PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY, April, 1903, Vol. II., No. 4, pp. 217-286, $3.00 yearly, $1.00 singly, Williamsburg, Va.

Contents:

I. Journal of Col. James Gordon-continued (19 pp., 1761, daily incidents; almost as much religion as a Puritan journal of same time); 2. Letter book of Francis Jerdone-continued (6 pp., 1752-1754, chiefly business and law suits); 3. Sketch of Rev. Elisha Parmele, by R. A. Brock (1 p. 1755-1784, no sources given); 4. Letter of a servant to his master in Va., (1 p., 1642, says England “all in a combustion"); 5. Merchants and mills (2 pp., Robt. Carter letter book, 1770-1771, list of 23 mills, 31 merchants in Northern Neck); 6. Quakers (100 words, council order 1675, that "Conventicles... be proceeded against," in Va.); 7. Alexander family in England, by B. R. Wellford, Jr., (4) pp.); 8. Family Account of Mrs. Lucy Ann Page-concluded (8 pp.); 9. Munford Wills (4 pp., 1786, 1799); 10. Bible records of Russell, Reade, Harwood, Howard families (1 p.); 11. Will of John Gregory, Jr. (2 pp., 1776); 12. Sussex County Marriage Bonds (2 pp., 44 items, 17541764); 13. James City county land grants-continued (6) pp., patents during the regal govt., list of 72, each showing name, date, no. acres, locality); 14. Gaskins family (4 pp.); 15. Some early marriages in Bedford county, Va. (2 pp., 1759-1800, reprinted from Louisville Courier-Journal, arranged by J. L. Miller); 16. Notes (4 pp., mostly genealogical).

THE WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, April, 1903, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 99-180, quarterly, $1.00 yearly, 25 cents singly, by W. Va. Hist. Soc., Charleston, W. Va.

Contents: 1. Jost Hite, the pioneer, by W. S. Laidely (17 pp., a German, landing in New York 1710, settling in Pa., then one of party to make first settlement west of Appalachians, in 1730; sketch of his land struggles, something of children, and of other settlers; no sources given, but apparently secondary ones used); 2. Elting and Shepherd families of Md. and Va., by S. G. Smyth (9 pp., apparently no sources shown except Weeks's Southern Quakers and Slavery); 3. Augusta Men in French and Indian War, by J. L. Miller (16 pp., nearly 800 names from original sources as Hening, Va. and Wis. Hist. Socs.; good scientific article); 4. Cresap and Logan, by M. Louise Stevenson (18 pp., a massing of the evidence to prove that Cresap was not responsible for the Logan family massacre; not judicial in tone, nor safe in inference, as we are positively told that Cresap could trace his ancestry to the pre-Norman period); 5. The National Road, by G. L. Cranmer (7 pp., narrative of construction, and description of the use; no sources); 6. Virginia Soldiers at Fort Pitt, 1783, by O. S. Decker (2 pp., pay roll, some 75 names, copied from Pa. Hist. Soc.); 7. Rev. John Clark Bayless, by Louella K. Poage (8 pp., 1819-1875; life of this teacher, preacher; too rhetorical, not scientific).

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, April, 1903, Vol. VIII., No. 2, pp. 105-191, quarterly, $3.00 yearly, 85 cents singly, Nashville, Tenn.

Contents: 1. A dictionary of distinguished Tennesseeans, by A. V. Goodpasture (18 pp., about 600 names; only occupations, dates of birth and death given; valuable, but for such pioneer work it would have been much better to give references); 2. A Rebel Newspaper's War Story, by R. A. Halley (30 pp., a capital sketch of the life of the Memphis Appeal as it fled from place to place, Grenada, Jackson, Atlanta, Montgomery, but managing to appear pretty regularly, and finally returning to Memphis in Nov., 1865); 3. Sketch.

of Captain David Campbell, by Margaret C. Pilcher (6 pp., 1753-1832, Tennessee pioneer from Virginia; no references); 4. Captain John Campbell (1 p., letter of July 1, 1840, from L. C. Draper, as to his fine character); 5. Margaret Bowen Campbell to William Bowen Campbell (I p., letter, July 7, 1828, describing enthusiastic reception to Jackson at Carthage, Tenn.); 6. Military Government in Alabama, 1865-1866, by Walter L. Fleming (16 pp., a scholarly article in best method and tone, detailing incidents); 7. Creek War (dozen lines, despatch Dec. 21, 1814, of skirmish); 8. Some Franklin documents (I p., sheriff commitment and summons, of State of Franklin, 1785); 9. Thomas Emmerson, by H. F. Beaumont (6 pp., sketch of Knoxville's first mayor, though little is known of him; no sources given); 10. Matters of the historical society (3 pp).

THE GULF STATES HISTORICAL Magazine, March, 1903, Vol. I., No. 5, pp. 301-393, bi-monthly, $3.00 yearly, 50 cents a copy, Montgomery, Ala.

Contents: 1. Col. Charles C. Jones, by Charles E. Jones (10 pages, brief summary of the life and services of Col. Jones by his son, with steel portrait; a list of his published historical papers is given which extends to 14 books, 10 pamphlets, 29 addresses, 5 works edited and translated and 22 magazine articles; he was a rapid worker, the two volumes of his History of Georgia, "exclusive of the preliminary study involved, were prepared, at odd intervals, during seven months," his memorial histories of Savannah and Augusta in two months; his collection of antiquities of the Indians extended to 25,000 specimens; his library was especially rich in books on Georgia and the adjacent States, and his collection of autographs extensive, and yet with all of this activity Col. Jones was a lawyer in the regular practice of his profession); 2. Yancey; A Study, by John W. DuBose (14 pages, continued and concluded; exceedingly severe on the civil

administration of the Confederacy in general and on Davis in particular;) 3. The Bonapartists in Alabama, by Anne Bozeman Lyon (12 pp., reprint; history of the Vine and Olive Company, with brief sketches of some of the members and their subsequent fortunes); 4. The Louisiana Historical Society, by Dr. Alcee Fortier (5 pp., in answer to D. Y. Thomas' article in Review of Reviews; sketch of the society and list of its recent publications and plan of its future work); 5. DeSoto in Florida, by Charles A. Choate (3 pp., review of Westcott's DeSoto in Florida, neither the book nor the review adding to our knowledge); 6. Early Railroads in Alabama, by Dr. U. B. Phillips (3 pp., scathing review of Martin's Internal Improvements in Alabama, showing that that book is "superficial, undigested, and in scope too limited to fit the title"); 7. Newspaper files in the Library of the Georgia Historical Society, contributed by. William Harden (2 pp., lists 254 vols., of which 223 were published in Georgia beginning in 1774); 8. The Abercrombie and Hayden branch of the Fisher family, by Mrs. F. R. Abercrombie (2 pp.); 9. A Southern line of the Sands family (3 pp.); 10. Documents (15 pp., 2 letters from Greene, one on Eutaw Springs; John Sevier on the War of 1812; papers on the S. C. Yazoo Company of 1789; contemporary opinion over Alabama's controversy with President Adams over Creek Indian lands; Belcher's Texas colony); 11. Minor topics (6 pp.); 12. Notes and queries (2 pp.); 13. Historical news (4 pp.); 14. Book notes and reviews (12 pp.).

THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, January, 1903, Vol. 27, No. 1, $3.00 yearly, 75 cents singly, Philadelphia, Pa.

Contents: I. Achenwall's Observations on North America, 1767, translated by J. G. Rosengarten (18 pp., article by the Göttingen professor, based on talks he had had with Benj. Franklin in summer of 1766, when Franklin visited

there); 2. Journal of Isaac Norris (8 pp., trip to Albany, 1745, treating with Indians there; his dates Oct. 23, 1701, July 13, 1766); 3. Society of the Sons of Saint Tammany of Philadelphia. by F. von A. Cabeen (19 pp., conclusion, account, with many documents, of "the first patriotic and social organization in the country," from which the most famous New York order "was copied pretty closely in many ways"); 4. Excerpts from the Day books of David Evans, cabinetmaker, Philadelphia, 1774-1811 (6 pp., office entries with some weather notes); 5. President Jefferson and Burr's Conspiracy, by J. M. Morgan (3 pp., to prove by 2 of Jefferson's letters, 1807, 1822, that Col. George Morgan first gave Jefferson intimation of Burr's scheme); 6. Unpublished letters of Abraham Lincoln, contributed by W. H. Lambert (2 pp., 5 letters, dates of 1856, 1860, 1861, 1864; all characteristic); 7. Selected list of naval matter in the library of the Hist. Soc. of Pa., by A. J. Edmunds (12 pp., bibliographical, before the Civil war, printed sources mostly, general histories and govt. documents being omitted, 5 maps, 10 Mss., 4 portraits and 30 pictures included); 8. Taking over of the Nicholites by the Friends, by H. D. Cranor (4 pp., documents 1797-1799, showing union of this Maryland sect with main body); 9. Abstracts of Gloucester County, N. J., Records, by W. M. Mervine (4 pp., births, marriages, apprenticeship, bonds; dates 1687-1776); 10. Letter from a Committee of Merchants in Philadelphia to the Committee of Merchants in London, 1769 (3 pp., urging repeal of parliamentary duties); 11. The Mount Regale Fishing Company of Philadelphia (2 pp., original sources, for this fishing club, chiefly steward bills for eatables and drinkables); 12. Biographical sketch of William Henry, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania (2 pp., his dates May 19, 1729-Dec. 15, 1786; inventor, writer, public official, patron of art and knowledge); 13. Ship registers for the port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775, continued (14 pp., giving name, master, owner, place of building, tonnage);