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 2 1 4 Notes and Nezvs Dixie after the War, by Mrs. M. L. Avary (Doubleday, Page, and Company), is "an exposition of social conditions existing in the South during the twelve years succeeding the fall of Richmond ". In the July issue of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biog- raphy is commenced a most important documentary publication : " Jour- nals of the Council of Virginia in Executive Session, 1 737-1 763 ". The original journals in the Virginia State Library, from which this pub- lication is made, vary greatly in character, from rough minutes to full and fair records ; there are also many gaps. Among the " Virginia Legislative Papers ", in the same issue, are printed documents bearing on the treaty concluded between Virginia and the Indians at Fort Dun- more (Pittsburg), in June, 1775, together with the minutes of the treaty, beginning on June 19. The Appomattox Surrender House Association, of which Mrs. C. W. Dunlap of Washington is secretary, has been formed with a view to the permanent preservation of the McLean farmhouse, at Appomattox, Vir- ginia, in which the surrender of General Lee took place. Recollections of a Lifetime, by John Goode of Virginia (Neale) adds another to the list of recent autobiographical works by southerners. Mr. Goode was a member of the secession convention of Virginia, and of the Confederate Congress throughout the war, and later served several terms in the United States Congress. Mr. Virgil A. Lewis, director of the State Department of Archives and History of West Virginia, has published a statement showing the results of the first year's work of his department, pointing out the possibilities for historical research in West Virginia, and making a plea for the donation to the department of all kinds of material bearing on any phase of the state's history. The department is installed in com- modious quarters in the Capitol Annex Building, and has arranged to excellent advantage its already large collection (inherited in part from the old Historical Society). Its collection of Virginiana is large. The latest issue of The John P. Branch Historical Papers of Ran- dolph-Macon College (volume II., no. 2; June 1906), edited by Pro- fessor William E. Dodd, contains two contributions. The first of these (pp. 4-77) is a biographical sketch of R. M. T. Hunter, by D. R. Ander- son, the first attempt as yet (Martha T. Hunter's Memoir bears mainly on Hunter's private and early life) at a study of the public life of that Confederate leader. The second contribution (pp. 78-183) bears the heading " Virginia Opposition to Chief Justice Marshall ", and is made up of five letters, reprinted from the Richmond Enquirer of May and June, 1821, by "Algernon Sidney" (Spencer Roane), on the so-called " Lottery Decision ", given by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Cohen vs. the State of Virginia. These letters, bitter in their attack on Marshall, constitute, as the editor notes, a " commentary on the national constitution in matters touching the relative rights of the