62 8 Notes and Nezvs The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady is writing a life of Benedict Arnold and his second wife, Margaret Shippen. He would be pleased to hear of unpublished material, especially such as relates to Arnold's life in England. Mr. Brady's address is 6347 Woodbine Avenue, Philadelphia. Professor Max Farrand of Wesleyan University has undertaken the preparation of a work certain to be highly useful to all students of our constitutional history — a critical edition of all the acts of the Philadel- phia Convention of 1787, embracing both the official journal and all the unofficial notes of debates, so arranged as to permit ready reference at once to all the records of any given day, and properly supplied with scholarly annotations. The Records of the Catholic American Historical Society for Decem- ber prints the diary of Archbishop Marechal, 1818 to 1825, and also a list of Spanish-American bishops from 1594 to 1600, taken from the Acta of the Consistorial Congregation. Le Commnnisme an Noiiveati Monde, by Francois Sagot (Paris, La- rose, pp. 235), is reported as a careful study of our various communistic experiments. Mr. D. McKay (Philadelphia) has brought out a new edition of Los- sing's Pictorial History of the Civil War. Mr. C. D. Rhodes has written a History of the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac : including that of the Army of Virginia (Hudson-Kim- berly Publishing Co. ) . The work also deals with the operations of the Federal cavalry in West Virginia. Mr. Daniel Fish has brought out (Minneapolis Public Library), under the title, Lincoln Literature, a bibliographical account of books and pamphlets relating to Abraham Lincoln. The Autobiography of a Journalist, by William J. Stillman (Hough- ton, Mifflin and Co.) will be of interest not alone because of the varied life of its subject, but also because of the number of distinguished men whose friendship Mr. Stillman possessed. Among these were Bryant, Lowell, Emerson and Agassiz, Ruskin and the Rossettis. The Thirteenth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Commissioner of (local) Public Records conlwci.?, a review of the colonial and state legisla- tion concerning the public records, and an account of the state's stand- ard ink, with formula, and standard record paper. The January number of the Aivials of the American Acadejny of Po- litical and Social Science is accompanied by a monograph of 157 pages on Massachusetts Labor Legislation, by Miss Sarah Scovill Whittelsey, Ph.D., which begins with a sketch of the history of the labor laws of that state. Mr. S. T. Pickard has edited the letters of Whittier to Professor Elizur Wright (Boston, C. E. Goodspeed), and published them in a vol- ume called Whittier as a Politician.
