PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, January, 1904, Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. III-XXV, 225-344, yearly $5.00, singly $1.50, Richmond, Va.

Contents: 1. Moravian Diaries of Travels through Virginia. 18 pp., continuation of the accounts of M. G. Gottschalk of his travels in 1748. (Splendidly edited by W. J. Hinke and C. E. Kemper.)

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2. Orderly book and journal of James Newell. one of the few original sources on the battle of Point Pleasant of 1774, mostly smallest details of military life within the organization. (Contributed from the Draper collection by J. P. Kennedy.)

3. Laying the Corner-stone of Quesnay's Academy. 3 pp., reprint from the Virginia Gazette of June 28, 1786, giving account of Masonic ceremony.

4. Virginia militia in the Revolution. (Continued.) I P., pay accounts.

5. The site of Old "James Towne," 1607-1698, by Samuel H. Yonge (Continued.) 20 pp., a most thorough, scientific investigation by this U. S. Engineer in charge of the James River Improvements.

6. Virginia council and general court records, 1640-1641. 8 pp., from Robinson's notes on original material that was destroyed by fire in 1865, decrees of the court inflicting fines and punishments, with some orders.

7. Virginia in 1638-39. (Continued.) 4 pp. chiefly a petition about cattle.

8. The vestry book of King William Parish, Va., 17071750. 16 pp., translation of original document bearing on the Huguenot Colony at Manakin Town in Virginia. (Splendidly edited by R. H. Fife.)

9. Virginia gleanings in England. (Continued.) 12 pp., will abstracts of about 1620-1700. (From L. Withington and H. F. Waters.)

10. Some Virginia names and their meanings. 5 pp., philological study of some dozen family names. (No references.)

II. Jamestown and the association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities. 7 pp., sketch of the aims and work of the Association with regard to Jamestown.

12. Genealogy. 13 pp., bearing on the Bruce, Brooke, Herndon, Morton and Minor families.

13. Book reviews. 4 pp.

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY, January, 1904, Vol. XII, No. 3, pp. 139-206, $3.00 yearly, $1.00 singly, Williamsburg, Va.

Contents: I. Correspondence of President Tyler. 3 pp., three letters of 1841 and 1843 to James Iredell, John Nelson and Waddy Thompson, all bearing on politics.

2. Correspondence of Judge N. B. Tucker. 13 pp., continued, nine letters of 1840-1844; from W. C. Preston, J. B. Christian, Waddy Thompson, A. P. Upshur and B. Tucker; nearly all on politics and office getting.

3. Extracts from Virginia Gazette for 1751. (Continued.) 15 pp., largely advertisements of sales and rents.

4. Tombstones in Middlesex Co. 4 pp., continued, going back as far as 1730, including the names of Walker, Grymes, Sayre, Potter, Wormley, and Nicholson.

5. Bounds of Marston Parish, York Co. I p., decision over boundary disputes. (No editing, though it is original material.)

6. Marriage bonds in Lancaster Co. (Continued.) 8 pp., a list coming down to 1797.

7. Obituary of Mrs. Joanna Bouldin. I p., died Jan. 15, 1845; sketch reprinted from Richmond Inquirer of Feb. 13, 1845.

8. James City Co. Land grants (1695-1842). 7 pp., list showing names, dates, acreage, and locality.

9. Col. Nathaniel Pope and his Descendants. (To be continued.) 5 pp., genealogical sketch of this immigrant, who came to this country about 1637. (Prepared by Rev. G. W. Beale.)

10. Pate, Williamson, Jackson, and Anderson families. 9 pp.

II. Historical and genealogical notes. I p.

12. Book notices. One-half page.

THE WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, January, 1904, Vol. IV, No. 1, quarterly, pp. 75, $1.00 yearly, 25 cts. singly, Charleston, W. Va.

Contents: 1. Raleigh's lost colony, by W. S. Laidley. 4 pp., dry narrative. (Not a reference given, all facts from general works.)

2. Adam Miller, by W. S. Laidley. 10 pp., argument against the claim that Miller was the first white settler west of the Blue Ridge. (Based largely on original sources.)

3. Catarina Beierlin, by W. S. Laidley. 2 pp., discussion of the claim that she died near Shepherdstown in 1707, thus showing early settlement there; this denied and proof given that she died in 1735.

4. District of West Augusta, by W. S. Laidley. 6 pp., some dry facts, almost without any authorities.

5. Pennsylvania boundary and West Augusta Court, by R. R. Sweet. 21 pp., controversy between Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1748-1785; list of names, with notes, in the Minute Book of the court. (Badly mixed up.)

6. Col. William Crawford, by editor. hardly more than his name.

One-half page,

7. Major John Hansford, by W. S. Laidley. 6 pp., born Feb. 16, 1765, died Oct. 6, 1850; events in his life with list of children. (No sources given.)

8. Selim, the Algerine, by Rev. W. T. Price. 5 pp., story of a Moslem, captured, sent to New Orleans, turned over to Indians, escaped to Virginia; kept there in charity, died a lunatic about 1800. (Essay on stock sources.)

9. Early Germans on the Opequon, by S. Gordon Smyth. 4 pp., really a short sketch of Rev. J. C. Stoever, Jr., with some church records, of baptisms, of about middle of eighteenth century. (Some sources given, but not clearly.)

10. Wizzard Clip, by W. S. Laidley. 4 pp., a ghost story of about 1800, taken from "Eastern Pan-Handle."

11. John Duke of Berkeley, by S. G. Smyth. 2 pp., based on an account book of 1745; chiefly genealogy.

12. Hennepin's new discovery, by editor. I p., mere notice of the new edition by Thwaites.

13. Annals of Carnegie Museum, by editor. I p., some facts from Publications of this museum on Va. controversy. 14. Lyle on the church, by editor. One-half page, mention of a theological work of 100 pages by Rev. Geo. T. Lyle, published 1902.

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, January, 1904, Vol. IX, No. 1, pp. 104, $3.00 yearly, 85 cts. singly, Nashville, Tenn.

Contents: 1. John McCormick Lea-The ideal citizen, by R. A. Halley. 30 pp., born Dec. 25, 1818, died Sept. 19, 1903; many facts, not many exact dates. (Judicial, but no sources given.)

2. Judge John McCormick Lea-An eulogy. 16 pp.

3. Remarks of Col. George C. Porter before the Tennessee Historical Society, Nov. 10, 1903, on the death of Judge John M. Lea. 6 pp.

4. Remarks of G. P. Thruston before the Lea Memorial meeting of the Tennessee Historical Society, Nov. 10, 1903. 2 pp.

5. Remarks of Col. J. B. Killebrew before the Lea Memorial meeting of the Tennessee Historical Society, Nov. 10,

1903. I p. (All these papers on Judge Lea are high tributes to his characters; all are temperate and balanced.)

6. Annals of a Scotch-Irish Family: the Whitsitts of Nashville, Tenn., by William H. Whitsitt. (Continued.) 25 pp., going back to 1741. (Not in the scientific style of genealogy.)

7. Dunlap-Jackson Correspondence. 22 pp., four letters of 1831 passing between R. B. Dunlap and Andrew Jackson; bearing considerably on Calhoun and the Florida affair.

THE GULF STATES HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, Vol. II, No. 3, November, 1903, pp. 137-232, Joel C. DuBose, editor, Montgomery, Ala., $3.00 yearly, 50 cts. singly.

Contents: 1. Some account of Indian affairs, by Sutton S. Scott. 18 pp., reminiscences of several prominent Confederate officers, with sketch of work for Indians by this Confederate commissioner. (Most interesting contribution to knowledge, fortified with authoritative references.)

2. The Ku Klux Testimony relating to Alabama, by Walter L. Fleming. 6 pp., condensed abstract of the two thousand pages of testimony taken in 1871. (Scientific, strong.)

3. Historical notes of Milledgeville, Ga., by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Ph. D. 11 pp., mainly items from official records. (Original material, showing that much historical data exists through that section.)

4. Alabama and Territorial Expansion before 1860, by William O. Scroggs. 14 pp., sketching filibustering movements against Texas, Cuba, and Nicaragua. (Foot notes; on stock sources in part, and on newspapers.)

5. Early missions of the South (Florida), by Anne Bozeman Lyon. 7 pp., essay only on work of Catholic priests in Florida, showing thirty-two missions and twenty-six thousand converts.

6. Early newspaper files in the Library of Emory College, Ga. 2 pp., contributed by E. M. Blank and U. B. Phillips; some files back to 1826, none very full.