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Aine7'i 209 The Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society for 1906, edited by Barr Ferree, contains, besides the usual features, much material relating to Franklin. .Addresses by Professor Albert H. Smyth and others bearing on various aspects of Franklin's life are given, together with a number of prints, facsimiles, and other relevant material. Messrs. Scribner have just published a reprint of the journals of Richard Smith, a member of the Continental Congress, entitled A Tour of Four Great Rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Dela- ware, in 1769. The editing is by Francis W. Halsey. The third publication of the Club for Colonial Reprints (Providence, R. I.) is Philip Freneau's poem The American Village, in facsimile of the original Xcw York edition of 1772. An introduction by Harry L. Koopman and bibliographical data by Victor H. Paltsits are provided. The edition is, as usual, limited to one hundred copies. An important addition to the well-known " Heroes of the Nations Series" (Putnam), is Professor J. A. Harrison's George Washington, Patriot, Soldier, Statesman, First President of the United States, which will receive further attention in a later issue. John Wilhersfoon. by David V. Woods (Revell), is a readable biography, bearing closely on the history of the Revolution. W'ither- spoon was president of Princeton from 1768 to 1794. As a member of the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independ- ence he was active in public affairs. His life was also notable in the history of the Presbyterian church in America. The greater part of the Lafayette collection, sold for the present marquis by Sotheby in London on December 9, 1905. and July 3, 1906, was purchased by Mr. W. '. Lidgerwood of New York. The thirty- five lots which he secured include twenty letters from Lafayette, one from John Adams, ten from J. Q. Adams, seven from Henry Clay, one from Jackson, five from Jefferson, four from Madison, and ten from Monroe. Most of the letters contain important references to the Ameri- can Revolution, the War of 1812, and otiicr events in American history. The original schedules of the first federal census (1790) are to be published by the Census Bureau. They fill twenty-seven volumes of manuscript, and relate only to population. Their value for local history is considerable, in view of the enumerators' process of gathering in- formation family by family. Unfortunately the schedules for New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, and Georgia are missing. A new history of the War of 1812 has been published by the Oxford University Press: The Canadian ll'ar of 1812, by C. P. Lucas. The work has been based, so far as possible, on original sources; it includes six contemporary .American maps from the Colonial Office library. The sixth volume of Mc^L^ster's History of the People of the United AM. HIST. REV., Vol., .II. — 14.