412 Notes and Nezvs report on the economic condition of Wisconsin in 1831, etc. A strong effort is being made to increase the appropriation for the purchase of books. The Jul)' number of the Annals of Iowa contains an interesting body of Recollections of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, by the late Dr. William A. Hammond. The series of articles on the old forts is continued by a short article on Fort Atkinson. The October number deals with Fort Dodge, and has a long article upon Stephen Whicher, a lawyer and early set- tler in Iowa, by Professor George M. AVhicher of Adelphi College. We note, without being able to resolve the seeming inconsistencies of the title, that there has been published in Zurich a volume of 318 pages entitled Calif ornicn untnittetbar vor und nach der Entdeckung des Goldes : Bilder atis dem Leben des Hcinrich Lienhard von Bilten, Kt. Glarus, in Nauvoo, Nord-Ai/ierika. Messrs. Constable announce The Fight with France for North America, by A. G. Bradley. Beginning with the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and the conditions and characteristics of the British American colonies and Canada in 1750, Mr. Bradley proceeds to a description of the struggle for expansion in North America. The book has excellent maps. The Burrows Brothers Company announce a new and complete edi- tion of Charlevoix's The History and General Description of New France, translated and edited by the late Dr. John Gilmary Shea, with a new memoir and bibliography of the translator by Noah Farnham Morrison, numerous steel portraits and facsimiles of ancient maps. The edition will be in six volumes and is limited to 750 copies. Mr. Henry Harrisse has in press the Decouverte et Evolution Carto- graphigue de Terre-Neuve et de la Region Adfacente. This work will be similar in form to his Discovery of North America, and will be issued in a limited edition, by Stevens in London and by Welter in Paris. In the series of studies published by the University of Toronto, the next historical monograph to appear is one on the Early Trading Com- panies of New France, by Mr. H. P. Biggar. Noteworthy articles in periodicals : W. Wilson, Colonies and Nation, I. (Harper's Magazine, January) ; A. D. Morse, The Significance of the Democratic Party (International Monthly, October). G. S. Boutwell, The Last of the Ocean Slave- Traders (New England Magazine, No- vember) ; J. Goode, Recollections of the Confederate Congress (Conserva- tive Review, September).
