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The Bloody Mohawk. By T. Wood Clarke. (New York, The

Macmillan Company, 1940. 372p. $3.50.)

The author begins his story at the beginning, so to speak,

when the Iroquois first settled in the Mohawk Valley. The story

ends with the war for American Independence inasmuch as the

last three chapters are composed of biographical sketches of the

little-known leaders of the patriots, the loyalists, and of the

Iroquois in that struggle.

We are told that this is "a frankly popular history" and that

"it is intended for all those readers to whom the struggles of our

country present an ever fascinating panorama." As a popular

history this book is very good, especially that part which deals

with the Revolution. To be sure, the great amount of hatred

generated by that conflict continues to live in the Mohawk Valley

but the author, a native of the valley, is unusually fair in his

treatment of that phase of our history. He freely admits that

the loyalists who remained in the valley were "ruthlessly hunted

out, arrested, and either shot as traitors or sent to the prisons of

Albany, Massachusetts, or Connecticut." The author also admits

that the "arrogance and over-confidence" of some of the army

officers and the "quibbling and procrastination" of the legislature

did much to prolong the struggle in the valley and thereby impose

additional hardships and dangers upon the inhabitants. This

official arrogance is especially noted in the "incapacity and coward-

ice of General Van Renselaer" in the battle near Fort Klock.

The chapters which treat of Burgoyne's failure at Saratoga

are likewise very good. Popular histories give too little mention

of the leadership of Benedict Arnold, who not only won the battle

of Saratoga but who succeeded by a ruse in forcing St. Leger to

retreat from his seige of Fort Stanwix. Nor do many popular

histories tell of the "fourth column," under McDonald, which,

marching from Nagara Falls by way of the Chemung, Susque-

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hanna, and Schoharie rivers, was to join the armies of Burgoyne,

Clinton, and St. Leger at Albany. But nothing is omitted in

this history.

On the other hand, there is much in the book which is not

good. For example, the author repeats ad nauseam that the

effect of Champlain's aid to the Algonquins in their battle with

the Iroquois was "nearly two centuries of bloody warfare and the

fate of the North American continent." The author also makes

frequent mention of "the solidity of the League of the Five Na-

tions" and he emphasizes the untruth that the Dutch of Fort

Orange supplied the Iroquois with guns.

Another statement is likewise open to criticism: "By the year

1700, the Iroquois were undisputed rulers from the Hudson to

the Mississippi, while the terror inspired by them cowed the New

England Indians and reached from Hudson Bay to the Carolinas."

Perhaps the author would not have fallen into these errors if he

had been able to consult the excellent study of Professor George

T. Hunt, The War of the Iroquois (Madison, 1940). At the

same time, perhaps the author might have avoided his errors if he

had consulted source material instead of secondary works.

But, on the whole, the author has given us a very readable

and worthwhile "popular history." It is replete with excellent

maps and photographs which add immeasurably to a better under-

standing of the text. The book contains also eight pages of

bibliography as well as a good index. And, furthermore, it is

well bound and the printing is good.

EUGENE 0. PORTER.

 

 

Hardly a Man Is Now Alive. The Autobiography of Dan Beard.

(New York, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1939.

562p. $3.00.)

This autobiography of Dan Beard, long the "Grand Old

Man of the Boy Scout Movement," offers to the reader a fasci-

nating story of a life covering ninety years of activity. In the

preface entitled, "The Beards Discover America," the author

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traces the history of his family in America from the time of the

landing of the first representative in 1637. The chapter offers

a fine illustration of the history of a typical American family.

The author himself was born in Ohio and the story of his early

life in the State is of distinct interest to any one concerned with

Ohio.

Always a lover of the "great out-doors," he traveled ex-

tensively all over the country, particularly in the Mid-west, New

York and New England. The story of his own life is told in four-

teen chapters, the last one devoted to scouting, in which he played

such a prominent part.

The book is well illustrated. There is no opportunity for

contradiction or criticism since it is a personal story which

cannot be questioned.

Mr. Beard has written a number of books and has shown

himself to be a talented writer.

H. L.

 

 

Tippecanoe; Being the Story of the Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!

Campaign of 1840. . . . By Thomas A. Knight. (Cleveland,

O., Tippecanoe Club, c1940, 138p., 35pl. and index. Cloth,

$2.15.)

The author, a former newspaper man active during the Presi-

dential campaigns of 1896, 1900, and 1904, was for years secre-

tary of the Early Settlers Associations of Cuyahoga County, con-

tributing to its Annals, and is the author of The Strange Disap-

pearance of William Morgan, now in its ninth reprinting.

The present work, besides being the "story of the Tippecanoe

and Tyler too! campaign," is more properly "a history of the

Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland, the oldest Whig-Republican club

in the United States." The Introduction by Dr. Nicholas Mur-

ray Butler, is a reprint of his speech delivered at the Tippecanoe

banquet, January 29, 1920. The book, not the best example of

the book manufacturer's art, is divided into three parts as fol-

lows: Tippecanoe; The Garfield and Arthur Campaign, and Mc-

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Kinley Campaigns, and contains special articles by Colonel Carmi

A. Thompson, and Judge James B. Ruhl, as well as a great many

excerpts from the speeches of famous Republicans, with biblio-

graphical information. Most of the 35 plates are portraits of Ohio

Republicans (particularly Clevelanders), making quite an exten-

sive gallery.

There is an index but no table of contents.

C. L. W.

 

 

The Loon Feather. By Iola Fuller. (New York, Harcourt, Brace

and Company, 1940. 419p. $2.50.)

This novel extends from the birth to engagement of the

daughter of Tecumseh, Oneta. Woven into the narrative are

evocations concerning the circumstances of her birth and fore-

shadowings of her married life. After Tecumseh's death, Oneta's

mother moves to Michilimackinac, where she marries a cultured,

fastidious Frenchman employed in the fur business of John Jacob

Astor. The story is essentially narrative, dealing with the doings

of Oneta, her step-father Pierre, his mother Mme. Debans, and

Pierre's son Paul, who was born to Oneta's mother. Oneta was

educated by the Ursulines in Quebec after having been twelve

years an "Indian." Iola Fuller has done more here, however,

than to narrate the lives of her characters. She has shown the

clash of two civilizations--French and American on one side and

Indian on the other. The desire of the American for land--

cleared land, which destroys the hunting ground of the Indians--

some of the problems of a half-breed girl living in a white civil-

ization, the inability of the white man to overcome the evils--

disease and drunkenness--which he has brought to the frontier,

all these aspects of frontier life are made evident. The problems

raised for Oneta by reason of her being a half-breed are solved

by her recognizing that she is a daughter of Indians, but also

by her influencing them to go west to join Black Hawk in his

war, instead of attacking Michilimackinac and probably killing her

own family. She remains, though, with those who have reared

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and educated her, and she marries a Bostonian. There are also

some excellent descriptions of the riotous life lived during the

summer by the voyageurs at Michilimackinac.

This is a good "first" novel. Good ability to draw character

is shown, also ability to describe manifestations of nature. There

is what one might term "delicacy," in the failure to develop the

kind of scene which might bring forth hearty laughter. The scene

in which Pierre, the cultured, sensitive, self-centered, and fasti-

dious Frenchman is proposing marriage to Oneta's mother (who

knows not a word of French) with Oneta as interpreter--that

scene is an instance in which Iola Fuller shows that she does not

care to write humorously of serious things. To the reviewer's

mind the scene could have been much more effectively and satisfy-

ingly done. Love scenes in the story are romantic and idealistic

and apparently the actors are divorced from desire to express

their love by physical manifestations. Consequently the love scene

between Oneta and Dr. Reynolds is done as that elusive person

we term a mid-Victorian would have it done.

JOHN H. McMINN.

 

 

These Names of Ours. By Augustus Wilfrid Dellquest. (New

York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1938. ²⁹⁶p. $2.50.)

The author of this book of surnames was associated with

his father in the old and rare book business and in this connection

acquired an interest in names and their origins. His experience

gained by wide travel and newspaper writing added further to his

interest in the subject, until eventually it became a hobby. The

author is now associate editor for Viking.

In a book of 296 pages there is given the origin of thousands

of American surnames arranged in alphabetical order. The preface

of twenty-one pages is very illuminating, showing how names

originated. Mr. Dellquest answers the questions "What's in a

name?" by a quotation, "There is something more in a name than

there is in many persons who possess it."

A list of name elements makes it possible to determine the

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significance of thousands of surnames not specifically mentioned

in the text of the book. These are listed under the heads of

English, Scandinavian, Welsh-Cornish, Gaelic, Norman-French,

German, Dutch and occupational. The book will be of value to

genealogists and all interested in the origin and significance of

family names.

H. L.

 

 

The Trees. By Conrad Richter. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf.

1940. 302p. $2.50.)

"They moved along in the bobbing, springy gait of a family

which followed the woods as some families follow the sea." With

this arresting sentence Conrad Richter begins what is one of the

most absorbing of recent historical novels, The Trees, story of the

Lucketts, a wild, woodsfaring family, pushing ever westward as

the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their

cherished isolation.

There were Worth Luckett, hunter, his wife Jary, and their

woods-wild children, Sayward, Genny, Wyitt, Achsa, and Sulie,

each strongly individualistic in character but bound together by the

ties of kinship and a common love of adventure and solitude.

From Pennsylvania they came, across the Ohio and into the

deep woods beyond. There Worth built a cabin and there they

lived precariously during the months which followed. And there

came, in time, the persons who were to disrupt their simple way

of life--farmers, traders, millers, the "White Indian" Louis Scur-

rah, the bound boy and others.

Joys and sorrows came to them and, inevitably, change, until

Sayward could muse on her altered existence: "First to go had

been Jary under the white oak, and then little Sulie never came

home with the cows. Worth had to track off to the French

Settlements. Wyitt took himself out to sleep in his half-faced

cabin. Achsa was up somewheres around the English Lakes.

And now Genny, who came home a while, was off again, working

by the year over at Covenhoven's." And she herself was to go.

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to turn her back on her life as a hunter's child, and to become

a tiller of the soil and the wife of a Bay State lawyer.

Beautifully written, the book is particularly noteworthy for

the manner in which it depicts the varying aspects and features of

nature and interprets their impress on the people whose lives

they so profoundly influence. A robust story of the American

wilderness, The Trees is a book which in startling episode, deft

characterization, and vivid background gives a portrait of frontier

life as it must have seemed to the pioneers themselves. That it

gives a trustworthy picture of the pioneer period in Ohio has

been attested by authorities in both the fields of history and natu-

ral history who read the work in manuscript form.

L. R. H.

 

 

The Good Old Days; a History of American Morals and Manners

as Seen through the Sears, Roebuck Catalogs, 1905 to the

Present. By David L. Cohn. With an Introduction by Sin-

clair Lewis. (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1940. xxxiv,

597P. Illus. $3.75.)

This well-printed, beautifully bound volume, weighing over

three pounds, is one of the most entertaining, and highly interest-

ing books produced during the past several years. The long title

very adequately states its subject matter but a review of the

chapter headings will further whet the reader's appetite: Profuse

Strains of Unpremeditated Art (musical instruments); What

Are the Wild Waves Saying? (radios); Fun and Laughter with

the Stereoscope; Reading Maketh a Full Man; The Horseless

Carriage; Time, You Old Gypsy Man (clocks); Watch Birds and

Hunting-case Stags; You Get It--We Cure It; Here Lies (tomb-

stones); Miss Jones Takes a Letter (typewriters); How Many

Poets Are Lost (contraceptives); Save the Surface and You Save

All (cosmetics); Fashion Parade; Woman's Crowning Glory--

and Man's (hair goods); The Bird on Nellie's Hat; Whenas in

Silk Stockings; That Which Her Slender Waist Confined; From

Cotton Drawers to Silk Panties; Hang Your Clothes on a Hickory

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Limb (bathing suits); Woman's Best Friend (housekeeping ap-

pliances); A Garden Is a Lovesome Thing, God Wot!; Every

Man His Own Policeman (guns); Sports; Clothes Make the

Man; Gent's Furnishings; The Man with the Woe (farm imple-

ments); Manners and Morals in Advertising; The Burnings of

the Books (resentment of local merchants to Sears competition);

Five Dollars Down and a Dollar a Month; "The Largest Store in

the World" (history of Sears and the mail-order business); "Dear

Sears, Roebuck" (letters from customers on a variety of sub-

jects); Index.

The last chapter contains some excellent examples of uncon-

scious humor and is good for many hearty laughs. The value of the

book, however, lies in the analysis of American life as indicated

by the items a nation has purchased, and the change in buying

habits as charted in the pages of a great source book.

The author, a graduate of Virginia and Yale, worked for

Sears from 1932-1934, and since 1935 has spent his time writing.

Besides contributing to Atlantic Monthly, he has written God

Shakes Creation and Picking America's Pockets.

C. L. W.

 

 

Kings Row. By Henry Bellamann. (New York, Simon and

Schuster, 1940. 674p. $2.75.)

The story of a town, like that of an individual, is more excit-

ing reading if it deals chiefly with the colorful idiosyncracies of its

life rather than the commonplace realities. Kings Row is un-

doubtedly a real town but Henry Bellamann, in Kings Row, tells

of its eccentricities. The reader gets the idea that the real parts

are there; perhaps he takes them for granted, but he doesn't read

about them. He is likely to remember only an assorted group of

insane people. Of course it is entirely possible that the town

which inspired the story (the reviewer understands it is a small

town in Missouri) is not a normal town.

But whether the town is normal or not is of no consequence--

it is interesting. It has an asylum at one end and a college at the

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other. The people that roam its streets are all "nuts" but fasci-

nating--excepting Randy. Randy is substantial and good--she's

the backbone of the town. The chief concern of the young is sex

and that of the old, insanity. In between they think of real estate,

medicine or music. The hero, Parris Mitchell, is insipid but fine.

The author is masterful with his characters and puts them

where he wants them with precision. They don't get out of place.

If young Parris is swimming naked with his first love or studying

psychoses in Vienna he seems to belong there. His transitions

from character to character and from subject to subject which

could so easily have been "jumpy" are smooth and easy. If you

read one page of Kings Row you'll read it all and meet some

people you didn't expect to see and probably didn't know before.

I think you'll like them.                       K. W. M.

 

 

Cincinnati; Story of the Queen City. By Clara Longworth

De Chambrun. (New York and London, Charles Scribner's

Sons, 1939. 342p. Illus.)

Cincinnati celebrated last year the one hundred and fiftieth

anniversary of its founding. To recall the glorious achievements

of the builders of the Queen City and thus to inspire American

readers with pride and humility, this book was written. Mrs.

De Chambrun sees two causes of Cincinnati's growth and pros-

perity, first, "the sane laws and doctrines of the Northwest Ter-

ritory," and second, "the spirit of her leading citizens." From

the Mound-builder to President Franklin D. Roosevelt she traces

the political, social, economic, and cultural development of this

colorful river city.

Her method is entertaining on the whole; the illustrations are

pleasing additions to the text. Particularly valuable are those

chapters for which she has new source material, as "Pioneer

Portraits," and those in which she herself participates as an

observer, such as "Society and Politics." One wishes that this

sixty-nine-year-old lady of the distinguished Longworth family

had written a separate book about her recollections of life in Cin-

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cinnati. One of her significant statements is of particular interest

to the historian of national politics. She states that the rift be-

tween Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft had its genesis

not in the latter's administration but "much sooner, even during

Roosevelt's own regime, at the precise moment when certain

advisers from Massachusetts were insistent upon clearing the ad-

ministration from the approbrium of having 'dabbled in Roman

Catholic affairs.' " The details of this controversy may be read

in the chapter "Society and Politics."

Believing as she does in the "great man theory" of history,

individuals stand out in this book more than events, the famous

more than the infamous, the prominent more than the average

citizen, and men more than women. Although the names of

women appear more frequently here than in the average history,

they are cited chiefly as artists, society leaders, and art patrons.

If anyone is particularly interested in who-married-whom among

the elite during the entire history of Cincinnati, he will find a

veritable social register in this book. If anyone wishes to know

what the common man and woman contributed to the development

of Cincinnati, he will have to turn elsewhere. If the reader is in

love with the Queen City, he will not mind the strong scent of

civic pride in this book; but if he is more objective in his feeling,

he will prefer a dash of critical realism. Mrs. De Chambrun has

certainly achieved her purpose in writing the story of a great city.

EUNICE SCHUSTER BALLIS.

 

 

Body, Boots & Britches. By Harold W. Thompson. (Phila-

delphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1940. 530P.)

Just plain people think more about fun than they do about

politics or preaching or work or even war. And since we plain

people are and always have been a majority it's strange the

historians haven't spent more time on us. But lately they've been

getting our fun, in the form of our folk-lore, into books. Our

New York State cousins have a fellow named Harold W. Thomp-

son, a professor at Cornell, recording their hilarity. He's made

a book called Body, Boots & Britches that's chuck full of frolic.

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There are songs and stories about pirates and robbers, witches

and liars, cheaters and fishers, soldiers and sailors, tree cutters

and injun-fighters, killers and lovers, stone giants and bed-bug

fighting in this hair-raising, side-splitting book. The whole thing

is written so that anyone can enjoy it. Historians will be pleased

to see that the author (although merely an English and music

teacher) tells where he got his material. Those who are fright-

ened by documentation will be reassured when they find that Mr.

Thompson calls his bibliography, "Who Told You?"

Students and correspondents and visitors and "old-timers"

from almost everywhere helped the author build a great mass of

material concerning folk-lore. "Suppose," said Mr. Thompson,

"that anyone wanted to know the history of New York outside

the big city--know it body, boots, and britches--what better could

he do than read this lore collected by a group of native Yorkers

of superior intelligence, . . ." and so this book, which you can

use if you're a historian and can enjoy if you're human.

K. W. M.

 

Wolves against the Moon. By Julia Cooley Altrocchi. (New

York, The Macmillan Company, 1940. 572p.)

The American frontier has vanished. The more it contrasts

with our present urban life, the more unfamiliar and remote it

grows, the more it inspires the historian and romantic novelist.

Every year brings a new crop of books about the frontier of

colonial times, the Old Northwest, the Southwest, or the Far

West. Mrs. Altrocchi has written a first novel about the frontier

of the Old Northwest from the point of view of the French

Canadian trader. Her earlier work, Snow Covered Wagons, was

a long narrative poem about the Donner party, pioneers of the

Far West. The present novel is the exciting, adventurous story

of the frontier of the trader, the farmer, and the man of business

in the Northwest Territory. The people who take part in the

struggle between the French, the Indians, the British, and the

Americans, are presented in great variety and detail.

The hero, Joseph Bailly, a French-Canadian of aristocratic

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descent, at home in a ballroom, trading post, or Indian tepee

makes the successful transition between the years 1797 and 1835

from fur trader, to homesteader, to capitalist. His activities and

those of his friends are the main theme. In counterpoint runs a

second theme--the life and death struggle of Joseph and his half

Indian-half French wife, Marie, with the "wolves." The fiercest

of these are Maurice Rastel, crafty, unscrupulous trader, Corinne,

tantalizing first love of Joseph and wife of Rastel, De la Vigne,

evil Ottawa medicine man, and Lucille, daughter of De la Vigne.

Fist fights, tense love scenes, duels, scalpings, poisonings, tortures,

massacres are all part of the battle in which our hero and heroine

emerge triumphant.

If at times the plot is confused, the characters unreal and

melodramatic, their conversations stilted, and their postures stereo-

typed, the main interest is sustained to the end. Whether this

book leaves the reader with nostalgia or with relief that the

frontier has vanished depends on the individual.

EUNICE SCHUSTER BALLIS.

 

 

This Land Is Ours. By Louis Zara. (Boston, Houghton Mifflin

Co., 1940. 779P. $2.75.)

This historical novel, in which appear many historic char-

acters, opens in 1755, with a description of Braddock's Defeat

when John and Abbie Benton are preparing to cross the Appa-

lachians from Lancaster, Pennsylvania; it ends in 1835 with their

son Andrew, now eighty-six, and his wife Hannah on another

of their treks westward--this time they are headed for west of

the Mississippi. The story as it unfolds is seen to be a consequence

of that land hunger that pushed the pioneers always West; after

settling, clearing, and planting for a term of years, the same rest-

lessness would come upon them, and they were not content until

on their way west to newer lands. Andrew Benton's way of

phrasing this restlessness was to say that he did not like "the

smell of his neighbors."

The story is woven principally about Andrew and Hannah

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and their descendants. Andrew and Hannah became acquainted

while their families were living near Pittsburgh. They were in

Detroit when Pontiac's Conspiracy broke out (it was Andrew who

learned from his Indian sweetheart of the impending attack on

the town); Andrew served as guide to George Rogers Clark on

his way to Kaskaskia and Vincennes (neither John nor Andrew

was with St. Clair at the time of his rout!); both served and

John was killed at Fallen Timbers; Andrew was at the battle of

Tippecanoe and at Fort Dearborn during the War of 1812 and

was ransomed by a French habitan for fifty dollars (the Indians

demanded one hundred, but the habitan explained that Benton

was old and only good to poke the fire; could the Indians have

known how vigorously Andrew had killed their own men when

they attacked the train withdrawing from the fort, they might

have thought differently); Andrew offered his services to go

against Black Hawk in 1832, and his and Hannah's feelings were

hurt when he was refused. "Maybe they all think redskin fightin'

is a coon-chase. Let 'em go! We'll see what they're made of!"

The design of having Andrew present at so many of the out-

standing military events of his period makes it necessary that

there be gaps between them. Sometimes these gaps are spanned

by narrating one event that happened in the meantime--for ex-

ample, St. Clair's Defeat; sometimes there is no attempt to account

for the passage of time in the lives of Andrew and Hannah.

There is sympathy and understanding of the Indian's plight.

Andrew did not believe that all Indians were "varmints"; he knew

that white men--traders and British commanders--helped to

make Indians bad, the former by selling "fire water," the latter

by instigating and implementing them against Americans. But

the words in the title are so often used by Indians and Americans

alike that the reader is likely to wonder whose land it is.

There is symbolism in the story: the Bentons crossed the

Alleghenies in the first Conestoga wagon to make the trip; that

wagon was made by John's father. In 1835 Andrew's grandson

somewhere west of the Mississippi, was going in it to take up

new lands. There is also the white buffalo bull which Andrew

thought he saw near Pittsburgh, and which throughout his life

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he always hoped to get one more shot at; but in 1835 Andrew

believed that the white buffalo bull too had gone into new lands

west of the Mississippi, possibly beyond reach of his rifle.

It will be obvious to anyone who reads it that much work

was done in gathering material for this novel. The treatment

of circumstances, facts of history, and traits of character show

industry and carefulness. There are a few minor slips, such as

when Mr. Zara says that from the husks of the corn the settlers

would make hominy (p. 114) and when he refers to an Indian

chief leading his flotilla of canoes from Lake Erie "down the

Maumee" (p. 267); placing Piqua, Ohio, on the Mad River is

another instance (p. 269). But the book is, despite minor mis-

statements of this nature, good entertainment. The author has

done here what many historians and most novelists would like to

be able to do--he has made the mere facts of history text-books

come alive and assume the nature of reality.

There are maps which facilitate understanding of the mili-

tary events and of the moves of the Bentons. There is also a

note on sources, in which the author quotes Froude's exhortation

to go to the original sources, "to the chronicles written by men

who lived at the time." Mr. Zara would seem to have followed

this exhortation.                      JOHN H. MCMINN.

 

 

Pope's Digest, 1815 (Vol. II). Ed. by Francis S. Philbrick.

Law Series, Vol. IV. Collections, Vol. XXX. (Springfield,

Ill., Illinois State Historical Library, c1940. 485p.)

The present volume completes the reprinting of Nathaniel

Pope's Laws of the Territory of Illinois which was originally

published in Kaskaskia in 1815. The same careful editing and

faithful reproduction of the original is in evidence here as it was

in Vol. I, reviewed in the OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND

HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, XLVIII, 274-6 (July, 1939).

The acts include those providing for the organization of

courts and the militia, the establishment of towns, the collection

of taxes, and the regulation of interest on money. A bibliography

and general index concludes the volume.         W. D. 0.

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