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 962 Notes and News Among the numerous books called forth by the Jamestown Exposi- tion is: The Birth of the Nution: Jaiiiestoicn, 160J, by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor (The Macmillan Company). The Virginia State Library will shortly publish a bibliography of colonial literature, said to contain more than five hundred titles of Virginiana. The fourth volume of the Journal of the House of Bur- gesses will also shortly appear, and the fifth volume a little later. These two volumes cover the period from 1758 to 1765. Mr. David I. Bushnell has recently discovered in the British Museum the original manuscript of " A Journal from Virginia, Beyond the Apailachian Mountains in Sept. 1671 ", a somewhat condensed and otherwise imperfect transcript of which was printed in Nezv York Colonial Documents. III. 193-197, in 1853. The manuscript journal is printed in full in the American Anthropologist for January-March, im- portant variations from the transcript being indicated in foot-notes. This issue of the Anthropologist is mainly devoted to articles concern- ing the Virginia Indians. We note as of especial historical interest these : C. C. Willoughby, " Virginia Indians in the Seventeenth Cen- tury " ; and James Mooney, " The Powhatan Confederacy, Past and Present ". Apropos of the Jamestown Exposition, the J'irginia Magacine of History and Biography for April reprints from Archaelogia Auiericana, vol. IV., " Newport's Virginia's Discovery, 1607 ". In the same num- ber are presented, under the caption " The Starving Time ", two letters from Lord Delaware to the Earl of Salisbury, 1610 and 161 1. Of especial interest is a table taken from a collection of Virginia laws printed about 1758, showing the several assemblies that sat from 1661 to 1758. The table gives the number of acts passed, the names of the governors and the speakers, but only the beginning date of the session. A comparison of this table with that given in the report of the His- torical Manuscripts Commission in the Animal Report of the American Historical Association for 1897 (the latter begins with 1680) shows that there were several assemblies during that period not noted in this table. On the other hand this table lists a few not given in the Report. There are also a few differences in dates. The pages of the April number of the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Maga::ine are mainly devoted to the publication of documents. Of new matter, the most important is " Letters to Thotnas Walker Gilmer ", including a letter of Charles A. Wickliffe, 1832, relative to the state-rights question, and one each from George W. Hopkins and Grenville T. Winthrop, September and October, 1841, touching the policy of President Tyler. " Explorations beyond the Mountains" is a reprint, from the New York Colonial Documents, of the journal of Thomas Batt (properly of Arthur Fallows) " from Virginia Beyond the Apailachian Mountains in Sept., 1671 ". As noted elsewhere, the original of this imperfect transcript has recently