58 JOHN WILLIAM JONES [Donald Bruce', Samuel Phillips, Amasa, Daniel*, Josiah3, Josiah2, Lewis1], b. in Houston Co., Ga., June 9,1838; m. Laura Cowart; physician and druggist, Knoxville, Ga. Issue: 92 I. Elizabeth Jones, b. June 16, 1876. 93 II. Louise Jones, b. March I 1879. Twins. III. Lucile Jones. 94 IV. Donald Paul Jones, b. Sept. 23, 1882. 65 SAMUEL PRESTON JONES [Samuel Phillips, Donald Bruce', Samuel Phillips, Amasa, Daniel, Josiah3, Josiah2, Lewis1], b. Sept. 24, 1857; m., March 31, 1884, Bertha L. Kitching; resides at Decatur, Ga. Issue: 97 98 I. William Greene Jones, b. Aug. 11, 1888. II. Samuel Preston Jones, b. Dec. 8, 1890. 99 III. Lee Bruce Jones, b. Nov. 5, 1892. 588 74 GEORGE SALLEY JONES [George Salleys, Donald Bruce', Samuel Phillips", Amasa", Daniel', Josiah3, Josiah2, Lewis1], b. Sept. 12, 1871; m., Nov. 11, 1890, Berta Hardeman, dau. of Hon. Isaac Hardeman, of Macon. Issue: 100 ΙΟΙ 102 I. George Salley Jones, b. Sept. 3, 1891. 103 83 DONALD BRUCE JONES [Donald Bruce, Donald Bruce', Samuel Phillips", Amasa", Daniel', Josiah3, Josiah2, Lewis1], b. Sept. 2, 1862; m., April 28, 1886, Elizabeth Shorter. Issue: 105 106 I. Donald Bruce Jones, b. March 14, 1887. REVIEWS. AMERICAN HISTORY AND ITS GEOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS. By Ellen Churchill Semple. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1903. pp. 466, 8vo., illus., cloth, $3.00. GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY. BY By Albert Perry Brigham. New York: The Chautauqua Press, 1903, 12 mo. pp. x., 285, illus., cloth. In beautiful dress as to paper, type, binding, and illustrations, we have here an attempt, by Miss Semple, to show the influence of situation, rivers, mountains and passes, prairies and valleys, lakes and coast lines, forests, mineral deposits, temperature and rainfall, and other geographical agencies upon man's development socially. Incidental to this view are discussions as to the war of 1812, the Civil War, the Louisiana Purchase, immigration, location of cities and industries, railroads, the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. It is all a most ambitious effort, perhaps due to feminine youthfulness, but, to use a homely phrase, it impresses one that the writer bit off more than she could "chaw." A vast task like this, to be done thoroughly, demands the preliminary clearing of the ground by a host of monographers, not one of whom has yet come into view in this particular field of the exact historical relation between physical environment and human organisms. For the lack of this indispensable help, Miss Semple gives us repetitions, padding, hasty generalizations, awkward expressions, doubtful statements, and other symptoms in places, of possibly a rehash from university lectures and general works. Pages 37 and 38 are almost duplicates. The mountains are said to be "impassible" (p. 39) and yet people were crossing them all the time. Chapter 14 is practically a condensed history of the Civil War. The explanation of New England opposition to expansion (p. 43) is at least open to question, as the New Englanders, individually, have emigrated to our farthest bounds westward. The thinness of soil at home did not keep them but rather sent them away. Like Miss Semple, Prof. Brigham seems to have tackled a job a little too big for him tho he more clearly recognizes his limitations than she, and has a simpler style. Like her he treats of the great physical features, and also pads considerably on the Civil War. Naturally as a geologist he dwells more upon the changes and conditions in the earth's crust. Like her he has produced a most readable essay for general use which does not ask for exact knowledge, and does not want it. Like Miss Semple, tho not to the same degree, he is hazy in his conceptions of the line between nature and man in the upbuilding of civilization. Both, really, are history, with an occasional drop downward till one toe can touch the geographical bottom, and then in an instant rebound to the historical surface again. But each has gathered a mass of important facts never before grouped in this way and has fortified them with exceedingly useful charts and excellent illustrations. It is most likely that each is a path breaker into a virgin region that will have to be laboriously explored in small sections at a time, and then afterwards this broad sweep can be made happily and accurately. For some purposes, these ventures are very good, but there still remains to solve in a thoughtful, judicial scholarly way the problem of accurately and profoundly showing the relation between geography and history on such large scale as the whole of this country. A NEW DISCOVERY OF A VAST COUNTRY IN AMERICA. By Father Louis Hennepin. Reprinted from the second London issue of 1698, with facsimiles of original title-pages, maps, and illustrations, and the addition of Introduction, Notes, and Index. By Reuben Gold Thwaites, Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents." 2 Vols. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, pp. IX-LXIV+1353 and 357-710, 8vo., cloth. Excellently edited, with admirable historical introduction, with careful bibliographical data from V. H. Paltsits, without pedantry in the notes, is this reprint of Hennepin's rambling but valuable exaggerations of his wanderings in the wilds of this country during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Equally to be commended are the taste and labors of the publishers for the handsome typographical costume, with its clear print, good paper and binding. With the true spirit of the historian rather than the scruples of the antiquarian, Mr. Thwaites has very sensibly corrected "palpable blemishes" of the original, though following in the main the peculiarities of that text, even giving its page numbers. There is an index of thirtyfour pages, double columns, mostly on the more prominent names with some subjects, full enough for general historical purposes but hardly detailed enough for close use. Comparison with the original in several sample places shows practically a perfect reprint of its kind. All in all the highest praise can be bestowed on the entire production. LIFE OF WILLIAM KIMBROUGH PENDLETON, LL. D., President of Bethany College. By Frederick D. Power. St. Louis: Christian Publishing Company. O., pp. 494, port. and ills., cloth. This is a biography written with the loving enthusiasm and devoted admiration of the disciple, but without the calm judgment and measured reasonableness of the trained critic and scholar. It is full of superlatives, is uncritical and laudatory to a degree, but it presents withal a sketch of a man whom any American State might feel honored to call her son. Pendleton was an early follower of Alexander Campbell, he married in succession two of his daughters and was one of his chief lieutenants in the organization of the Christian Church (Disciples), in editing its central organ, the Millenlial Harbinger, and in the founding and building up of Bethany College, near Wheeling, W. Va. In fact it was as an educator, connected with this institution as professor, vice president and president, that Pendleton's life was spent and the history of his life is the history of Bethany College, growing from insignificance to prominence and power, but only through the devotion of its small faculty, who like many another body of men similarly situated gave themselves to the work in hand and in spite of obstacles made from adverse fortune a reasonable measure of success. The story of the life of such a man as Pendleton is well worth the telling for the sake of its influence on the next generation. THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. By Zachary F. Smith. Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Company, 1904, illus., 4to., pp. XV+209, paper, No. 19 of the Publications of the Filson Club, Louisville, Ky. Of course this is the most comprehensive account of the great battle of 1815 in existence. It is not however a scientific treatment of the subject which still remains to be done in this full manner. Mr. Smith's aim is to present to the general reader an interesting description of this conflict without troubling him with foot notes or exact references though he gives a list of authorities that he consulted, mostly American with a few British. He mixes primary and secondary writers indiscriminately, laying no stress on original sources specially. Addressing the popular ear, he gives us the story of the preliminary engagements, the steps taken by Jackson in his interference with the civil powers, a lively view of the main |