America 195 Carolina and the Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, by Professor K. P. Battle of the University of North Carolina. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, No. 3, (July), contains continuations of the papers of the first Council of Safety and of those relating to the mission of Col. John Laurens to Europe in 1 781 . It also prints two very interesting letters of Justice William Johnson of the Supreme Court of the United States, addressed to Jefferson in 1823. The Charleston Year Book for 1899 publishes as an appendix the Official Correspondence between Brigadier-General Thomas Sumter and Major-General Nathanael Greene, 17S0 to 1783, from original unpub- lished letters loaned by the Misses Brownfield and by General Edward McCrady. Judge Bethel Coopwood's dissertation on the route of Cabeza de Vaca is continued in the July number of the Quarterly of the Texas State His- torical Association, which also contains some characteristic reminiscences of Judge Edwin Waller of Austin. The papers of M. B. Lamar, first president of the republic of Texas, have lately been deposited with the State Librarian, and appear to be of great historical value. It is announced that Senator John H. Reagan of Texas, the only surviving member of the Confederate Cabinet, is writing his recollections of the Civil War. The present month will see the dedication at Madison of the magnifi- cent new building which will contain the library of the State Historical Society and that of the University of Wisconsin. The principal historical address will be delivered by Mr. Charles Francis Adams, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The July number of the Annals of Iowa, contains an article upon Lincoln at Council Bluffs, in 1859, and also one upon Gen. Nathaniel Lyon.
The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, No. 2 (June) contains a valuable article on Our Public Land System and its Relation to Education in the United States, by Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor, and a narrative of events in early Oregon ascribed to Dr. John McLoughlin and supposed to have been written by him for purposes of defence.
Professor Blake of the Territorial University, Tucson, Arizona, and geologist of the territory, is engaged upon a complete bibliography of the territory, with especial reference to the Indian tribes, cliff-dwellers, and Pueblos. In the July-October number of the Canadian Antiquarian and
