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GENERAL ITEMS

Mr. David W. Parker's Calendar of Papers in Washington Archives relating to the Territories of the United States (to 1873), a volume of about 500 pages, calendaring nearly ten thousand documents, is published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington soon after the time of issue of the present number of this journal. At about the same time, Mr. Parker completes, so far as Ottawa is concerned, his Guide to the Materials for United States History in Canadian Archives. Professor Frederick J. Zwierlein of St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, has made a supplementary inspection of the archives of Quebec, for insertion in the same volume. Professor Learned's Guide to Materials for American History in German State Archives is in the printer's hands. Dr. Charles E. Fryer of McGill University will make at London the inspection, now permitted by the British government, of the Foreign Office, Privy Council, and other papers from 1837 to 1860, in order to complete for this period the volume prepared by Dr. C. O. Paullin and Professor F. L. Paxson. Professor Charles M. Andrews, while in London this summer, will carry a stage nearer to completion his Guide to the Materials for American History in the Public Record Office, of which the first volume is expected to go to press next autumn.

We are glad to note that the Albany disaster has aroused in official circles in Washington fresh interest in the problem of a safe and proper housing of the government archives in Washington, and that the proposal for an adequate National Archive Building is under active consideration by Congressional committees. The position of the American Historical Association in respect to the movement having been more than once declared, it is proper to say that those who are interested in it from the historical point of view should write to their representatives in Congress before the next session.

Among the recent important accessions of the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress, are the following: the papers of Senator and Secretary John Sherman; the papers of Secretary Stanton; receipts for disbursements of the last specie fund of the Confederate States of America, from M. H. Clark, acting treasurer, 1865; a body of manuscripts of Colonel George Morgan, including letters, Indian speeches, and reports, 1775-1787; the papers of General George B. McClellan, given to the library by his son, Hon. George B. McClellan; a volume of dramas. in the Aztec language, 1687; additional "Pickett Papers", being the correspondence and memoranda relative to the transfer of the "Pickett Papers" to the government, additional diplomatic papers, correspondence relative to the Confederate seal, and papers left by John T. Pickett; the Andrew Jackson papers, being the main body of manuscripts left by General Jackson and not embraced in the Blair papers already in the

library; additional Shaker manuscripts, including prayers, record-books, hymns, laws, and regulations of the Shaker Community in Ohio; a body of military and official letters and documents addressed to General Santa Anna, 1847; record of the proceedings of the Hague Arbitration upon the fisheries dispute (10 volumes); and miscellaneous papers of William Samuel Johnson respecting the Stamp Act Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1765-1790.

The Albert Shaw lectures in American diplomatic history, at the Johns Hopkins University, will be given next spring by Professor Isaac J. Cox of the University of Cincinnati, whose theme will be the diplomatic movements centring around West Florida.

Volume VI., part I. (February, 1911), of the Historical Records and Studies of the United States Catholic Historical Society includes "Pierre Esprit Radisson", and "First Canadian Missionaries and the Holy Eucharist ", by Rev. Thomas J. Campbell, S.J.; "Register of the Clergy laboring in the Archdiocese in New York from Early Missionary Times to 1885" (VIII.), by Archbishop Corrigan; "Claudius Clavus, the first Cartographer of America" (with illustrations), by Rev. Joseph. Fischer; and "Some Catholic Names in the United States Navy List", a series of brief biographies, by John Furey, U.S.N.

The principal paper in the Records of the American Catholic Historical Society for March is by Rev. James Savage of Detroit, Michigan, on the Prehistoric Finds of Michigan. Twenty pages of the issue are occupied with the baptismal registers of Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, for 1793-1795, transcribed by F. X. Reuss and edited by Rev. Thomas C. Middleton.

Mr. Charles Francis Adams will bring together a number of his studies of the military strategy in the War of Independence and of the naval and diplomatic history of the Civil War, which the Macmillan Company will publish with the title Studies: Military and Diplomatic.

Mr. Hannis Taylor's work upon The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution has come from the press (Houghton Mifflin Company).

A History of the American People, in four volumes, by J. H. Patton and others, has been published in Chicago by L. W. Walter Company. There is an introductory article on "True Americanism" by former President Roosevelt.

Mr. Reuben P. Halleck's History of American Literature (New York, American Book Company, 1911, pp. 431) is a well-proportioned text-book, sensible and interesting, and without great refinement of thought or manner will introduce young pupils well to a good acquaintance with its subject.

The reminiscences of George W. Smalley, for many years European correspondent of the New York Tribune and American correspondent of the London Times, have been brought out by the Putnams with the title Anglo-American Memories.

The Journal of American History has passed into the hands of the Allaben Publishing Company of New York and London. Mr. Francis T. Miller continues as editor of the Journal.

Hon. John W. Foster's address The Foreign Wars of the United States has been reprinted from the Proceedings of the conference of the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes held in Washington, December 15, 1910.

The same society has issued as no. 4 of its publications The Development of the American Doctrine of Jurisdiction of Courts over States (pp. 67), by Mr. Alpheus H. Snow.

Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet's Incidents of my Life, Professional, Literary, Social; with Services in the Cause of Ireland (Putnam, pp. xxx, 480), contains many passages of historical interest scattered through the book.

The Library of Congress has issued a Select List of References on Boycotts and Injunctions in Labor Disputes, compiled under the direction of H. H. B. Meyer, chief bibliographer, and twelve pages of Additional References relating to Popular Election of Senators. These references are largely to speeches of recent utterance in Congress, but include also articles in periodicals.

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Mr. Warren K. Moorehead has brought ort through Houghton Mifflin Company a work in two volumes upon The Stone Age in North America, an archaeological encyclopaedia of the implements, ornaments, weapons, utensils, etc., of the prehistoric tribes of North America. The work abounds in illustrations and includes a bibliography of the subject. The Real Captain Kidd: a Vindication, which Messrs. Duffield have published, is by Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton.

Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons have in press a work by General Francis V. Greene entitled The Revolutionary War and the Military Policy of the United States. In this volume General Greene proposes to study the Revolutionary war from a military point of view and to show how the policy was inaugurated of making a small body of trained soldiery the core of a large volunteer army. The author plans eventually to add other volumes treating the subsequent wars of the United States. The Houghton Mifflin Company has published France in the American Revolution, by the late Hon. James Breck Perkins.

Mrs. Danske Dandridge, whose books Historic Shepherdstown and American Prisoners in the Revolution have recently appeared, is collecting material for a book which shall include biographical sketches of General Adam Stephen, General William Darke, Governor James Wood, and Robert Rutherford, and would be grateful for information concerning any of these persons. Mrs. Dandridge's address is "Rose Brake ", near Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

David Zeisberger's History of the North American Indians, which was issued as a double number (January and April, 1910) of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly (see the REVIEW for July, 1910, p. 946), has now been issued in book form as volume I. of The Moravian Records, "a series of volumes containing the more important journals, diaries and reports of the Moravian missionaries among the American Indians, 1767-1817", edited by A. B. Hulbert and W. N. Schwarze (Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, pp. ii, 189).

Chronicles of Greater New York City during the War of 1812-1815, in two volumes, by R. S. Guernsey, has been brought out in New York by the compiler.

A brief biography of Francis Scott Key, author of "The StarSpangled Banner ", has been produced by his great-grandson, F. S. KeySmith, and published in Washington by Key-Smith and Company.

Professor John S. Bassett's Life of Andrew Jackson will be published in early autumn (Doubleday, Page and Company).

The Northeastern Boundary Controversy and the Aroostook War, by J. F. Sprague, is published at Dover, Maine, by the Observer Press.

The United States Senate, April 28, 1911, ordered the compilation and publication of a document to contain all the proceedings of the Senate, including debates, reports, votes, etc., relating to the tariff of 1842; of another of similar material on the tariff of 1846; of another on that of 1857; and of a fourth containing the official material concerning the Canadian reciprocity treaty of 1854, and Professor Chalfant Robinson's history of it, the last being Senate Doc. no. 17, 62d Cong., I sess.

Harriet Beecher Stowe: the Story of her Life, by Charles Edward Stowe and Lyman Beecher Stowe, has come from the press (Houghton Mifflin Company).

The Presidential Campaign of 1860, by E. D. Fite, is announced by the Macmillan Company.

The late Rev. William H. Whitsitt, shortly before his death, brought out through the Neale Publishing Company a Genealogy of Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, and of Samuel Davies, President of Princeton College (pp. 67). The volume presents some new facts concerning the ancestry of Jefferson Davis.

The University of Illinois has issued The Origin of the Land Grant Act of 1862, by Professor E. J. James.

Mr. J. W. Rich's monograph The Battle of Shiloh, the publication of which in the Iowa Journal of History and Politics was chronicled in the issue of this journal for January, 1910, has now appeared in book form, bearing the imprint of the State Historical Society of Iowa (pp. 134). The work has received high commendation for its fairness and accuracy. Professor B. F. Shambaugh writes an introduction to the book.

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The Wisconsin History Commission has brought out; as Original Papers no. 4, The Chattanooga Campaign, with especial reference to Wisconsin's Participation therein (pp. xiii, 255), by Colonel M. H. Fitch.

The Heroic Story of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861– 1865, by W. H. Reed, has been reprinted from the Christian Register.

A Sketch of the Life of Horace Greeley, with brief extracts from his Writings and Biographical Notes, by Jacob Erlich, has been brought out in Chappaqua, New York, by the Chappaqua Historical Society to commemorate the Greeley centenary.

Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts has prepared a volume entitled A Quarter Century of Naval Legislation in Congress, which has been published by the International Reform Bureau of Washington. The volume deals with the period 1888-1911 and includes extracts from bills, acts, and other documents relating to naval and social reforms.

The Life and Character of Edward Oliver Wolcott, late a Senator of the United States from the State of Colorado, in two volumes (pp. xi, 702; v, 803), by Thomas Fulton Dawson, is printed by the Knickerbocker Press for private circulation.

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A History of the New England Fisheries, by Raymond McFarland, is published by the University of Pennsylvania and Appleton.

The governor of Maine has re-appointed Rev. Dr. Henry S. Burrage as state historian. At the close of 1910 Dr. Burrage completed the work of arranging, pressing, repairing, mounting, card-cataloguing, and binding, and thus making available for historical purposes, seventy-eight volumes of the Civil War correspondence of the governors and adjutantgenerals of Maine, and by the close of the present year he expects to complete the work on the remaining eighty volumes.

The commonwealth of Massachusetts has issued volume XVII. of the Acts and Resolves of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (Boston, 1910–1911, pp. 709), containing the resolves, etc., of 1761–1764.

The Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for February contains a paper on Commerce during the Revolutionary Epoch, by Professor Edward Channing, and one by Mr. Brooks Adams on the Convention of 1800 with France, the latter an elaboration of a legal brief. The March issue contains a paper by Mr. Frank B. Sanborn on Negro Slavery in Kansas and Missouri. Both contain memoirs of deceased members of the society: E. Winchester Donald, Morton Dexter, Edward J. Young, and John Noble. As we go to press, the society issues The Diary of Cotton Mather, 1681-1708 (Collections, seventh series, volume VII., pp. xxviii, 602).

Labor Laws and their Enforcement, with special Reference to Massachusetts, by Charles E. Persons, Mabel Parton, Mabelle Moses, and