192 jYotcs and Sews Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons will publish at once A History of Po- litical Parties in the United States, by the Hon. James H. Hopkins, formerly a representative from Pennsylvania. Another History of Polit- 'cal Parties, by Professor Wilbur F. Gordy, will shortly be published by Messrs. Henry Holt and Co. The Macmillan Co. announce The Amer- ican Party System from 1846 to 1861, by Professor Jesse Macy of Iowa College. Messrs. McClure, Phillips and Co. have acquired publication rights of a remarkable book which claims Abraham Lincoln as its author. It is a small scrap-book, compiled by Lincoln for use in the political cam- paign of 1858, with explanatory notes and a long letter in Lincoln's handwriting. The book was given to one of I,incoln's supporters, and it is with his sons that the present facsimile publication has been arranged. Crane and Co. (Topeka) have in preparation the original letters and papers of John Brown and his family, and of the men who were with him in the Harper's Ferry raid, from material in the collection of the Kansas Historical Society. The book will be edited by Col. Richard J. Hinton, author oi John Brown and His Men, and Mr. William E. Con- nelley of Topeka. Dr. Thomas H. Featherstonhaugh, of Washington, D. C. , is preparing a book on John Brown's Harper's Ferry raid. He has already pub- lished two interesting pamphlets of bibliography. Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. announce Tiie Monitor and the Navy under Steam, by Mr. Frank M. Bennett. The author traces the development of the navy of the Ignited States from the battle of Hamp- ton Roads to that off Santiago. Recollections of a Lifetime, by Roeliff Brinkerhoff, (Cincinnati, Robert Clarke Co. ) covers the last half of the present century. The author served in the Quartermaster's department during the civil war, and has been prominent as lawyer, editor and philanthropist. Among his friends were Chase, Blaine and Garfield. An American Commoner : the Life and Times of Ricliard Parks Bland, by W. V. Byars (Columbia, Mo., E. W. Stephens), purports to be a study of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It is published with an introduction by William Jennings Bryan, and Mrs. Bland has con- tributed her personal reminiscences. Dr. C. L. Nichols has published a Bibliography of Worcester: List of Books, Pamphlets, Newspapers and Broadsides, printed in the Toicn of Worcester, Mass., from lyj^ to 1848, with Historical and Explanatory Notes (Worcester, Mass.), a bibliographical work prepared with unusual care. E. A. Hall and Co. (Greenfield, Mass. ) have published the History of the Toivn of Sunderland, Massachmctts, including the present towns
