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of Credit or Paper Currency of .New York 

 from 1709 to 1789, with Descriptions of the Bills, 

 Catalogues of the Various Issues, and other 

 Matters pertaining .thereto," by J. Hickcox, 

 author of " American Coinage ; " " The Bryant 

 Festival 'at ' The Century,' Nov. 5, 1864;" 

 " The History of the Indian Races of North and 

 South America, etc., etc., including the late 

 Sioux Massacre at Minnesota," by Charles Do 

 Wolf Brownell. 



Of Histories of other Countries and Times, we 

 have " France and England in North America. 

 A Series of Historical Narratives," by Francis 

 Parkman, author of " History of the Conspiracy 

 of Pontiac," part L, 8vo., pp. xxiii., 420, por- 

 trait; " Historical View of the 'American Rev- 

 olution," by George "Washington Greene, au- 

 thor of "Historical Studies;" "The Age of 

 Louis XIV.," by Henri Martin, being vols. xiii. 

 and xiv. of the History of France, from the 

 earliest period to 1789, translated from the 

 fourth Paris edition, by Mary L. Booth ; " The 

 Cavalier Dismounted," an Essay on the Origin 

 of the Founders of the Thirteen Colonies, by 

 "William H. "Whitmore. To this class, perhaps, 

 belongs also Mr. Henry B. Dawson's " Current 

 Fiction," tested by Uncurrent Facts, a Corre- 

 spondence between John Jay and Henry B. 

 Dawson, and between James A. Hamilton and 

 Henry B. Dawson, concerning "The Fced- 

 eralist." 



Of Historical Reprints, the following are the 

 principal : " The History of the Jews, from 

 the Earliest Period down to Modern Times," by 

 Henry Hart Milman, D. D., Dean of St. Paul's, 

 reprinted from the newly revised and corrected 

 London edition, 3 vols., post 8vo, pp. 512, 497, 

 479 ; " The History of the Romans under the 

 Empire," by Charles Merivale, B. D., vol. vii., 

 completing the work ; " The Conversion of 

 the Roman Empire; the Boyle Lectures for 

 the year 1864," by Charles Merivale, B. D. ; 

 "A History of the World from the Earliest 

 Records to the Present Time," by Philip 

 Smith, B. A., vols. ii. and iii., Ancient His- 

 tory ; " History of England from the fall 

 of Wolsey .to the Death of Elizabeth," by 

 James Anthony Froude, M. A. 4 vols., 8vo, 

 pp. 447, 501, 480, 508 ; " History of Friedrich 

 the Second, called Frederick the Great," by 

 Thomas Carlyle, fifth and sixth volumes, com- 

 pleting the work; "A Smaller History of 

 Rome, from the Earliest Times to the Estab- 

 lishment of the Empire," by William Smith, 

 LL. D. With a Continuation to A. D. 476, by 

 Eugene Lawrence. A. M., 16mo, pp. xxv., 365, 

 illustrated ; " Historia de la Isla de Cuba, con 

 Notas e Illustraciones," por Pedro J. Guiteras. 

 Tome I. 12rao, pp. xvi., 417; "The History 

 and Antiquity of Ecton, in the County of 

 Northampton (England)," by John Cole. 8vo, 

 pp. 51, iii. 



There were a few Historical Periodicals and 

 Transactions or Proceedings of Historical So- 

 cieties published during the year. Among 

 them were : " The Firelands Pioneer." Pub- 



lished by the Firelands Historical Society, 

 Norwalk, Ohio, vol. vi., 8vo, pp. 124, por- 

 trait ; " Proceedings of the Massachusetts His- 

 torical Society, for!863-'4." 8vo, pp. xiii., 508, 

 and "Collections of the Mass. Historical So- 

 ciety," vol. vii., fourth series, 8vo. pp. xvii. 

 647, plates ; " Papers of the New Haven Col- 

 ony Historical Society, vol. i., pp. iii., 170, iv., 

 192. Among the periodicals, " The Historical 

 Magazine " was continued, as were the " United 

 States Service Magazine," the "Army and 

 Navy Journal," and "The Rebellion Rec- 

 ord;" Gazlay's "Pacific Monthly," a period- 

 ical published in the interest of the States and 

 Territories of the Pacific slope, contained many 

 valuable articles on the history of that region ; 

 "The Old Flag," a newspaper first published 

 by Union Prisoners, at Camp Ford, Tyler, Tex- 

 as, also appeared in lithographic fac-simile 

 during the year. 



In Ecclesiastical History, 1865 was more 

 prolific than almost any previous year, and 

 many of the works possessed great merit. The 

 most important were : " A History of the Pres- 

 byterian Church of the United States of Ameri- 

 ca," by Rev. E. H. Gillett, D. D.; "History 

 of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the 

 United States of America," by Abel Stevens, 

 D. D., LL. D., vol. ii. ; " The Planting and 

 Training of American Methodism ; " " The Cen- 

 tenary of American Methodism : a Sketch of 

 its History, Theology, Practical System, and 

 Success," prepared by order of the Centenary 

 Committee of the General Conference of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, by Abel Stevens, 



D. D., LL. D. With a Statement of the Plan of 

 the Centenary Celebration of 1866, by John 

 McClintock, D. D. ; "History of Congregation- 

 alism from about A. D. 250 to the Present 

 Time," in continuation of the account of the 

 Origin and Earliest History of this System of 

 Church Polity, contained in " A View of Con- 

 gregationalism," by George Punchard. Second 

 edition, rewritten and greatly enlarged, 2 vols. ; 

 "The Church of the First Three Centuries; or, 

 Notices of the Lives and Opinions of the Early 

 Fathers, with special Reference to the Doctrine 

 of the Trinity, illustrating its late Origin and 

 gradual Formation," by Alvan Lamson, D. D. 

 Second edition, revised and enlarged ; " History 

 of the Planting and Training of the Christian 

 Church 'by the Apostles," by Dr. Augustus 

 Neander; translated from the German, by J. 



E. Ryland. Translation revised and corrected 

 according to the Fourth German Edition, by 

 E. G. Robinson, D. D.; "A General History 

 of the Catholic Church, from the commence- 

 ment of the Christian Era until the Present 

 Time," by M. I'Abbe J. E. Darras. From the 

 last French edition, with an Introduction and 

 Notes by the Most Rev. M. J. Spalding, D. D., 

 Archbishop of Baltimore, vol. i. ; " History of 

 the Society of Jesus, from its Foundation to 

 the Present Time," translated from the French 

 of J. M. S. Daurignac by James Clements, 2 

 vols. ; " The Oriental Church arid the Latin," 





