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 Williams, Pratt A. Brown* Henry Altman, and Charles E. Huntley, New York State Commissioners. Albany, N. Y.: Brandow Printing Company, State Legislative Printers, 1906. 8vo, buckram back, paper sides. 127 pp. Portraits of Commissioners and illustrations of N. Y. State Building and other features of interest. (Presented by Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, Oregon City.)

General Circular, A, to all Persons of Good Moral Character, who wish to Emigrate to the Oregon Territory, embracing some account of the character and advantages of the country; the Eight and the Means and Operations by which it is to be Settled, and all Necessary Direc- tions for becoming an Emigrant. By Hall J. Kelley, Agent. By order of the American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of the Oregon Territory. Instituted in Boston, A. D. 1820. Charlestown: Printed by William W. Wheildon. E. P. & C. Williams, Boston, 1831. 8vo, boards. 28 pp. Contains diagram of a plat of land laid out in 40-acre tracts between the "Multnomah and Columbia Rivers." Part of this tract is believed to be within the present city limits of Portland.

Infantry Tactics, Abstract of, including Exercises and Manoeuvres of Light Infantry and Eiflemen; for the use of the M;' 1 i of the United States. Published by the War Department under au u nority of the Act of Congress of March 2, 1829. Boston: Milliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1830. 12mo, sheep. 138 pp. Plates and diagrams. Sangamon County, Illinois, History of the Early Settlers of. "Cen- tennial Eecord." By John Carroll Power, assisted by his wife, Mrs. S. A. Power. Under the Auspices of the Old Settlers' Society. Spring- field: Edwin A. Wilson & Co., 1876. 8vo, cloth. 797 pp. Presented by Mrs. Byron Z. Holmes, Portland, whose father and uncle, Allen and Simeon Francis, were residents of that county for many years before coming to the Pacific Coast.

Pendleton, Jack Huston's Directory of Pendleton, Athena, Hermis- ton, and Helix, for 1907. Jack Huston, Publisher, Pendleton. 8vo. 72 pp. Cover.

Reminiscences of Frontier Life. By I. B. Hammond. Portland: 1904. 8vo. Illustrated. 136 pp.

Oregon: Our Eight and Title, containing an Account of the Condi- tion of the Oregon Territory, its Soil, Climate, and Geographical Posi- tion, together with a Statement of the Claims of Eussia, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States. By Wyndham Eobertson, Jr., of Virginia. Washington: Printed by J. & G. S. Gideon, 1846. 8vo. 204 pp. Appendix, 24 pp.