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 Minor Notices 425 ington, Government Printing Office, 1906, pp. 636, 611.)' Many efforts have been made, through a period of nearly fifty years, to secure the publication of these priceless records of our first colonizing company. We have had only the inaccurate quotations of Neill and the insufficient e.xtracts printed some years ago by the Virginia Historical Society. But all those who have taken part in former efforts to publish ought to rejoice that they failed, since the delay has resulted in bringing out, in the fulness of time, a much better edition than would have been produced earlier. In respect to externals, the two volumes now before us are worthy of their occasion, stately and elegant. To Miss Kings- bury's scholarly introduction, issued separately in a small number of copies some months ago, we offered our tribute of praise in the October number (p. 174). This introduction is now reprinted, save the list of authorities. On p. 209 (not p. 215, as the table of contents indicates) begins the Court Book itself, extending from April 28, 1619, to June 7, 1624, and filling the remainder of the first volume and the whole of the second. A third volume, containing records additional to those of the court books, seems to be indicated in the introduction ; it is to be hoped that it will be executed. The present volumes have, as illustrations, facsimiles of the handwriting of Nicholas Ferrar, Edward Collingwood, and the various copyists, and are preceded by a preface in which Pro- fessor Osgood sets forth the value and importance of the records. All possible pains seem to have been taken to insure a correct text. In the various questions which must arise as to how a correct text is to be presented, the tendency of the decisions has been toward the Chinese side of the questions, so to speak. The symbols for " the " and " and " have been used instead of the words ; the contractions for par, per, prae, pri, pro, and even es, have been represented by special types. It seems probable that those for whom the table explaining these con- tractions was devised would be advantaged by an explanation of those involved in " Xofer " and " Xper ". Though these records could profitably be accompanied by numberless notes, and cry aloud for a large number, which it is to be hoped are later to be supplied, at present there are but a few foot-notes, all belonging to one of two classes, those which are strictly textual, and those which identify documents mentioned in the text. In a table of symbols (I. 120) it looks odd to print " P. = Imperial Library, Paris " ; nor are the archives of the Society of Jesus at Rome. Don Juan dc Palafox y Mcndoza, Sit Virvcinato en la Nueva Espaha, Sus Contiendas con ios PP. Jesiiitas, Sns Partidarios en Puebla, Sus Aparicioncs, Sus Escritos Escogidos, Etc., Etc. [Documentos Ineditos 6 muy Raros para la Historia de Mexico, edited by Genaro Garcia and ^ The Library of Congress announces that the whole edition (1,500 copies) will be placed on sale, no free distribution whatever being intended ; copies may be bought from the Superintendent of Documents, at the Government Printing Office.— Ed.