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 America 723 years for alleged complicity in the assassination of Lincoln, together with statements made by him and by Mrs. Mudd and Edward Spangler regarding the assassination, and the so-called " diary " of John Wilkes Booth. Under the title Speeches Incident to the Visit of Secretary Root to South America the Government Printing Office has issued a volume of 300 pages, composed of the speeches made by Secretary Root and by the officials of the South American republics during the former's recent tour. Over fifty addresses are recorded. LOCAL ITEMS, ARRANGED IN GEOGRAPHICAL ORDER Neiv England Town Law, by James S. Garland (Boston Book Com- pany), is a digest of statutes and decisions, and is intended mainly to serve a practical purpose. In the long introduction, however, is an ac- count of the history and functions of the New England town, which is of considerable historical interest. On February 27 the Maine Historical Society dedicated its new library building on Congress Street, Portland. Addresses were de- livered by Hon. James P. Baxter, Rev. J. C. Perkins, Hon. A. F. Moul- ton and Professor Allen Johnson. An elaborate account of the exer- cises is printed in the Portland Daily Press of February 28. An enormous amount of material of local importance has been gathered and put into a book of 700 pages by Francis B. Greene, A His- tory of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine (Portland, Loring, Greene, and Harman). The volume is illustrated with maps, cuts, and portraits, and contains the genealogies of many of the fami- lies of the region. The New Hampshire Genealogical Record for January prints an- other group of documents bearing on Revolutionary naval service. They are an account of the launching of the Continental frigate Raleigh, taken from the Neiv Hampshire Gazette of May 25, 1776; the report of Cap- tain Hector McNeil to the Marine Committee of Congress, relating to the first cruise of the Boston, a list of the officers and men attached to the Boston, and extracts from the journal of one of that vessel's crew, Benjamin Crowningshield. In the Granite State Magazine for January we note the " Life and Character of Ruel Durkee " ; " Rogers's Scout at Lake George, Septem- ber 14-24, 1755" (document), edited by G. Waldo Browne; and "First Glass Making in America, An Industry of a New Hampshire Town ", by Charles B. Heald. The Massachusetts Historical Society has received from the estate of the late Charles E. French his large collection of manuscripts, books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, etc. The collection is very mis- cellaneous, but appears to include much of value, especially several AM. HIST. REV., VOL. XII. — 47.