BROOKLINE LIBRARY.-The Library Bulletin, as issued.

BROWN UNIVERSITY.-Catalogue of the University, 1895-1896.

CAMBRIDGE (ENGLAND) ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.-Proceedings of the Society, as issued.

CANADIAN INSTITUTE.—Transactions of the Institute, as issued.

CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-Annual Report of the Society, 1895. CINCINNATI PUBLIC LIBRARY.-The Library Reports for 1895.

CLUB OF ODD VOLUMES.-Volumes II. and III. of their reprints of Early American Poetry.

COLUMBIA COLLEGE.—College publications, as issued.

COLUMBIAN LODGE OF A. F. AND A. M., Boston.-"Centenary of Columbian Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Boston"; and "Consecration of Burial Lot at Mount Auburn."

CONNECTICUT STATE LIBRARY.-Eight Connecticut State documents. CORNELL UNIVERSITY.-The Register, 1895-96.

DEDHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-The Register, as issued.

DEDHAM, TOWN OF.-The Town Report for 1895.

DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY.-The Fifteenth Annual Report.

DRURY COLLEGE.-The College Catalogue for 1895-96.

ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY.-The Tenth Annual Report.

ESSEX INSTITUTE.-Institute publications, as issued.

FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM, Chicago, Ill.-Publications of the Museum, as issued.

FORBES LIBRARY, Northampton. --The First Annual Report, 1895. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA.-Series of maps relating to the Survey. HARTFORD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.-The "Hartford Seminary Record," as issued; and the Annual Register, 1895-96.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.-Publications of the Society, as issued.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.-Catalogue, 1895-96; Reports of the President and Treasurer; and the Bulletin, as issued.

HISTORISCHER VEREIN VON OBERPFALZ UND REGENSBURG.-Society publications, as issued.

INSTITUTO MEDICO NACIONAL, Mexico, Mex.-Publications of the Institute, as issued.

JERSEY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY.--The Fifth Annual Report; and the "Library Record," as issued.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.—Publications of the University, as issued. LANCASTER, TOWN OF.-The Thirty-third Annual Report.

LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA.-Photograph of desk formerly belonging to William Penn, now in their possession; and the "Library Bulletin," as issued.

LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY.-The Seventh Annual Report.

MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY." Collections and Proceedings" of the Society, as issued. MASSACHUSETTS, COMMONWEALTH OF.-Higginson's Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the War of 1861-65," Vol. 2; eleven State documents; and one proclamation.

MASSACHUSETTS GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS.-Proceedings of the Grand Lodge, as issued.

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-Collections of the Society, Vol. VIII., 6th Series; twenty historical pamphlets; and "Journal Officiel de la Republique Française," 1870-1881.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.-Publications of the Institute, as issued.

MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY CLUB.-The Club Handbook, 1896.

MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY.-Publications of the Society, as issued.

MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.-Publications of the Board, as issued.

MERIDEN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION.-Transactions of the Association, Vol. VII.

MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. The Sixth Annual Report.

MINNESOTA, STATE OF.-Reports of the Minnesota Weather Service, as issued.

MUSEO DE LA PLATA.-Publications, as issued.

NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY OF FLORENCE.-The Library Bulletin, as issued.

NEBRASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-Publications of the Society, as issued. NEWARK FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.-The Seventh Annual Report.

NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.-Publications of the Society, as issued.

NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN.—Proceedings at the Annual Meeting in 1896.

NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.-" Account of their 90th Anniversary Celebration."

NEW HAMPSHIRE, STATE OF.-State Manual, 1895.

NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE LIBRARY.-New Hampshire State Papers, volumes 18-26.

NEW JERSEY STATE LIBRARY.-Annual Report for the year 1895.

NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.-Publications of the Academy, as issued.

NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.-An "Account of their Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration, Feb. 27, 1894." NEW YORK MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.-The Seventy-fifth Annual Report.

NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY.-The State Library publications, as issued. NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE.-Publications of the Institute, as issued.

OBERLIN COLLEGE.-College Library Bulletin, Vol. I., No. 3.

PERKINS INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND.-The Sixty-fourth Annual Report. PORTLAND (MAINE) PUBLIC LIBRARY.-First Supplement to the Catalogue.

PORTLAND (OREGON) LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.-The Annual Report of 1894; and "Our Library," as issued.

PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY.-Two books.

QUINCY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-Account of the Opening of the Society's Rooms, October 10, 1895.

REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENÆUM.-Annual Report, 1895.

REYNOLDS LIBRARY, Rochester, N. Y.-The Tenth Annual Report. RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-Publications of the Society, as issued.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND.-The Society's Journal, as issued.

RUTGERS COLLEGE LIBRARY.-Twenty-one catalogues to fill gaps. SAINT LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.-The Fiftieth Annual Report of the Association.

SAINT LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY.-The Annual Report, 1894-95.

SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY.-The Seventh Annual Report; and the Bulletin, as issued.

SCRANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.-Report for 1895.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION." Collections" and miscellaneous publications, as issued.

SOCIÉTÉ D'ARCHÉOLOGIE DE BRUXELLES.-Publications of the Society, as issued.

SOCIÉTÉ DE GEOGRAPHIE, Paris, France.-Publications of the Society, as issued.

SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-The Society's Papers, Vol. III.

SPRINGFIELD Public Library.-The Library Bulletin, as issued.

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IOWA.-Publications of the Society, as issued.

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN.-Collections and Proceedings of the Society, as issued.

SYRACUSE CENTRAL LIBRARY.-The Annual Reports, 1894 and 1895.

UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCATION.-The Reports of 1892-95; and "Circulars," as issued.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.-Two pamphlets.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DOCUMENTS.-Seventy-nine volumes of government publications.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.-Twenty-three government documents; and the Patent Office Gazette, as issued.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.-Seven of the department publications.

UNITED STATES WAR DEPARTMENT.-Official Records, War of the Rebellion, as issued.

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bruxelles.-Revue, Vol. I, No. 12.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.-The Annual Report, 1895.

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT.-Catalogue of the University, 1895-96. VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-Publications of the Society, as issued. WEDNESDAY CLUB, Worcester.-All Saints' Kalendar, 1896.

WENHAM, TOWN OF.-The Annual Reports for 1895-96.

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.-Two pamphlets relating to the University. WORCESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.-Transactions of the Society for 1894.

WORCESTER BOARD OF HEALTH.-Publications of the Board, as issued. WORCESTER CLUB. Forty-six numbers of Magazines; and the "Critic and "Nation," in continuation. WORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION.-Ten pamphlets; and twenty-two files of newspapers, in continuation.

WORCESTER SOCIETY OF ANTIQUITY.-Publications of the Society, as issued.

WYOMING HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-Proceedings of the Society, as issued.

YALE UNIVERSITY.-Yale Catalogue, 1895-96.

YONKERS HISTORICAL AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.-The Manor Hall number of the Bulletin.

NOTES ON EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE.

BY JAMES F. HUNNEWELL.

MINERVA, we are told, appeared before the world in a manner that might be called unique, and so did the products of the earliest printing-presses, which appeared at once in full-grown perfection. If two centuries later our primitive books did not rival them, they have an interest and a value, both in themselves and in their position in the history of a great nation, that, as time passes, will make them more and more precious.

A majority of our earlier authors were ministers, and, naturally, their works are largely theological or doctrinal, yet the variety of subjects treated by them, and by others, was as great as their time and place permitted, and really made no small variety and no trifling aggregate, which are well worth examining.

Any one who now tries to collect the works of these authors will be rather sensibly aware of their number, and of their value as expressed in current funds.

The first paragraph in the body of the first book printed in our country is so good a text or motto for everything to follow, that it may well be recalled from page one of "The Whole Booke of Psalms," Cambridge, 1640:

Starting with psalmody, our earliest literature had a rather large proportion of it, and through all following time no small amount.