S. D. Lee in checking the rout of the Confederates after their disastrous defeat in the battles around Nashville in 1864. The surplus from the fund contributed for the reunion at Nashville is to be turned over to the Confederate Veteran as subscriptions for the magazine to be sent to old Confederate soldiers. Although the periodical has a large circulation the editor with great generosity of soul allows thousands of dead heads, another painful piece of evidence of indifference through the south to intellectual food when they have to pay for it, very sad but very true.

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, July, 1904. Contents: The Rehabilitation of Theramenes, (Greek statesman and patriot of the 5th and 4th centuries, B. C.); Cornage (fees paid the bishop for the agistment of cattle in mediaeval England) and Drengage (a form of tenure), by G. T. Lapsley; Reginald Pole and Thomas Cromwell, an Examination of the Apologia ad Carolum Quintum, by Paul Van Dyke; The Navigation Acts as applied to European Trade, by D. O. McGovney. Documents: Sketch of Pinckney's plan for a constitution, 1787, from the original found among the James Wilson manuscripts, with extracts from the plan and from Pinckney's Observations printed in parallel columns; further papers on Wilkinson's relations with Spain, including the decision of the Council of State on his first memorial, his second memorial and a list of influential persons whom he was to buy for Spain; two letters from George Farragut (father of the Admiral) to Andrew Jackson; book reviews, notes, index.

The July and August installments of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's Autobiography of Washington in The Century conduct him through the first clash with the French on the Ohio and his surrender of Ft. Necessity. The fiction of autobiographical reminiscence is splendidly maintained.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Valuable TesTIMONY ON THE NEGRO QUESTION.—Of late years there has hardly been a more important contribution to this mighty matter than the utterances during the past summer of the Hon. D. H. Chamberlain, at present of Massachusetts. Mr. Chamberlain was born and educated in New England, commanded a negro regiment during the Civil War and was afterwards in politics in South Carolina, finally becoming Governor of that State for two years, from 1874 to 1876. Being defeated then for re-election he returned to his former home and has been very successful in the practice of law. He was recognized even by his opponents during the bitterest political campaigns ever waged in this country as a man of high personal character, of learning and great ability. Now, in his old age, with ripened experience and broad reflection, he delivers his views on this tragic race problem. Substantially he endorses the general opinion prevailing through the South, urging practically that the people of that locality, in the midst of the trouble, are the ones best fitted to decide on the course of action. It is really disheartening that it seems necessary to point out that the best judges of any question are the ones who know both the practical and theoretical sides. Notwithstanding this plain common sense truism, Mr. Chamberlain has been harshly criticised by those who have only an academic acquaintance with the subject, the poorest in the world unless moderated by a saving sense of modesty. Mr. Chamberlain's most important letter is found in the Charleston News and Courier of Aug. 1.

ANDREW JACKSON'S BIRTHPLACE. This long disputed historical point seems certainly settled by A. S. Salley, Jr.,

in the Charleston News of July 31 last. He gives the most comprehensive, scientific treatment of the matter in existence and reaches the positive conclusion that Jackson was a native of South Carolina though born near the North Carolina line. He goes back to the original sources, quoting from Jackson and his early biographers and also using official records. Notwithstanding this thorough investigation, which is a little sarcastic in places, we shall still hear from careless people the old claim that Jackson first saw the light of day in North Carolina. It is not of great importance one way or the other in itself but it is of transcendant value as training in methods of accuracy.

GULF OF MEXICO CARTOGRAPHY.-A paper on this subject will be read in St. Louis by Mr. William Beer, librarian of the Howard Memorial Library of New Orleans. Mr. Beer lent a very full collection of maps of that region as a part of the Louisiana exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. The list numbers nearly two hundred, going back as far as 1492.

WASHINGTON'S CAPTOR.-Mr. William Beer, Librarian of the Howard Memorial Library of New Orleans, has lately published, from an old portrait, a likeness of Francois Coulon de Villiers who had the great honor of receiving the surrender of Washington at Fort Necessity. After other military service, he spent his last years in Louisiana, dying there in 1803 at the age of 91.

INDEX TO VOL. VIII.

[To include every family name and many surnames in the genealog-
ical articles, but not the names in the Calhoun Journal, Janney tables
and similar papers.]