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period of time by no means ample. Galley-proofs of the book reached this 

 Department in July and the earlier part of August, but the author could not 

 read them at once and they have but just been returned to the printing office. 

 The book, including the elaborate index which it will require, will apparently 

 be a volume of about 350 pages. In spite of some unevenness of product in 

 a preliminary survey attempting to cover so much ground, it will serve many 

 uses — uses perhaps the more varied on account of the complexity of the 

 political organization of Germany in the past. Students of the diplomatic 

 relations between the United States on the one hand and Prussia, Saxony, 

 and other German States on the other, will find here exact indications of a 

 large amount of material, especially full and detailed in respect to the first 

 forty years after the acquisition of American independence. Students of 

 the Revolutionary War will find indications of material, far surpassing in 

 quantity anything that has hitherto been known, respecting the German aux- 

 iliary troops employed by Great Britain during that struggle, and presenting 

 their observations regarding its events — the evidence of eye-witnesses neither 

 American nor British, and therefore having an especial value. A'lost of all, 

 students of the great movement of German migration to the United States, 

 the source of at least one-sixth of our total population, will in this volume 

 find guidance to documents illustrating this movement, from every section 

 of the territories included in the present German Empire. The order of ar- 

 rangement in the volume presents, first, the seventeen Prussian state archives 

 in alphabetical order, beginning with Berlin, then the various archives of 

 Bavaria, then those of the other States of the present Empire, in an alpha- 

 betical order. 



At the opening of the year the manuscript of Professor Bolton's "Guide 

 to the materials for United States history in Mexican archives" had just 

 been received. Admirably as it had been prepared, its final preparation for 

 the press proceeded with disappointing slowness, for reasons similar to those 

 which have been mentioned in the case of JMr. Learned's book. Now, how- 

 ever, the manuscript in its final shape has gone to press. It will make a volume 

 of about 400 pages of print. As little attention has in general been given by 

 American historical scholars to the Mexican archives, it can be predicted 

 with confidence that they will be surprised at the richness and variety of 

 their contents illustrative of the history of the United States. Mr. Bolton's 

 researches covered, first, the great central depository, knov/n as the Archivo 

 General y Publico, in the City of Mexico; secondly, the archives of the ex- 

 ecutive departments and the other archives of the Federal city ; and thirdly, 

 various archives, civil and ecclesiastical, of those provincial capitals in the 

 northern part of the Republic upon which portions of the present United 

 States formerly depended in a political or ecclesiastical sense. In each of 

 these three sorts of archives great stores of material for the history of Texas, 

 California, New Alexico, Arizona, and the Southwest in general were found 

 and listed. The narratives of explorers and missionaries may be instanced as 



