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2 1 8 Notes and Neivs an American Teacher (Scribner's Sons). The author, Wilham B. Freer, was stationed first in central, and later in southern Luzon, but also made visits to the southern islands. The book is especially valu- able for the near views that it gives of the everyday life of the island- ers, their manners and customs, and their personal characteristics. A brief account of The Earliest Historical Relations between Mexico and Japan, by Zelia Nuttall, based on " original documents preserved in Spain and Japan ", is issued as no. i of volume IV. of the " Uni- versity of California Publications; American Archaeology and Eth- nology ". We note The Republic of Colombia, by F. L. Petre (London, Stan- ford), dealing with the administrative, economic, and social conditions, and potential development of that country. Pisarro and the Conquest of Peru, by Frederick A. Ober, is a recent addition to the Harper series, " Heroes of American History ". The first volume of Mr. Ober's Columbus the Discoverer, in the same series, has also appeared. From the fall announcements, not elsewhere noted in these pages, we select the following: Century Company: Lincoln the Laivyer, by Frederick T. Hill; Addresses of John Hay; Harper and Brothers: The Americanisms of Washington, by Henry van Dyke; Houghton, MifHin, and Company: Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington, by Arria S. Huntington; The Practice of Diplomacy, by John W. Foster; Little, Brown, and Company: A Handbook of Polar Discoveries, re- written, by General A. W. Greeley; G. P. Putnam's Sons: The Ohio River, by Archer B. Hulbert; The Story of Old Fort Johnson, by W. M. Reid ; Gettysburg and Lincoln, by H. S. Burrage ; The Union Cause in Kentucky, by Thomas Speed; Charles Scribner's Sons: The First Forty Years of Washington Society, edited by Gaillard Hunt. Noteworthy articles in periodicals: H. Addington Bruce, Nezv Light on the Mecklenburg Declaration (North American Review, July) ; Worth- ington C. Ford, One of Franklin's Friendships (Harper's, September) ; H. B. Learned, The Origin and Creation of the President's Cabinet, i^8i- ^793 [Studies in the History of the American Cabinet, L] (Yale Re- view, August) ; Gaillard Hunt, editor, Washington in Jefferson's Time, 1., from the diaries and family letters of Margaret Bayard Smith (Scrib- ner's, September) ; C. K. Wead, The Portraits of St. Mcniin (Apple- ton's, July) ; Carl Schurz, Reminiscences of a Long Life (running in McClure's) ; E. D. Fite, The Canal and the Railroad from i86i to 1865 (Yale Review, August) ; W. L. Fleming, The Frcedmen's Savings Bank, II. (Yale Review, August); "Nicholas North", The Autobiography of a Southerner since the Civil War (running in the Atlantic Monthly) ; Gerhardt Bradt, Modoc War Reminiscences (Metro- politan, July).