ALABAMA. Alabama Historical Society, Tuskaloosa. Address before THE SOCIETY, July 13, 1858. By TRANSACTIONS AT ITS FIRST ANNUAL MEETING, TRANSACTIONS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, July 9th and 10th, 1855. Tuscaloosa pr. by J. F. Warren, Observer office, 1855. 65 pp. 8vo. Contents.-Abstract of the minutes of the meeting; the claims and characteristics of Alabama history. Address, by A. B. Meek. TUSKALOOSA. THE ORIGIN OF ITS NAME, ITS HISTORY, ETC. Paper read before the society, by Thomas Maxwell, July 1, 1876. Tuskaloosa, 1876. 86 pp. map, 8vo. ARIZONA. Arizona Historical Society. CHARTER, CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. cott, 1864. 16 pp. 12mo. Incorporated and organized, November, 1864. Pres ARKANSAS. Historical Society of the State of Arkansas, Little Rock. PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, and the Eclectic Society of Little Rock, Ark., fixing the pronunciation of the name Arkansas. Little Rock, Arkansas, 1881. 8vo. CALIFORNIA. California Historical Society, San Francisco, California. NOTICIAS DE LA NUEVA CALIFORNIA, escritas por el Rev. Padre Fr. Francisco Paloú. [177683] California Historical Society's publication. San Francisco, Imprenta de Edouardo Bosqui y cia., 1874. 4v. Photographs, 8vo. One hundred copies printed. Edited, with an Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Society of California THE ANNALS OF SAN FRANCISCO; containing a summary of the history of the first discovery, settlement, progress, and present condition of California. By Frank Soulé, J. H. Gihon, and J. Nisbet. N. Y., 1855, 824 pp. Folded map, 8vo. Dedicated to the society. CELEBRATION AT LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE OF THE NEW PIONEER HALL, July 7, THE WARM AND THE COLD AGES OF THE EARTH IN THE NORTHERN LATITUDES, by J. J. Warner. Read before the society, May, 1884. Hartford, Connecticut, 1884. 16 pp. 8vo. Pioneers, San Francisco. 1862. Oration by W. B. Farwell; poem by Miss E. A. Pittsinger. San Francisco. 1862. Svo. CELEBRATION OF THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNION, Sept. 9, 1853. Oration by W. Van Vorhies. San Francisco, 1853. SAME, 1854. Oration by E. J. C. Kewen; poem by F. Soulé. San Francisco, 1854. 24 pp. 8vo. 108 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED STATES CELEBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNION. Oration by T. W. Freelon; ode by E. Pollock. San Francisco, 1857. 8vo. ORATION BEFORE THE SOCIETY, ON THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA. by W. B. Farwell. San Francisco, 1859. 8vo. CELEBRATION OF THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNION. Oration by E. Randolph. San Francisco, 1860. 8vo. CELEBRATION of the Twelfth AnniveRSARY, [ETC). Address by E, H. Washburn. San Francisco, 1862. 8vo. CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOCIETY. Oration by H. W. Bellows; poem by F. B. Harte. San Francisco, 1864. 8vo. CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVER SARY OF THE SOCIETY. Oration by H. CELEBRATION OF THE SIXTEENTH ANNIVER- SARY. Oration by W. H. Clark; poem by C. W. Stoddard. San Francisco, 1867, 8vo. CELEBRATION OF THE EIGHTEENTH ANNIVER SARY. Oration by E. D. Wheeler; poem by Ira D. Colbrith. San Francisco, 1868. 8vo. CELEBRATION OF THE NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY. Oration by J. S. Hittell. San Francisco, 1869. 8vo. CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS, AS REVISED AND ADOPTED October, 1866. San Francisco, 1866. 12mo. CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS, AS REVISED AND ADOPTED April, 1869. San Francisco, 1869. 12mo. CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS AND LIST OF MEMBERS, since its organization, as revised Aug. 1874. San Francisco, 1874, 12mo. CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS AND LIST OF MEMBERS, since its organization, as revised May, 1881. Organized August, 1850. San Francisco, 1881. 91 pp. 12mo. INAUGURAL CEREMONIES AT THE OPENING CF POEM by Washington Ayer, M. D., delivered at the 33d anniversary of the Society, celebrated at Monterey, Sept. 10, 1883. San Francisco, 1883. 19 pp. Illus. 8vo. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON THE STATE OF THE SOCIETY, Jan. 1, 1869. San Francisco, 1869. 8vo. TRANSACTIONS, Jan. 1 to May 7, 1863. San Francisco, 1863. 8vo. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOCIETY. Oration before the Society by L. B. Mizner; poem by T. G. Speer. San Francisco. 1870. 25 PP. 8vo. TWENTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOCIETY. Oration by J. W. Winans; poem by J. G. Severance. San Francisco, 1873, 8vo. COLLECTIONS. Vols. 1, 2. Hartford, 1860, 70. Fairfield County Historical Society, Bridgeport, Connecticut. ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION, BY-LAWS, LIST of Litchfield County Historical INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS, April 9, 1856, before the society, on the occasion of completing BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. BEE, soldier and preacher, who, from May 8, 1747, to September 8, 1785, was pastor of the church of Christ at North Stratford, (now Trumbull, Connecticut), written by R. C. Ambler. Added Mr. Beebee's address to the people in 1758, when they departed with him to Fort George to fight the Indians and the French. Read before the Society, September 8, 1882. Boston, 1884. 32 pp 8vo. Apkleton P.B. Griffin (To be continued.) BOOK NOTICES THE CENTENARY OF CATHOLICITY IN KENTUCKY. By Hon. BEN J. WEBB. 8vo, pp. 580. 1884. Louisville, Kentucky: Charles A. Rogers. In addition to the history of the Church in Kentucky for the century of its existence just closing, the volume contains the details of Catholic emigration to the State from 1785 to 1814, with life sketches of the more prominent among the colonists as well as of the early missionary priests of the State and very many of their successors. This large mass of more or less skillfully arranged records will be of great service to future historians of the Roman Catholic Church. The compilation has evidently been a labor of love, and has received the willing assistance of many clerical gentlemen who induced the author to enter upon it. So very much alike are the artificial divisions of humanity, and so close are their essential resemblances, that it would be an easy task to strip the denominational garb from one author, and by simply putting on other ecclesiastical vestments completely transform him. Mr. Webb is an illustration of the fact. He conscientiously believes that his is the true Church of Christ: so does the Campbellite or Disciple of Christ of his church. He holds that the past era of his body in Kentucky is one of grand Christian heroism: so does the Methodist of his body. He recounts the deeds and sufferings of the past to increase the zeal of his co-religionists in the service of God: so does the Presbyterian. He delights to relate the details of theological encounters between Roman Catholic priests and preachers of other sects, in which the former are always victorious: the Baptists have a peculiar knack of triumphing in the same way. He recounts the particulars connected with the organization of his church-its seminaries, colleges, charitable institutions, convents, etc. the Protestant Episcopalian fully equals him in love of organization and faith in machinery. There is oneness in human nature after all; a oneness that points to a possible unity in Christ. The points of agreement in the different members of the body are more than the points of disagreement. Whatever the ecclesiastical or theological prepossessions of the readers of this book may be that is to say, if they do read itthey cannot fail to recognize in the patient zeal, loving toil, and confident hopefulness of the characters recorded, the elements of genuine discipleship to the Lord and Master of us all. The book itself, in respect of materials, literary style, and arrangement, is in thorough harmony with the persons and period of which it treats. HISTORY OF THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON IN ALL AGES, and particularly in the United States for three hundred years, from 1585 to 1885. By JAMES M. Swank. 8vo, pp. 428. Published for the Author. Philadelphia. This work embodies the results of an intelligent and leisurely study of a most interesting and important subject. The author traces the use of iron to the earliest ages of antiquity. The seventh great-grandson of Adam was "an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron," as described in the fourth chapter of Genesis. The early Egyptians were familiar with its manufacure, as were the Arabians, the Chaldeans, and the Babylonians. At Babylon iron was used in the fortifications of the city prior to its capture by Cyrus in the sixth century before Christ. In a celebrated inscription Nebuchadnezzar declares, "With pillars and beams plated with copper and strengthened with iron I built up its gates.' His daughter, Nitocris, built a bridge, the huge stones of which were held together by bands of iron fixed in place by molten lead. The Phoenician mer chants obtained iron from such distant countries as Morocco and Spain. The iron ores of Elba were worked by the Greeks as early as 700 B.C. Some of the swords and javelins of the Romans were made of iron and steel in the fourth century before the Christian era. The iron industry in Spain was the first in the world for many hundred years after the Romans obtained a foothold in the country. For a hundred years after Cæsar's time only faint glimpses are furnished of an iron industry in France: that of Sweden had an existence as early as the thirteenth century. Mr. Swank then proceeds to give the characteristics of early iron manufacture, particularly in America and the progress of the industry is treated with a skilled hand. We learn also of the impediments to the cheap production of iron and steel in this country, through high wages and the high cost of transportation. We are today." writes the author, "the second ironmaking and steel making country in the world." A more useful or interesting book could hardly be conceived or produced. LETTERS FROM HELL: Given in English by L. W. J. S.; with a preface by GEORGE MACDONALD, LL.D. 12mo, pp. 300. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Very singular productions these are. Imagination has been subjected to high pressure in order to produce them. Yet the author has not lost sight of the spirit and letter of the Holy Scriptures in composition. They have the color of probability. This is all that could be expected in view of our exceedingly limited knowledge of the condition of the lost. Weird, somber, and terrible, it is well-nigh impossible to read them without sensations of shuddering horror. such be the feeling in dim prospect, what must experience of reality be? No harm can come from reading this book. On many temperaments its influence will be wholesome, and stimulative to diligence in making one's calling and election sure. If George Macdonald's preface is worthy of his reputation. The book itself, originally written in Danish, then translated into German, and from the German into English, possesses many affinities with his peculiar characteristics. That, in the order of Providential arrangement, man makes his own future, is very clear to him; nor does he deny that persistence of moral character necessarily implies persistence of sequence. Where the element of hope enters into the eschatology of the lost he fails to point out. Inscrutable mystery, freezing dread appertain to the whole subject. The Judge of all the earth will do right. LOUIS PASTEUR. His Life and Labors. By his son-in-law. Translated from the French by LADY CLAUD HAMILTON. 16mo. pp. 300. 1885. D. Appleton & Co., New York. The fashion of writing ante-mortem biographies has been condemned in many quarters, but whatever may be alleged of it as an offense against what we call good taste, it has at least this recommendation--the subject of the memoir can revise the proof sheets, and if he chance to be blessed with common sense, can revise them to good advantage. M. Pasteur's remarkable investigations and discoveries have occupied so large a place in the scientific world of late that an authentic account of their inception and development must be acceptable to a large number of readers. "You should postpone that until I am no longer here," said Mr. Pasteur when the author first proposed his plan. "Why so?" was the reply. "No; it's you living that I wish to paint-you in full work, in the midst of your laboratory. An introduction by Tyndall greatly adds to the value of the work, and shows the estimate formed of the Frenchman's discoveries by his great Eng. fish contemporary. In the text of the book itself, all the processes of thought and experimental work are set forth in a style which is free from pedantry, and which nevertheless will command respectful attention from the hypercritical professional world in which M. Pasteur has met so much criticism, as well as so much appreciative consideration. His remarkable conclusions re garding the germ theories of disease are daily gaining strength, and whatever may be the final verdict concerning them, they mark an epoch in the progress of exhaustive scientific research. THE RUSSIAN REVOLT. Its Causes, Condition, and Prospects. By EDMUND Noble. 16m0, pp. 269. Boston, 1885: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. By "the Russian Revolt," Mr. Noble means the spirit of reform which had its birth under the iron rule of Peter the Great, and has continued with various interruptions and side issues to the present day. The analysis of Russian characters and customs is very searching and peculiarly timely at this period of diplomatic history. The curious survival of Nomadic instincts, the influences of climate, association with Byzantine traditions, the gradual influx of western civilization, mysticism, religion, and the modern outcome of all these in the present condition of Russia and her dependencies, are discussed in most entertaining and instructive style. The last chapters are devoted to the general relations of Europe to the future of the vast Empire, and while the author is manifestly disposed to look favorably upon what he finds to admire in the Russian, he is still severe enough when he touches upon the Siberian question and upon the maladministration of justice, and upon the underlying principles of absolutism which form the foundation of imperial rule. The revolt, he against a principle and method of government says, is the protest of eighty millions of people hostile to the coinmon weal. That Russia has a great destiny and is steadily developing a capacity to be worthy of it, he firmly believes. PARADISE FOUND. The Cradle of the human race at the North Pole. A study of the prehistoric world. By WILLIAM F. WARREN, S.T.D., LL.D., (with original illustrations). Second edition. 12mo, pp. 505. 1885, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. If the Garden of Eden was really located at the North Pole, the students of history, literature, and religion have the study of some very curious problems in prospect. This work is, to all appearances, a thoroughly serious and sincere attempt to present what is, to the author's mind, "the true and final solution of one of the greatest and most fascinating of all problems connected with the history of mankind." Dr. Warren claims that until the location of the starting point of the human race is settled, the historian, the archeologist and the paleontological anthropologist are all working in the dark, and none of those interested in ethnology, philology, theology or sociology, can construct a theory not liable to overthrow or serious modification when any new light shall be thrown on |