The Cuban Academia de la Historia publishes in a handsome quarto of 208 pages the Discursos leídos en la Recepción Pública del Sr. Carlos M. Trelles y Govín, under which title the reader will find an elaborate biography of José Álvarez de Toledo, who had a part, as Professor Cox has shown, in the Texan and Mexican troubles in 1812-1816, but is here treated as a precursor of Cuban independence. Señor Trelles supports his monograph with many documents.

Professor Charles E. Chapman, of the University of California, is about to publish a book entitled A History of the Cuban Republic: a Study in the History of Hispanic-American Politics.

R. B. Cunninghame Graham adds to his previous volumes on the conquest of South America Pedro de Valdivia: Conqueror of Chile (London), including besides his narrative a series of letters from Valdivia to Charles V.

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: J. M. Holzman, Lawlessness as the American Tradition (South Atlantic Quarterly, October); A. S. Aiton, Early American Price-Fixing Legislation (Michigan Law Review, November); Albert Mathiez, Lafayette et le Commerce Franco-Américain à la Veille de la Révolution (Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, September); Marie G. Kimball, William Short, Jefferson's only "Son" (North American Review, September-October-November); G. J. Garraghan, S.J., The Emergence of the Missouri Valley into History (Thought, September); R. M. McElroy, British-American Diplomacy (Quarterly Review, October); W. C. Saylor, The Effect of the CottonGin upon the Politics of the United States from 1787 to 1857 [prize essay] (Mechanical Engineering, December); S. F. Bemis, The Background of Washington's Foreign Policy (Yale Review, January); A. H. Cole, Agricultural Crazes, a Neglected Chapter in American Economic History (American Economic Review, December); E. P. Hohman, Wages, Risk, and Profits in the Whaling Industry (ibid.); W. J. Carnathan, The Proposal to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the South, 1854-1860 (South Atlantic Quarterly, October); Caroline E. Vose, Jefferson Davis in New England (Virginia Quarterly Review, October); Louis A. Warren, Lincoln's Honorable Parentage (Century Magazine, September); J. H. Park, Lincoln and Contemporary English Periodicals (Dalhousie Review, October); Richard Fester, Verantwortlichkeiten, VIII. Wilson und House (Deutsche Rundschau, September); F. W. v. Oertzen, Die Amerikanische Erdölpolitik nach dem Kriege (Archiv für Politik und Geschichte, IV. 7-8); Marjorie McKenzie, Canadian History in the French-Canadian Novel (Queen's Quarterly, July-August-September); Father Albert David, Les Missionnaires du Saint-Esprit à Quebec et en Acadie au XVIIe Siècle (Nova Francia, I. 1-5); E. L. Harvey, New Brunswick a Century Ago (Dalhousie Review, October); R. C. Watt, The Political Prisoners in Upper Canada, 1837-1838 (English

Historical Review, October); Byron Cummings, Cuicuilco and the Archaic Culture of Mexico (Scientific Monthly, October); Gregory Mason, The Shrines of a Vanished Race (World's Work, November); La Roncière Le Noury, Lettres sur la Retraite du Mexique, 1867 (Revue des Deux Mondes, October 1); J. Rennard, Le P. Labat, O. P., aux Antilles (Revue d'Histoire des Missions, June 1); A. Guimaraes, Bolívar and Brazil (Inter-America, June); A. Cruchaga Ossa, Don Joaquin Campino, First Chilean Minister to the United States (Pan-American Magazine, May); id., Impressions of the First Chilean Minister in Washington [Don Joaquin Campino] (ibid., September-October); E. Ravignani, La Constitución de 1819, II. (Boletín del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, April-June).

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS NUMBER

Dr. Dana C. Munro, president of the American Historical Association, is Dodge professor of medieval history in Princeton University.

Dr. Tenney Frank is professor of Latin in Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Einar Joranson is an assistant professor of history in the University of Chicago.

Dr. A. Sellew Roberts is an associate in history in the University of Illinois.

Dr. Elmer A. Beller is an instructor in history in Princeton University. Mr. George H. Thacher is president of the City Savings Bank of Albany, N. Y.

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THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION AT ROCHESTER

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'HE first meeting of the American Historical Association was held at Saratoga in September, 1884. The intervals between meetings not having always been precisely a twelvemonth, the meeting of December 28-30, 1926, was the forty-first annual meeting. It was the first meeting ever held at Rochester, but was so abundantly successful that it surely will never be difficult to persuade the Association to come there again. The attendance was large, registration amounting to 507. The headquarters, the Hotel Seneca, were comfortable, and gave opportunity for the holding of most of the sessions under that one roof. The arrangements for the sessions worked smoothly in every particular but one-and in that one. (of which more later) no fault could be attributed to the local Committee on Arrangements and reflected great credit upon the secretary of that committee, Professor Dexter Perkins, of the University of Rochester, whose efficiency won universal gratitude. Much gratitude was also due to the University of Rochester, whose cordial hospitality included a reception by President and Mrs. Rhees in the Memorial Art Gallery, and an enjoyable luncheon in the hotel. Further hospitalities were provided by the Rochester Club and the Rochester Historical Society and by the Eastman School of Music. The latter afforded a great pleasure, of a sort unusual to the meetings of the Association, by providing for the members a brief but delightful concert of chamber music by the Kilbourn Quartet and Mr. Richard Halliley.

Two other societies, according to their custom, united with the American Historical Association in the occasion. The Agricultural History Society held one joint session with the older body, devoting it to studies of personalities prominent in the history of agricultural progress, suggestions for an Agricultural Who's Who of

the period before the Civil War. It also had a dinner at which Mr. L. C. Gray, of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, read a paper on the Problem of the Market Surplus in Colonial Tobacco. The Mississippi Valley Historical Association also had one joint meeting with the older body, with papers that may better be described at a later point, and a dinner, marked by much jovial enjoyment, by entertaining talk from Mr. Hamlin Garland, by three-minute speeches (historians can be brief if Professor Shambaugh presides), and even-if historians will believe it-by singing.

As usual, the pressure for specialized sessions which the zeal of specialists always exercises upon the chairman of the Programme Committee was relieved by devoting even luncheon-time and dinnertime to paper-reading and discussion. There was a Luncheon Conference of those who pursue the history of the Far East, another of those devoted to modern European history, while after another there was discussion of a practical report made by Professor M. W. Jernegan of Chicago, which may be described later. There was also a dinner for medievalists, at which Professor George L. Burr, of Cornell University, sounded a note of caution as to general attitudes toward the Middle Ages, and a dinner for students of HispanicAmerican history, at which there was discussion of means and methods for widening among colleges and universities an interest in the study of Hispanic-American history, with congratulations over the successful resumption of publication of the Hispanic American Historical Review, under the auspices of Duke University.

It has been said, at an earlier passage of this narrative, that all arrangements for the meeting worked prosperously except one. That one was the arrangement, made year after year by successive programme committees for forty years past, that papers read before the Association shall, unless some other duration is promised to the reader, be confined within the limits of twenty minutes. The reasons for the rule are obvious. If a speaker exceeds his time, he pushes the programme of the session along, with grave disadvantage to the last speaker, and in most cases until the session conflicts with the next engagement in the programme carefully constructed by the committee, so that perhaps it becomes impossible for the members to attend, as courtesy requires and inclination leads, a reception or other entertainment hospitably arranged by the hosts of the occasion. Yet often, from the beginning of the Association's history, the rule has been disregarded. The writer remembers, from the meeting of 1886, a diverting scene in which the venerable president George

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