from library publication); 7. Notes on Poe Genealogy (2 pp., letter, no date, from E. A. Poe, on family history); 8. Documents (5 pp., 3 documents; (a) letter, January 14, 1897, J. W. Bradberry's estimate of Calhoun; (b) letter, February 18, 1865, J. M. Forbes, of Richmond, Va., on outlook for South; (c) Evidence that Gen. J. Wilkinson was buried in the City of Mexico); 9. Editorial department( 12 pp., topics, notes, reviews.)

The American Historical Review for April contains a report of the proceedings of the Philadelphia meeting held last December. Prof. G. T. Lapsley discussed the origin of property in land; Simeon E. Baldwin gives an account of American business corporations before 1789 and Prof. H. E. Bourne has a paper on American constitutional precedents in the French National Assembly. Prof. F. J. Turner prints original documents from the Wisconsin State Historical Society dealing with George Rogers Clark and the Kaskaskia campaign of 1777-78 and Professor J. F. Jameson prints a part of Charles Pinckney's long lost plan for a federal constitution.

The North Carolina Booklet for December, 1902, deals with historic homes in North Carolina. The contributors are Miss Lida Tunstall Rodman who writes about Bathtown in general and the career of Blackbeard in particular. Mr. Thomas Blount uses the title Buncombe Hall to give an account of the family and services of Col. Edward Buncombe while Dr. Richard Dillard writes of Hayes and its builder, Gov. Samuel Johnston and of the excellent library founded by him and his son, James C. Johnston. The Booklet contains a portrait of Gov. Johnston, an illustration of Hayes and the usual quota of errors.

The January number continues the series of sketches of Historic Homes in North Carolina begun in the December

number. Col. W. H. S. Burgwyn writes a short sketch of The Groves at Halifax, the home of the brilliant and politically powerful Willie Jones, the founder of the antifederalist party in the State. There is an illustration of the ruins as they are today after surviving occupation by one army of friends and two of foes. Col. A. M. Waddell writes of historic homes on the Cape Fear and Miss Martha Helen Haywood of Wakefield near Raleigh. An improvement in proof reading is greatly to be desired. (pp. 25.)

THE METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW, April, 1903, Vol. 52, No. 2, whole No. 178, pp. 211-416, $2.00 yearly, 50 cents singly, Nashville, Tenn.

Contents: 1. Christ's work in redemption, by Bishop A. C. Smith (16 pp., a clear popularization of the orthodox protestant theology); 2. Woodrow Wilson's history of the American people, by J. J. Tigert (26 pp., thoughtful most favorable review); 3. H. P. Hughes, by William Harrison (II pp., sketch of this eminent English divine, based on J. G. Mantle's biographhy); 4. Religion, philosophy and science, by C. G. Shaw (15 pp., an academic definition of these three terms, that religion deals with the soul, science with the world, philosophy with both); 5. George W. Kendall, by George F. Mellen (10 pp., interesting sketch of this Ahmerst, Mass., boy who, born about 1800, went South as a newspaper worker, and became one of the founders of New Orleans Picayune, dying rich in 1867); 6. The inevitable in the Southern pulpit, by M. T. Plyler (9 pp., that the pulpit must recognize the industrial and educational advancement in the South, and must face inroads of evolution and "higher criticism" of the Bible); 7. The educational outlook in the South, by B. W. Arnold (8 pp., a concise summary of present agencies, and an earnest plea for Christian influence in schools and for better education of women); 8. Proposed amendment of the Southern

college curriculum, by Prof. E. M. Marvin (10 pp., urges greater attention to history and sociological studies); 9. Women novelists and marriage, by Mrs. J. D. Hammond (5 pp., obscure, but writer seems to believe that women are not by nature morally superior to men); 10. John Keats, by S. A. Link (9 pp., sketch and study, in average stock style); II. Methodist hymnology, by W. F. Tillett (16 pp., historical sketch, chiefly as to work of Watts and the Wesleys; uncritical); 12. Educational departments (68 pp., book and periodical reviews, the Bible in eastern explorations, missions, educational work, note on gambling.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN, March, 1903, Vol. II. No. 3, 4to., pp. 99-135. illus., $1.00 yearly, 10 cents singly, Nashville, Tenn.

An echo of Senator Hanna's bill for pensioning old slaves appears in a letter from Mrs. T. M. Green, of Wilkes county, Georgia, strongly urging the passage of the measure as a matter of charity. She mentions several pathetic cases of suffering in helpless old age, and argues that only national aid will relieve such wholesale want. The editor reprints an editorial of ten years ago advocating the purchase of homes by the general government for the freedmen. As if to strengthen these views there immediately follows a very touching little sketch of the life of an aged negro, just died, Frederick Pouncey who had drawn an Alabama State pension for a number of years because of his "loyalty to the Confederate Cause," having been a faithful body servant for his white owners during the Civil War. He made a collection of battlefield relics, beginning at Shiloh. He bequeathed them all to the Sophia Bibb chapter of the U. D. C. He was 77 years old at death, (born March 25, 1825, died August 15, 1902) and his funeral was attended by his white friends. Presumably it was they who penciled on the head-board "A Christian and a Soldier." Facing each

other, on one page is the eloquent tribute to Lee by C. F. Adams in New York on January 26 last that a statue should be erected to Lee in Washington, while on the opposite page are the reactionary resolutions of the Lincoln Post of the G. A. R., of Topeka, Kansas, bitterly condemning such spirit as Adams manifested.

THE LOST CAUSE, February, 1903, Vol. 8, No. 7, 4to., illus., pp. 98-110, $1.00 yearly, 10 cents singly, Louisville, Ky.

A good deal of space is given to the history of slavery to show that the prejudice against color goes back to colonial days in all the settlement along the Atlantic. There is also a sketch of Dr. J. L. M. Curry, who used to declare that the South did not import any slaves herself but only took those brought over by the Northern traders.

THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, March, 1903, Vol. 22, No. 3, illus., pp. 215-319, organ D. A. R., $1.00 yearly, 10 cents singly, Washington, D. C.

Two pages of "Revolutionary Records" about cover the additions to historical knowledge in this issue.

FLORIDA MAGAZINE, April, 1903, Vol. 6, No. 4, illus., pp. 173-226, $1.00 yearly, 10 cents singly, monthly, Jacksonville, Fla.

There is one paper of historical interest, the account of phosphate mining in Florida, from the beginning in 1889 to present.

NOTES AND NEWS.

HISTORY TEACHING IN THE SOUTH is deplorably deficient in men and means, and lamentably indefinite in purpose, according to an article in the February School Review. In many of the sixty odd collegiate institutions examined, incompetent and untrained persons have charge of the history classes. Some offer less than six hours weekly to the subject and only 16 offer as much as 12 hours, both required and elective. In only a few does an instructor give his whole time to history, usually having economics also. In nearly half history is yoked with philosophy; in very many it is arbitrarily linked with "any old thing" that happens to be lying around loose. As for books, the best that can be said is that "library facilities are only fair," with but comparatively few volumes, and these largely out of date, with exceptions, of course. The poorly paid professors often have to place their private collection at the disposal of the students, to piece out appliances. But most distressing is the vagueness of aim. A foggy conception will do nothing even with a multitude of material. No less than five different objects were observed; information, government, interpretation, investigation, and a jumble of all of these. The bewilderment of teachers and consequent floundering of students may be imagined. But that vagueness is no worse there than in the rest of the country, perhaps not as bad.

The gathering of these facts grew out of a conference of some of the Southern members of the American Historical Association at the annual meeting in Washington, December, 1901. A committee, Professor F. W. Moore, Vanderbilt University, chairman, was appointed to secure data on which to base an effort for improvement. They have made