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 America 193 of Montague and Leverett, by Mr. J. Montague Smith ; with genealogies prepared by H. W. Taft and Abbie T. Montague. The Publications of tlie Riioc/e Island Historical Society for July con- tains "A Briefe Narrative of the Nanhiganset Countrey," by Francis Brin- ley, 1696, and a series of documents illustrating the process by which Rhode Island, after ratifying the Constitution, was adjusted into the Union. The October number contains ten letters of Roger Williams hitherto unpublished, and a list of all others that have been printed since the issue of the Narraganset Club edition of his Writin^^s. Messrs. Norman M. Isham and Albert F. Brown have brought out (Providence, Preston and Rounds Co.) a work entitled Early Connecti- cut Houses ; an Historical and Architectural Study, which extends to Connecticut the plan followed by the authors in their similar work on the houses of Rhode Island. Mr. Francis Olcott Allen has, in the publication of the first volume of his History of Enfield, Conn., i6yg-i8jO (Philadelphia), contributed a welcome addition to American local history. Exhaustive copies of land-surveys and lay-outs, of town acts and votes are given. This vol- ume includes a Historical Sketch cf the Tozun of Enfield, written in 1829 by John Chauncey Pease, M. D. An historical essay on The Hiding of the Charter, by Dr. Charles J. Hoadly, is announced as the second publication of the Acorn Club of Hartford. The Bulletin of the New York Public Library for June contains a further installment of the letters of Jackson ; that for September a very interesting calendar of the Jackson-Lewis papers. The July number prints several letters of Senator James A. Bayard, 1802-1814. The July number of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History is accom- panied with the proceedings of the Historical Society in memory of the late Dr. Charles J. Stille. Of the new matters in the magazine the most interesting is a small group of letters addressed to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel by one of its missionaries, the Rev. Griffith Hughes, who preached among the Welsh settlers near Radnor from 1733 to 1736, when he retired to Barbadoes. Much of the contents of the number is genealogical. There is historical as well as genealogical in- terest in the various lists printed — of the settlers of Darby Township from 1681, of foreigners who arrived at Philadelphia in 1791-1792, of Penn- sylvania ships registered from 1742 to 1745. Messrs. George W. Jacobs and Co. (Philadelphia) publish A History of the University of Pennsylvania, by Thomas Harrison Montgomery. The book covers the period from the foundation of "The Publick Academy in the City of Philadelphia" in 1749, to 1770. It presents an vo:. VI. -13