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 958 Notes and Nezvs relating to the French Alliance ". " The French Fleet in the American Revolution ", " The Siege of Yorktown ". The bibliography includes United States Government documents and articles in periodicals. The American Catholic Historical Researches in its April issue prints a list of the commissioned officers of the Navy of the Revolution, said to be a copy of the manuscript list sent to President Washington by Secretary Knox. In the same issue is considerable material and dis- cussion bearing upoh the attitude of Canada toward the Revolution. An article on " The Commodores of the Navy of the United Colonies " is reprinted from Appleton's Magazine. A volume commemorative of Justice James Wilson is about to be published under the auspices of the St. Andrews Society of Pennsyl- vania, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the North Carolina Historical Association. The volume will be an edition de luxe, of from 300 to 400 pages. It will include, among other things, the several ^tributes and addresses delivered in connection with the recent memorial services; a monograph, " Janies Wilson as a Political Scientist", by Professor A. C. McLaughlin, and another, " Wilson's Contributions to the Science of Jurisprudence", by James DeWitt Andrews, LL.D.; a Wilson bibliography, by Professor A. B. Hart; and a reprint of Wilson's speeches in support of the constitution, delivered during the debates in the Pennsylvania Convention. The Buffalo Historical Society has in preparation an edition of the letters and other writings of President Fillmore. " Leaves from my Historical Scrap Book " is the title of a book by Barnett A. Elzas (Charleston, S. C, 1907). The table of contents, as given in the prospectus, shows one or two features that should be of interest. For example : " An Index to the Historical Material in the [Charleston] Courier, 1855-1860 ", and " Newspaper references to Judah P. Benjamin ". William McKinlcy ; a Biographical Study, by A. Elwood Corning, with introductory address by President Roosevelt, has been issued by the Broadway Publishing Company. An interesting and valuable monograph entitled Our State Consti- tutions (pp. 98), 'by James Q. Dealey, has been issued as a supplement to the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March, 1907. It is a comparison of constitutions as they stood at the close of the year 1905, and is intended as a guide to the study of the fundamental law of the states. The treatment is primarily comparative, but the lines of historical development, the social and political forces underlying constitutional provisions, are also pointed out. LOCAL ITEMS, ARRANGED IN GEOGRAPHICAL ORDER The Carnegie Institution has issued the first section of Miss Adelaide R. Hasse's index to the economic and administrative material contained