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America 467 Volume IV., Parts I. and II., of Historical Records and Studies, pub- lished by the United States Catholic Historical Society (New York. 1906, pp. 358), contains, amongst other matter, several articles on Catho- lic clergymen and laymen in the archdiocese of New York, notably Maximilian Oertel, founder of the Kirchenzeitung. Longer than these articles and wider in range are the address here printed of Rev. John T. Driscoll on the " Charter of Liberties and the New York Assembly of 1683," and the article by Archbishop Messmer on the establishment of the Capuchin order in the United States. The volume contains also the reports of the annual meetings of the society for 1905 and 1906. Number 15 of the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, a volume of 122 pages, consists of Dr. Cyrus Adler's presiden- tial address on "Jews in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States," with large extracts from that correspondence in disputes or questions which have arisen with Turkey, Switzerland, Morocco, Roumania, Russia, and Persia. The Bunkers (New York, 1906) is a Columbia University doctoral dissertation by John L. Gillin. It is defined by the author as " an at- tempt to apply the principles of sociological theory to the interpretation of the denomination " known as Dunkers, or German Baptist Brethren. There seems reason to fear that the history of the Dunkers has been rather obscured for most readers by a highly theoretical interpretation. The latest issue in the series of Johns Hopkins University Studies is a monograph of 150 pages on " National Labor Federations in the United States ", by Dr. William Kirk, now of Brown University. Under each of the chief headings, General Labor Federations, Trades Councils, and Industrial Unions, an historical account is prefixed to the descrip- tive or economic matter. We have received a pamphlet, Jeremy Benthain and American Juris- prudence, by Jesse S. Reeves, being an address delivered at the tenth annual meeting'of the Indiana State Bar Association, in July. ITE;IS CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED Of the series entitled " Original Narratives of Early American His- tory ", two volumes have recently been published. The first contained Original Narratives of the Voyages of the Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, the first part edited by Professor Julius E. Olson of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, the remainder by Professor Edward G. Bourne of Yale University. The other volume, properly the third in the series. Early English and French Voyages, chiefly out of Hakluyt, is edited by Rev. Dr. Henry S. Burrage of the Maine Historical Society. The second volume, Spanish Explorers, containing the narratives of Cabeza de Vaca, the Gentleman of Elvas, and Castaneda, edited by Mr. F. W. Hodge and iIr. T. H. Lewis, has been somewhat delayed, but will be out in Febru- ary; the fourth, devoted to Champlain, in March or April.