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issued at an early date by the Scribners. Col. Church's " Life o£ 

 Ericfson," issued by the same firm, went into a second edition 

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— Among the contents of the New England Magazine for De- 

 cember we note, •' Emerson and his Friends m Concord," by Frank 

 B. Sanborn; "What shall we do with the Millionnaires?" by 

 Charles F. Dole; " Quebec," by Samuel M. Baylis; " Anti-Slavery 

 Boston," by Archibald H. Grimke; "A Day in the Yosemite with 

 a Kodak," by Samuel Douglass Dodge; " Making Man-o'-wai-'s- 

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— The "Papers of the American Historical Association" for 

 October, just issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons, deal largely with 

 the subject of historical documents and the importance of collect- 

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 ner, is on " Materials for the History of the Goverament of the 

 Southern Confederacy," and gives an account of the difficulties 

 the author met with in searching for such materials. Professor 

 William P. Trent follows in a similar strain, complaining of the 

 indifference shown by most Southerners to their local history. 

 Both writers strongly insist on the importance of collecting the 

 materials for Southern history before it is too late. Mr. William 

 Henry Smith has a paper on •• Tlie Pelham Papers," in which he 

 points out their importance for the history of New York in 1755- 

 56. These various essays, together with some shorter ones that 

 this number contains, show that the association is alive to the im- 

 portance of collecting our historical records, and we trust that 

 it will be successful in doing so. A circular letter from the asso- 

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 in historical work, which will doubtless be gladly given. Besides 

 the papers mentioned, the pamphlet before us contains several 

 others on various themes, the longest and most elaborate being by 



Mr. William A. Dunning, on "The Impeachment of President 

 Johnson," in which that celebrated case is treated with true his- 

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 of John Brown, and other topics in American history ; but none 

 of them call for any special remark. 



— The announcement is made that a new edition of " The Life 

 of Our Lord," by Rev. S. J. Andrews, D.D., largely re-writteu 

 and biought down to date in every respect, is now in press for 

 early publication. It will be printed from new plates, and will 

 contain a number of maps. 



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Adler, C. Report on the Section of Oijiental An- 

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