PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

THE GULF STATES HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, Vol II, No 2, September, 1903. Joel C. DuBose, editor, Montgomery, Ala. $3.00 yearly, 50 cts. singly, pp. 73-136.

Contents: 1. The Formation of the Union League in Alabama, by Walter L. Fleming. 17 pp., covering the two years from 1867 to 1869, with a short general sketch of the origin of this order in its efforts to preserve the Union. (A thorough, scientific paper.)

2. Major George Farragut, by Marshall DeLancey Haywood. 9 pp., sketch of the father of Admiral Farragut, a full-blooded Spaniard, born 1755, died 1817, having lived the most of the time in Tennessee after leaving Spain in 1772. (Based on original material.)

3. Recollections of Judge Wm. D. Wood, 11 pp., covering Texas life during the Civil War. (Interesting first hand material.)

4. An American Prince and Princess, by J. F. Bouchelle. 5 pp., sketching career of N. A. Murat, nephew of Bonaparte, and Murat's wife, C. D. Willis; both living mostly in the South. (No references.)

5. The Waltons of Virginia, by Mrs. Wm. C. Stubbs. 3 pp., including also some from N. C. and Ga.

6. Tennessee Newspaper Files in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., 5 pp., very incomplete files mostly.

7. Documents, 4 pp., letter of March 10, 1849, from W. R. King to J. W. Womack dealing with Alabama politics; two letters of 1866 from H. McCulloch and J. F. Simmons, on reconstruction.

8. Minor Topics, 2 pp., on the Choctaw Town Nanipacna, by H. S. Halbert; Indian massacre of 1760 at Long Cane, S. C., from S. C. Gazette of Feb. 28, 1760.

9. Notes and Queries, I p.; historical news, I p.; book notes and reviews, 2 pp.

THE QUARTERLY OF THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, October, 1903, Vol. VII, No. 2, pp. 95-176, yearly $2.00, singly 50 cents, Austin, Tex.

Contents: 1. The Cherokee Indians in Texas, by Ernest William Winkler. 71 pp., development of an under graduate thesis. (In first class method being fortified with many footnotes.)

2. Miles Squier Bennet, by Adele B. Looscan. 2 pp., born Dec. 14, 1818, died May 3, 1903; reprinted from San Antonia Sunday Light for May 31, 1903.

3. Book Reviews and Notices, 2 pp.; Notes and Fragments, 3 pp.; Queries and Answers, one-half page.; Affairs of the Association, Ip.

THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, October, 1903, Vol. IV, No. 4, quarterly, pp. 263-355, $3.00 yearly, $1.00 singly, Charleston, S. C.

Contents: 1. Letters of Hon. Henry Laurens to his son John, 1773-1776, continued; 15 pp., four letters, chiefly of family matters, fatherly advice and some local events and general politics.

2. Letters of Rev. Samuel Thomas, 1702-1706, concluded; 8 pp., three letters on the ignorance of the South Carolinians and his missionary labors among them.

3. South Carolina Gleanings in England, concluded; 10 pp., from L. Withington with something from H. F. Waters; will abstracts.

4. The Butlers of South Carolina, by Theodore D. Jervey. 16 pp., beginning with James Butler and coming to the present.

5. Historical Notes, 2pp.; Necrology, I p.; Index, 39 pp.

THE SEWANEE REVIEW, October, 1903, Vol. XI, No. 4, PP. 385-512, quarterly, $2.00 yearly, 50 cents singly, Sewanee, Tenn. Contents: 1. Canadian Novels and Novelists, by Lawrence J. Burpee. 27 pp., chiefly contemporary work though going back to the eighteenth century, leading men sketched with titles of works in footnotes; claims some 250 English fiction authors in Canada, not counting French ones or magazine tales.

2. The Real and the Ideal in History, by Frederick W. Moore. 14 pp., essay that our estimates of men and events change with new material and time.

3. The Services of Naturalism to Life and Literature, by Martin Schutze. 19pp., essay referring to Zola, Tolstoi, Balzac, Ibsen, Hardy, Hauptman and others, but holding that naturalism has run its course. (Very didactic and formal.)

4. Browning's Place in the Evolution of English Poetry, by Lewis Worthington Smith. 8 pp., essay that his work is "A reversion to earlier forms," with reference to Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. (Really not much on Browning.)

5. Sidney Lanier's Lectures, by L. W. Payne, Jr. 9 pp., review of the two volumes issued nearly two years ago; "There is not a dull page in the book," shows tone of review.

6. One Phase of Literary Conditions in the South, by Carl Holliday. 4 pp., vigorous view that the hope of literary improvement rests on "The Southern Public School Teacher."

7. Classic Versification in English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century, by H. Carrington Lancaster. 7 pp., treating the work of Gabriel Harvey and his school.

8. Frank R. Stockton, by Edwin W. Bowen. 5 pp., mostly estimating his works. (Very readable.)

9. Roumania and the Monroe Doctrine, by Edmund Ar

thur Dodge. II pp., dealing with Secretary Hay's note on the Jewish Question, with some historical sketch from diplomacy. (Not very clear.)

10. The Far Eastern Situation, by Edwin Maxey. 7 pp., general essay, with few exact details.

II. Reviews, 9 pp.; Notes, 7 pp.

SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, January, 1904, Vol. III, No. 1, pp. 99, $2.00 yearly, 50 cents singly, Durham, N. C. Contents: 1. Conservatism and Progress in the Cotton Belt, by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Ph. D. 9 pp., essay restating unfortunate influences of slavery, with attacks on "Bourbons." (Another iteration of the race question very hazy on what he calls "Bourbons.")

2. Frederick Law Olmsted on the South, 1889, by Thomas H. Clark. 5 pp., a letter optimistic as to decline of sectional feeling and improvement of negroes.

3. Wisconsin Libraries, by Charles Forster Smith, Ph. D. pp. 10, a very interesting summary of the work of libraries in that State.

4. North Carolina's Part in the Revolution, No. II, by Sallie Joyner Davis, continued. 12 pp., details carefully

gathered from the original records.

5. The Removal of Legal and Political Disabilities, 18681898, No. II, by J. G. DeR. Hamilton. 13 pp., based chiefly on the Congressional debates but not fortified with foot

notes.

6. The Christian Persecutions and Roman Jurisprudence, by William Kenneth Boyd. 9 pp., in good historical method with quotations and footnotes.

7. Trinity College and Academic Liberty, 11 pp., trustee statement, Faculty Memorial and student editorials, dealing with the resignation offered by Prof. J. S. Bassett consequent upon his article of last October on the race ques

8. George Eliot as a Prose Artist, by Edwin W. Bowen, Ph. D. 15 pp., estimating her works claiming that she "had genius," and raised romance to a higher plane.

9. Book Reviews, 9 pp.; Literary Notes, I p.

THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE for December, 1903, Vol. XXIII, No. 6, pp. 421-526, $1.00 yearly, singly 10 cents, Washington, D. C., (organ D. A. R.).

1. Berks County, Pennsylvania, in the American Revolution, by Jane S. Owen Keim. 7 pp., mere essay.

2. The Masts of the Frigate Constitution, by Netta Lee Goldsborough. 4 pp., that the masts became the columns of the house of Daniel Bedinger, of Shepherdstown, W. Va., which was burned in 1863, thus destroying the masts.

3. Our Flag-June 1777, by Helen P. Kane. I p., poem. 4. Children of the Republic, by Caroline M. Murphy. 4 pp., plan to interest all children in the organization.

5. Revolutionary Widows, 1890. 2 pp., 23 widows in all, now nearly all dead.

6. Revolutionary Records, 2 pp., death notices from Boston newspapers and the Evangelical Magazine.

7. Real Daughters, 3 pp., Mrs. M. B. Belcher, Mrs. P. S. Merrill, and Mrs. M. E. G. B. Cobb.

8. Work of the Chapters, 22 pp.; Parliamentary Law Talks, by Mary Belle King Sherman, 2 pp.; Genealogical Notes and Queries, 5 pp.; Young People's Department, 5 pp.; In Memoriam, 2 pp.; book notes, I p.; official matters, 46 pp.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Dec. 1903, Jan. 1904, Vol. XI, No. 12, Vol. XII, No. 1, pp. 531-567, 5-42, yearly $1.00, singly 10 cents, Nashville, Tenn.

Fresh light is thrown on several prominent events of the Civil War in these two numbers. Lieut. M. Overly, claiming to be "probably the very last confederate to leave Colum