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 194 N'otcs and N'czcs extensive array of documents and details, togetlier with "biographical sketches of the Trustees, Facultj-, the first Alumni, and others." The Historical Society of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has published its second volume of Historical Skefi/ics (Norristown, pp. 3S6), containing papers by General W. W. H. Davis on the battle of the Crooked Billet ; by L. Streeper and I. C. Williams on Lafayette at Bar- ren Hill ; and other papers relating chiefly to t!ie Revolutionary history of the region. Messrs. Henry Holt and Co. will publish, this fall, The German and S-ii'iss Sefflemenfs af Fennsy/vania, by Professor L. O. Kuhns, of Wesle3'an University. Mrs. Jane Baldwin, of Annapolis, Md., will publish for subscribers The Mary/and Calendar of Wills — a ready, accurate, and complete Ab- stract of the Wills probated in Maryland from the Time of its Settlement, j6j4, to the American Revolution. The edition will be limited to three hundred copies. The July number of the Virginia Magazine of History contains some entertaining letters written in 1 781-1783 from Paris by Mrs. Ralph Izard of South Carolina to Mrs. William Lee of Virginia; an inventory of the large estate left by Thomas Lord Fairfax in 1782 ; a series of notes made by the late Conway Robinson from the records of the Council and General Court of Virginia, from 1641 to 1659 ; Sainsbury abstracts, re- lating to 1 63 1 and to the attempt to revive the Virginia Company ; and continuations of the Nansemond and Nicholson documents. The latter are of value for the history of the Virginia clergy. Mr. Robinson's notes present a tantalizing array of references to documents once existing but unhappily destroyed in 1865. Every part of the magazine bears evidence of the great fund of local knowledge possessed by the editor, Mr. W. G. Stanard. The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, a new ven- ture among historical journals, contains in its first number an abstract of land-grants for Chowan County, extending from 1679 to 1803, abstracts of wills probated and recorded by the secretary of the colony from 1678 to 1760, and other such materials. The Publications of the Southern History Association, which have now become bi-monthly, contained in the May issue the journal of Thomas Nicholson, a travelling preacher of the Society of Friends, a journal con- sisting of three fragments, one relating to a visit to Friends on Cape Fear in 1746, one to a journey to England in 1 749-1 751 and the third to a visit to the Assembly of 177 1. It is the earliest of journals of Southern Quakers. A further instalment appears in the July number, and con- tinuation is promised. The North Carolina Law Journal contains an article entitled A^orth