by J. H. Kuykendall (20 pp., 2d part of these valuable personal pictures of pioneer days); 4. editorial departments (7 pp., reviews, notices, notes); 5. Index (11 pp., so condensed as to be very troublesome to use, only the page being given).

THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET, March, April, May, June, July, 1903, Miss Mary Hilliard Hinton, editor. Raleigh, N. C., $1.00 yearly.

March, 1903. The signal and Secret Service of the Confederate States, by Rev. Dr. Charles E. Taylor, a member of the signal service corps.

April, 1903. The last days of the War, by Henry T. Bahnson, a private of Co. B, 1st N. C. Batt. S. S. This booklet gives a vivid and realistic picture of the last week of fighting around Petersburg and at Appomattox by one who was a part of the things he describes.

May. Trial of James Glasgow and the Supreme Court of、 N. C., by Kemp P. Battle, pp., 11+[1]. Glasgow was Secretary of State and was accused of issuing fraudulent grants for land in Tennessee. He was indicted for misdemeanor in office and it was necessary to have the trial in Raleigh where the records were kept. A special tribunal was organized by the Assembly for this purpose. At least two of the district court judges were to meet for the trial and while so convened they were authorized to hear and determine appeal causes from the district courts. This court was continued by special acts and finally became permanent as the Supreme Court.

June. North Carolina Cherokee Indians, by Wm. W. Stringfield; based on personal experiences supplemented very largely by extracts from Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee.

July. The Volunteer State (Tennessee) as a Seceder, by Miss Susie Gentry.

THE SEWANEE REVIEW, April, 1903. Vol. XI, No. 2, pp. 129-236, quarterly. $2.00 yearly, 50 cents singly, Sewanee, Tenn.

Contents: Cabinet officers in Congress. by E.A. Dodge (14. pp., based on Confederacy and cn attempts to give them seats in legislature of U. S.; favors doing so); 2. What is Romanticism? by G. L. Swiggett (17 pp., heavy in style, foreign phrases affected; historical treatment but decides term is "vague and undefined"); 3. Trend of modern literature, by J. B. Henneman (7 pp.. protest against use of word "South," as literature tends to break down all barriers of speech and race": 4. Plays of Victor Hugo, by C. M. Hamilton (17 pp., Hugo not "a supremely great dramatist," discussion of plays in succession, larded with puerile praise); 5. Maeterlinck versus the conventional drama, by H. Jervey (17 pp., would be good for giving threads of plays if only the puny efforts at estimation were blotted out); 6. McCrady's Revolution in South Carolina, by D. D. Wallace (8 pp., commendatory review, not critical, of McCrady's last volume); 7. Philip Freneau, the poet of the American Revolution, by E. W. Bowen (7 pp., very interesting review of F. L. Pattee's first volume of Freneau's poems); 8. A neglected Elizabethan Poet, by L. W. Payne (12 pp., excellent study of the verse of Humphrey Gifford); 9. Pontificate of Leo XIII, by W. A. Montgomery (7 pp., not "a liberal or progressive pope" from his opposition to scientific education and to nationalization of Germany and Italy, still to rank with Leo X and Hildebrand); 10. Reviews (13) pp., mainly T. C. DeLeon's review of W. N. Guthrie's "Christ of the Ages"); 11. Notes (3 pp., some dozen books).

Generally, as in other issues, where the articles are analytical or historical in tone, they are of high standard, but when critical they are often amateurish and sickly. But then there are few pens in English capable of literary esti-

mates worth a grain of salt. The reviewer recalls only two in England and one in America.

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, July, 1903, Vol. VIII, No. 4, pp. 613-856. Andrew C. McLaughlin, editor. Macmillan Company, publishers, New York, $4.00 yearly.

Contents: The early Norman Jury, by Charles H. Haskins; 2. Some French Communes in the Light of their Charters, by Earle Wilbur Dow; 3. The Youth of Mirabeau, by Fred M. Fling; 4. St. Eustatius in the American Revolution, by J. Franklin Jameson (26 pp., sketches the rise into importance of this Dutch island as a base from which arms and ammunition were brought into the colonies. The island was later captured by Admiral Rodney and the plunder to which it was subjected was without parallel in the history of nations); 5. Correspondence of Comte de Moustier with the Comte de Montmorin, 1787-9 (in French, deals with the organization of the American government and shows the gradual change in French sentiment then taking place); reviews, notes and news, index.

THE GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, April, 1903, Vol. 4, No. 1, new series, pp. 88, $3.00 yearly, 75 cents singly, Boston, Mass.

Contents: 1. Births, marriages and deaths in Lynn (8 pp., from court records of Salem, dates 1640-1680); 2. Salem tax list of 1700 (6 pp., about 550 names); 3. Vital records from the New Hampshire Gazette, 1765-1800 (5 pp., births, deaths, marriages); 4. Genealogical records of Harpswell, Me., continued (4 pp., 19 family names, with children, dates of births, deaths, marriages); 5. South Kingston, R. I., marriages (3 pp., about 1710-1790); 6. From a genealogist's note book (2 pp., about 1650, includes some vill abstracts); 7. Catalogue of the names of the particular members of the church at Marblehead (I p., about 1684-1710, 54 members'

names); 8. Henry F. Waters' genealogical researches in England (3 pp.); 9. Genealogical gleanings in England, by Henry F. Waters (11 pp., English will abstracts chiefly 1600-1660); 10. Early records of the First church in Cambridge, Mass. (40 pp., names and dates of baptisms and membership as far back as 1658, with few minutes, church letter of 1772); II. Book notes (2 pp., genealogical works).

THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE for May, 1903 (Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 639-961, $1.00 yearly, 10 cents singly, organ D. A. R., Washington, D. C.) gives up the most of its space to a childish imitation of the United States Senate, in the stenographic report of the 12th Continental Congress held last February 23-28. Actually there is the ridiculous farce of an "executive session," so as to keep the secrets. The mere notion of several hundred women keeping a secret all to themselves! How fantastic! The best thing to be said about the June issue (pp. 967-1351+xvi of index) is that it ends this silly performance of a stenographic ac

count.

THE CONFEDERATE Veteran for May, 1903 (Vol. 11, No. 5, 4to, pp. 195-235, monthly, $1.00 yearly, 10 cents singly, Nashville, Tenn.) contains an extract from N. O. Picayune of May 29, 1876, contributed by John Moore, claiming that Robert D. Compton, of the 24th Texas regiment fired the shot that killed General J. B. McPherson, July 22, 1864. It is Compton's version from memory, related several years after the event. Other accounts have been lately published, agreeing in the main points, so it is safe to say that the facts are all recorded.

June contains the full address of Judge J. H. Rogers, of Arkansas, the orator at the Confederate Reunion in New Orleans, May 19-22. It is the usual constitutional argument based on court decisions, on utterances of public men

and on legislative resolutions, all followed by warmest tributes to valor and fortitude in the Civil War.

THE LOST CAUSE for April, 1903 (Vol. 9, No. 3, 4to, pp. 34-45, $1.00 yearly, 10 cents singly, Louisville, Ky.) has a long letter from C. H. Tebault, Surgeon-General of U. C. V., on medical conditions during the Civil War, in which he ignorantly accepts the exploded view that only 600,000 men enlisted in the Southern armies.

THE OLYMPIAN for June, 1903, has the story of Sam Davis, the Confederate spy who was hanged in Pulaski, Tenn., Nov. 27, 1863. The writer, Octavia Z. Bond, does not make acknowledgment to Confederate Veteran, and does not seem to add any new facts, but gives a very readable account. J. J. Vertrees, in "The Negro Problem," urges the repeal of the 15th Amendment as the solution of the puzzle. The diary of a journey to Santa Fe in 1841, by H. R. Buchanan, is continued. The stories and light articles are good, far ahead of the average magazine. There is promise of a strong periodical being developed if proper support can be found, but that does not appear at all hopeful to anyone acquainted with the history of such ventures in the South. (Vol. i, No. 6, pp. 507-606, monthly, $1.00 yearly, 10 cents singly, Nashville, Tenn.)

The FLORIDA MAGAZINE for June, 1903 (vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 283-339, monthly, 1.00 yearly, 10 cents singly, Jacksonville, Fla.) has a very entertaining paper, "Camera Folk in Florida," by L. B. Ellis.