CONTENTS. I. Report of Proceedings of Fourteenth Annual Meeting in New Haven, Conn., December 28-30, 1898, by Herbert B. II. Report of the Treasurer. List of Committees and Officers.. III. Inaugural Address by Prof. G. P. Fisher, President of the Association, on the Function of the Historian as a Judge IV. The Historical Manuscripts in the Library of Congress, by V. American Colonial History (1690-1750), by C. M. Andrews.. VI. Study of American Colonial History, by H. L. Osgood VII. A Forgotten Danger to the New England Colonies, by Frank VIII. An Examination of Peters's "Blue Laws," by W. F. Prince.. IX. The Connecticut Gore Land Company, by Albert C. Bates.. Page. XIII. American Diplomacy, by Edwin A. Grosvenor...... XIV. Lessons from the Recent History of European Dependencies, and Government by the United States of Island Terri- tories, by Simeon E. Baldwin.... XVI. Germans in America, by Ernest Bruncken........ XVIII. Erasmus, the Prince of the Humanists, by George Norcross.. XIX. The Cambridge School of History, by Mary R. W. Stubbert.. I-REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, DECEMBER 28-30, 1898. HIST 98-1 1 REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. By HERBERT B. ADAMS, Secretary. The New Haven meeting of this national historical society was the most successful in its history. During the three days' convention, December 28-30, the morning and evening sessions were attended by large and enthusiastic audiences. An attractive series of interesting historical papers and reports was provided by the programme committee, of which Prof. E. G. Bourne, of Yale University, was the chairman. The local committee of arrangements did all that was possible for the entertainment and pleasure of the visiting members of the American Historical and American Economic associations. As occasionally in former years, so now these two kindred societies met at the same time, in the same city. The opening meeting of the Economic Association was held Tuesday evening, December 27, in the beautiful and spacious hall of the New Haven Colony Historical Society. After a cordial welcome from President Dwight, on behalf of the soci ety, the city, and the university, and after the inaugural address by Prof. Arthur T. Hadley, the visiting members of both associations were pleasantly received by Professor and Mrs. Henry W. Farnam at their house on Hillhouse avenue. After Professor Fisher's inaugural address Wednesday evening, at the opening of the Historical convention in Colonial Hall, both associations were received by the Historical Society in their lower rooms, which are nobly furnished with historical memorials of New Haven Colony and with portraits of its famous Not even Pilgrim Hall in old Plymouth could afford a richer or more suggestive environment for historical meetings, social and literary, than does the Colonial Hall in New Haven. Report of the New Haven meeting, by Dr. J. F. Jameson, was published in the Amer ican Historical Review, April, 1899. Prof. A. B. Hart contributed to Book Reviews (Macmillan & Co.) for February, 1899, an account of the growth and purposes of the American Historical Association. |