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 2 lo Notes and Nezos States is announced for fall publication (Appleton). It will continue the narrative to 1842. Volume XIII. of the History of North America, edited by Francis N. Thorpe (Philadelphia, Barrie), has appeared: The Gro-aih of the Na- tion, 1837-1860, by E. W. Sikes and W. M. Keener. Recollections of Thirteen Presidents, by John S. Wise ( Doubleday, Page, and Company), is interesting autobiographically, as well as for the rather intimate views presented of some of the characters dealt with. The list of presidents begins with Tyler and includes Jefferson Davis, the chapter on whom, written from a sympathetic point of view, is probably the best in the book. A revised and supplemented edition of G. T. Ritchie's List of Lin- colniana in the Library of Congress has been issued by the Library of Congress. A bibliography of Lincolniana including about 1,200 titles, together with the auction price of each one, is to be published by William H. Smith, Jr., of New York. Field-marshal Viscount Wolseley's tribute to General Robert E. Lee, which appeared in MacmiUan's Magazine for March, 1887, has been pub- lished by G. P. Humphrey of Rochester, in a pocket edition of 300 copies. Under the title Morgan's Cavalry has been republished (Neale) Basil N. Duke's History of Morgan's Cavalry, which appeared in 1867. The Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 186^, by Samuel L. French (Publishing Society of New York), purports to set forth " an absolutely unbiassed and correct judgment concerning the various commanders ". The volume consists largely of extracts from documentary material, which the author uses in such a way as effectually to thwart the purpose stated above. From Bull Run to Chanccllorsville, by General N. M. Curtis (Put- nams), is mainly a sketch of the part taken by the Sixteenth New York Infantry during the period indicated. The fifth volume of Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts (Houghton, Mifflin, and Company) bears the subtitle: Petersburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Of especial interest is the series of papers on the events between Grant's repulse at Cold Harbor and the failure to take Petersburg. One of the best of recent regimental histories is George A. Bruce's The Tiventieth Regiment of Massachusetts VoUmteer Infantry, 1861- 1865 (Houghton, Mifflin, and Company). This organization, sometimes known as the " Harvard Regiment ", was a part of the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Among the engagements to which par- ticular attention is devoted are Ball's Bluff, Fair Oaks, the Seven Days' battles, Antietam. Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Spott- sylvania. The narrative is full of valuable sidelights.