The magazine of history with notes and queries, Vol. II, No. 5, November 1905

by Various

McPike, Eugene Fairfield. Genealogy in America. (Notes and Queries, London, tenth series, 2:63.) [Relates to the attitude of Washington, Adams, Franklin, Garfield and Oliver Wendell Holmes toward genealogical research. Authorities cited.]

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.)