134 ROSENGARTEN—AMERICAN HISTORY. [April 6, 
with the adventures of the German soldiers serving in the English 
army in the American Revolution. 
The editor of the Dérnberg diary, Gotthold Marseille, head- 
master of the Gymnasium at Pyritz, speaks of a privately printed 
family history of the Schlieffens, belonging to the present head of 
the family living in Pyritz, with a full account of the negotiations 
of Count Martin von Schlieffen, as Minister of Landgraf Freder- 
ick II of Hesse Cassel, with Colonel Faucit as the representative 
of George III. He also refers to Ewald’s book on Light Jnfan- 
try, published in Cassel in 1785, on his return from America, where 
he had learned many useful lessons, afterwards put in practice in 
his reorganization of the German troops for service in the wars 
with Napoleon. The continuation of Dérnberg’s diary will add 
another to the numerous list of original papers by those who ac- 
tually served here. 
Pausch’s journal was printed by Stone as No. 14 of AZunsell’s 
Historical Series, Albany, 1887, and as he was chief of the Hanau 
artillery during Burgoyne’s. campaign it has, of course, special in- 
terest. General Stryker got through Mr. Pendleton, then Minister 
in Berlin, an order from the younger Bismarck, then an assistant to 
his father, to examine the records at Marburg, and through a Ger- 
man, long resident in Trenton, he procured about a thousand pages 
of MS., covering everything relating to the Hessians at Trenton. 
The substance of this is now published in General Stryker’s admir- 
able and exhaustive History of the Battle of Trenton, rich in its 
original material, reproduced in text and notes and appendices for 
students of history. Taking advantage of the fact that a nephew 
was studying at Marburg, I wrote to him that Lowell said a descrip- 
tive catalogue of the Archives there relating to the American War 
of Independence could be made for six hundred marks, and asked 
him to call on Dr. Konnicke, for many years in charge. In reply 
to questions on the subject, he said it would cost four. or five thou- 
sand marks and take a long time, adding that Eelking was too 
biassed to be trustworthy and he (Konnicke) had no sympathy 
with Americans. He, however, showed his collection of Berichte, 
Tagebiicher, registers, letters between the Landgraf and Knyphau- 
sen. An assistant was much more agreeable and ready to give all the 
help in his power, and Istill think that such a catalogue of the 
American records at Marburg would be well worth getting. The 
renewed interest of the Hessians in the part their ancestors took 
