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this aid it has barely succeeded in paying its expenses. But it has 

 done so only by using a guarantee fund raised at its inception and 

 now nearly exhausted, and by reason of the fact that, while it pays 

 three dollars a page (and the book) for reviews of books, it pays 

 nothing for ' ' body articles. ' ' Its quality as an organ of American 

 historical scholarship would in our judgment be greatly raised, with 

 valuable results to scholarship itself, if it could also pay four dollars 

 a page for articles. This would enable it to command articles from 

 the best specialists or the leading professors of history. These are 

 often, instead, writing for journals that pay, but would rather write 

 the kind of articles which the Review desires, the fruit of solid re- 

 searches scientifically presented, if they could get something for 

 them, though it were less than the popular magazines pay. To 

 enable this to be done, and to avoid the deficits hitherto met by the 

 use of the guarantee fund, we recommend a subvention of $2,000 

 per annum to the American Historical Revietv. 



If such a relation w^ere established with the Review, the histori- 

 cal department of the Carnegie Institution could undoubtedly use a 

 section of the journal as a means of direct and regular communica- 

 tion with the historical students of the country. Whatever modes 

 of publication the Carnegie Institution might adopt for its general 

 purposes, it would be a distinct advantage to have quarterlj^ bul- 

 letins concerning the work of its Institute of Historical Research in 

 Washington, or concerning the progress of its work in Europe, in- 

 serted in a journal which goes to all members of the American His- 

 torical Association and is read by all historical scholars in the 

 United States. Constant interest of the special public in its histori- 

 cal activities would thus be insured. 



There are several other objects of historical expenditure which 

 appeal strongly to us, such as the work of the Historical Manuscripts 

 Commission and the Public Archives Commission established by the 

 American Historical Association, and the necessary researches for a 

 scholarly atlas of American Historical Geography or a Dictionary of 

 National Biography comparable with the English. But these either 

 are going slowly forward, with money supplied by the Association, 

 or can wait. We conclude to emphasize, as of primary importance 

 to American historical scholarship at the present time, only the three 

 objects we have described above. 



The appropriations which we recommend are : For the Institute 

 of Historical Research in Washington, $5,000 the first j^ear, $12,000 

 thereafter (or from the completion of the director's plans for organ- 



