PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, April, 1904, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 437-648. $4.00 per year, $1.00 per mo.

This number of the Review contains more articles bearing on the Southern field than it is wont to do. It opens with a report of the meeting held in New Orleans in December, a meeting not so well attended as some others, but one of importance. There was during the sessions a conference on the study and teaching of history in the South, participated in by Prof. W. E. Dodd, Prof. Alcée Foriter, Miss Lilian W. Johnson, Prof. F. W. Moore, Prof. F. L. Riley, Mr. Thomas M. Owen, and others. Taken as a whole these reports and talks disclosed the fact that while the situation was not satisfactory, progress was being made along many lines, and "scarcely any States in the Union are doing as much as are Alabama and Mississippi, where the State governments have established departments charged with the task of gathering and preserving valuable historical papers." This is perhaps a very broad and liberal recognition to appear in the journal of an organization which has among all its officers and committeemen just three representatives from all the Southern States and one of them doubtful!

Mr. Woodbury Lowery shows from original materials. that Elizabeth in her dealings with Jean Ribault, the founder of the French Carolina settlement of 1562, was carrying out her serious designs of occupying Florida, 4 pp.

P. L. Haworth discusses Frederick the Great and the American Revolution, based principally on Frederick's correspondence with his ministers at home and abroad, now accessible in transcript in the Bancroft Papers in the Lenox Library, and on the diplomatic correspondence of the American Revolution (19 pp).

Max Ferrand writes on the compromises of the Constitution (11 pp.). W. R. Shepherd contributes new unprinted materials on Wilkinson and the Spanish Conspiracy drawn from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid, Papales de Estado. The most important of these are Wilkinson's first memorial in English, addressed to Miro and Navarro, his declaration of allegiance to the Spanish crown, Aug. 22, 1787, in Spanish, and the formal report of Miro and Navarro. Mr. Shepherd also prints a Spanish translation of Wilkinson's letter of Nov. 17, 1806, to Jose de Iturrigaray, of which the English original has been lost, with a retranslation into English (17 pp. and 5 pp.).

In the World Aspects of the Louisiana Purchase, Prof. W. M. Sloane shows the epochal character of this movement and treaty (15 pp.).

There is a letter from Admiral Farragut in 1853, giving some account of his early life; many book reviews and

notes.

THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, April, 1904, Vol. XI. No. 4, quarterly, pp. 345-490, $5.00 yearly, $1.50 singly, Richmond, Va.

Contents: 1. Proceedings of Virginia Committee of Correspondence, 1759-'67. (Continued.) 13 pp., bearing chiefly on the money question and slaves as personal property.

2. Virginia Gleanings in England. (Continued.) 12 pp., with abstracts by L. Withington and H. F. Waters with some administration abstracts.

3. Moravian Diaries of Travels Through Virginia. (Continued.) 23 pp., L. Schnell and R. Hussey, journey to Georgia, 1743-1744, incidents and religious exercises; edited by

4. The Site of Old "James Towne," 1607-1698, by Samuel W. J. Hinke and C. E. Kemper.

H. Yonge. (Continued.) 21 pp., careful, comprehensive treatment by this engineer.

5. Trial of Rev. Archibald McRoberts. I pp., by county court for using hymns instead of psalms, but jury decided that guilty if the law said so, otherwise not guilty.

6. Prosecution of Baptist Ministers. 2 pp., from records of Chesterfield County that they preached without authority.

7. Sketch of Gov. Walter Leake, of Mississippi. 2 pp., born May 20, 1762, died, 1825, one of the Virginians who became Governors of other States.

8. Virginia Militia in the Revolution. (Continued.) 2 PP., pay accounts.

9. Historical and Genealogical Notes and Queries. 4 pp., contain extracts from old papers also.

10. The Vestry Book of King William Parish, Va., 17071750. (Continued.) 16 pp., chiefly financial matters with some church trials.

II. Genealogy.

(Continued.) 16 pp., Bruce, Minor, Brooke, Herndon, and Fielding families.

12. Index. 34 PP.

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY, April, 1904, Vol. XII, No. 4, pp. 207-274, $3.00 yearly, $1.00 singly, Williamsburg, Va.

Contents: 1. Extracts from Virginia Gazette, 1752. 14 pp., mostly advertisements of sales with some notices of public entertainments.

2. Journal of Cuthbert Powell. II pp., a round trip to the West Indies in the latter part of 1796, by a boy of seventeen; chiefly weather conditions noted.

3. Resolutions of Loudoun County in 1774. 5 pp., from a Leesburg, Va., newspaper of 1877-1878, printing from copy, the patriotic resolutions passed at a general meeting; the original document not found but believed that this was an exact copy.

4. Sarah Hallam, the Actress.

I pp., sketch of company

playing in Williamsburg in 1752 and onwards; she kept school there also taught dancing.

5. Jerman Baker to Duncan Rose. 5 pp., letter from London, Feb. 15, 1764, bearing chiefly on trade.

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6. Tombstones in Middlesex County. pp., four names, B. Yates, J. Wormley, Lucy Berkeley, and John Grymes with two others of his family.

7. History of the Dade Family. 5 pp., copied from W. A. G. Dade in May, 1856, then again from that by K. M. Rowland, goes back to 1694, but seemingly rests largely on tradition.

8. Col. Nathaniel Pope and his Descendants. (Continued.) 3 pp., mostly southern branches.

9. Armistead Wills. 4 pp., that of Hannah H. A. Armistead in 1728 and that of William Armistead in 1714.

10. Marriage Bonds in Fairfax. 2 pp., some eighty items in all, mostly the last quarter of eighteenth century.

II. Selden Family. One-half page., from English Records of 1684, bearing on the will of Cicely Selden.

12. William Barton Roger's Visit to Williamsburg. 2 pp., a letter of April 4, 1859, describing the locality by President of the Massachusetts Institute of Tecnology.

13. Pinkard Family. 2 pp., covering three generations in one line only, beginning 1688.

14. Conway Family. 3 pp., covering five generations beginning 1642.

15. Descendants of Francis Gray, including notes of the Strother, Rootes, and French Families. 4 pp., covering five generations of this carpenter, Gray, beginning 1637.

16. Letter regarding Armistead Smith. I p., recommendation for holy orders, perhaps 1794.

17. Notices from Virginia Gazette, 1785. One-half page, marriages and deaths, 1784-1785. Queries, 2 pp.

THE WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, April, 1904, Vol. IV, No. 2, pp. 81-180, $1.00 yearly, 25 cts. singly, Charleston, W. Va.

Contents: I. John Lewis and his family, by Mrs. Delia Agnes McCullock. 14 pp., born about 1675, died, Feb. 1, 1762; will of Andrew Lewis; no references; hardly reliable as two dates and two localities of birth are given.

2. Andrew Lewis and Point Pleasant, by Mrs. Eva Grant Maloney. 13 pp., sketchy essay, without any reference, with extracts from some letters whose source is not given; battle of Point Pleasant, 1774.

3. A sad incident, by E. G. M. One-half page, a petition for relief, by Robert Steven, to Virginia, as his son William, fourteen years old, had been killed at the battle of Point Pleasant, 1774.

4. Extract from Virginia Convention, by E. G. M. I p., 1775, giving list of delegates and members of a Committeee.

5. Col. Chas. Lewis' Journal, by Mrs. Delia A. McCullock. 7 pp., on his march to Fort Cumberland in 1775 after the defeat of Braddock; military incidents, distances; original in Wisconsin Historical Society.

6. General Andrew Lewis, by W. S. Laidley. 19 pp., mere dry essay condensed from stock sources not named; Lewis, born 1720, died about 1780.

7. Samuel Lewis, John D. Lewis, and Lewis' Genealogy, by W. S. Laidley. 13 pp., no reliance to be placed on the statements as no references given for events of more than two centuries ago.

8. Henshaw Family, by Miss Valley V. Henshaw. 23 pp., begins about 1650, comes down to present.

9. Adam Miller, the first settler, by Chas. E. Kemper. 6 pp., a critical paper deciding between Adam Miller and Jost Hite with decision in favor of Miller.

10. Annual meeting, Jan., 1904, by Rev. R. D. Roller, Secretary. I p.