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on I'-yt hology," in the "American Science 

 : \ >\llabus of Psychology." l>y Wil- 

 liam M. Bryant, the author of "The World Fn- 

 : and "The Elementsof Logic, Tlienvl ical 

 and Practical," by .lames II. llyslop. 



History. "The Discovery o'f America," with 

 which cur history properly begins, was narrated 

 for us. with some account of ancient America, 

 and the Spanish conquest, by John Fiske. "The 

 Memorial Story of America^' comprising the im- 

 portant events, episodes, and incidents which 

 make up the record of four hundred years, from 

 l-l'.cj to is.)i>. by Hamilton W. Mabie and Mar- 

 shal II. Bright, had special chapters contributed 

 suitors Sherman and Dawes, lion, Henry 

 \\es. Bishop Vincent, Miss Willard, and 

 others; while "Four Hundred Years of Amer- 

 ican History." by Jacob Harris Patton, was a 

 new revised and enlarged edition of that author's 

 "Concise History of the American People" 

 brought down to the present time. "America: 

 ographical History, 1492-1892," was the 

 subject of six lectures delivered to graduate stu- 

 dents of Johns Hopkins University by Walter 

 B. Scaifc. published as an extra of the "Johns 

 Hopkins t Diversity Studies," with a supplement 

 entitled " Was the Rio del Espiritu Santo of the 

 Spanish Geographers the Mississippi? " Robert 

 Reid Howison wrote a "History of the United 

 States of America"! James Ford Rhodes, a" His- 

 tory of the United States from the Compromise 

 of 1850," in two volumes, covering the eleven 

 years to the opening of the war for the Union ; 

 and the long-expected third volume of John 

 Bach McMaster's " History of the People of the 

 Tinted States, from the Revolution to the Civil 

 War." also saw the light; beginning with the 

 purchase of Louisiana, it closed with the sur- 

 render of Detroit by Hull in the War of 1812. 

 A large-paper edition of Bancroft's " History of 

 the United States" was brought out. "Stud- 

 ies in American History !' was a teachers' man- 

 ual drawn up by Mary Sheldon Barnes; I). 

 II. Montgomery contributed "The Beginner's 

 American History"; and the "American Repub- 

 lic" was an anonymous memorial volume of 

 American hMory from 1492 to 1892. A study 

 of "The Puritan in Holland, England, and 

 America." by Douglas Campbell, in two volumes, 

 was intended as an introduction to American 

 history: while "The Pilgrims, Puritans, and 

 Williams vindicated: and his Sentence 

 of banishment ought to be revoked," was the 

 rather slovenly title of a volume by Rev. T. M. 

 Merriman. A Half Century of Conflict." by 

 Francis Parkman. formed Part VI of the >erie"s 

 entitled "France and England in North Amer- 

 ica." filling the gap between Parts V and VII, 

 previously issued, and covering the period be"^ 

 tween Count Frontenac and Montcalm and 

 Wolfe. " The Colonial Era," in the " American 

 History Series." by Rev. Ceorge Parke Fisher, 

 ended with the declaration of war between Eng- 

 land and France in 1756; and "Maryland's Atti- 

 tude in the Struggle for Canada "'was defined 

 by.l. W. Black in the Johns Hopkins rniversity 

 Studies." "Fort Pitt and I. etters from the Fron- 

 tier" were published at Pittsburg. Pa., with a 

 life of Gen. James O'Hara, the journal of Cal- 

 derou, 1749, and the journal and letters of ('apt. 

 S. Ecuyer, commandant at Fort Pitt in !?(>!. 

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Vol. XX of " Early State Papers of New I 

 shire" was edited nnd compiled by Albert Still- 

 man Batchellor, and William L. Bannden per- 

 formed a similar work (by order of the General 

 Assembly) for "The Colonial Records of North 

 Carolina" in ten volumes. An edition, limited 

 to 500 copies, was issued of " Fragment > of Rev- 

 olutionary History: Being Hitherto Unpub- 

 lished Writings of the Men of the Revolution," 

 edited by Gaillard Hunt, under authority of the 

 District of Columbia Society ; and Clarence Win- 

 throp Bowen edited a " History of the Centennial 

 Celebration of the Inauguration of George Wa.-h- 

 ington as First President of the United States," 

 in an edition limited to 1,000 copies. " Essays on 

 the Constitution of the United States published 

 during its Discussion by the People, 1787-1788," 

 were edited by Paul Leicester Ford. A " Finan- 

 cial History of Massachusetts, from the Organ- 

 ization of the Massachusetts Bay Company to the 

 American Revolution," was written by Charles H. 

 J. Douglas in "Studies in History/Economics, 

 and Public Law," edited by Prof. Edwin R. A. 

 Seligman, another issue of which was a " History 

 of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan 

 Island to the Beginning of Sales by the Commis- 

 sioners of the Sinking Fund in 1844," by George 

 Ashton Black. Charles Francis Adams chron- 

 icled " Three Episodes of Massachusetts HiMory : 

 The Settlement of Boston Bay, The Antinomian 

 Controversy, A Study of Church and Town Gov- 

 ernment," in two volumes ; and " Stories of Mas- 

 sachusetts" were told by Mara L. Pratt, M.D., 

 and Anna Temple Levering, in the "Young 

 Folks' Library of American History." In the 

 " Story of the States " series, " The Story of Mas- 

 sachusetts " was from the pen of Edward Everett 

 Hale, and " The Story of New Mexico " from 

 that of Horatio 0. Ladd. " Vermont : A Study 

 of Independence," fell into line in the "American 

 Commonwealths" series; it was by Rowland E. 

 Robinson. Charles Robinson, the "war Governor 

 of the State, presented his views of " The Kansas 

 Conflict"; and "The Story of the Black Hawk 

 War," by Reuben Gold Thwaites, was reprinted 

 from Vol. XII of " Wisconsin's Historical Collec- 

 tions," as was " The Planting of the Swiss Colony 

 at New Glarus, Wisconsin," by John Luchsinger. 

 Part I of Vol. II, Publications of the Historical 

 Society of Southern California," consisted of 

 "Documents from the Sutro Collection," trans- 

 lated, annotated, and edited by George Butler 

 Griffin. "The Centenary of Kentucky," pub- 

 lished by the Filson Club, contained the record 

 of proceedings at the celebration of the hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the admission of the State 

 into the Union. Vol. II of "The Memorial His- 

 tory of the City of New York." edited by James 

 Grant Wilson,'was issued. The Farly Grants 

 ami Incorporation of the Town of Ware "'were 

 collected into a volume by Kdward II. Gilbert, 

 and a "History of the Town of Oxford, Ma>s.. 

 with Genealogies and Notes of Persons and Fs- 

 tates." was published by G. F. Daniels with the 

 co-operation of the town. Canon Brigstocke 

 edited a " History of Trinity Church. St. John, 

 New Brunswick, 1791-1891. Three historical 

 by Oliver T. Morton were entitled "The 

 Southern Empire." To war history belong A 

 Few Acts and Actors in the Tragedy of the 

 Civil War in the United States," by William 



