4o8 Notes and News Most of them are hard to procure, and their collection, with excellent notes, is a most praiseworthy achievement. Macmillan and Co. have taken over from Harper and Brothers the publication of Dr. James Ford Rhodes's History of the United States from the Compromise 0/1850, of which a new edition will be published at once. The Bureau of Education has published a preliminary bibliography of Confederate Text-books, compiled by Dr. Stephen B. Weeks. Addi- tions to the list are solicited. Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons have published a new edition of Mc- CuUoch's Men and Measures of Half a Century, and have thus put be- fore the public a smaller, less expensive, and more satisfactory, because less unwieldy, volume than was the first edition of this well-known work. The President's Message transmitting the Treaty of Peace with Spain (Fifty-fifth Congress, third session, Senate Document No. 62, Part i). contains beside the treaty and the protocols of the negotiations much correspondence of the American consuls in the Philippines with Aguinaldo and others, as well as with the State Department. The Prince Society has in preparation a volume upon Samuel Maver- ick, including his Description of New England, letters and other papers, and a memoir by Mr. Frank W. Hackett. They also announce volumes upon Sir Humphrey Gilbert, with a memoir by Rev. Carlos Slafter, and the letters of Governor Hutchinson and Lieut. -Governor Oliver, 1768- 1769, edited by Mr. Thornton K. Lothrop. The Massachusetts Historical Society has lately acquired the mass of correspondence which was accumulated by the late W. W. Story, when preparing the Life arid Letters of Joseph Story. It includes many inter- esting letters of Marshall, Story, Webster and others. The Preston and Rounds Co. (Providence) will publish a Civil and Military List of Rhode Lsland, from 1647 to 1800, compiled from the records by Mr. Joseph J. Smith. The civil list will include sheriffs, jus- tices, colonial agents, clerks of courts, and many minor oflScials, down to ferrymen. The October Bulletin of the N'ew York Public Library contains some interesting letters of Lowell, 1843-1854. That of November contains an elaborate list of references to documents, etc. , relating to the bound- aries of the State of New York. The Calendar of the Emmet Collection has been drawn off from the pages of the Bulletin into a volume of which a few copies are for sale. The state of New York has issued a second edition of Neiv York in the Revolution as Colony and State (pp. 534) with the imprint 1898. Com- piled from records found, arranged and classified by Comptroller Roberts, the volume contains lists of names of members of military organizations, some fifty-two thousand in all, with an index filling half the pages.
