Reviews, Notes and Comments. 465
This quotation is a gem, and the reader
will thank the author
for including it.
A wrong impression is left on page 288,
by the statement
that the senate "finally voted
'yea' unanimously" on this bill.
Seven senators at one time voted against
it including Senator
Brown from Ohio who opposed it in a
speech.
While the author uses the correct
spelling of the name of
Lafayette she makes a mistake in the
spelling of another name
that occurs very frequently in the
volume. She writes the
name of Lafayette's private secretary
"Lavasseur." It should
be "Levasseur."
The book has no index. Why so reputable a publishing
house would issue such a work without an
index we do not
know.
In these times of "ready references," "prompt library
service" and "American
hurry," indexes are almost a necessity.
Perhaps the index is reserved for a
second edition.
This book is stimulating and
inspiring. It is timely and
covers in a single volume a field not
recently attempted by
other writers. It is an appropriate gift
to any young American.
PANISCIOWA- JEAN BAPTISTE DUCOIGNE.
Through an incidental suggestion of Mr.
W. D. Barge, of
1708 Prairie Ave., Chicago, Illinois, we
have been enabled to
establish the identity of Chief
Panisciowa and Jean Baptiste
Ducoigne. or, as the name is variously
spelled, Decoigne, Ducoin
and Du Quoin. There are still other
variations. The daughter
of this chief met Lafayette at Kaskaskia
and much space was
given to that meeting in the July
Quarterly. Levasseur speaks
of her as Mary and of her father as
Panisciowa. This was prob-
ably his Indian name. Lafayette's secretary devoted much at-
tention to what she said and doubtless
exercised care in recording
her name and that of her father as he
received them from her
lips.
In Bulletin No. 30. Part I,
"Handbook of American Indians,"
issued by the Bureau of American
Ethnology, page 405, we have
the following:
Vol. XXIX-30.