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The Campaigns of 1862; and two other volumes 

 are to be noted belonging to the momentous period, 

 When and Where we met Each Other on Shore 

 and Afloat, by Theodore D. Strickler, and The 

 Song of the Rappahannock, by Ira Seymour Dodd. 

 A Source Book of American History was edited 

 for schools and readers by Prof. Albert Bush- 

 nell Hart, John W. Gibson wrote A School His- 

 tory of the United States of America, H. A. 

 Guerber told The Story of the Great Republic in 

 the Series of Eclectic School Readings, and The 

 Story of Our Flag was written by Addie Guthrie 

 Weaver. A History of American Privateers, by 

 Edgar Stanton Maclay, was an able companion 

 volume to his History of the United States Navy, 

 and was got up in attractive guise; it presented 

 the first comprehensive account of one of the 

 most picturesque and absorbing phases of our 

 maritime warfare prior to the declaration of 

 Paris in 1856. Some Account of the Capture of 

 the Ship Aurora, written by Peter Freneau in 

 1780, was published for the first time during the 

 year by the consent of the heirs of Jane Lead- 

 better, the poet's granddaughter, to whom he be- 

 queathed it. The Crisis of the Revolution, by 

 William Abbatt, was pronounced the handsomest 

 book of the autumn season, and contained the 

 story of Arnold and Andre, now for the first time 

 collected from all sources, and illustrated with 

 views of all places identified with it. The Dutch 

 and Quaker Colonies in America came next in 

 order to the master hand of John Fiske; Edward 

 McCrady published the second volume of his able 

 History of South Carolina under the Royal Gov- 

 ernment, carrying us through the period 1719-76; 

 in The Puritan Republic Dan Wait Howe gave a 

 history of the Puritan Commonwealth of Massa- 

 chusetts; Vol. II of A History of the Quaker 

 Government in Pennsylvania, by Isaac Sharpless, 

 completed that work, and portrayed for us The 

 Quakers in the Revolution; The German Emigra- 

 tion to America, 1709-1740, formed Part III of a 

 narrative and critical history prepared at the 

 request of the Pennsylvania German Society by 

 Henry Eyster Jacobs, D. D., and was published 

 in an edition limited to 100 copies; a new edition 

 was made of The Social History of Flatbush and 

 Manners and Customs of the Dutch Settlers in 

 Kings County by Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt; 

 Rhode Island and the Formation of the Union, 

 by Frank Greene Bates, formed Vol. X of Colum- 

 bia University Studies in History, Economics, and 

 Public Law; and The Narragansetts Friends' 

 Meeting in the XVIII Century, by Caroline Haz- 

 ard, contained also a chapter on Quaker begin- 

 nings in Rhode Island. The Old Northwest: The 

 Beginnings of our Colonial System, was from 

 the pen of Rev. Burke Aaron Hinsdale; Vols. 

 XXXIII to LVIII were issued of The Jesuit Re- 

 lations and Allied Documents; and in the Johns 

 Hopkins University Studies we had Slavery in 

 the State of North Carolina, by John Spencer 

 Bassett; The Financial History of Baltimore, by 

 J. H. Hollander; The Labadist Colony in Mary- 

 land, by Bartlett B. James; and a History of 

 the Know-nothing Party in Maryland, by Lau- 

 rence F. Schmeckebier. Stories of the Old Bay 

 State were told by Elbridge Streeter Brooks for 

 young readers, for whom he also provided The 

 Story of our War with Spain. This theme proved 

 no less fruitful this year than last. Hon. Henry 

 Cabot Lodge based on official reports his work 

 upon The War with Spain; Henry B. Russell, 

 Redfield Proctor, and John M. Thurston collab- 

 orated upon An Illustrated History of our War 

 with Spain, giving its causes, incidents, and re- 

 sults; Parts I-XVI of Harper's Pictorial History 



of the War with Spain, to which Gen. Nelson 

 A. Miles contributed an introduction, appeared 

 during the year; The Story of the War of 1898, 

 by W. N. King, Jr., had introductions by Gen. 

 O. O. Howard and Capt. Roblcy D. Evans; Les- 

 sons of the War with Spain were drawn by Capt. 

 Alfred Thayer Mahan; Under Three Flags in 

 Cuba, by George Clarke Musgrave, gave a per- 

 sonal account of the Cuban insurrection and the 

 Spanish-American War from the standpoint of 

 a sufferer therein; George Kennan was heard 

 from in Campaigning in Cuba; John D. Miley 

 proved himself to have been In Cuba with Shaf- 

 ter; and John Bigelow, Jr., published Reminis- 

 cences of the Santiago Campaign. The Fight for 

 Santiago, by Stephen Bonsai, told the story of 

 the soldier in the Cuban campaign from Tampa 

 to the surrender; The Story of the Rough Riders, 

 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, by Edward. Mar- 

 shall, was illustrated from photographs taken on 

 the field and with drawings by Richard F. Out- 

 cault; The Fun and Fighting of the Rough Riders 

 was given briefly by Tom Hall ; Andrew S. Draper 

 treated The Rescue of Cuba as an episode in the 

 growth of free government; The Maine was the 

 title of an account of the destruction of the battle 

 ship by her captain, Charles Dwight Sigsbee; and 

 from Richmond Pearson Hobson we had another 

 personal narrative, that of The Sinking of the 

 Merrimac in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba, 

 June 3, 1898. With Sampson through the War, 

 by W. A. M. Goode, contained chapters contrib- 

 uted by the rear admiral, Capt. Robley D. Evans, 

 and Commander C. C. Todd; From Yanco to 

 Las Marias, by K. Stephen Herrman, told the 

 story of the campaign in western Puerto Rico; 

 The Spanish-American War was the title of a 

 book of the events of the war described by eye- 

 witnesses, akin to which was the volume of 

 Reminiscences and Thrilling Stories of the War, 

 by Returned Heroes, for which we were indebted 

 to James Rankin Young and J. Hampton Moore. 

 Henry Christopher McCook, D. D., devoted a vol- 

 ume to The Martial Graves of our Fallen Heroes 

 in Santiago de Cuba; Blue Jackets of '98 was 

 a history of the Spanish-American War for boys, 

 by Willis J. Abbot, in the Blue Jacket Series. 

 Amos Kidder Fiske contributed The West Indies 

 to the Story of the Nations Series, and also pub- 

 lished The Story of the Philippines, a popular 

 account of the islands from their discovery by 

 Magellan to the capture of Dewey; The Friars 

 in the Philippines were apologized for by Rev. 

 Ambrose Coleman; The Expedition to the Philip- 

 pines was described by Francis Davis Millet, the 

 artist-correspondent; The History and Conquest 

 of the Philippines and our Other Island Posses- 

 sions came from Alden March; and Oscar King 

 Davis reviewed Our Conquests in the Pacific. 

 Pike and Cutlass: Hero Tales of our Navy, were 

 illustrated by the author, G. Gibbs, and from 

 Edward Kirk Rawson we had Twenty Famous 

 Naval Battles: Salamis to Santiago, in two vol- 

 umes, illustrated with a remarkable series of 

 maps, plans, and cuts. To military history be- 

 long The Ninth New York Heavy Artillery, by 

 Alfred Seelye Roe; The '98 Campaign of the 6th 

 Massachusetts, U. S. V., by Frank E. Edwards; 

 The History of the One Hundred and Sixty-first 

 Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, by Rev. 

 W. E. Biederwolf; and Glimpses of the Nation's 

 Struggle, Fourth Series, a collection of papers read 

 before the Minnesota Commandery, Military Order 

 of the Loyal Legion of the United States, in 

 1892-'97. The Great Company was the title of 

 a history of the honorable company of merchant 

 adventurers trading in Hudson Bay, by Beckles 



