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 2o8 Notes and Nezvs The Bibliographical Society of America has in preparation a biblio- graphical list of incunabula in America that are contained in libraries and private collections. Houghton. Mifflin, and Company announce a standard library edition of Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, reprinted from the original plates in twelve volumes of convenient size, and sold only by subscription. Volume I. will appear in December. In The Consular Service of the United States (Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, no. i8), Chester L. Jones deals with his subject under the following heads : Legislative History, Organization, Rights and Duties of Consuls, Extra-territoriality, Consular Assistance to the Foreign Trade of the United States, European Consular Systems, and Suggestions for the Improvement of the Service. Les Messages Presidentiels en France et aux Etats-U nis is the sub- ject of a doctoral thesis by A. Marcaggi (Paris, Larose and Tenin, 1906, pp. xii, 185). The third volume of Mr. Charles Evans's American Bibliography was issued early in the summer. It contains titles 6624 to 9890, and covers the years 1751 to 1764. Mr. Charles T. Harbeck of New York will issue this fall a privately printed edition of 350 copies of a " Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy." In the preparation of the work he has been assisted by Miss Agnes C. Doyle of the Boston Public Library, and Mr. Axel Mothe of the New York Public Library. Mr. Harbeck's own collection forms the basis of the bibliography, which will contain about 3,000 titles. Of bibliographical interest is a reprint from the German-American Annals (volume IV., no. 5), just received: Deutsch-Amerikanisches in der New York Public Library, by Richard E. Helbig; being an account of the progress of that institution's German-American collection during 1904-1905. It is the aim of the library to collect everything that will serve as material for the study and history of the German element in the United States, including manuscripts, scrap-books, files of German- American newspapers and periodicals, portraits, photographs, and all kinds of illustrations. In his work on The French Blood in America (Revell, pp. 448) Mr. L. F. Fosdick traces the rise of religious reform in France, French colonization in North America and the influence of the inhabitants of French descent upon the historical development of the country. ITEMS CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED An illustrated holiday edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of Franklin's Autobiography is planned by Houghton, Mifllin, and Company. Franklin as a Man of Science and Inventor, by Edwin J. Houston, has been reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute for April-May (140 pp.).