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 America 407 Eggleston, — a continuation of his work on American history of which the first volume, Beginners of the Nation, appeared some years ago. The Century Company has published Colonial Days and Ways, by Miss Helen Evertsen Smith, a book descriptive of colonial manners and customs, and based upon the large accummulation of family letters at the Smith homestead in Sharon, Conn. The conditions of life in the early i:)utch, Huguenot and New England towns are included in the subject of the volume. Messrs. Goupil have issued, in their sumptuous series of illustrated biographical books, a handsome volume on George Washington, by Mr. U'orthington C. Ford. The Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenaeum was originally published without an index. This omission has now been repaired by the printing of such an Index (pp. 85), prepared by Mr. Franklin Osborne Poole. Mr. Joseph Smolinski of Washington, a Polish American, has for some time occupied himself with the patriotic endeavor to collect the un- published letters of Pulaski and Kosciuszko relating to the American Rev- olution. He has now begun to publish the results, in exact transcripts, in the Polish American magazine Sztandar, of Chicago. The letters so far printed are English or French letters of Pulaski to the Continental Congress or to General Washington, with Polish translations. The series began in the March number. The undertaking is an interesting and praiseworthy one, and deserves encouragement. We hope that possessors of letters of either of these two Polish heroes will communicate with Mr. Smolinski, whose address is 721 Eleventh Street, N. W., Washington. As an "advance separate " from the Report of the American Historical Association for 1899 we have received a pamphlet by Dr. O. G. Libby of the University of Wisconsin, "A Critical Examination of Gordon's His- tory of the American Revolution," in which he proves Gordon's extreme " indebtedness " to the Annual Register. A second edition of Mrs. Elizabeth EUet's The JVomenof the American Revolution, which first appeared in the middle of the century ,-is published by G. W. Jacobs and Co. (Philadelphia), edited by Miss Anne HoUings- worth Wharton. In the thirty-ninth volume of the Proceedings of the American Philo- sophical Society, Mr. J. G. Rosengarten has a paper on American history from German archives, with a list of Hessian diaries, and a reprint of Mirabeau's Avis aux Hessois. Part 2 of Professor H. V. Ames's State Documents on Federal Rela- tions (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania) contains a large number of interesting documents upon this important subject. They extend from 1809 to 181 5, centering chiefly around the Olmstead case, the militia question in the war of 1812 and the Hartford Convention.