ries and Creecy's Grandfather's Tales) Mrs. McCorkle feels it necessary to say that her work is in no sense an imitation as it was in the hands of the publishers before either of the others appeared and this may be easily believed since her work more closely represents the spirit of colonial North Carolina than Allen and is more accurate in facts than Creecy. The author has made the facts of the principal periods of the State's history the background for stories of persons, children as far as possible, seeking thus to invest these facts with a personal interest. The stories have been taken from the standard books and no liberties have been taken with the facts save in the way of imaginary description and dialogue. The stories themselves touch on many important phases of the life of the colony such as the Indian massacre of 1711, the Regulation, the Revolution, &c. The telling of the stories has not always been simply done since many words are used which are beyond the child's vocabulary.

Professor W. G. Manly, of the State University of Missouri, has made a scientific study of the identification of the modern Ithaca with the Homeric Ithaca (Ithaca or Leucas, large 8 vo., pp. 52, illus., maps, $1.00. Vol. 2, No. 1, Univ. of Mo. Studies, April, 1903). His task was to decide between the two islands of Ithaca and Leucas. He has exhaustively worked over the philological and geographical evidence, and reached the conclusion that the burden of argument favors Ithaca, which agrees with unbroken tradition, and also with scholarship except a couple of German authorities. It is a thorough piece of work, clear in expression, temperate in judgment.

The Editor of the series, Professor Frank Thilly, is to be warmly congratulated on the high standard he has set, and still more on the nerve and strength to stick to it as he has done, so far showing no tendency to sink to the level of the

semi-popular stuff that even some of the largest institutions are at times turning out.

A valuable contribution to Jewish history in Charleston, S. C., is made by Dr. B. A. Elzas, a rabbi there, in the News and Courier of March 29, 1903, when he gives an account of the patriotic part played by the Jews in the Revolutionary War. He goes back to original sources, even printing two facsimile letters. All his work on the Jews of South Carolina, (including those articles noticed on p. 119 of present volume of these PUBLICATIONS) Dr. Elzas has reprinted in 12 (14?) neat pamphlets, 100 sets. Only 25 sets remain, $2.00 each. He also issues a prospectus for "The Old Jewish Cemetery at Charleston," at $1.00 each if enough subscribers can be found to defray cost. The volume is to consist of a transcript of the inscriptions on the tombstones -about 500-which Dr. Elzas has himself copied.

G. E. Congdon has compiled Waterman Year Book for 1902, containing biography, chronology, directory, and miscellaneous facts, of the town of Waterman, Ill. (12 mo, pp. 38, paper, 25 cents.)

PHYSICAL CULTURE. By B. F. Johnson. Richmond, Va. B. F. Johnson Publishing Company.

This is a very valuable and timely publication and a copy of it properly studied in families where there are children would conduce very much to their health, comfort and happiness. As the author in his preface says "There are a great many ways by which the condition of the body affects the mind and disposition. Perfect health improves the disposition, induces greater kindness of heart, and prompts a strong love of purity, all of which aided by the religious advantages we enjoy, tend to place us in a loftier plane of life."

The book is handsomely illustrated and bound and is dedicated to the memory of Lucius, Mabel and Frank Johnson.

The Life of Gen. Winfield Scott (D. Appleton & Co., New York, Great Commander Series, 1894, by Gen. Marcus J. Wright) heretofore noticed by us has been adopted as a textbook by the Staff and War College of Fort Leavenworth.

PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, April, 1903, vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 337-480+xvi, quarterly, $5.00 yearly, $1.50 singly. Richmond, Va.

Contents: 1. Proceedings of the Va. Committee of Correspondence, 1759-67 (19 pp., minutes, and one long letter of Dec. 12, 1759, to Colonial Agent Edward Montague on land laws and tobacco money); 2. Henry County (3 pp., items of payments); 3. Effect of the adoption of the Constitution upon the finances of Virginia, by W. F. Dodd (11 pp., really sketch of Va. finances 1776-1790; a seminar product of Chicago University; no illuminating comment such as would come spontaneously from general knowledge of contemporary conditions); 4. Some Virginia Colonial Records (12 pp., chiefly private petitions, 1670, for pecuniary relief; papers omitted from the Calendar of Va. State Papers); 5. John Brown letters, continued (6 pp., one letter from Detroit tells of a party forming to rescue Brown); 6. Books in Colonial Virginia (16 pp., book inventories gathered from partial examination of county records; shows books were widely possessed); 7. Virginia gleanings in England, continued (8 pp., abstracts of wills as far back as 1657); 8. Ferrar papers, continued (4 pp., 3 letters from Edwin Sandys, 1619-1622, who was sponsor for the infant colony); 9. Virginia Militia in the Revolution, continued (2 pp., items of payments); 10. Virginia newspapers in public libraries, continued (2 pp., vols of Enquirer, with sketch of its career); II. Virginia in 1638, continued (5 pp., abstracts of petitions and orders on trade, tobacco, and official squabbles); 12. Notes and queries (7 pp.); 13. Genealogy (9 pp., Minor, Herndon, Brooke families); 14. List of Publications received (3 pp.); 15. General index

(32 pp., seemingly exhaustive as to names, but almost useless as to subjects); 16. Proceedings of annual meeting (10 pp.); 17. Resolutions in Memory of Dr. J. L. M. Curry (1 p.).

THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL AND GEnealogical MAGAZINE, April, 1903, Vol. IV, No. 2, pp. 83-194, quarterly, $3.00 yearly, $1.00 singly, Charleston, S. C.

Contents: 1. Papers of the Second Council of Safety (14 pp., dates 1775-1776, bearing mainly on providing arms and stores for volunteers, with a folded sheet of Returns of Moultrie's regiment); 2. Letters from Hon. Henry Laurens to his son John (9 pp., 3 letters, spring of 1774; chiefly family matters with caustic fling at "block-headed grammarians"); 3. Descendants of Col. William Rhett (82 pp., two illustrations); 4. Editorial department (5 pp., notes, necrology.)

THE GULF STATES HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, January, 1903, Vol. I, No. 4, pp. 239-300, bi-monthly, $3.00 yearly, 50 cents singly, Montgomery, Ala.

Contents: I. Yancey; A Study, by J. W. DuBose (13 pp., Yancey's part in politics just before 1860; turgid style, no important new sources); 2. Executive and Congressional directory of the Confederacy (9 pp., reprinted from U. S. records); 3. Reclamation of an Industry, by E. K. Broadus (5 pp., sketch of destruction of Florida orange groves, 1895, and slow revival since, so that "has grown a new and better Florida;" but produce only one-fourth as much of the fruit, or little over a million boxes now against five million in 1894); 4. First Law of the Mississippi Territory, by D. Rowland (5 pp., militia law, with preliminary sketch); 5. Iberville Historical Society, by A. C. Harte (4 pp., constitution with historical statement; fourteen members); 6. Florida Newspapers in Congressional Library (4 pp., reprint