the Yale University Press; all copies, both of the édition de luxe and of the regular first edition, were subscribed for before publication, but there will be other issues.

George W. Jacobs and Company have brought out Historic Dress in America, 1800-1870, by Elizabeth McClellan, whose previous volume dealt with the period 1607-1800.

A Life of Andrew Jackson, by Professor John S. Bassett, is expected to be published in May.

The Life of Hiram Paulding, Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., by Rebecca Paulding Meade (New York, Baker and Taylor Company, pp. xi, 321), is essentially a collection of episodes in Paulding's life. Two chapters, relating to a visit to Simon Bolívar, are taken from Paulding's Bolívar and his Camp. One chapter is concerned with the capture of William Walker, the filibuster. Considerable use is made of Paulding's journal, and several letters to and from him are printed in full.

A question which has been considerably debated of late is discussed, with additional facts, in the pamphlet Was Secession Taught at West Point? (pp. 40), a paper by Lieutenant-Colonel James W. Latta, published by the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.

General W. T. Sherman as a College President, by David F. Boyd, late president of Louisiana State University, appears as a university bulletin of that institution, being reprinted from the April (1910) issue of The American College.

The American Philosophical Society have published separately The Great Japanese Embassy of 1860, a paper read before the society in April, 1910, by Patterson Du Bois.

The Story of a Cannoncer under Stonewall Jackson, by E. A. Moore, describes the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia. An introduction to the book is furnished by Robert E. Lee, jr., and H. St. George Tucker (Lynchburg, J. P. Bell Company). Gettysburg: the Pivotal Battle of the Civil War, by R. K. Bucham, is announced by A. C. McClurg and Company.

Major-General Grenville M. Dodge has brought out through the Monarch Printing Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, The Battle of Atlanta and other Campaigns, Addresses, etc.

General Basil W. Duke has written his Reminiscences, which Doubleday, Page, and Company will publish.

The Life of J. L. M. Curry, member of Congress from Alabama before the Civil War, member of the Confederate Congress, and for many years agent of the Peabody Fund, has been brought out by the Macmillan Company. The authors are President E. A. Alderman and A. C. Gordon.

The New York State Library has issued as a bulletin (" Legislation 40") of the Education Department American Ballot Laws, 18881910 (pp. 220), by Arthur C. Luddington. The monograph consists of a chronological survey, classification, and digest of the ballot laws, including also a digest of the constitutional and statutory provisions in regard to the use of voting machines.

Mr. Charles Morris has written a volume which he entitles The Marvellous Career of Theodore Roosevelt, etc. (Philadelphia, Winston). Another biography of the former president, which will shortly be issued by A. C. McClurg and Company, is that of Dr. Max Kullnick. The book will appear in a translation made by Professor Frederick von Rietdorf and will bear the title From Rough Rider to President.

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In the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for January the bibliography of lists of New England soldiers, by Mary E. Baker, is continued, as is also A. M. Dyer's contribution on "First Ownership of Ohio Lands ".

At a meeting of the Maine Historical Society on December 14, Mr. George S. Delano delivered an address on "The Humanity of Historical Societies". At a meeting on February 16, a paper by Rev. Henry O. Thayer entitled "Sir William Phips and his Relations with his native Town of Woolwich" was read. The society has issued as volume XVI. of its documentary series a new volume of the Baxter Manuscripts. The state has published York Deeds, book 18, 1735-1737 (Bethel, pp. 654, 123).

The Report of the state historian of Maine for the years 1909 and 1910 reviews the legislation in behalf of the office of state historian and describes the work done during the past two years in assembling, arranging, and publishing the historical materials in his custody.

Much material on the Aroostook War and the northeast boundary question will be found in the first volume of the Collections of the Piscataquis County Historical Society (Dover, Maine, 1910, pp. 522).

A History of the Town of Andover, New Hampshire, 1751-1906, by J. R. Eastman, has been brought out in Andover by the committee on town history.

The October serial of the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society contains an account of Goldwin Smith's visit to the United States in 1864, by Mr. Worthington C. Ford, a suggestive paper on the campaign of 1777, by Mr. Charles Francis Adams, and the journal of Rev. Joseph Emerson, jr., a naval chaplain in the expedition against Louisburg in 1745. To the Proceedings for November Mr. Adams contributes a paper on "Contemporary Opinion on the Howes", and Mr. Ford one on "Parliament and the Howes". These articles are the outgrowth of an examination of three volumes of pamphlets in possession of the society, once a part of the library of Israel Mauduit. and containing liberal annotations by Mauduit and some by Joseph Galloway. An account of these pamphlets is appended by Mr. Ford to his

Professor J. F. Jameson contributes Plymouth letters of John Bridge and Emmanuel Altham to James Sherley, 1623 and 1624. In the December serial, under the title "The Weems Dispensation", Mr. Charles Francis Adams discourses upon Washington's military conduct in the Long Island campaign. An Indian deed for Nauset, 1666, is also printed, and the diary of Rev. Joseph Emerson, jr., for 1748-1749. The January issue contains a discussion of the maximum marching rates of infantry, by Mr. Charles Francis Adams; an account of the last blockade run of the Sumter, by one of its officers; certain remarkable political letters of Jonathan Russell to Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams in 1815; several papers relating to the trial of Anthony Burns; and a journal of a visit to the western country" in 1845, by the late W. W. Greenough.

Professor Everett Kimball of Smith College has in press a book on The Public Career of Joseph Dudley.

The Essex Institute Historical Collections continues in the January number the list of prizes and recaptures (1813-1814) taken from the records of the vice-admiralty court at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Revolutionary orderly book of Captain Jeremiah Putnam of Danvers, Massachusetts, in the Rhode Island campaign, 1779.

The Macmillan Company have published The Siege of Boston, by Allen French.

The late Miss Gertrude S. Kimball left a manuscript on Colonial Providence, which will be published in elaborate form by the Houghton Mifflin Company.

Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes, jr., has prepared a descriptive list, chronologically arranged, of engraved views of New Haven, which he has brought out with the title Historical Prints of New Haven, Connecticut, with special reference to Yale College and the Green. A useful table of local dates is added.