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 America 465 as an additional volume of its Transactions, of all the royal proclama- tions respecting the English colonies in America and the United States to 1815. The annual Report of the Librarian of Congress mentions, among the accessions of the last year, a collection of over 400 books and pamphlets relating to the Shakers, and the books from the library of the late Woodbury Lowery relative to Spain and Spanish America and to Jewish history. The Division of Maps and Charts has acquired a con- siderable number of manuscript maps, including those relating to the Spanish possessions within the present limits of the United States col- lected by Mr. Lowery. Foremost among the accessions of the Division of Manuscripts is to be noted the Stevens Catalogue Index of Manu- scripts in the Archives of England, France, Holland and Spain, relating to America, 1763-1783, in 180 manuscript volumes, sufficiently described in these pages some time ago. Along with this catalogue were secured thirty-seven volumes of transcript made by B. F. Stevens of about 10,000 documents in English and French archives, relating to the peace negotia- tions of 1783. The work of transcribing material in the British Museum and the Public Record Office has proceeded steadily and the library now has on hand over fifty volumes of these transcripts, a list of which is printed on pages 137-139 of the librarian's report. Among other manu- script accessions are the historical papers of Mr. Lowery, comprising eighteen volumes of copies of manuscripts relating to Florida, New Mexico, California, etc. ; the remainder of the Van Buren collection of Dr. S. F. Morris; papers of Senator James Brown of Louisiana, 1777- 1810; eighteen letters from Zachary Taylor written during the Mexican war; the papers of the Galloway family of Maryland; the private corre- spondence (1856-1872) of Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois; the private correspondence of Thomas Corwin when Secretary of the Treasury, 1850-1853; and five volumes of the correspondence between the Collector of the Port of Savannah and the Treasury Department of the Confederate States. We note and welcome the appearance of a new periodical, which may be expected to assume a position of leadership in the field which it cov- ers : The American Political Science Revieiv. The Reinetn' is published quarterly by the American Political Science Association, and is the official organ of that body. The board of editors is composed of men whose reputations afford ample guarantee that a high standard of excel- lence and scholarship will be maintained: John A. Fairlie, Frank J. Goodnow, John H. Latane, C. E. Merriam, Paul S. Reinsch, B. F. Sham- baugh, Eugene Wambaugh, Robert H. Whitten, and W. W. Willoughby, the last named being the managing editor. The first issue (November) contains four contributed articles : " The Usurped Powers of the Senate ", by A. Maurice Low ; " Negro Suffrage : The Constitutional Point of View", by John C. Rose; "Racial Distinctions in Southern Law ", by Gilbert T. Stephenson ; and " An Index of Comparative Legis-