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 964 Notes and Neivs The Fifth Annual Report of the director of the Department of Archives and History of Mississippi has just come from the press. The report summarizes the work of the department since 1902, and describes in detail what has been done in recent months toward secur- ing transcripts of documents in foreign archives pertaining to the terri- tory of Mississippi. The vohime contains a calendar of the " Corre- spondance Generale — Louisiane ", 1678-1763 (pp. 61-152). As the result of Dr. Rowland's mission to Europe, copies of four volumes of the West Florida correspondence have already been received from the Public Record Office in London. The Department will publish a care- fully edited volume of these important documentary materials early in 1908. Dr. Rowland has also brought out a handbook of Mississippi history in three volumes. The material is arranged in cyclopedic form, and consists of sketches of counties, towns, institutions, and important events, and a large number of biographical sketches. In the preparation of this work extensive use has been made for the first time of the state archives. Volume IX. of the Publications of the ^Mississippi Historical Society, edited by Professor Franklin L. Riley of the University of Mississippi, has recently come from the press. This volume of 589 pages contains the most important contributions to different phases of state history which have been completed since the appearance of volume VIII. of the series. Of the nineteen articles making up the contents of the volume we have space for the mention of only a few. " The Enforcement Act of 1871 and the Ku Klu.x Klan in Mississippi ", by J. S. McNeilly, is a valuable chapter in Ku Klux history. " A Contribution to the His- tory of the Colonization Movement in Mississippi ", by Dr. F. L. Riley, consists in the main of the correspondence of Dr. John Ker, vice-presi- dent of the American Colonization Society and of the Mississippi Colon- ization Society. An interesting reprint is J. F. H. Claiborne's " A Trip Through the Piney Woods ", first printed in the Natcltc:: Free Trader and Gazette in 1841-1842. Another reprint is James Hall's " Brief History of Mississippi Territory ", printed in 1801. An article of value because of the insight which it gives into pioneer life is Dr. Gideon Linceum's " Life of Apushimataha ", written in 1861. Other articles that may be mentioned are two on reconstruction in Mississippi, by G. J. Leftwich and W. C. Wells, and a sketch of " The Public Ser- vices of E. C. Walthall ", by A. W. Garner. In the January issue of the Quarterly of the Te.xas State Historical Association, Ernest W. Winkler concludes his paper on " The Seat of Government of Texas ", tracing the steps in the permanent location of the capital, from 1837 to 1840. In the same number is " A Study of the Route of Cabeza de Vaca " by James Newton Bassett, aiming to supply an examination of materials bearing upon the location of the route which have been neglected in previous strdies.