In the Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, Antiquary, No. 1, part 3, published by Mr. Edward W. James, the most interesting matters are a list of slave owners in Princess Anne County in 1810, a series of documents respecting the history of the Church in Lower Norfolk County from 1637 to 1640, and a collection of lists of books derived from the inventories of the oldest wills in that county.
The Filson Club of Louisville has issued, as the eleventh of its Publications, a history of the once famous Transylvania University, by the late Dr. Robert Peter and his daughter, Miss Johanna Peter, Transylvania University: its Origin, Rise, Decline, and Fall (Louisville, John P. Morton and Co., 202 pp.), an interesting and worthy memorial of an ancient and influential institution.
The American Historical Magazine (Nashville, Tenn.) for April contains an article on the so-called Mero District; an unpublished account of the capture of Aaron Burr, by the captor, Major Nicholas Perkins, with accompanying documents; and a continuation of the important and interesting correspondence of General James Robertson.
The third issue in the series of the Parkman Club Publications is an interesting account of the Chevalier Henry de Tonty, by Mr. Henry E. Legler; the fourth, The Aborigines of the Northwest, by Mr. Frank T. Terry; the fifth, an account of Jonathan Carver, by Mr. J. G. Gregory.
In the April number of the Annals of Iowa, the two chief articles are one by Hon. M. M. Ham, on The First White Man in Iowa (Julien Dubuque), and one by Charles Aldrich, on the late General Ed Wright.
Noteworthy articles in periodicals: Comte L. Rioult de Neuville, La Colonisation du Canada (Revue des Questions Historiques, April); H. M. Jenkins, The Family of William Penn, I. (Pennsylvania Magazine of History, April); Leaves from the Journal of Dr. Ezra Stiles, 1776 (New England Magazine, May); W. C. Ford, Defences of Philadelphia in 1777 (Pennsylvania Magazine of History, April); W. S. Baker, Washington after the Revolution, 1784-1799 (ibid., April).
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
The names of contributors are printed in small capitals
Abrahams, B. L., The Expulsion of the Jews
from England in 1290 (Review), 372.
Acta Capitular del Cabildo de Sevilla, 10-
15 de Enero, Año de 1391, 220.
Acton, Lord, A Lecture on the Study of
History, by CHARLES HENRY LEA (Re-
view), 517.
Adams, Brooks, Law of Civilization and
Decay (Review), 568.
ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, The Battle of
Bunker Hill, 401; Carlyle's Frederick
the Great, quoted, 401; centenary of the
death of Colonel W. Prescott, 401;
Colonel Thomas Knowlton, 402; "bal-
ancing of blunders" between the op-
posing sides, 402; Charlestown, 402;
incapacity of the British commander,
403; the untenable position of the pa-
triots, 403; the British land directly in
the face of the enemy, 404; firing the
colonial heart, 404; forces nearly equal,
405; Americans occupy Bunker Hill,
405; Colonel Knowlton's advice, 406;
Putnam's command, 407; lack of or-
ganization, 407; Prescott's rear unpro-
tected, 407; Clinton's advice to Gage,
407; confusion in the patriot ranks,
408; Prescott's repulse of attacking
force, 408; ammunition within Bunker
Hill redoubt consumed, 409; Prescott
saved from disaster, 409; the original
plan of operation, 409; Prescott at
Breed's Hill, 410; field intrenchments,
411; Waterloo and Sedan, 411; West
Point graduates lament the tendency of
armies to protect themselves by in-
trenchments, 412; "stand up and fight
man-fashion," 412; Putnam's remarks
on the Yankee soldier, 412; digging as
part of soldier's training, 412; intrench-
ments attacked in front, 412.
ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, The Battle of
Long Island, 650; General Lee's let-
ter to Washington, 650; Washington's
errors in military judgment, 650; Lee's
system of defences, 651; Washington in
command, 651; the British under Howe
land on Staten Island, 651; imperfectly
equipped army, 651; the patriot forces
divided, 652; the British army camped
on Staten Island, 653; the British com-
mand of the sea, 653; the number of
men in the British and American army
compared, 653; the British army lands
at Gravesend, 654; the defence of
Brooklyn, 655; Stirling and Sullivan
captured, 656; the demoralization of
the American army, 657; the dilatori-
ness of the enemy, 657; operations of
the British fleet, 658; Sir Peter Parker's
endeavor to beat up the bay, 658; the
position of the American army, 658;
arrival of reinforcements under General
Mifflin, 659; how history is fabricated,
660; preparations for retreat, 661; the
retreat from Long Island, 661; patriotic
historians and the retreat from Long
Island, 662; the defence of New York
and Brooklyn, 666; cavalry in the
American army, 667; influence of Bunker
Hill on Washington and Howe, 668;
the element of luck in warfare, 669.
ADAMS, GEORGE B., The Universities of
Europe in the Middle Ages, by Hastings
Rashdall, 2 vols. (Review), 520.
ADAMS, HENRY, Count Edward de Crillon,
51; errors of history, 51; the historian
responsible for his own error, 51; the
pitfalls of the historian, 52; blunder in
the History of the First Administration
of Madison, 52; episode of John Henry,
52; so-called Count Edward de Crillon,
53; Count Georges de Caraman's asser-
tion, 53; letter from the Prefect of the
Department of the Gers, 53; Soubiran's
papers, 54; memoir of Soubiran, 55;
Soubiran's impostures, 60; Serurier's
letter to the Duke de Bassano, 60;
opinion of the British minister, 61;
Serurier's letter to the Duke de Bassano,
62; payment of $50,000 to Henry and
Crillon, 64; letter of Serurier to Duke
de Bassano, 64; letter of Soubiran to
Sieyes, 64; Soubiran's secret denuncia-
tion of Henry, 65; letter of Soubiran to
Duke de Rovigo, 66; Soubiran sails for
France, 67.
Adams, John, 29, 157; Works of, quoted,
28, 29; Thoughts on Government, quoted,
284; Diary, 289; report recommending
the Colonies to form a Society for the
encouragement of Arts, Manufactures,
etc., 513.
Adams, Samuel, 40.
Agriculture in England, fifteenth century,
Albanel, Father, 228.
Alexander, James, 241.
Alleghany, 253; see Turner, Western State-
Making.
Allen, Colonel Ethan, 296, 302; Prescott's
cruelty (in Congress), 496.
Altamira, Rafael, La Enseñanza de la His-
toria (Review), 316.
America, Notes and News, 202, 395, 600,
783.
American Archives, 4th Series, Vol. III.,
quoted, 42.
American Civil War, soldiers in, 138;
American Congress (The), a History of
National Legislation and Political
Events, 1774-1895, by Joseph West
Moore, 168.
American Historical Ass., Annual Report
for 1894 (Review), 752.
American history from a European stand-
point, 12.
American Imprints, List of Early American
Imprints, 1640-1700, belonging to the
American Antiquarian Society, with
notes by Nathaniel Paine, by PAUL
LEICESTER FORD (Review), 743; List
of Early American Imprints belonging
to the Library of the Mass. Historical
Society, by PAUL LEICESTER FORD (Re-
view), 743.
American Journal of Philology, 105.
American Revolution, President Wither-
spoon in, by Moses Coit Tyler, 671.
American School of Classical Studies in
Rome, 192.
American Whigs and taxation, 38.
Americans in colonial times, 70.
Ancient History, Notes and News, 193,
383, 589, 774.
Anderson, Ramus B., The First Chapter of
Norwegian Immigration (1721-1840)
(Review), 365.
ANDREWS, CHARLES M., Histoire du Second
Empire, par Pierre de la Gorce (Re-
view), 731.
Andrews, Mr., of Rotterdam, letter from
Colonel Byrd, 90.
Antoine, J. B., Mémoires du Général
Baron Roch Godart (1792-1815), by
H. MORSE STEPHENS (Review), 726.
Archivio Vaticano, Sisto V., quoted, 49.
Arnold, Colonel Benedict, expedition to
Canada, 291, 296; made Brigadier-Gen-
eral, 306; wounded before Quebec, 493.
Articles by-
ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, The Battle
of Bunker Hill, 401; The Battle of
Long Island, 650.
ADAMS, HENRY, Count Edward de Cril-
BAIRD, HENRY M., Hotman and the
"Franco-Gallia," 609.
BIGELOW, MELVILLE M., The Bohun
Wills, 414; The Bohun Wills, II.,
631.
CAMPBELL, H. C., Radisson and Gro-
seilliers, 226.
CUSHING, HARRY A., "The People the
Best Governors," 284.
HUNT, GAILLARD, Office-Seeking during
Washington's Administration, 270.
LEA, HENRY C., The First Castilian
Inquisition, 46; Ferrand Martinez
and the Massacres of 1391, 209.
LEVERMORE, C. H., The Whigs of
Colonial New York, 238.
MURDOCK, JOHN S., The First National
Nominating Convention, 680.
RHODES, J. F., The First Six Weeks of
McClellan's Peninsular Campaign,
464.
SIEBERT, W. H., Light on the Under-
ground Railroad, 455.
SLOANE, WILLIAM M., History and De-
STEPHENS, H. MORSE, Recent Memoirs
of the French Directory, 473.
TRENT, W. P., The Case of Josiah Philips,
444.
TURNER, F. J., Western State-Making
in the Revolutionary Era, 70; II., 251.
TYLER, MOSES COIT, The Party of the
Loyalists in the American Revolution,
24; President Witherspoon in the
American Revolution, 671.
WINSOR, JUSTIN, Virginia and the Que-
bec Bill, 436.
Avery, Elizabeth H., The Influence of
French Immigration on the Political His-
tory of the United States (Review), 758.
BAIRD, HENRY MARTIN, Hotman and the
"Franco-Gallia," 609; Huguenots in
France, 609; the Reformation in France,
610; Francis I., 610; John Calvin, 610;
on the duty of submission to royal au-
thority, 610; first religious synod of the
French Protestant churches, 612; per-
secution under Francis II., 613; the
Huguenots, 614; François Hotman, 615;
"A Letter to the Tiger of France," quoted,
616; Charles IX. and the massacre of
Saint Bartholemew, 617; François Hot-
man's Franco-Gallia, 618; the Ro-
mans, Gauls, and Franks, 620; Pope
Sixtus V. and Henry of Navarre, 628;
the Protestants' devotion to Henry of
Navarre, 629.
Baird, Henry M., The Huguenots and the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 2 vols.
(Review), by JAMES BRECK PERKINS,
338.
Balch, Thomas, The French in America
during the War of Independence of the
United States, 1777-1783, translation,
2 vols., by CHARLEMAGNE TOWER, Jr.
(Review), 160.
Ballagh, James Curtis, White Servitude in
the Colony of Virginia, by LYON G.
TYLER (Review), 156.
Baltimore, the Anti-Masonic Convention,
1831, 680.
BANCROFT, FREDERIC, Lord John Russell,
by Stuart J. Reid (Review), 349.
Bancroft, George, History of United States,
Vol. III., quoted, 33; Vol. VIII., quoted,
289.
Banking: Canadian Banking System,
1817-1890, by R. M. Breckenridge,
by WILLIAM W. FOLWELL (Review),
370.
Bapst, M. Germain, Mémoires du Général
Lejeune, by H. MORSE STEPHENS (Re-
view), 726.
Barras, Memoirs of, edited by George
Duruy, 4 vols., 473; manuscripts and
papers, 477.
Barré, 36, 39, 43.
Barrett, 17-27; quoted, 255.
Barroso, Archbishop, 213.
Bassano, Maret, Duke de, 66.
Battle of Bunker Hill, by CHARLES FRAN-
CIS ADAMS, 401.
Battle of Long Island, by CHARLES FRAN-
CIS ADAMS, 650.
Battle ships, 738.
Baxter, James Phinney, The Pioneers of
New France in New England, by
CHARLES C. SMITH (Review), 542.
Bayard, Senator, 180.
Bayard, William, 246.
Bayle, Pierre, Dictionnaire Historique et
Critique, quoted, 609.
Belknap, Jeremy, 42.
Benedetti, Count, Studies in Diplomacy,
by J. B. MOORE (Review), 739.
Bernheim, Abram C., 191.
Beverley, Robert, 20.
Beza, 614.
Bibliographical, The Library of American
Antiquarian Society, 378; New Eng-
land Town Records, 581; Proceedings,
etc., of Early Party Convention, 760;
Records of New England Towns, 771.
BIGELOW, JOHN, Jr., Gustavus Adolphus, by
I. A. Dodge (Review), 331.
Bigelow, John, The Life of Samuel J.
Tilden, 2 vols., by EDWARD M. SHEPARD
(Review), 174.
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