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"The Jason Lee Memorial Souvenir Volume," compiled by Professor F. H. Grubbs, makes a very attractive book. Its main contents are made up of the addresses delivered at the memorial services held on the occasion of the re-interment of the remains of Jason Lee in the Lee Missionary Cemetery, Salem, June 15. An account of the movement for re-interment is given. A copy of the programme of the memorial services is reproduced. Extracts from letters that passed between Oregon missionaries of the American Board and of the Methodist Episcopal Board are included. These exhibit kindliest fraternal feelings and fitly illustrate the example set among the missionaries by the genial Jason Lee.

The historic Lee Missionary Cemetery is described and the genealogy of the Lee family given. The other most appropriate features of the volume in addition to its illustrations are expressions quoted from Indians that had come under the influence of Lee and his co-workers. These from White Swan, a chief of the Yakimas, Elippama and Luxillo, given many years after their contact with the missionaries, are corroborative of a lasting and transforming influence. Most appropriate also is the letter of Anna Maria Pittman Lee to her brother written from the "Mission House" on the Willamette, October 26, 1837, as well as that of Lucy Thompson Lee When about to go on board of the Lausanne at New York on October 7, 1839.

A picture of Jason Lee, and cuts of the "Mission House" on the Willamette, the "Mission House" built at Salem, in 1842, "The Oregon Institute" and "The Mission Cemetery" add materially to the value of the volume. It is for sale by the J. K. Gill Co. Price $1.00.