pp., two, 1671, 1672, chiefly religious sentiments); 7. Proprietors of lots in Williamsburg in 1783 (1 pp., 125 names); 8. Alexander family-Concluded (5 pp.,); 9. Occaneechee island (2 pp., in Roanoke river, near Clarksville, celebrated in Bacon's Rebellion as scene of fierce Indian battle, described by Byrd); 10. Early tombstones in Northern Neck (7 pp., copies of inscriptions, with genealogical notes, dates 1667 to 1854); 11. Hicks family (1 pp.); 12. Family account of Mrs. Lucy Anne Page-Continued (5 pp., no dates given except in the genealogical chart covering one page); 13. Ball, Cuppage and Dameron families (3 pp., not scientific in form); 14. Whitehead family deeds (2 pp., 1696-1714); 15. Marriage bonds in Prince Edward county (1 pp., 1780-1850); 16. An Irish estate (I p., genealogical, Burke or Bourke family); 17. Armistead family (I p., copied from old prayer book, 1762-1826); 18. Tombstones of Scarlett family (p., 2, 1695, 1698); 19. Tombstone of Martha Martin (p., 1738); 20. Notes (2) pp.).

THE WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, October, 1902, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 89 including 14 pp. of index, quarterly, $1.00 yearly, 25 cents a copy, by W. Va. Hist. and Antiq. Society, Charleston, W. Va., W. S. Laidley, editor.

Contents: 1. Birthplace of President Jackson, by W. S. Laidley (5 pp., to prove, by tradition only, that Jackson was born in W. Va.); 2. General Charles Lee, by John D. Sutton (7 pp., sketch of life, will, inventory of personal property); 3. Kentuckians at Point Pleasant battle, by Miss L. K. Poage (10 pp., crowded with names and dates, but not a reference to authority); 4. Thomas Shepherd of Shepherdstown, by Mrs. F. J. Allen (5 pp., sketch of this founder of Shepherdstown first called Mecklenburg, dying in 1776; no reference); 5. Dr. W. H. Ruffner by Mrs. A. H. R. Barclay (10 pp., chief events in life of this vigorous preacher, educator, scientist, author, now in 79th year); 6. Genealogy

of Mrs. V. H. Patrick, by Rev. R. D. Roller (15 pp., not scientific genealogy, but sketches of several leading members of the family and branches); 7. The Camerons of Virginia, by Rev. W. T. Price (8 pp., not scientific, chiefly sketches of some leading members); 8. Alexander Campbell, by G. L. Cranmer (9 pp., essay on public services of this famous divine who sat in the Va. Constitutional Convention of 1829). The issue partakes mostly of the character of essays, no footnotes, no reference to authorities, adding but little to knowledge, though in the main pleasant reading, and thus serving a purpose.

THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, October, 1902, Vol. III, No. 4, pp. 193-283, quarterly, $3.00 yearly, $1.00 a copy, Charleston, S. C.

Contents: 1. Papers of the Second Council of Safety (6 pp., one table folder, military reports and returns); 2. Officers of the S. C. Regiment in the Cherokee War, 17601761 (5 pp.); 3. Letters from Henry Laurens to his son John, 1773-1776 (9 pp., from Westminster, chiefly personal affairs); 4. Capt. John Colcock and some of his descendants, by A. S. Salley, Jr. (26 pp.); 5. Editorial departments (9 pp.); index (33 pp.).

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, October, 1902, Vol. VII, No. 4, pp. 311-398, quarterly, $3.00 yearly, 85 cents a copy, Nashville, Tenn.

Contents (summaries in parenthesis): 1. Governor William Trousdale, by B. F. Allen (4 pages, many dates and facts given, but not a reference to authorities); 2. The earliest records of Davidson county (6 pages, from court minutes of the first Tenn. county west of the Cumberland mountains; originals owned by the Tenn. Hist. Soc.); 3. Campbell papers (5 pages, from collection of Mrs. J. S. Pilcher; sketch and letter of Archibald Roane, sketch of

John H. Bowen, 1780-1822; no sources mentioned); 6. Madison county, continued, by J. G. Cisco (20 pages, style average county history; much from writer's own knowledge, much not but no line between the two, no sources given); 7. Roberts papers (12 pages, valuable original material bearing on Roberts's military service in Creek War, his dates 1754-1816); 8. The family of Brown-Concluded (9 pages, autobiography bearing on Revolutionary period); 9. Jedidiah Morse to Moses Fisk (2 page letter of June 22, 1800, from Morse [1761-1826], father of S. F. B. Morse, touching on politics and spiritualism); 10. Select documents-Concluded (13 pages, translations from papal volume of documents bearing on discovery of America); II. Governor William Carroll, by Mrs. E. C. Tucker (8 pages, Carroll, 1788-1844; interesting paper, but not in scientific method, as author gives no exact sources for a mass of facts that she could not know first hand, relies in part on secondary data).

THE QUARTERLY OF THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, October, 1902, Vol. VI, No. 2, pp. 81-168, $2.00 yearly, 50 cents a copy, Austin Texas.

Contents: 1. Southwest boundary of Texas, by I. J. Cox (22 pp., careful study of sources to show that the Mexicans had documentary right on their side, while we had physical might and hence won); 2. Some materials for Southwestern history, by H. E. Bolton (9 pp., describing sources in City of Mexico on Texas and Louisiana, on New Mexico, and on early missionary work); 3. Reminiscences of C. C. Cox (26 pp., capital original material on early life in Texas); 4. Account of battle of San Jacinto, by J. W. Winters (5 pp., report of talks with a survivor); 5. African slave trade in Texas, by E. C. Barker (13 pp., good search of sources, disclosing that not over 1,000 slaves from Africa up to 1845, though negro slavery "was absolutely essential to the development of Texas"); 6. Editorial department (9 pp.).

THE METHODIST REVIEW for September-October, 1902, No. 175, pp. 643-800, bi-monthly, $2.00 yearly, 35 cents a copy, Nashville, Tenn., organ of M. E. Church South.

Contents: 1. The Literary Woman in Rome, by Andrew Sledd (five Roman bluestockings, 3 in history and oratory, 2 in poetry, every one "a literary failure"); 2. The Constitution of 1808, by Hiram L. Sibley (a review of W. F. Barclay and J. J. Tigert on constitutional history of the American Methodist Church); 3. The Economic Theory of Wages, by F. W. Moore (optimistic estimate of good results of labor organizations); 4. The Place of revivals in American Church History, by J. E. M'Culloch (sketch of 3 great revival periods, 1734, 1797, 1858, with prediction of 4th as the three conditions of others now obtain, "national crisis,” "skepticism," and "devitalization of the church"); 5. Scriptural Conceptions of Deaconesses and their work, by Rev. G. E. Hiller (favors greater use of both sexes in this office); 6. The Religious Crisis in Spain, by Rev. F. G. Smith (strong description of the paralyzing clutch of the clergy there); 7. Hittites and Semites, by Walter M. Patton (popularization of scholarly work); 8. George Borrow, by Mary S. Smith (rapid summary of this energetic missionary, reformer, traveler, prolific author, 1803-1881, once of wide reputation, now forgotten); 9. The Constitution of Methodism, by John J. Tigert (an answer to Sibley-—above— and to Barclay); 10. Editorial departments.

November-December, 1902, No. 176, pp. 803-960, bimonthly, $2.00 yearly, 35 cents a copy, Nashville, Tenn.

Contents: 1. Poetry of J. R. Lowell (part 1), by H. N. Snyder (16 pp., based on Scudder's Lowell; Lowell "the most characteristic figure in American literature," emphasizes Lowell's human sympathies); 2. Primary functions of the preacher, by T. W. Hunt (12 pp., develops conception of "a herald, with a message"); 3. H. J. Stockard, by Mrs. F. L. Townsend (6 pp., review of small volume of verse by a

North Carolina poet, flavored with too much local laudation); 4. Pilkington of Uganda, by W. G. Foote (12 pp., review of the biography of this English missionary to Africa, 1865-1897); 5. Early American journalism, by W. T. Hale (9 pp., adds nothing, boiled down from stock sources); 6. Maintenance of discipline in the Church, by J. A. Anderson (10 pp., admits Methodism is drifting away from the New Testament in discipline, but doubts whether anything can be done); 7. Study in democracy, by Mrs. J. D. Hammond (6 pp., review of Jane Addams's book); 8. O. W. Holmes, by E. W. Bowen (14 pp., Holmes as author, second class poet, first rank in prose); 9. Immutability of law, by J. S. Bryan (7 pp., from theological basis); 10. What we did for the Negro before the war, by F. Walton (8 pp., work of Christianization, especially by Methodists); II. Editorial departments (50 pp., followed by index of 5 pp.).

The periodical will hereafter be THE METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW. It is not self-sustaining though it was for four years, 1894-1898. The general character will be the same, with more space to book reviews.

THE SEWANEE REVIEW, October, 1902, Vol. X, No. 4, pp. 385-512, quarterly, $2.00 yearly, 50 cents a copy, Sewanee, Tenn.

Contents: 1. R. L. Stevenson, by Marie L. Whiting (21 pp., a pleasant study of characteristics, based on Balfour and Colvin); 2. Rhythm and the science of poetry, by P. E. More (12 pp., showing that on the music side verse is amenable to laws of acoustics); 3. Naval administration during the Revolution, by C. O. Paullin (11 pp., rapidly summarizing the efforts of the 13 colonies at naval warfare); 4. Correspondence of Calhoun, by G. M. Pinckney (10 pp., chiefly Calhoun's character, from Jameson's edition); 5. George Patterson, by Thos. F. Gailor (11 pp., most readable sketch of this Episcopal preacher, 1828-1901); 6. Social