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 88o Notes and News Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall Market, by Mr. Abram English Brown (Boston, Lee and Shepard), includes a biography of Peter Faneuil and his sister, as well as the history of the famous building itself. The twenty-ninth report on the Boston Records, entitled simply A Volume of Records, etc., and prepared by the Registry Department in the place of the late Record Commissioners, contains miscellaneous papers relating to the great fire of 1700, lists of freemen, port arrivals, immi- grants, etc. Mr. Henry S. Nourse, of Lancaster, Mass., has published two pamphlets, of use for local history, A Supplement to the Early Records and Military Annals of Lancaster, and A Bibliography of Lancastriana. The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth have been published by the state of Rhode Island in a well-printed volume of 462 pages, edited by Mr. Clarence S. Brigham, Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society. The volume includes the text of the first book of records of the town council, extending from 1639 to 1697, and also many deeds, wills, inventories, powers of attorney, inquests, etc., some later in date than 1697. There are indexes of names and of subjects. Messrs. Preston and Rounds (Providence, R. I.) have in press The Dorr Jl'ar; or the Constitutional Struggle in Rhode Island, by the late Arthur M. Mowry, with an introduction by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart. Mr. Mowry may be remembered by our readers as the author of an article on " Tammany Hall and the Dorr War," in our third volume. The New York State Library has issued as Nos. 23 and 24 of its bibliographies, a Reference List on Connecticut Local History, compiled by Mr. Charles A. Flagg, and a Bibliography of New York Colonial His- tory, by Mr. Flagg and Mr. Judson T. Jennings. It is expected that a list showing what is available on Maine local history in both the New York State and Bowdoin College libraries will be ready in June. For several issues past, the Bulletin of the New York Public Library has devoted much space to bibliographies of the city, in various aspects — its history, its churches, its water-supply, fire department, streets, alma- nacs, directories, libraries, schools, etc. In the July number of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History the most interesting new matter is a series of notes of travel through the colony in 1772, from the north branch of the Susquehanna to the Beaver River, kept by Rev. John Ettwein, and now derived from his manuscript in the Moravian archives at Bethlehem. The Moravian Indian town of Wyalusing being abandoned in June of the year named, Ettwein con- ducted a division of the inhabitants thence to Friedenstadt, meantime keeping this record. The second volume of Dr. Julius Sachse's The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania has recently appeared. This volume covers the period from 1742 to 1800, and may fairly be said to complete the collection of the