THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS.
NOVEMBER 1891.

Rare Portrait of Columbus[1] [Frontispiece.]
Explorations of the North American Coast, previous to the Voyage of Henry Hudson. Benjamin F. De Costa, D. D. [1]
From advance sheets of “The Memorial History of New York.”
Early American Literature, T. J. Chapman [27]
The Ohio Society in New York and Ohio in New York, James Harrison Kennedy [33]
Gen. Thomas Ewing—Col. William F. Strong—Hon. George Hoadly.
De Soto’s Camps in the Chickasaw Country, 1540-1. T. H. Lewis [57]
Chicago Pioneers, Howard Louis Conard [62]
Hon. Isaac N. Arnold.
Some Ancient Methods of Punishment in Massachusetts, Hon. F. C. Sessions [67]
Gen. William E. Strong,—A Memorial. [76]
Mistakes in History; The Pilgrims not Puritans, but Separatists, D. W. Manchester [82]
Were the Dutch on Manhattan Island in 1598? Daniel Van Pelt, A.M. [91]
A Famous Political Contest in Illinois, W. H. Maguire [97]
Hon. Henry H. Evans.
Editorial and Historical Notes, [102]
The Change of Name—What it Means—Field of American History—Material for War History—Growth of Historical Societies—Value of Their Papers—Historic Interest in Legend and Tradition—The Memorial History of New York—Preserving the Field of Valley Forge—Monument to Red Jacket—International Pan-Republic Congress—The Washington State Historical Society.
Notes from the Historical Societies, [105]
Recent Historical Publications, [107]
Adam’s Historical Essays—Minnesota Historical Society’s Collections—Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley—J. Freeman Clarke’s Autobiography Diary and Correspondence—Howe’s Historical Collections of Ohio—Ohio Historical Society, Vol. III.

[1] Said by the present Duke of Veragua to be the most representative of the known portraits.

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NOTICE.

With this NOVEMBER Number, the Magazine of Western History, appears under its new name

THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE.

A Journal devoted to American History.

(See [Editorial Notes].)