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The Valley of Democracy. By Meredith Nicholson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1918. Pp. 284. Plates. To be interested in the impressions received by visitors in their country or locality. is an American characteristic and the inhabitants of the Mississippi Valley are typical Americans in this respect, at least. Consequently, this collection of articles on the Valley of Democracy will be read with interest in this section and possibly in other parts of the United States as well.

The title of the volume, derived from John H. Finley's The French in the Heart of America, suggests the point of view of the author as well as the main theme of the book. The six papers or chapters which make up the volume are presented under the following heads: The Folks and Their Folksiness; Types and Diversions; The Farmer of the Middle West; Chicago; The Middle West in Politics; and The Spirit of the West. Iowa readers will be particularly interested in the description of the life of the farmer, the part of the West in social legislation, and in the tribute paid to the "gallant company of scholars who have established Middle Western history upon so firm a foundation"- the various State historical societies of this section.

While this is in no sense a history, the descriptions of types and modes of life, and the analysis of the political activities of the West make these papers valuable and interesting to the student as well as to the general reader.

The first volume of The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, collected and edited by J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, forms the ninth volume in the series of Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission.

A monograph on Northern Opinion of Approaching Secession, by Lawrence Tyndale Lowrey, constitutes the July number of the

Smith College Studies in History. The October number is taken up with a discussion of The Problem of Administrative Areas, by Harold J. Laski.

The Illinois Centennial, by Andrew Stuart Cuthbertson; Gen. Arthur St. Clair - First Governor of the Northwest Territory, by John N. Boucher; Americans as Conquistadores and Annexationists, by Charles W. Super; and a continuation of the Chapters in the History of Halifax, Nova Scotia, by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, are some of the contributions which appear in the October number of Americana.

The Bulletin of the Virginia State Library for January to April contains A Contribution to the Bibliography of Agriculture in Virginia, edited by Earl G. Swem, from the manuscript of N. F. Cabell.

The autumn number of The American Indian Magazine contains a report of the seventh annual conference of the Society of American Indians held at Pierre, South Dakota, in September, 1918. A resolution asking for citizenship for the Indians and the abolition of the Indian Bureau is included.

Principles of Esthetic Form in the Art of the North Pacific Coast, by Herman K. Haeberlin; A Point of Grammar and a Study in Method, by A. M. Hocart; Form and Content in Totemism, by A. A. Goldenweiser; A Porto Rican Burial Cave, by Robert T. Aitken; and Frederico Gonzalez Suarez, by Marshall H. Saville, are articles in the July-September number of the American Anthropologist. The proceedings of the American Ethnological Society and those of the Anthropological Society of Washington are also included.

The October number of The South Atlantic Quarterly contains the following articles of general interest: Returning the Soldier to Civilian Life, by Chase Going Woodhouse; The Albanian Question and Epirus, by N. J. Cassavety; Celtic Books and Their Future, by Sidney Gunn; Puritanism and Conformism, by H. M. Ellis; and The History Teacher as an Image Breaker, by Earle D. Ross.

Present-Day Superstitions at La Harpe, Ill., Survivals in a Community of English Origin, by Ethel Todd Norlin, is one of the arti

cles in the April-June number of The Journal of American FolkLore. The locality from which these surviving superstitions were collected is some twenty miles southeast of Burlington, Iowa. The following number is entirely devoted to a monograph on PortoRican Folk-Lore, by J. Adden Mason, edited by Aurilio M. Espinosa.

The Department of the Interior has begun the publication of an Americanization Bulletin in the interest of the education and assimilation of the foreigners in the United States. Secretary Lane and Mr. P. P. Claxton, the Commissioner of Education, are the editors.

A monograph by John R. Swanton entitled An Early Account of the Choctaw Indians makes up the April-June number of the Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association. The JulySeptember issue consists of Notes on Some Bushman Implements, by Bene van Rippen.

Volume fifty-one of the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society contains the report of the annual meeting of the society; tributes to Henry Adams by James Ford Rhodes and Henry Cabot Lodge; and a large number of papers, among which is a discussion of Lord Charnwood's Life of Abraham Lincoln, by John T. Morse, Jr.

French Protestantism, 1559–1562, is the title of a monograph by Caleb Guyer Kelly, which constitutes a recent number of the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.

The Wheat and Flour Trade Under Food Administration Control: 1917-18, by Wilfred Eddred; The Price-Fixing of Copper, by Lewis Kennedy Morse; An Estimate of the Standard of Living in China, by C. G. Dittmer; and Railway Service and Regulation, by C. O. Ruggles, are the articles which make up the November number of The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

The Limitations of the Ricardian Theory of Rent, by William R. Camp; Canada's National Grain Route, by Edward Porritt; The British War Cabinet, by Robert Livingston Schuyler; and Collective Bargaining Before the Supreme Court, by Thomas Reed

Powell, are the papers which appear in the September number of the Political Science Quarterly. A Record of Political Events from August 1, 1917, to July 31, 1918, compiled by Horace M. Kallen and Edward M. Sait, appears as a supplement.

Volume seven of the Manuscripts from the Burton Historical Collection, published by C. M. Burton and edited by M. Agnes Burton, is devoted to papers and letters concerning the Moravian Indians of Ohio and the massacre at Gnadenhuetten, Ohio, in 1782. There are also documents relating to the early history of Indiana which are continued in volume eight. This final number contains, in addition, some letters of Thomas Williams which furnish much information as to the fur trade in early Ohio. There is also an index for the series.

America's Coal Miners on Duty, by William Green; Labor's Day, by Frank P. Walsh; The Rochdale Cooperative Movement of Illinois, by John Walker; Our Nation at War, by Franklin K. Lane; and The Children's Bureau and Child Labor, by Julia C. Lathrop, are among the papers in the October issue of the American Federationist. The November number contains an article on Mexico The Day After the War, by John Murray, and an address by Josephus Daniels on The Golden Age of the Republic. In December there is an account of the reception tendered to the members of the labor missions to Europe.

Volume fifty-seven, number five, of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society contains, among others, three articles on food problems: Physiological Effects of a Prolonged Reduction in Diet on Twenty-five Men, by Francis G. Benedict; Food Conservation from the Standpoint of the Chemistry of Nutrition, by H. C. Sherman; and Some Economic Aspects of the American Food Supply, by J. Russell Smith. Number six of the same volume has an article on Soldiers' and Sailors' Insurance, by Samuel McCune Lindsay.

The American Political Science Review for November contains an article by Benoy Kumar Sarkar on Democratic Ideals and Republican Institutions in India, and C. Lysle Smith writes on The Com

mittee System in State Legislatures. There is a continuation of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on Constitutional Questions, 1914-1917, by Thomas Reed Powell, and a discussion of Judicial Decisions on Public Law, by Robert E. Cushman. Charles Kettleborough is the compiler of the Legislative Notes and Reviews; Frederic A. Ogg of the News and Notes; and Charles G. Fenwick of the Notes on International Affairs.

The November issue of the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology contains the proceedings of the tenth annual meeting of the organization. An article by Thomas H. Kilbride on Labor Conscription in the Prisons of Illinois; and a paper by John H. Whitman on the Proposed State of Illinois Cooperative Plan for Prison Management, are among the contributions included in this number.

Ships for the Seven Seas, by Ralph A. Graves; The American People Must Become Ship-minded, by Edward N. Hurley; and Our Industrial Victory, by Charles M. Schwab, are three articles of timely interest which appear in the September number of The National Geographic Magazine. In the October issue there are the following papers: Russia's Orphan Races, by Maynard Owen Williams; What the War Has Done for Britain, by Judson C. Welliver; How Canada Went to the Front, by T. B. Macaulay; a series of pictures portraying the work of the Red Cross under the title The Healer of Humanity's Wounds; and an article on Palestine by Charles W. Whitehair, entitled An Old Jewel in the Proper Setting.

The Bolshevik Session of the National Municipal League Annual Conference, by Charles A. Beard, is the opening article in the National Municipal Review for September. Among the other papers in this number are New Relations of City and State Governments, by Lawson Purdy; and The Civic Work of State Councils of Defense, by Claude H. Anderson. The November issue contains, among others, the following articles: Municipal Preparedness in Peace and War, by Clinton Rogers Woodruff; The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, by Augustus R. Hatton; Methods of