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 Minor Notices i 79 follows Bryce and Woodrow Wilson. The following errors are noted : on page 37, the statement that the Chief Justice presides over the Senate in all cases of impeachment; on page 66, stradding for straddling; on page yj, George Adams for John Adams ; on page 79, the statement that the United States was not represented at the Conference of Amer- ican States at Mexico in 1901 ; on page 254, 1846 for 1864. John Holladay Latane. The Mississippi Territorial Archives, Vol. I., 1798-1803. Edited by Dunbar Rowland, Director, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. (Nashville, Brandon Printing Company, 1905 [1906], pp. viii, 615.) Beside his annual reports and statistical year-books Mr. Rowland proposes to print three series of documentary volumes, — Mississippi Pro- vincial Archives, 1540-1798; Mississippi Territorial Archives, 1798- 1817; and Mississippi State Archives, extending from 1817 to the present time. The preparation of the first will require long researches, which it is understood that he has already set on foot, in the archives of Spain, France, and England. The second series is the nearest to being ready, and a beginning of its publication is now made by the issue of this sub- stantial volume, which embraces the executive journal of the first terri- torial governor, Winthrop Sargent, and that of the first two years of his successor, W. C. C. Claiborne. They consist, in part, of copies of proclamations, orders and appointments made by the two governors, but mostly of copies of their official letters. Sargent's journal (pp. 14-334) begins May 21, 1798, at Cincinnati, where he received from Pickering the news of his appointment, and extends to April 3, 1801. Claiborne's (pp« 342-603) begins July 10, 1801, and the portion here printed ends March 27, 1803. Portraits of both governors are inserted, and a fac- simile of the first page of Sargent's journal. His portrait and his letters make it easy to see why Jefferson should finally have written him that his administration " had not been so fortunate as to secure the general harmony, and the mutual attachment, between the people and the public functionaries, so peculiarly necessary for the prosperity and happiness of an infant establishment." Mr. Rowland has given us a volume of great importance and value for Mississippi history. His editorial work seems to have been con- scientiously done throughout. A less sparing use of explanatory foot- notes would have been of advantage. It is a blemish that Governor Gayoso de Lemos, rightly entered under Gayoso in the index, should be entered under De Lemos in the table of contents. So also of Salcedo. A line from p. 367 has been lost, or rather has escaped to an odd place on p. 366. A'olumes XXH., XXHI., and XXIV. of the series of "Early Western Travels" (Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark Company) are given up to the Travels in the Interior of North America by Maximilian Prince of