BOOK NOTICES. 509 
Historical Sketches of New Mexico. By L. Bradford Prince. Second 
edition; i2mo., pp. 330, l^amsey, Millett & Hudson, Kansas City, Mo. 
For sale by The Kansas City Book and News Co. 
No one is better prepared than Judge Prince to write a history of New Mex- 
ico, not only from his long residence in the Territory, but from his late position 
as its Chief Justice and as President of the Historical Society of New Mexico, as 
well as from his tastes and literary habits ; but a complete history cannot be writ- 
ten by any one, from the fact that most of the records prior to 1680 were burned 
in the Pueblo Rebellion, many of those of more recent date were sold for waste 
paper by Governor Pile, and so lost or destroyed, and the remainder are unpub- 
lished and generally unavailable at present for the purposes of the historian. 
In spite of these facts. Judge Prince has succeeded in working up a very val- 
uable compendium and also in putting it into an attractive and readable shape ; 
having consulted all of the leading authorities — both Spanish and American — for 
events long past, and having pressed into service most of the principal citizens 
of the Territory for information of value on its more recent history. 
He divides the history of New Mexico into three epochs : the aboriginal or 
Pueblo, the Spanish, and the American, and devotes twenty pages to the first, 
about one hundred and eighty to the second, and nearly one hundred to the last. 
Without going into particulars, we may say that the whole book will be found 
intensely interesting, especially to the people of the western portion of the United 
States, who have had so close an intercourse with the country and its peculiar 
people for the past fifty years or more. 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
The State University : Its Work and Its Place in the Public School System, 
J. A. Lippincott, LL. D., Chancellor Kansas State University, pp. i^. The 
Homiletic Monthly, November, 1883, Vol. VIII, No. 2 ; I. K. Funk, D. D., Ed- 
itor, 64-pages, monthly, N. Y. , $2.50. Report of the Department of Health, City 
of Chicago, 188 1-2, pp. 177. Annual Report of the Commissioner of the Gen- 
era Land Office, 1883, Hon. N. C. McFarland, Commissioner. Welcome Tid- 
ings, Vol. II, No. 3, Rockford, 111., E. F. Golden, Editor, $1.00 per annum. 
On Some Phosphides of Iridium and Platinum, Prof. F. W. Clarke and O. T. 
Joslin, Laboratory of University of Cincinnati. Village Committees of Cape 
Anne and Salem, by Herbert B. Adams, Ph. D., pp. 81. Young Scientist, Vol. 
VI, No. 10, edited by John Phinand F. T. Hodgson, New York, monthly, $1.00. 
Report from Consuls of the United States on Commerce, Manufactures, etc., of 
their Consular districts. No. 32, August, 1883, pp. 414. Scientific and Literary 
Gossip, Vol. I, No. 12, October 15, 1883, S. E. Cassino & Co., Boston, 50c per 
annum. Journal of Progress, Vol, I, No. i, October, 1883, edited by J. H. 
Bently, Philadelphia, Pa., 60c per annum. V. P. Journal, Vol. I, No. i, edited 
and published by James EUiott, Cobourg, Ont., $i.co per annum. The Bio' 
