973 HISTORY (U. S.).

Clark, A. Howard. List of publications of the American Historical Association, 1885–1902, and the American Society of Church History, 1888–1897. Contents of American Historical Review, 1895–1902, by A. Howard Clark, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903, p. 65, paged 575–639.

Reprinted from the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1902, vol. 1, pp. 575–639. Gives titles of all articles forming contents of each publication, and concludes with an excellent index.

[Deshler, C: D.] A Glimpse of “Seventy-six.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 49, No. 290 (July, 1874): 230–245.

An interesting account by one who was personally acquainted with many survivors of the American Revolution. Accompanied by illustrations of colonial furniture.

Finney, B. A. Public libraries and local history. (Public Libraries, 10, No. 1 [Jan., 1905]: 1–6.) [Read before the Ann Arbor Library Club, March 12, 1903.] Same. Also issued separately.

Guest, Captain Moses. 1755–1828. Poems on several occasions. To which are annexed extracts from a journal kept by the author while he followed the sea, and during a journey from New Brunswick, in New Jersey, to Montreal and Quebec Ed. 2. Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds, 1824. 160 pp., 12^o in half sheets.

Most of these poems were written during the American Revolution. Captain Guest belonged to the New Jersey militia and captured Lt.-Col. J. G. Simcoe, of the Queen’s Rangers, Oct. 26, 1779. This incident is described in his journal, which, however, begins 16 March, 1784. He removed to Cincinnati in 1817.

[McLaughlin, Andrew C.] [Descriptions of work undertaken by the Bureau of Historical Research, established by the Carnegie Institution of Washington.] (Am. Hist. Review, 9, No. 3 [April, 1904]: 635–636; caption Notes and News: America.)

McLaughlin, Andrew C. Historical research. (In Carnegie Institution of Washington, Year book, No. 3 [1904], pp. 65–67.)

Describes the work and plans of the Bureau of Historical Research, established by the Carnegie Institution; includes mention of its (completed) Guide to the Archives of the Government of the U. S., at Washington; of preliminary report by Prof. Chas. M. Andrews of Bryn Mawr, on the character, extent and location (in British archives) of material for the study of American history; of a bibliography of current (1903) writings on American history, etc. As the director is the editor of the American Historical Review, some of the material collected by the Bureau appears in that periodical.

[Putnam, Herbert.] Publication of historical material by the Government. (In his report of the librarian of Congress for the ... year ending June 30, 1904; pp. 66–70; 171–181.)

“The library seems in a peculiarly favorable position to publish such of the MSS. in its possession as seem to deserve publication. It will begin with those that most obviously require it. The first of these is the Journals of the Continental Congress, of which admittedly no one of the three existing editions is either complete or accurate.” Extract, p. 69. Other important historical collections mentioned.

Richardson, Ernest Cushing, and Morse, Anson Ely. Writings on American history, 1902. An attempt at an exhaustive bibliography of books and articles on United States history, published during the year 1902, and some memoranda on other portions of America. Princeton, N. J.: The Library Book Store, 1904. P. xxi + 294.

A similar collection for 1903 has been undertaken by the Bureau of Historical Research, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C.

Tarbell, Ida M. The Story of the Declaration of Independence. (In McClure’s Magazine, 17, [July, 1901]: 223–235.)

“Illustrated with portraits and autographs of the signers.”

Eugene Fairfield McPike.

Chicago.